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Allen

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave i

About Me


"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans"

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My Interests


Listening...
Songwriting, cooking, making sushi, playing guitar, philosophy, writing, basketball (Laker fan since I was three!),
fishing...
Ancient history, theology, politics, learning about different cultures, traveling to new places, long drives, lyrics & poetry, laughing and people who laugh... music and people who love music!

I'd like to meet:

Make me laugh or make me think... and we'll get along just fine.

Music:

*Sarah Harmer
*Vienna Teng
*Sarah Mclachlan
*Stacie Orrico
*Ingrid Michaelson
*Leigh Nash
*Matt Costa
Joshua Radin
*Lukas Haas
*Paolo Nutini
*Emerson Hart
*Elliot Smith
*The Beatles
*Incubus
*Oasis
*Travis
*U2
*Foo Fighters
*Grey Eye Glances
*The Strokes
*The Sundays
*Sixpence None The Richer
*Red Hot Chilli Peppers
*Pearl Jam
*Guster
*John Denver
*Cat Stevens
*Neil Young
...etc, etc, etc...
Basically, anything melodic with imaginative lyrics that make sense! ...Anything any of my friends have written and all of my songs! :)

Movies:

Back To the Future Trilogy, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, With Honors, Butterfly Effect, The Empire Strikes Back, Spiderman, 300, Bubble Boy, Ferris Bueller's Day Off...

Television:

The News

Books:

Mere Christianity, Screwtape Letters, Abolition of Man, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, The Darkside of Christian History, Things Fall Apart, and The Da Vinci Code

Heroes:

Jesus Christ
My Mom, my Dad, my sister, my Grandpa Tatay and Grandpa Henry

My Blog

I am thankful...

it's hard enough just saying it... but when you're met with silence and you see tears welling in the eyes across from you all you can do is hope the tears don't start to fall. in the back of...
Posted by Allen on Thu, 24 May 2007 01:51:00 PST

Weird

You ever get that feeling that you know someone the first time you meet? ...It's kinda nice huh!
Posted by Allen on Thu, 10 May 2007 02:54:00 PST

The Past In Present Tense

I was just thinking... I want to write a song about the stars. They're so mysterious. On a clear night, each time you look up at the sky you have to wonder if that's what we will all look like one day...
Posted by Allen on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:29:00 PST

Onto the next project...

Well, Ann and Anthony's wedding went down this weekend, so now I can cross another unique moment off of my list: I've played in both a boxing ring and a wedding. How's that for a bredth of perspe...
Posted by Allen on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:14:00 PST

Knocks On A Door...

Three knocks on the door... One is death One is life One is nothing ...But who says you ever have to open it?
Posted by Allen on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:15:00 PST

Mystic...

You have the saddest eyes I've ever seen. Empty and lost for words. Is it fear that keeps you there or is there somethng that only you may know. Once upon a time the walls were never this high On...
Posted by Allen on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:32:00 PST

Good Friday...

Yesterday, I went on a spiritual pilgrimage to all of the Catholic churches in Bakersfield as well as one in Lamont and Arvin with three of my aunts and my cousin. Honestly, there's nothing quite...
Posted by Allen on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:41:00 PST

How things are...

Everything can always be better and everything can always be a lot worse... It's when you find the happy medium that you'll be content with exactly the way things are.   ...The dominos have&...
Posted by Allen on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:55:00 PST

A few of my favorite lyrics...

In no particular order... "All that time did it pass while you were looking back waiting... often I'm waiting on the one that maybe won't come" -'Weakend State' by Sarah Harmer "Honest is easy, f...
Posted by Allen on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:39:00 PST

Me... or so it says.

..> Your Five Factor Personality Profile Extroversion:You have medium extroversion.You're not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party.Sometimes you are full of energy and open to ...
Posted by Allen on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:03:00 PST