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John B. Marine

Too good for most peoples' Myspace profiles... ^_^

About Me


This is the Myspace page of I, John Marine! I'd like to welcome you to my page. Please feel free to read my blog, meet some of my Myspace friends from all over the world, and much more. You may also visit my personal website at www.../johnm2001 to see what I have on there. PLEASE SEND ME SOME GUESTBOOK COMMENTS IF YOU DO VISIT MY FREEWEBS SITE! Those of you who have Facebook can visit my Facebook page at my Facebook site . Thank for for visiting my Myspace page. Read on to learn more about me.

Welcome one and all to my Myspace page! Thank you for visiting. If you found this page from me handing out a "business card" to you containing where you can find this Myspace page, then I'd like to invite you to be a friend. If you wish to be my Myspace friend right now (how sweet of you if you, by the way), then just click on the "Add to Friends" graphic right now to add me to your friends list. I'm not too good for anybody's profile. I'd love to meet as many people as I can. Don't immediately reject me unless you don't like me all that much. I welcome anybody and everybody to my Myspace friends list. I'd love to meet you on Myspace (granted you're not a spammer). If you go to HCC-Southeast and I happen to know you, why not take the time to add me as a friend? I'm incredibly loyal. I love meeting people ranging from old friends to interesting curious folks. This even includes all the different people from around the world. Always willing to learn more about the world and people from various points around the world. Now you may read the rest of this profile.

Welcome to my Myspace! I have taken measures to limit spam messages and comments that may come my way in my Myspace. I can't prevent all of them, but I can prevent as much as possible from flooding my Myspace comments, inbox material, and more. NO SPAMMERS ALLOWED!
I'd like for you to meet some of my Myspace buddies. Click on the pictures to visit their respective links.

Everything Cool about Japan


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...and some of my music buddies:



So who am I? Here's the answer. My name is John B. Marine (some people asked if this is my actual name, and the answer is yes). I am a young man born and raised out of America's 4th largest city- Houston, Texas. Some consider the Gulf Coast as "the third coast," and so I proudly represent this part of this great nation. When I have a chance, I try to be as charitable and helpful as I can. I really love being a gentleman to ladies. I consider myself as a person with a good heart. I've had a reputation among friends for being motivating, uplifting, resepectful to others, and things of that nature. I admit to myself that I tend to worry about things and even possess fear. Then again, when have I said I'm your average macho man who listens to rock music at high volume and like making fun of people not at my level? I'm for real. I try to reflect my personality in real life to the Internet so that I show that I'm real. I think of myself as a caring and respectful person because I hate seeing good people struggle. I try to be kind to people because I know what being unloved and disrespected is like. It's happened to me in my grade school days as well as at Lamar University. So to help others feel happy and special, I do what I can to make the world (at least around me) better. You only live once. Why not have a chance to enjoy life and make the most of each day?

Something I pride myself on is being a person willing to meet others from around the world. The city of Houston is highly diverse. I've met people from many nations and places in the time God put me on this earth. Some of the different places where I've known people in person are from include (but not limited to) Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, El Salvador, Peru, Venezuela, Columbia, Argentina, France, Germany, Russia, Nigeria, Kenya, Vietnam, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Iran, Korea Republic, Japan, China, the Phillipines, Thailand, and Indonesia. As you can somewhat tell from my Myspace page, I'm very fond of Japanese culture and fond of meeting Japanese folk. I'd love to go to cities like Tokyo, Paris, New York City, San Francisco, Miami, perhaps Detroit, London, and places like that. Out and about, I sometimes feel like a girl at the mall. I don't go around shopping at every store until I go broke. I do like hanging out whenver I get the chance. I love meeting people. I'm a people person. I like having fun with others because I like trying to make good people feel happy and/or respected. If I'm not doing that, I'm not fulfilling my purpose on this earth.

I go to the Southeast Campus of Houston Community College. I will hopefully receive my Associate's Degree in the Arts in May 2008. Next phase of my life would be to work towards getting a Bachelor's at the University of Houston's main campus. I'd like to break into the world of journalism. An aspiration of mine is to be a motorsports commentator. My field of motorsports would be sportscar racing and road racing. Road racing appeals to me much more than ovals. I do love the IndyCar Series for oval racing (I'd love to see Danica Patrick win her first race), but I also love Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson in NASCAR. Road racing appeals to me because of the twists and turns of the courses as well as the will for road racers to combat these corners and the elements. If this doesn't work, then I'd like to try my hand at being a sports announcer to cover college football and college basketball.

I would like to try to discover as many old friends as possible from local schools like (in chronological order) Mading Elementary, Thomas Middle School, Hartman Middle School, Milby High School, H.P. Carter Alternative, my alma mater of the Middle College for Technology Careers, Lamar University, and Houston Community College. In addition, I'd like to branch out and get to know more interesting people. Are you an interesting person? Do you think you deserve a place in my Friends list? Just give me a Friend Request, I'll take a look, and if I like what I see, you're in!

