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Benj

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About Me

If you want to keep in touch with me, your better off doing it through facebook, as I dont spend much time on here any more.Living in Hertford can be such a chore at times. Not much going on at the mo. Graduated from Essex Uni this summer with a 2.1 in Finance. I used to work as a sound engineer while there and i miss that alot. Met some cool bands and generally had a good time. Im now a Pricing and Proposals Analyst (something a bit different, lol). Let see where that takes me...
Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||||| 53%
Stability |||||||||||||| 60%
Orderliness |||||||||||| 50%
Accommodation |||||||||||||||| 63%
Interdependence |||||||||||||||| 63%
Intellectual |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Mystical |||||||||| 36%
Artistic |||||||||||||||| 63%
Religious |||| 16%
Hedonism |||||||||||| 43%
Materialism |||||||||||||||| 63%
Narcissism |||||||||||||| 56%
Adventurousness |||||||||||||| 56%
Work ethic |||||||||||| 50%
Self absorbed |||||||||||| 50%
Conflict seeking |||||||||||| 43%
Need to dominate |||||||||||| 50%
Romantic |||||||||||| 50%
Avoidant |||||||||||| 50%
Anti-authority |||||||||||||| 56%
Wealth |||||||||||| 50%
Dependency |||||||||||| 43%
Change averse |||||||||||| 43%
Cautiousness |||||||||||||||| 63%
Individuality |||||||||||| 50%
Sexuality |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Peter pan complex |||||||||| 36%
Physical security |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Physical Fitness |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Histrionic |||||||||| 36%
Paranoia |||||||||||||||| 63%
Vanity |||||| 30%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||| 36%
Female cliche |||||| 30% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
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-----top five games ever----- (base on longevity and originality at the time)
1. Super Mario Kart - SNES
2. Advance Wars - GBA
3. ISS 98 - N64
4. Tekken - PS
5. UFO enemy unknown - PC
-----fav musical people and bands-----
radiohead
smashing pumpkins
bjork
jamiroquai
chilli peppers
gomez
badly drawn boy
jeff buckley
(will add more when i can think about it)
You Are an Indie Rocker!
You are in it for the love of the music...
And you couldn't care less about being signed by a big label.
You're all about loving and supporting music - not commercial success.
You may not have the fame and glory, but you have complete control of your career. What Kind of Rocker Are You?
Take the quiz:
Which Dead Rock Star Are You?

Jeff Buckley
You are Jeff Buckley! You're influential to many young and old, and very talented. You have charisma and grace that sets you a part from many. You are beautiful! Oh, he died in 1997, drowning in the Mississippi River.
Your Brain's Pattern
You have a tempered, reasonable way of thinking.
You tend to take every new idea in, and meld it with your world view.
For you, everything is always changing. Each moment is different.
Your thinking process tends to be very natural - with no beginnings or endings.
Your Power Color Is Gold
At Your Highest:
You are engrossed in passions that mentally stimulate you.
At Your Lowest:
You seek thrills and neglect what's important in your life.
In Love:
You see dating as adventure and approach it with an open attitude.
How You're Attractive:
You passion for life makes others passionate about you.
Your Eternal Question:
"Am I Having Fun?"
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My Interests

Mainly music but ill talk about that bellow, same with movies. Frisbee, skiing and snowboarding, anime (been taking japanese classes), football (arsenal)...

i love the mountains. been to austria, stowe (new england) and the french alps. pretty good skier, i go off piste etc but not that good at boarding yet as i only done that for a week. Managed to brake a rib on my 4th day messing around on a rail. hehe.

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(i miss ultimate)

Get this video and more at MySpace.com
(I love arsenal)

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with similar interests really. i love meeting new people, watching movies, playing old nintendo games and having a jam etc...
send me a message before trying to add me so i can see what you are like.

Music:

Music... I love music. I have a huge colection of cds over 600 at last count and dunno how much on my computer.

