In my past myspace profile attempt I found myself focusing mostly on my job. I realized, however that a person shouldn't only be defined by one's career. It is only one part of a person's life and isn't what makes them whole. What makes us whole is our passions, our loves, our likes, our hobbies, also our career, but one should never let any of these things get in the way of our dreams. For without dreams or ideas a person is nothing.
It is for this reason that I decided to change the format of my myspace page. In my childhood and teenage years I didn't let anything or anyone keep me from dreaming, but in the end it was me myself who ultimately grew up and unconsciously ended all creativity in my life. One might call it a self imposed writers block, but it blocked not only my writing, but everything else I enjoyed creating. In the old days I used to write, act, draw, make music and make movies. These were my passions. They were physical projections of who I was, from my own hand. They defined me and made me whole. One might argue they kept me sane, or one could argue after viewing the work that I was insane. Either way these works were who I was. And now after years of no creativity I have realized I have lost my way and have became basically a human being with no definition.
So I have decided to dedicate my updated myspace page to that child who was motivated, creative and full of dreams. It is my plan in the coming months to post all the writing, comics, art, music and movies I created at those early ages here on myspace. It will be a chronicle of my childhood, a chronicle of who I was...who I wish to be again. I will share with the world my life's work and it is through this that I hope to spark once again the motivation and creativity that once defined who I was. All future works if this plan is successful will be posted here as well.
This is my new dream.
Here's more about me:
I am originally from Broward County which is in South Florida. I am married to a beautiful, wonderful and understanding woman named Julie. I attended college in Gainesville, Florida and was an honor's student. I am a huge poker player, I play whenever I can and am a member of pokerstars.com where I often play for real money. You can find me playing there under the name: TheVillain. I am obsessed with watching poker being played on television, I can sit for hours watching it being played like it was a football game or something. I love old comicbooks, the cornier and campier the story the better. I am also probably one of the biggest Star Wars geeks you have ever met. I enjoy learning and reading about world history (mostly American history) and love reading theories about time, space, and the universe.
At night I protect the streets of Sarasota and Bradenton from crime and evil doers. In my earlier days of vigilantism I formally went by the superhero name of Captain Gainesville, but after ridding crime finally from the University of Florida area, I moved south to the Central Florida (fraternal) twin cities of Sarasota and Bradenton. It was then that I decided to change my superhero moniker. I realized upon arriving that criminals of the (fraternal) twin cities are a cowardly and superstitious lot so I became their worst fear. I became....Captain Beachballs.
In my day job I'm a mild mannered Pregrader for a Company called Comics Guaranty, LLC. My job is to appraise the condition of rare comic books that are sent into my company by collectors and dealers from all over the world. Once a condition grade is assigned to a comic book, the book is then encapsulated into a tamper proof holder with a label stating the grade the book received. This helps create a monetary value for the book based on the books' condition, supply and demand in the collectors' market. In other words: I get to sit on my butt all day looking at comics and get paid for it...
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