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Dude

I'm not falling for anymore of these tricks.

About Me

"I unapologetically want a lot out of life. I want, as one author says, what everyman wants; to fight in battles, live out adventures, and find my beauty. I want to love and be loved, I want the world to be a better place, I want good things for my friends and family, I want to be a good man, I want to have a family of my own, I want to die on my own terms and I want to live a good and happy life, full of great stories and wonderful people.

My Interests

Music, Movies, Video Games, Martial Arts; Okinawan Karate, Judo, Jui-Jitsu, Aikido and Jesus Christ....It's very important to me for people to know church is not about being hypocritical or judging people. Real church is a second family. Being a christian does not resign you to khakis and polos for the rest of your life, and being a christian does not mean you give up having fun. It's about trying to live a better life and not indulging your guilt and sorrow when you or others around you mess up. "Truth, beauty, freedom and love".

I'd like to meet:

I want to meet people who are going to leave my life full of happiness and joy, whether that means I find new people or I have some familiar faces come back into it.

Music:

MxPx, The Ataris, Blink-182, New Found Glory, With Blood Comes Cleansing, Green Day, Five Iron Frenzy, A Plea for Purging, Jimmy Eat World, Yellowcard, Skillet, From First to Last, The Ramones and Fall Out Boy...Aerosmith, John Mayer, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jim Croche, Elton John, John Williams....I could go on for a long, long time...

Movies:

Kung Pow, The Crow, Tombstone, What Dreams May Come, Star Wars, Princess Mononoke, Kill Bill, Hook, the Last Castle, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Last Samurai, Braveheart, Gladiator, Casablanca, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, A Man Apart, Moulin Rouge, A Life Less Ordinary, SLC Punk, The Princess Bride, Man on fire, The Passion of the Christ, Casino Royale, Fearless and The Protector

Television:

I don't watch a lot of t.v....Smallville, Whose line is it anyway?, Jeopardy, Ninja Warrior

Books:

Wild at Heart, Captivating, The Bubishi, Book of the Five Rings, Blue Like Jazz, Christian Wisdom of the Jedi Masters, Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer night's dream, and The Tempest, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Any work by Neil Gaiman, namely his Sandman / Endless stories and America Gods, the original Interview with the Vampire, The Kingdom Come graphic novel by Alex Ross and Mark Wade, The Crimson stories by Humberto Ramos, Jumper by Steve Gould, and lots of mythology works. It interests me greatly that things we know as story and fiction, were once considered accounts of deities and that they were to be studied and learned from. I think of most literature along the same lines; people aspiring to be something more than normal, or longing to relate to someone who is superhuman. Comics and novels are the new mythology. Just an observation.

Heroes:

Scott Sapp and any other person who does not only what they have to do, but when they have to do it. Those are men and women who are made of sterner stuff.

My Blog

..."Even if saving you sends me to heaven."

So I’ve been sick for the last couple days with one of two things; either food poisoning or a pretty nasty stomach virus. I was sick Friday night, I couldn’t really work out as much as I w...
Posted by Dude on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:17:00 PST

"Im spent, and Im tired of getting bent..."

"...and I'm tired of always looking forward to a better day." I received my acceptance letter from Lipscomb University and it was some much needed good news. I know that God wants me to go there, and ...
Posted by Dude on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:12:00 PST

"I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasnt real..."

"...but that's not the way it feels." I like to think that I am a fairly resilient person, but right now I have no strength. I am at the end of my rope and as cliche' as it may be, I feel like Job. Wh...
Posted by Dude on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:59:00 PST

"You’ll always be my thunder, so bring on the rain, bring on the thunder..."

I just got off the phone with my admissions counselor at Lipscomb, and I'm excited because I think the interview went really well. It's only like a week and a half before my store closes and I'm just ...
Posted by Dude on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:47:00 PST

My hope is You.

While most people today are opening love letters and giving gifts of affection...I'm filling out school paperwork. If you know me well enough, this is the part where I give that familiar smirk while r...
Posted by Dude on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:04:00 PST

Wild at Heart

I am happy and joyful, with a sense of accomplishment and a swelling a pride  that comes from completing a Herculean type feat. I read my first full book from cover to cover in probably more than...
Posted by Dude on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:05:00 PST

"Sing me songs that I can get down deep into..."

When bones start breaking,It's too late to turn back time.Soon pain is forgotten,Then we're feeling fine.Where nothing that you have learned turns out to be true,But life has crashed and burned and th...
Posted by Dude on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:42:00 PST

"Theres not a lot of things to do, I wouldnt rather do with you."

I miss you. I always do, but now it's a little more real that just "you are three states away." We don't speak, we don't write or text and this is the way it has to be for a while. We've been through...
Posted by Dude on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:12:00 PST

"I am aiming to be somebody that somebody trusts..."

"I am aiming to be somebody that somebody trusts..." God asks us for our everything, and, in return He gives us His everything. Today I gave up and, to be cliché, I'm letting go and letting God. I qu...
Posted by Dude on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:22:00 PST

"All those nights we stayed up talking, listening to 80’s songs..."

Psalm 34 tells us that God draws near to the broken-hearted. I'm telling you then that God is sitting next to me. I want so badly to believe that everything is going to be okay and that God is going t...
Posted by Dude on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:57:00 PST