Joey

I'd like to meet:

What is my space.com? Is it a blog, a dating service, an on-line community or all of the above and more? It appears to me that it is whatever people want it to be. So I guess the real question is how do people use myspace.com? As a veteran of on-line blogging for a few years now, I came to myspace.com at the request or rather encouragement of a friend. Other friends have found me here and I have found others as well, but its people I know outside of myspace.com or rather prior to joing myspace.com on a majority basis. For the minority there have been a few that I have met on myspace.com (some of which I've even met in person).

So why am I using myspace.com if I am only communicating with people I know outside of myspace.com with myspace.com? I think it boils down to trust and security. I enjoy making new friends; I am just suspicious of people I meet on-line. I want to know information about a person before I make them a friend. I want to see a picture for the friend on myspace.com. It does not even have to be of the friend, it can be of a cat, a dog or some pet. It can be a cartoon or band logo. I want to know that this friend has taken the time to upload a picture to their profile. Sure if you select view all of my friends you will see that I have some that are blank. However, I know these people from before I signed up with myspace.com.

I also like blogging; I like to see that this new Friend can write or more specifically has an opinion or thought about something. I want to know how things are going in your life, not necessarily what is going on but I want to be able to read that my friend is having a great, so-so or crappy day.

I will not correspond via e-mail to Friends I meet through myspace.com until I have established some sense of trust. I also will not send money to support your internet habit over in Russia, so don't ask me to do so. Do not send me a friend request with a note saying you do not use myspace.com much but to e-mail or IM you instead at such and such address. I will not accept such relationships.

Does this sound harsh, demanding, one-sided, and self-centered? Perhaps, but I have been burnt before and I am perhaps extra cautious because of it. From my point of view, all I am asking is that you share some of yourself in your myspace.com profile instead of asking me to make a leap of faith that you are not some deranged lunatic with no face, personality or opinion.

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People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

Music:

Jeff Beck
Blue Öyster Cult
Johnny Cash
Def Leppard
Dust Rhino's
Grateful Dead
Sammy Hagar
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog brigade
Megadeth
Metallica
Willie Nelson
Ted Nugent
Oyster Head
Phish
Pink Floyd
Queen
Rush
Steve Vai
Yes
Frank Zappa

Top 10 Artists Played
Top 10 Tracks Played

Movies:

http://mouse21.flixster.com

Television:

Battlestar Gallatica (old & new), Farscape, Monk, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Rescue Me, Stargate (both series), Star Trek (all series), The West Wing

Books:

Childhoods End by Athur C. Clarke; Hammer's Slamers (any) by David Drake; Ring World by Larry Niven; The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov; Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis & most recently Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart

Books I'm currently Reading* (2007/01/24)

- The Debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification : Part One, September 1787-February 1788 by: Bernard Bailyn
- Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by: David Haward Bain
- Contemporary Irish Poetry by: Anthony Bradley
- How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History) by: Thomas Cahill
- Hammer's Slammers by: David Drake
- The Last Pope: The Decline and Fall of the Church of Rome by: John Hogue
- The Essential Abraham Lincoln by: John Gabriel Hunt
- Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend & Folklore by: William Butler Yeats

* = Sorted by author

Heroes:

". . . My Heroes have always been cowboys . . ."

No seriously though, I have always had romanticism with cowboys. However that was closely followed by astronauts, policemen, gangsters and other character types.

Truth be told anyone who sticks to their ideals is truly a hero of mine. Granted there are a lot of people who do this, but few know when they need to step back and be flexible. So I should clarify that people who are able to stick to their ideals and back off when needed (and know when to do so) are my heroes. Magic word is compromise here people.

Back in 2002 I wrote a little blurb about who is my hero, and the ultimate answer for me is a high school sweet heart who taught me to laugh and not be ashamed of who I thought I was or wasn’t – in short to be myself. I made the mistake once of telling someone close to her that I thought this way of her and word got back to me that she didn’t want to be a hero. My reply then as it is still now about being a hero is as follows: “No one ever asks to be a hero; the title is thrust upon them unwillingly and most often unknowingly.”