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Ben

moparmetal

About Me

My name is Ben and I live and work in Jacksonville, Florida. I love to work out, listen to music, play video games, hang out with friends, and mess around with guitars on occasion. I was born in Chicago and raised in Boca Raton. Cars are one of my biggest passions, having worked on a 1973 Plymouth Duster for 6 years. Recently I've begun working on my 2006 Subaru WRX. Driving is one of my favorite things to do.
I graduated from UNF in May of 2007 with a BA in English and a minor in communications. I have a job working as a System Support Analyst @ Vurv Technology, based primarily in Jacksonville. Check it out @ www.vurvexpress.com .
Music is my next biggest interest after cars. I love shows! I listen mostly to a variety of metal, especially melodic death metal stuff such as Children of Bodom, Kalmah, Norther, Wintersun, In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, etc. I also listen to power metal, metalcore, hardcore, some black/death metal, classic rock, 80s, etc. If it has solid guitars, I'll probably enjoy it.
Feel free to chat me up on AIM, my screenname is ANT Rizen.
Ron Paul 2008
In Flames, Embody the Invisible @ Sticky Fingers
My WRX:

My Interests

Computers, music, guitar, weightlifting, writing, Subarus, Mopars, racing, cars/motorsports and driving in general, video games, fireworks, the internet, animals, pirates

I'd like to meet:


Alexi Laiho:

Music:

Norther, Children of Bodom, Kalmah, Skyfire, Ensiferum, Mors Principium Est, Sinergy, Wintersun, Soilwork, Killswitch Engage, At The Gates, In Flames, Arch Enemy, Unearth, Still Remains, Atreyu, All That Remains, Shadows Fall, Avenged Sevenfold, Dragonforce, Iced Earth, Amon Amarth, Blind Guardian, Evergrey, Dream Theater, Darkane, Dark Tranquility, Hypocrisy, Thrice, Symphony X, Static-X, God Forbid, Bleeding Through, old Metallica, Iron Maiden, Evergrey, Chimaira, Trivium, Invocator, Lamb of God, Mithotyn, Falconer, Rammstein, Luca Turilli, Highland Glory, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, Kotipelto, Insomnium, As I Lay Dying, Megadeth, Bullet for my Valentine, It Dies Today, 7th Son, Edguy, Lacuna Coil, Darkest Hour, Demons and Wizards, Between the Buried and Me, At Daggers Drawn, Senses Fail, Into Eternity, All Shall Perish, Burn in Silence, Prayer for Cleansing, Dead Man In Reno, Warmen, As Blood Runs Black, August Burns Red, I Killed The Prom Queen, Dethklok

Movies:

Full Metal Jacket, Top Gun, Apocalypse Now, American Beauty, American History X, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill series, Office Space

Television:

Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Books:

Tom Clancy + Michael Crichton books, John Grisham, Carl Hiaasen's Native Tongue. Being an English major killed my desire for recreational reading :[

My Blog

Home Depot Scam!

A "heads up" for those men who may be regular Home Depot customers. Over the last month I became a victim of a clever scam while out shopping. Simply going out to get supplies has turned out to be qu...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:23:00 PST

The best day of school ever.

This is either the coolest mom or the most hilarious mix up ever. http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22723210-50 05962,00.html A STRIPPER performed for a classroom full of British teenage...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:33:00 PST

Its a Paulnomenom.

Big ups to Kalibah for writing this, it makes me laugh everytime. Posted on www.digitalgangster.com, but I found it on a post at www.ytcracker.com. " Attention I am coining a new phrase:(Ron) Paulnome...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:31:00 PST

Fashion Tips for Women from Maddox

I love Maddox. I have been reading his page periodically since highschool, and this article I found particularly funny. Not that I agree with everything he says, as I own a pair of Crocs myself and I ...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:08:00 PST

The evidence is irrefutable.

Yeah.
Posted by Ben on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:04:00 PST

Bigger, Stronger and Faster Monkeys

Does your city have a monkey infestation? Did your mayor just die after being mauled by a band of marauding monkeys on his front porch?Well never fear, the city of Delhi in India has the solution - tr...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:07:00 PST

Spam email kicks ass.

Spam email kicks ass. Occasionally I read  through my spam folder, just because the broken Engrish that crazy Asian or Russian spammers half a world away are churning out is hilarious. I get prob...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:01:00 PST

I love MySpace..

Where else can I find a combination of free Macy's giftcards, half-naked underage girls dancing in everyones comments, and page layouts that make late 90s GeoCities websites look professional? Only on...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:21:00 PST

Whats for dinner?

I remember growing up, my parents used to fix things that I found absolutely disgusting - terrible things like meatloaf! Oh no! And trying to get me to eat fish? The only time I even considered it was...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:16:00 PST

RIP Mitch Hedburg

Found this link today: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/be4da693f0 Makes me think back to freshman year of college when I listened to his standup at least 10 times. He is probably my most favorit...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:55:00 PST