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Ben Olin

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

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My name is Ben Olin. I AM NORRRMAL... just like you. You like me. I like you. I like some people a little more than I do you, and so do you. You are someone that I will like liking and I am one that you will like liking too! Have you made it through that gauntlet of English grammar unscathed? Good!! then, I really WILL like you.
I'm an unmarried dude who happens to be in a band called This Beautiful Republic and is waiting to make that a career. I'm mainly excited about TBR because I'll finally be putting my Business degree from the University of Toledo to use BIGTIME, but also excited that I'll be able to entertain you and the masses with lovely vocals and run-on sentences (refer to this one for further explanation). :) I live to meet new people and to make them smile and be encouraged. You guys are the reason I'm alive!
I'm a pretty upbeat person but remains really well balanced in order to handle those serious times. I am fallible. I know it. So do those who know me. I am also forgiven. Yet not excused. We are all beautiful to one, and to the One. If you grasp this, you will grasp life. I'm continually hoping to grasp it a bit tighter.I am really only good at things that involve music. I enjoy the creation of songs, the molding and perfecting of them, and the way that they can evoke an emotion deep within the listener. I've been involved with many projects in the past and have worked with a few other bands to help mold their sound a bit. I live to perform. I love to show off. I love to give "hi!!"-fives. I love to get "hi!!"-fives. I love interaction. I love anyone reading this!!
Thy will be done and mine become.

My Interests

Hot dog eating contests, sock folding, grass nurturing, hair stimulating, and the usual ..ary film on squirrels and their effect on global warming.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who comes with...
Lo-Carb Monster.

Airborne
Cold Stone Gift Cards.

No one impresses me so much that I LONG to meet them, but there are some really talented people that I admire. I guess I'd like to just meet cool people who are easy going and don't have any expectations from the get-go. Hope you fit that description! ....oh... new addition. People who don't lie to me only for me to find out that they were later. That sucks and is really stupid of them.

"I had a good life before you...well, it was ok. Well it was empty actually, but at least I was blissfully unaware of how miserable I was, whereas now, because of you, I am acutely aware of how completely and totally unhappy I am. Thank you for that."

Music:


in no particular order as they change daily - Twothirtyeight, Norma Jean, Hyphenplank Confessional, Beloved, Underoath, Black Eyed Peas, Dead Poetic, The Mars Volta, Copeland, Pulse Ultra, Say Anything, Pedro the Lion, Thursday, Further Seems Forever, Michael Jackson, The Postal Service, Panic!, TERMINAL, The Chariot, anything involving M (Derek) and anything else that I missed that I like.... like Matchbook Romance, mewithoutyou, Relient K, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Gileah, The Undeserving, Strike Out Pro, The Used. Oh yeah, Michael Buble' - he rules with Josh Groban as his sidekick and battle the forces of Celine Dion and Mariah Carey. I don't like them much, but would love to use the word hate.

Movies:

The Notebook. Big Fish. Moulin Rouge. Sixth Sense. Princess Bride. Yep, that's all I like.

Television:

Anything on MTV is ok. I LOVE The Amazing Race. That show is the best thing ever created... next to Days of Our Lives.

My Blog

Sometimes simply typing can solve a question for yourself.

Hey everyone, as most of you know, I get a lot of messages and love hearing from you. I can't always reply for various reasons, so never take it personally, but sometimes I have to because it's a ver...
Posted by Ben Olin on Sat, 03 May 2008 08:16:00 PST

LOGIC!! Come on people.

Engineers. I love them. My Dad is one of them. I appreciate their dedication to science and their understanding of how to create things that I would have no clue how to create. They're great peopl...
Posted by Ben Olin on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:21:00 PST

New songs from us...

I haven't really updated you guys in a short while, so here we go! Feb 24th we finished up our tour with Family Force 5, and made the 36 hours of traveling back to Toledo. I had gotten sick a few da...
Posted by Ben Olin on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:21:00 PST

If this person is you, it’s not good.

Dear whomever thought it to be a great idea to give me strep throat,You're an idiot. The end.Ben.
Posted by Ben Olin on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:41:00 PST

Technology’s Affect -- REVISED

So, I posted this, then people mis-understood my point. So, I'm re-writing it. The point is not that we should be spilling our guts to random people about the deepest things in our lives. We need ...
Posted by Ben Olin on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:55:00 PST

Top Albums of 2007

This is year 2 of my Top Albums of the year.Last year's was topped by Underoath and mewithoutyou.This year was pretty thin on great albums, but there were some. 5) Paramore - Riot!4) The Chariot - ...
Posted by Ben Olin on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:15:00 PST

My fortune for all Fortune Cookies...

....you will lose your way, no one will notice, and the few that do will be incapable of raising enough awareness to do anything. It's coming true as we speak. Fortune Cookies are not living up to t...
Posted by Ben Olin on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:52:00 PST

We Wash Our Hands...

On our way back from North Carolina on Sunday we stopped at a TBR staple, Taco Bell, for some lunch. I approached the employee, told him what I desired, then handed him the currency required to satis...
Posted by Ben Olin on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:59:00 PST

First 10 days of dedicated writing... report.

I love all of you. Let me get that out of the way right off the bat. It's the most important thing that I will say to you in this blog. You allow me a job where I can drive through the Appalachian ...
Posted by Ben Olin on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:49:00 PST

Disappointed

The last couple of weeks have been some of the more difficult weeks in the band for various reasons. The last week has really stimulated a lot of thought for me and many of you have noticed the "disa...
Posted by Ben Olin on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:07:00 PST