You dig? Also, check out my new website that I'm working .. on the logo to enter now (I'm looking for more Guestbook comments):
--- OVERVIEW OF ME ON MYSPACE ---

Now on to basically what I do on Myspace. I don't do things like bogus surveys or whatever. I'm more of a "keep it real" kind of guy. So if you think that I am a very nice person in real life who really cares about people, then that's the kind of personality I want to carry on Myspace and elsewhere on the Internet. I'm willing to be a gentleman if you'll be noble yourself. How can I offer respect and communicate with the general public if you aren't willing to open yourself to me and be kind? I initially offered to have a mostly blank Myspace because I don't see myself as some sort of egotistical person that wildly dresses up a Myspace page like it's a tuner car. I've only experimented with as many elements as possible so that I can see my Myspace page at full song even on my dialup (56K) PC. I usually want to experiment certain things and not be overly extravagant. I'm not that person in real life, so I won't be the same on Myspace.
I'm not the kind of person who will normally make bulletins and blogs about something like spam, chain letters (for example: post this to xx people, or you will have bad luck the rest of your life, etc.), or anything like that. What I normally like to do is offer a variety of blog topics as well as make some bulletins about stuff people really want to look at not pass up as spam. I do try to warn people locally about weather conditions as well as certain special events I may be in or want people to know about. I don't want to be anyone's enemy, especially if I haven't done anything truly wrong. I don't want people leaving me because I haven't posted to them in a while. I usually try to get to as many people as possible while on Myspace. I want to be a sweet and humble person to as many kind people as possible. Just don't leave me for dead. You can love me. You can hate me. Just don't leave me. You dig?

Thank you for reading my Myspace page. Now go add me already! ^_^


My Interests


My interests include (but not limited to) art, college football, college basketball, motorsports, and video/computer gaming. As of recently, I've grown a deal towards charity and being benevolent. This past Christmas holiday season, I offered websites people can go to in donating to Christmas charities. Speaking of donations in 2006, I donated my own blood either late November or early December. I donated a dollar to the United States Marines' Toys for Tots Foundation and 50 cents to Operation Dough-Nation by Panera Bread during the 2006 Christmas Holiday season. I have great interest in trying to make life better for people because I hate seeing wonderful people have bad lives. I want to help any way I can, if I can. I choose to be helpful rather than be a punk or some kind of "bot." http://www.panera.com/about/community/

I also have interest in the night sky. You see, I am from Houston, Texas- a city that is often called America's Space City. My art (and even my Myspace layout) draws on fascination from stargazing as well as the true beauty of stars and space. In case you're wondering, my "official color" names are Sapphire Blue (darker blue), Royal Blue (brighter blue), and Pure Gold. My alternative colors are Ruby Red, Scarlet Red, and Pure Gold.

I'd like to meet:

...people from my old schools including my current school system, Houston Community College. I DO NOT want to meet "bots" or scammers that have all made-up profiles asking me to install an Adult Content viewer. I want to meet PEOPLE, not cheap one-night-stands. I check EVERYONE'S Myspace profile to those who request me. It's to make sure you're not a fake or one of those adult profiles. I also sample music profiles to see what kinds of music you have to offer. Regardless, I'd love to meet you. Just don't be some committed spammer or anything.

Believe it or not, I actually take pride in meeting people from around the world. I like to think of myself as a highly-cultured person. This means that I have open eyes to the world and its people. I don't easily adapt to international customs, but I do like meeting people from different nations. Heck, I'd even like to meet penguins in Antartica if penguins knew how to use Myspace! * If I had a favorite sort of region I'd like to meet people, it would be the Pacific Rim of Asia and Oceania. I'm talking about countries as far north as Japan to countries as far south as Indonesia. I especially love Japan. I'd love to go there if I were a traveller. So I've appreciated everything from the beautiful furisode Japanese ladies wear on Coming of Age Day, and all the way to Japanese Pop (JPOP). So I'd like to meet a world of people. And unlike most people, my perception of the world isn't America, western Europe, and Japan. When I mean "a world of people," I'm talking about people from Hawaii, Chile, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Australia, Tuvalu, the Fuji Islands, Costa Rica, Iceland, Russia... you get the idea.

Long story short... I'd love to reunite with old friends of mine including people that I remembered communicating with in person and ... In addition, I welcome people from around the world to request to add me. My favorite country to learn about and read about is Japan. So I really like to meet some Japanese folk so I can share my love and interest of Japan.

