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James

"What you give is what you get."

About Me

SETTLE FOR MORE.42DB, Access Music, accomplishments, advice, America, analyzation, ascension, Baja, barrels, beaches, beauty, being, beliefs, Big Bear, Big Rock, biking, blending in, bmx, bodyboarding, bodysurfing, boogieboarding, brilliance, building, California, camping, caring, Chicama, chillin', clarity, common sense, communicating, community, connections, cousins, creating, Crouching Lion, culture, curiosity, DBK, determination, Diamond Head, discipline, discovering, DKB, drawing, diversity, diving, dreams, driving, DropKneeBoyz, Earth, education, Ehukai, elevation, empathy, Ensenada, eSDee, ethics, everything, experience, faith, Family, finding, finesse, fishing, flying, forward thinking, foundations, free-thinking, friends, Gas Chambers, god, GOOD TIMES, grace, grounded, guidance, Half Point, happiness, having fun, Hawaii, health, heaven, helping, Henniman's, herbs, heroes, hiking, Hip Hop, honesty, hope, HPU, IB, idealstic, imagination, independent, Indonesia, InI, insight, intellect, intelligence, introspective, intuitive, Irie, jah, jazz, JL, journey, karma, knowledge, Lake Tahoe, La Jolla, Lani's, laughing, leadership, learning, LIFE, liquid, listening, living, longboarding, longevity, love, loving, luck, maintaining, maintenance, Marine St., Mexico, mission, morals, moving, MUSIC, nature, networking, NorCal, Oahu, offshore winds, Off The Wall, ONE, open-minded, oppurtunity, optimism, originality, Pavones, PEACE, photography, Pipeline, poet, pointbreaks, politics, positivity, potential, practical, prevention, proactive, purity, religion, richness, risks, road trips, rooted, sacraments, sacredness, Salt Creek, San Diego, Sandy's, scenaries, search, self, senses, sharing, shine, shorebreak, short-boarding, signals, signs, silence, simple, skating, slick, smart, smiling, smooth, snorkeling, snowboarding, SoCal, soul, sound, spearfishing, spirit, STAND-OUT, street smarts, struggle, style, synergy, success, sunrises, sunsets, surfing, survive, swimming, tall, teaching, Tecate, technique, TG'zzz, thoughtful, traveling, triumph, trust, truth, underground, understanding, universe, UNO, upliftment, values, Viper Fins, walking, water, waves, wealthy, Wedge, wine, winning, wisdom, wit, within, world, writing, youth, Zion...
Music, Family and Friends are everything to me. Surfing next. Then photography. Everything else falls into place. Live Life with Love First. PEACE

My Interests

Home:Access Music, Baja, beaches, beliefs, Big Rock, blending in, bodyboarding, bodysurfing, bodywhomping, Boogieboarding, California, camping, caring, chillin', communicating, discipline, drawing, diving, driving, DropKneeBoyzzz(DKB), DudeBroKrew (DBK), education, family, finesse, fishing, flying, friends, GOOD TIMES, guidance, happiness, having fun, Hawaii, helping, hiking, HipHop, IB, karma, knowledge, laughing, learning, listening, living life, longboarding, longevity, love, loving, Marine St., Mexico, morals, MUSIC, NorCal, Oahu, optimism, originality, politics, positivity, religion, risk-taking, road trips, San Diego, scenaries, sharing, short-boarding, skating, slick, smiling, smooth, snorkeling, snowboarding, SoCal, spearfishing, STAND-OUT, style, success, sunrises, sunsets, surfing, swimming, Tecate, technique, TG'zzz, traveling, trust, truth, underground, values, Viper Fins, walking, Wedge, winning, wisdom, wit, writing, youth...

I'd like to meet:

Free-Thinking Beautiful Minds"If it's in my lifestyle, I'll cross it again." MoFo NCT

Music:

Check my playlist to get a feel.If it's got a positive message and sounds good, I'm down with it.Stuff that gets constant rotation in my ears: Abstract Rude, Bob Marley, Bored Stiff (P-Way), Collie Buddz, Common, Damian Marley, Deep Rooted, Erykah Badu, The Game, GangStarr, Groundation, Jack Johnson, Jay-Z, Living Legends (Aesop, Bicasso, CMA, Eligh, The Grouch, G&E, Murs, Mystik Journeymen, Netherworlds, PSC, Scarub, Sunspot Jonz), Michael Franti, Nas, Pep Love, Ooklah the Moc, Pennywise, Pato Banton, Pepper, P.O.D., Project Blowed eMCees, Rise Against, The Roots, Sashamon, Slightly Stoopid, Snoop Dogg, Steel Pulse, Stephen Marley, Strange Fruit Project, Styles P., Thievery Corporation, Tracy Chapman, Tupac Shakur, Zion I.

Movies:

The Secret, What Dreams May Come, What the Bleep Do We Know?

Television:

My roommates are usually watching the television in the household. However, for NFL, Lakers, World Cup and The Olympics, you best believe I'm going to be catching as much as I can of that!

Books:

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Alchemist, Caught Inside, Drug Lord, Eddie Would Go, Pipe Dreams, Siddartha, Think and Grow Rich, Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Heroes:

Rest In Passion Pops and Emery...All those fallen soldiers who have stood before us to enable the lives that we live today.

My Blog

Democracy

Sublime crisis. Subprime niceness.What and where is the middle of these vices?Power and control,Not to mention, capital gains that aim not to tax the people who are making them.Tax free.Duty free.Whil...
Posted by James on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:03:00 PST

Seed of Life

Solid ground.Solid gravity.What is solid?Solid is nothing.But everything is something. Just beyond me is you, and everything that is.Light moves and scatters and reflects,So what we see with our eyes ...
Posted by James on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:45:00 PST

Skatin’

I got the cops called on me for skatin' my street last night.Dogs bark, neighbors call, now there's cops, blue lights patrol, cruisin' slow...To a stop, no words, just a mad-doggin' cop who thought th...
Posted by James on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:31:00 PST

Madness

This has been a CRAZY, intense week for me. The following is how I felt yesterday morning before Astronomy class started:I started this morning not wanting to get out of bed.Instead...I rose and chose...
Posted by James on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:00:00 PST

Universal Life

Feeling free, being me, unity, unified.Ride the tide of gravity, allowing me to pen these words freely.Surely there must be something.I'm trusting, and thrusting forward,Daily. May-be, waves of genera...
Posted by James on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:09:00 PST

New Ones

MY WILLFreestyle thought.Concoct a plan;A plan to win.Tell a friend.Pour some knowledge on the seed called life.Take it in.Live it out.Control thoughts.Mold feelings.Develop a plot.That plan with some...
Posted by James on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:59:00 PST

Daily Task

From 7/11/2008DAILY TASKA daily task is something that should be handled and grasped daily.Because that's what it is;A daily task.So handle it and have it.Better yet,Embrace it and take it as your own...
Posted by James on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:45:00 PST

Thoughts from July 8th, 2008

I'm feeling good right now. I'm feeling free and I'm really grateful that I've picked up the pen again and put it it onto the page. It's been too long since I've written much poetry and now that it's ...
Posted by James on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:52:00 PST

Today’s Thoughts

A couple poems that I wrote today. Enjoy if you will.UNDERSTANDINGIt's all about me, yet it's all about you. I understand you have moves to make to prove to you, yourself and others.You have bills and...
Posted by James on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:28:00 PST

Some from the archive...

I have some quotes written down in a book, and my friend found some poems in it as well. These poems are from May and November of 2003. The mind frame I was in then inspired me to transcend the words ...
Posted by James on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:21:00 PST