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About Me

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Basically, I'm your stereotypical writer. Reclusive, overly self-analytical, and a smoker. For a real bio check my out my blog - The Journey Within .

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I'd like to meet:

writers, atheists, pot smokers, Siddhartha Gautama, Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Dawkins, Al Gore, Dave Matthews, and Jonny Santos...wait...no, met him twice already.
NOT girls with fake profiles trying to get me to look at their porn sites, and NOT irrelevant people I've never heard of. If you're an anti-drug war or atheist organization, relevant publication, artist (music or otherwise), author, or celebrity - then feel free and ask to be networked with me. Otherwise, leave me alone unless you know me. I do not accept ANY random adds or messages. Period.

Music:

Silent Civilian, Spineshank, Trivium, Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine, Disturbed, Sevendust, Linkin Park, Nirvana, System of a Down, Mudvayne, Breaking Benjamin, Limp Bizkit, Diecast, Cold, It Dies Today, Puddle of Mudd, Still Remains, Lacuna Coil, Papa Roach, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Shadows Fall, Trust Company, In This Moment, Three Days Grace, Black Light Burns, God Forbid, Lamb of God, Rammstein, Trapt, Mastodon, Metallica, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Incubus, Audioslave, Seal, Hootie & the Blowfish, Dave Matthews Band

Movies:

Heat, Syriana, Sideways, American Beauty, The Last Samurai, Batman Begins, The Departed, The Last King of Scotland, V for Vendetta, Collateral, Children of Men, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Equilibrium, Miami Vice, 12 Monkeys, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT, Constantine, Blade, Blade II, Blade Trinity, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: Nemesis

Television:

The Office, Seinfeld, Blade: The Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Six Feet Under, Rome, South Park, Scrubs, Playmakers, Top Chef, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Countdown with Keith Olbermann

Books:

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, The Benefits of Marijuana: Physical Psychological and Spiritual by Joan Bello, The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra, The Closing of the Western Mind by Charles Freeman
For a longer list of books I've read slash am reading, check out my real blog - The Journey Within

Heroes:

Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher. Anyone who stands up in the face of popular opinion and ignorant society by speaking out honestly, powerfully, and intelligently.

My Blog

I think this and that

I guess I should start out with an apology, because I just can't stop thinking about us being together. It keeps me up at night, unless I can drink or smoke myself into emotional ob...
Posted by The Journey Within on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:02:00 PST

My Somebody

It's four in the morning, and I'm out on my deck smoking a cigarette. Smoking a cigarette because it's all I can do to ease my mind. The stars are out tonight, and the skies are clear. The smoke fills...
Posted by The Journey Within on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:44:00 PST

Rick Riesau and me

I think last night just may be the best time I've ever spent with my father. So often growing up our distances became so great that it was almost as if he was my father by job title alone. His drinkin...
Posted by The Journey Within on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:37:00 PST

so this is where we stand

Well I haven't written in a while, and since I had such an overwhelming response to my last entry, I figured why not sit down and spout some wisdom. Basically though I just have nothing to do other th...
Posted by The Journey Within on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:50:00 PST

fast changes, newness all around me

Ah yes, the college years. Is there a more turbulent, surprising, and rapidly expanding time in anyone's life? Just look at me. Two years ago I would have told you basketball was th...
Posted by The Journey Within on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:53:00 PST

R.I.P. Gary Scott

I shed a tear tonight for a man that I once couldn't stand. A man that used to make fun of me, kick my team's ass in basketball, and berate referees at children's sporting events. But Gary Scott was a...
Posted by The Journey Within on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:13:00 PST