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Ben around the world

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About Me

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609320645 I think panda bears are overrated. Everyone seems to think that they are so goddamn cute, but, in reality, they’re just big rats. Like squirrels. They fuck around in China, eating bamboo or whatever, and leaving turds for Jane Goodals to step in. I once stepped in human shit. I was barefoot at a Buddhist monastery, and I now have a theory about the origins of Zen.I smoke. I like to smoke, and even though it makes my lungs dirty and I can’t run very far, I still do it. I have given in to my addiction and am now happy about it. It’s all about embracing your problem. I can’t imagine anymore what it would be like to not have the pleasure of satisfying my addiction. It’s good to satisfy yourself, and I’m always looking for new ways to be satisfied. If you’re not satisfied with life, try smoking..............................Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, cigarette in one hand, glass of wine in the other, body thorouly worn out and screaming, "WHOO HOO, WHAT A RIDE!"

My Interests

I love life. TRAVEL, Romance, Pirates. reading. actually DOING something. Cooking. Long talks over wine or coffee, getting out of wherever it is I'm living, camping, music, movies, politics, people, girls, going out. I love picnics, the beach, beer, tequila, etc. I knit. (yes, that's right, I knit and I'm straight) I'm into fine wines, I love photography, dancing, picking my nose while driving, skinny dipping, doing anything that can still make me feel shy or out of my box. I love hiking and anything outdoors, backpacking and camping. I like bubblebaths, mexican food, and all things random. I never get mad when discussing religion or politics, but I don't have much faith in either. I giggle like a fucking nerd. I am also a pirate.

I'd like to meet:

ANYONE WHO IS NOT IN A MYSPACE BAND IF you want to add me as a friend, please write me a letter first. I will not add you just because you have big tits or a webcam, or if you have a travel website, or because you want more friends for some odd reason. I WILL add you as spam though. hahahaJust because I have a few hundred friends on here does not mean that I am collecting them. I know almost all of my "friends" in person, and the few that I don't are either totally awesomly funny or artistic, or they are people who live near me and who I hope to know in person anyway.Otherwise, the Dali Lamma might be cool, and I'd love to chat with Kofi Annan, King Bhumibol of Thailand, Tom Robbins, Nelson Mandella, and/or other assorted dignitaries that I'll never meet. Whatever. People that live in Hong Kong. People that are rad. MSN: [email protected]

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Music:

The New Pornographers, Modet Mouse, The Shins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Power, The Velvet Underground, Op Ivy, John Denver, Toots & The Maytals, The Dammned, The Dictators, Johnny Cash, John Lennon, Built To Spill, The Pixies, Violent Femmes, New Order, Franz Ferdinand, Yellowman, Iron & Wine, The Smiths, The Kinks, Cat Stevens, The Stones, Wilco, Prince Buster, De La Soul, Jesus & Mary Chain, Morrisey, The Cure, The Misfits, Screeching Weasel, Sufjan Stevens, Lemonheads, The Beach Boys, Jeru The Damaja, Beulah, Nico, Happy End, Bob Dylan, Lenard Cohen, Stevie Wonder, Jim Croce, The Commodores, The Beatles, New York Dolls, Howlin' Wolf, The Queers, Beastie Boys, The Cars, The Specials, Willie Nelson, Rufus Wainwright, Mates of State, Woodie Guthrie, Elvis Costello, P-Funk, They Might Be Giants, Joy Division, Dukes Of Stratosphear, Cringer, Ricky Nelson motherfucker...New Wave, Reggae, rock & Roll...Whatever

Movies:

Sex & Lucia, Rushmore, pulp fiction, the godfather, true romance, office space, best in show, grass, hideous kinky, salvadore, another day in paradise, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Princess Bride, To Have and to Have Not, anything with Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacal, The Royal Tennenbaums, Lost In Translation, Coming To America, Amelie, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Indiana Jones, Buffalo 66, Gummo, Land of The Rising Sun, Almost Famous, the Take, A Life Aquatic, Garden State ...

Television:

I don't watch TV.

Books:

Tom Robbins, James Michener, Alexander Dumas, Alex Hailey, John Steinbec, Mark Twain, David Sedaris, Joseph Heller, Tolkien, J.D. Salinger, Michelle Cliff, The Farming of Bones, Tracy Kidder, Herman Hesse, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, Paulo Coelho, Pablo Neruda, Paul Farmer, Jarred Diamond, Shantaram, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Emergency Sex. Addbusters, Harper's, National Geographic, Mother Jones

Heroes:

ME!, Paul Farmer, Ghandi, People who donate money to my travel fund

My Blog

The full moon party sucks

I've said it a hundred times already, but this time I really mean it. The Full Moon Party sucks. After having been to five of them, and swearing each time never to return, I offer this solemn vow: I w...
Posted by Ben around the world on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:09:00 PST

The Phillippines

I'm so in love. I feel like I've been cheating on my sweetheart but I don't care. Laos has always been my favorite country, but The Phillippines is so wonderful that I'm not sure anymore. I know...
Posted by Ben around the world on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:30:00 PST

Yea, me too

You Are 18% American..http://images.blogthings.com/howamericanareyouquiz /american1.jpg" height="100" width="100">You're as American as Key Lime Tofu PieOtherwise known as un-American!You belong in Cai...
Posted by Ben around the world on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:35:00 PST

Okie Dokie

Okie Dokie. That is the word of the day today. I'm teaching the receptionist and admin. girls at my school the finer points of English. I'm going to have them talking like nerds. Nifty, righty-o, supe...
Posted by Ben around the world on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:18:00 PST

Hong Kong

Hello Everyone. It's been a long time since I've written a blog, so this is to catch you all up on what I'm doing lately and to tell you about Hong Kong. Hong Kong, for the benefit of my geographicall...
Posted by Ben around the world on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:59:00 PST

My new, new number, and other notes

So, I moved to Hong Kong. My new phone number is, from a cell or digital phone,  +85266416355 If you're calling from a land line in the states, you have to dial 00185266416355. If you're somewh...
Posted by Ben around the world on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:26:00 PST

Interesting facts about Asia

Because I'd already been through most of South East Asia before I got myspace, I have never really been motivated to write a blog about Thailand or Laos, and I only wrote about Cambodia in an abstract...
Posted by Ben around the world on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:03:00 PST

Cambodia

Hello my friends. I am now in Cambodia, and I'm happy about it. In the end, I don't think Vietnam was my favorite place. I would like to have been there about fifty years ago. I appreciate their tota...
Posted by Ben around the world on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:57:00 PST

Vietnam .2

I'd like to add to my last blog about Vietnam. It was an exerpt from a letter to a friend who I have traveled with in Asia, and assumes that the reader has spent at least several months out here, and ...
Posted by Ben around the world on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:14:00 PST

Vietnam

Heya.So, I'm in Vietnam. Specifically in Hoi An. I'm not sure what to think or say of this country. I got so many varied opinions of this place from people, and all of them were conflicting. I was puz...
Posted by Ben around the world on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:52:00 PST