Music:

--- FAVORITE STYLES OF MUSIC ---

Okay... I usually like most kinds of music. If it sounds cool, then I like it. My favorites are electronica, some hip-hop, smooth jazz, some classical, new age, and I'm even getting into some tropical music. I even make my own MIDI music. Too bad I have nothing to share. I'm not seriously fond of (some) rock music and definitely NOT fond of country (just because I'm a Texan doesn't mean I necessarily get into the cowboy culture). I've grown fond of Gnarls Barkley and the Boom Boom Satellites.

--- LEAST FAVORITE STYLES OF MUSIC ---

I don't do country. I hate Broadway musicals (or ANY musicals of that matter). I am not real fond of rock music, but I do have my exceptions. I'm likely going to lose a rock music quiz because I'm not extremely educated or like it all that much. My favorites in rock have been Carlos Santana, I liked "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden, and my most favorite recent rock group is Breaking Benjamin. I was never a fanatic of Creed, but they've had some amazing songs.

--- A WORD OF WARNING FOR MUSIC PROFILES: ---

I have a slow dial-up connection at home. So I may not be able to enjoy all the music you may provide if you're trying to add me. I usually like to listen to a lot of music before deciding whether or Accept or Deny your request. I will try to get such songs to load on my PC as best as possible. So I may not accept at home unless I can actually hear at least one song of yours. Thanks for reading

By the way, thanks to all of you who have music profiles and wanted to add me.

Movies:

I don't admit being a movie person. The most recent movies I've seen were "Transformers" and "The Simpsons Movie." My favorite all-time movie series is the "Friday" series of movies (Friday, Next Friday, Friday After Next). I want to one day see the classic racing movie, Le Mans.

Television:

I'm mostly watching sports. Sports ranging from auto racing (my favorite is the American Le Mans Series) to college football and college hoops. I do like to watch WWE wrestling and believe it or not, I am a REALLY big game show fan. I've grown up with stuff like "The Price is Right" and "Wheel of Fortune."

Books:

..(not a good reader)

Heroes:

My heroes/heroines are Abraham Lincoln (helped free slaves), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (I have a dream...), my mother, and all the friends of mine who helped me be more optomistic and happy about life. In fact, my birthday is on January 15th- the same birthday as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Pretty cool to be born on the same day as one of your heroes, eh?

My Blog

My Associate’s Degree Story

The following is a story of my Associate's in the Arts quest. Graduating in 2001 from high school as the Most Improved Student for the Middle College for Technology Careers at (then) Texas Southern U...
Posted by John B. Marine on Mon, 19 May 2008 12:26:00 PST

My Love of San Francisco

This is another Myspace blog of mine. This time, I focus in on the City By the Bay. I am a proud native of Houston and Texas.  However, there is a city which I've slowly grown to love.  I focus on t...
Posted by John B. Marine on Thu, 15 May 2008 11:50:00 PST

Of Myself and Love

WARNING: Blog may contain some inappropriate content for certain audiences.Myspace, this thread is another personal look at me. This time, I talk about love. To not be so one-sided, love in this blo...
Posted by John B. Marine on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:47:00 PST

Shopping Malls - Dying Breed and Losing Stores? (Part 1)

This Myspace blog has to do with a hangout kind of place that I’ve always liked going to. But unfortunately, I fear not many interesting ones will have a great number of places to visit. I&rsquo...
Posted by John B. Marine on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:51:00 PST

Shopping Malls - Dying Breed and Losing Stores? (Part 2)

Part 2 of 2: Then and Now and What I Can Remember About Malls A fun arcade place- now either gone forever or replaced by some other business. A good music place- now either some other business or a lo...
Posted by John B. Marine on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:50:00 PST

[Some of] Johns Favorite Electronica Songs

(NOTE: Feel free to click on the blue links to visit the Myspace pages of any featured artists I am aware of on Myspace.)I like a variety of music. I grew up with hip-hop music (even with all the ste...
Posted by John B. Marine on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:56:00 PST

2008 - My Year of the Motorcycle?

Myspace, my curiousity for motorcycles has slowly evolved prior to this year. I was always a car person. Until this year's Houston Auto Show, I somehow exploded with motorcycle fascination. My profile...
Posted by John B. Marine on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:55:00 PST

My Own Personal Intimations of Myself

This is just a bit of literature from me in regards to the personality I possess. --- Who I Am to Others vs. What I Personally Think About Myself ---I am considered by friends to be sweet, motivationa...
Posted by John B. Marine on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:17:00 PST

Something I’ve Thought Of as my 25th Birthday Nears the End

Hello, Myspace. I'm thankful for everybody wishing me a happy birthday. I don't think there was ever a point in my life in which I'm so loved and respected by friends and peers than on my 25th birth...
Posted by John B. Marine on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:45:00 PST

Johns FBS Playoff Model

Here is my prototype based on the BCS. The Top 12 in the BCS are told to be eligible. In NCAA Division 2, 24 teams make it to the NCAA Playoffs in football. If you want to go on the basis of the To...
Posted by John B. Marine on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:02:00 PST