I have two electric guitars (both epihpones, a korina g-400 with custom pickups and a wildkat), an crappy accoustic and a bass (washburn xb-400).
Various efects pedals. Got a few keyboards, tamborine, harmonica, maracca's, kazoo :P and other bits n bobs.
I recently sold my drum kit as i didnt have room for it any more :(
also a korg padkontrol and e-mu x-board 25 for my pc
I love to write songs and record em on ma home studio which im constantly adding to (alot of my money goes on music equiptment). At the moment it stands at a laptop with cubase sx, reason and wavelab on it, lots of plug ins etc (guitar rig, waves plug in pack and so on). 2 shure mics. a tascam us-122 sound card an external hard drive to record on to and about 20gb of samples. Now got a new pc that i built to record on. amd 64 3200+, 1 gb ddr, 6600gt.
My dream is to open a music shop and coffee one day when i pay off my uni debt.

As for listening tastes, i love indie, rock, electronica etc. Stuff thats original and has some feeling to it. Basically anything thatsn not over produced comercial shite!

Movies:

Movies... I have about 300-400 films lying around on various formats and ive got an Ultimate pass for the cinema and go about twice a week.
I bought a camcorder with the ambition of doing some amature films but never got round to doing any. lemme know if you wanna mess around with it though. made a ridiculous kung fu thing about a year ago. writen some screen plays but never thought they were up to standard.

Television:

Dont really watch tv. Dont have one when im at uni and when im home im sad and watch documentories and the discovery chanel. Ah but southpark rules, as does family guy, but i download them and watch em on my pc so dont think of it as tv.

BRING ON THE WII!!!!!!!!11one

Books:

not really a fiction type of guy. i tend to read lots of info, hungry for useless knowledge. most read books over the last few months would be music program books and guitar books etc. The Guitar Handbook by Ralph Denyer is like my bible. helped me alot in modding my guitar

Heroes:

most of em are producers that try to do something a bit different in there genre... frank black, jonny greenwood, damon albarn, del the funky homosapien, pharrel williams etc. loads of bands id like to meet. but to many to list i recon.

My Blog

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ThursdayGot off to a pretty good start, set out a little later than planned and traffic wasn't to busy. We were in and trying to find a camping spot by about 1.30. Luckily for us they had just opened ...
Posted by Benj on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:23:00 PST

lolz

Benjamin James Williams's AliasesYour movie star name: Cakes RalfYour fashion designer name is Benjamin PragueYour socialite name is Binge ParisYour fly girl / guy name is B WilYour detective name is ...
Posted by Benj on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:09:00 PST

aaaaaaaargg

got a migraine, never had one before. it sucks. stuck at work, my head hurts and i can see properly. I keep on getting pins and needles in my had as well. Cant go home yet because my vision keeps goin...
Posted by Benj on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:24:00 PST

:(

i forgot to say. my necklace finally broke on saturday night :( i guess it was bound to happen sometime. i was hoping to have it on for 10 years, but 6 and a half with out taking it off is pretty good...
Posted by Benj on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:56:00 PST

art

mine is lame its official. D at GCSE art says it all really :(wish i was better, to lazy to practice though. all i like to do is sketch. as you can see from the pics i put up on herepeace out...
Posted by Benj on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:58:00 PST

CIMA - professional qualifications my arse!!

Applied for my exemptions at the beginning of Jan and got a reply saying that they had all been accepted eccept EC111 - Inroduction to economics because the module required for exemption from this pa...
Posted by Benj on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:50:00 PST

PS2 Slim line

My current love of my wii, or more precisely gamecube games on my wii, has started to make me wonder if it is worth getting a PS2 slimline so that i can play the whole back catalogue available for tha...
Posted by Benj on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:43:00 PST

Virtual Fighter 5 and other next gen content

Is this starting to bother anyone else? I know that it's the sole reason I opted to buy a Wii rather than the other 2 options...:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> ...
Posted by Benj on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:47:00 PST

Living the dream

Looks like Teaching in Japan could be back on track. Recieved some information on other companies that are similar to the one i applied too late for (thanks Kirsten ). Im now comparing my options over...
Posted by Benj on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:13:00 PST

a good thing?

ive found my old friend ebay again. got about 30 items in my viewing box and am on look out for any kind of bargain. all this because i have nothing better to do at work, *sigh*
Posted by Benj on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:46:00 PST