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gentle ben.

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About Me

my name is benjamin... hmmm... i guess that's it. .. MySpaceScripts Profile Editor

My Interests

Reading, Writing Poetry, Writing Stories(though I have been lazying off on this for a while),politics and political activism, social justice, peace, socialism, the people, the labor movement, militant unionism, listening to music, Bicycling, Beer and drinking, playing bass, playing in bands (though I don't have one at this moment), the soviet union, the french revolution, history in general, social science in general, theology and religion... oh yea, I am like a huge ass metal head and if you approach me, I am bound to yell for no particular reason, "SLAYER!"

I'd like to meet:

Me in a parallel universe!

Music:

mostly anything as long as it doesn't suck.

Movies:

Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, The Omens, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre( the original), Stand By Me, Mean Creek, Dead Presidents, Run Lola Run, Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Malcom X, Tombstone, Annie Hall, The Graduate, The Freshman, The Breakfast Club, Uncle Buck, The Great Outdoors, A Mighty Wind, Big, The Brat Pack movies, Dark City, Pet Semetary, Clerks, Mall Rats, Menace to Society, The Brothers McMullen, Session 9, They Live, Dune, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead(the original), Day of the Dead, Evil Dead part one and Two, Most of the Friday the 13th Movies, Nightmare on Elm St., Summer of Sam, "Goodbye, Lenin," Frailty, The Rambo films, Reds, "Oh Brother, Where art Thou" The Lord of the Rings, Forest Gump, Whats Eating Gilbert Grape,Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Ghost Dog, The Godfathers, The Lion King, The Iron Giant, The Prince of Egypt, The South Park Movie, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Alladin, In Cold Blood,

Television:

I don't watch that much T.V. but my favorites are: The Simpsons, Futurama, C-Span and C-Span 2, PBS, Boondocks, Law and Order SVU, Comedy Central if that have a good comic on, the history channel, animal planet, the colbert report, the daily show, south park, spongebob squarepants, and probably a few more that I can't think of.

Books:

The Autobiography of Malcolm X. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. Anything by Marx/Engels. Lenin. Stalin. Bakunin. Strike! by Jeremy Brecher. Frank Herbert. Steinbeck. Joyce. Faulkner. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Slaughter House Five. the stranger by albert camus. etc.

Heroes:

workers. my family. jesus. karl marx. vladimir lenin. malcolm x. james connolly. oscar romero. Abe Lincoln. fidel castro. che guevara. simon bolivar. agusto sandino. emiliano zapata. ho chi mihn. the IRA. the black panthers. the Industrial Workers of the World. the longshormen. the zapatistas. Machiavelli. Nietzsche. Paul Robeson. Eugene V. Debs. Emma Goldman. the soviet union without whom we would all be speaking german. Paul Wellstone. Martin Luther King Jr. Huey p. newton. King solomon.