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Andrew from Places You've Been

Illegal Imigration MUST be stopped. I'm talking to you, Canadians.

About Me

I am not fond of writing about myself. I like writing about my interests and such, but not myself personally. It's weird. I'm pridefull about the things i like but not the things i am. Maybe this is pride: not showing who you are but masking that up with what you like.So maybe i will tell who i am for the world to see. Or maybe i will leave things out.I am a male, born 1989 in November. This means i am a year younger than what my profile says i am; i typed it wrong a long time ago and have cared to figure out how to change it.I like friends who laugh at things that are funny. Take that for what you will.I am not myself around my family, or maybe i am not myself around my friends.I enjoy (pridefully, i admit) making others laugh or have happiness in something i have done.I want to make my mark on the world by doing something illegal or outlandish, not by being myself and doing what i do.I love beauty and truth, but often find myself straying into twisted versions of each.God is. God is good. God created I. I is not good. I will never be good without God. I tries to change, but I is not good. I will never be good until I rejects itself and lets God change it from I to i.I am I. I try to change myself to i but am continually wrecked on the shore of I-ness. It is God who I must let chop me down to what I should be: good.I think I never truly loved anyone, since, as the Rabbi said: there is no greater love than for one to lay down his life for a friend. Laying down life doesn't mean dying for, but also subjecting all one's everything for that person. Therefore, in my selfish pride, i have never loved anyone.I am not depressed, i am not miserable, i am not weary: All this will pass: I have the Future.

My Interests

Music, Art, Philosophy, Pursuing Friendships

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet God and ask Him several things about several things.

Music:

Music is Art; it therefore must express some form of truth about God or Creation. I enjoy listening to Music that is aesthetically structured, as well as Music that speaks to a generation words that need to be heard.As far as genres go, i like:Classical from the classical, romantic, and modern periodsBlues from the 20s-50sJazz from the 20s-now with the exception of easy listening jazz like Kenny G.,Rock from the 50s-early 70s, including black and some white Rock and Roll, Brit Invasion, Psychedlic, and the 90s grunge movementPunk from the early punk explosion (late 70s) to the bands that ripped off the early punk explosion (80s-early 90s)Alternative from the 90s like The Pixies and RadioheadIndie from the 00s (although many bands masquerade as "indie" but don't express independence)Some of the bands i like (in chaos/no order):The Flaming Lips, LED ZEPPELIN, Pink Floyd, Cream, The Who, Jethro Tull, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, Ray Charles, The Eagles, JOHNHY CASH, Audioslave, Rancid, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, dc Talk, JIMI HENDRIX, Band o' Gypsys, Blur, Radiohead, NIRVANA, GENE HARRIS, Wheezer, Gorillaz, NOT JERRY LEE LEWIS, The Kaiser Chiefs, U2, SMASHING PUMPKINS, Acoustic Travellers (they're Russian), The Doors, The Thieves, BOB DYLAN, Mozart, Shostakovich, LYNYRD SKYNYRD (yeehaw!!///"we don't like beaners"), Beethoven, THE HIVES, Death Cab For Cutie, BUILT TO SPILL, Bach, Aaron Copeland, Ella Fitzgerald, Tenacious D, Wolfmother, The Shins, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Sufjan Stevens, The Ramones, The Clash, The Dead Kennedys, The Sex Pistols, The Pixies, The Living Souls, Mayerforceone, Patient Patient, Secretariat, Unicorn Feather, The Very Most, PALEO, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, INTERPOL, Liars, Of Montreal, Wilco, Secret Machines, The White Stripes, They Might Be Giants, TWO GALLANTS, The New Pornographers,Bands/genres i am revolted by:Well, these would be too many to list. I hate everone that followed in the school of Pat Boone. If you are perplexed by that statement, ask me about it later.

Movies:

I like Foreign, Art, and Independent films, as well as films considered "revolutionary", "genius", or "dashingly clever."Film is Art, and therefore it must comply to the standard of Art. But when is Film Art and when is Film Entertainment?This is often hard to figure out. I try to only watch Film as Art. Film as Entertainment is for those who don't care to see the greater truths in a film; this is why so many people dislike Film as Art: they care not for the beauty but for the baseness: the blood, the gore, the thrill, the romance, the action, the dirty hero, the slut heroine.This is not pure.So i pick the opposite.

Television:

All television is entertainment.I like 24, The Office, Scrubs, Seinfeld, South Park (on special occasions), Family Guy, The Simpsons,

Books:

I like "Works of Literary Merit"Steinbeck, Shakespeare, Orwell, Huxley, Vonnegut, etc.I like the classical classics and the modern classics and the postmodern classicsI don't like Victorian Literature.I detest best-sellers.

Heroes:

The man that walks up and down Calldwell Blvd. for hours at a time. That's all he does. I've never seen where he sleeps or eats or anything. For all I know he just walks up and down all day and night.He has long grey-ish hair that he parts in the middle: it's curly/wavy. He has chipped/missing teeth. If you see him contact me.Also:Jael, from the book of Kings in the Bible. She was the lady who drove a tent stake into the wicked king's head while he was sleeping and won the war.

My Blog

A death (read the previous blog, PRAY first)

Okay, she died on wednesday, october 18. I was wrong about her dying in six months. She lasted a year and two months. Praise God.I'm not sad, i'm happy for her. She's not feeling any more pain, she's ...
Posted by Andrew from Places You've Been on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:52:00 PST

PRAY

Pray for my Grandma and all my family to have strength. She will probably leave this world in six months. She does have a death clock. One thing we can learn from it is the eternality of God, yes, but...
Posted by Andrew from Places You've Been on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:42:00 PST