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Reuben

Ghost Ridin' da Whip.

About Me

Greetings, Humans.Thanks for viewing my page. My favorite things include smiles, saturday mornings, bicycles, and nachos.I enjoy playing the drums and violin, though I'm not that great at either of them. I love concerts, mp3's, t-shirts, running, cycling, and my ipod. I am fairly religious and try to live an honest life. I love city life, but I hate cars, strip malls, urban sprawl, and suburbs. I hate driving - it gives me headaches, but love riding my bike. I just bought a sweet new sky blue Schwinn Traveler and it's rad. I also found an old Schwinn Continental that I think i'm going to convert into a 9-speed. It'll be rad when i'm done with it.I love autumn, bright red leaves, halloween, thanksgiving and christmas. I think i want to move someplace warm, but I don't know where. I like the sound of Vancouver because they haven't wrecked their city with freeways, but it's probably not that warm there. Maybe I'll move to Salt Lake City. I'll figure it out when i graduate in December.
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My Interests

The one book I can read over and over and over is The Catcher In The Rye. It's so easy to identify with Holden. Who DOESN'T feel like Holden every once in a while? Every time I read it, I start staying up late and wandering the city streets late at night. Whenever I read the Catcher In the Rye, I find myself sleeping on park benches and sitting on curbs at 4:00 a.m. What a powerful novel.

I'd like to meet:

I want to meet people who are real and aren't afraid to be themselves. I want to meet people who can tell you the stupidest things they've ever done without being embarrassed. Everybody does stupid stuff sometimes.... I want to meet people who are spontaneous and will be up for anything, anytime. I want to meet people who will spend a saturday night sitting on curbs with me. I want to meet people who are comfortable with their own bodies, regardless of what they look like. I want to meet people who aren't afraid to cry. Everybody cries.... I want to meet people who like to BBQ and turn the stereo up. I want to meet people who will go to concerts with me and not make fun of me (too much) if I'm dancing and look stupid.

Music:

FROU FROU, Acceptance, Anberlin, AFI, Alkaline Trio, Armor For Sleep, Audio Karate, Autopilot Off, Bad Religion, Boxcar Racer, Bracket, Brand New, Buck-O-Nine, Cauterize, CKY, Coheed And Cambria, Daphne Loves Derbe, Dashboard Confessional, Day At The Fair, Dead Poetic, Descendents, Down To Earth Approach, Fall Out Boy, Fenix Tx, Finch, From Autumn To Ashes, From First To Last, Funeral For a Friend, Great Kat, Hepcat, Hidden In Plain View, Imogen Heap, Jarbers, Jimmy Eat World, Lagwagon, Less Than Jake, Letter Kills, Link 80, Living End, Lucky Boys Confusion, Mars Volta, Matchbook Romance, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Millencolin, Mustard Plug, MxPx, My American Heart, My Chemical Romance, No Use For A Name, NOFX, None More Black, Off By One, Pilfers, Pinback, Pulley, Rancid, Refused, REM, Rise Against, Rocket Summer, Rx Bandits, Saosin, Self Against City, Senses Fail, Shootyz Groove, Slapstick, Snuff, Something Corporate, Sparta, Spitalfield, Stars Hide Fires, Story Of The Year, Strung Out, Sublime, Suicide Machines, Taking Back Sunday, Ten Foot Pole, Thrice, Thursday, UnderOath, Unwritten Law, The Used, Vandals, Vendetta Red

Movies:

SubUrbia, Boondock Saints, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Good Will Hunting, Snatch, Requiem For a Dream MyGen Profile Generator

Television:

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, The Wonder Years, Southpark, Reno 911, Elimidate, Pop-Up Video, Insomniac Music Theatre, Big Love, Pete And Pete, Ren And Stimpy, Hey Dude, David The Gnome, The Office (BBC Version)

Books:

The Catcher In The Rye, Suburban Nation, Stuck In Traffic, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, The Red Badge Of Courage, The Necronomicon, The New Testament

My Blog

Guitar Hero

I've recently been introduced to the world of Guitar Hero, a video game where your controller is shaped like a half-sized guitar and all of the strings/frets have been reduce to five colored buttons. ...
Posted by Reuben on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:39:00 PST

Book Review: How Cities Work

Marshall, Alex. 2000. How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken. Austin: University of Texas Press. This is a very pessimistic book.  The sub-theme of the book is "don't bother tr...
Posted by Reuben on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:22:00 PST

why do I get so GRUMPY?

Sometimes I get so grumpy, and that makes me mad, which makes me more grumpy.  It's ridiculous.  You know how sometimes you're in a situation that sucks and you're just not very happy about ...
Posted by Reuben on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 07:56:00 PST

One of my roommates snubbed me - big time

So i moved into a new apartment this summer, and it's sort of funny the way it's worked out.  I moved into this place in a hurry because i was being thrown out of my old apartment because my room...
Posted by Reuben on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:32:00 PST

My best friend Maury.

My best friend is Maury Povich.  I'll be damned if he and I don't get together and waste hours at a time doing nothing useful.  This morning he and I performed paternity tests for women who ...
Posted by Reuben on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:20:00 PST

Dangers of Cycling Realized.

I got hit by a car this morning.  Actually a very large truck.  F-250 I believe.  But it was big...and tan.  You'd think I'd be able to tell you more about the truck, since I got a...
Posted by Reuben on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:10:00 PST

A Step Towards Normalcy

As some of you may know, I recently sold my truck and for the first time in 10 years, am automobile free.  I'm loving every minute of it.  It was a big step for me to make.... a step I had b...
Posted by Reuben on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 02:26:00 PST

computer tidbits

Three things: 1.  i like the IE 7 tab thing.  I think it's pretty neat and i appreciate not having 7 things lined up across the bottom of my screen.  I like 7 things lined up across the...
Posted by Reuben on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:07:00 PST

Ever Drifted Apart?

Have you ever drifted apart from someone you were once very close to?  I have... several names come to mind.  I guess I don't have a problem with simply drifting apart from someone.  Pe...
Posted by Reuben on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:33:00 PST

Now with 50% less diet soda

As of right now, I'm going to dring 50% less diet soda.  It's just not good for me... and it's expensive when you make a habit out of it....
Posted by Reuben on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:31:00 PST