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Usually Jon

A great man is not created ahead of the simple man who becomes him.

About Me

*sigh* Let's do an update on this...
Hmmm... It's always hard to talk about yourself. Folks either don't know what to say, or can't say enough.
I think I'm complex and simple at the same time. I have goals in life, but I like f**kin around with the small little odds, ends and interests that sporadically pop up in my head and make me go, "Hmmm, I think I'll try that..."
I'm a dreamer, and my ambitions are probably one of the things I hold closest to me. I think about greatness and I think about life, better than how it is and how it should be. I'm a decent writer. I love how I write and what I've written, though I know I can be a little (if not a lot) better. I guess I'm finding myself to be a blogger.
I'm not as funny as I use to be, and people never really know what to call me. I've never made it clear to anyone as to what name I go by. I guess I've always figured that how you know me should be good enough for you to decided on your own.
I'm a geek. Like really. Computer pieces everywhere. Not full geek, because half the time, I don't really know what I'm doing... but I'm getting there. My girlfriend just got me a shirt that says, "Your Computer Sucks." Sweet. Besides that, I like being a manly man; stand with posture, T-Shirt and jeans, pants that fit and worn properly. I'm a little too grown to leave my ass hanging out as if I don't notice. Sometimes, I'm a jerk... Well, more often than not. Speak to me as if you have a brain, and I'll act it. I hate the negative affects of mass media and propaganda. I don't like words like "Holla" or "Hyphy" because I think I'm just getting old. I know what they mean... but why would you say it? I know I'm not cool. I'm also a pretty big square.
Life to me is about experience and growth. I want to experience new things and meet different people. Oh yah, I guess you can say that I'm a deep person. So deep, you'd probably sink at times. I wish I could be wiser... And as much as it sounds like I'm out there always being active, I'm pretty much the kick back and chill type of guy. Never really in a rush to let my life pass me by.
Sometimes it feels like there's a need to rush. Because regardless of whether or not we're living it, life is passing by. We get so tangled in "everyday" business that the sooner we finish, the sooner we can go on living. I've taken up 2 jobs (like so many others I've known) and it hardly comes to mind whether or not this is what I really want to do...
Working to live... Or living to work... Doesn't seem to really work out either way...

Oh, and a big F.U.C.K YOU to Bank Of America. In one month alone, they've taken $250.00 by means of overdraft fees (Over $500 the whole time I've been with them). $1 over withdrawl = $32 dollers fee? So yah. My middle finger is raised to you guys. I do salute your ruthlessness and ingenuity in taking advantage of your costumers. You guys are truelly born from the ass of the Devil himself. May karma send you all straight back to hell.
This is old, but it's there just for the record.
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My Interests

Deep discussions
Creative conversations
Kick'n back
Midnight hangouts
+ Naps and food.

I'd like to meet:

People who haven't forgotten to look up from time to time.

Conversations are good things.

I want to meet someone that I can fall deep into a conversation with. I can get lost in their eyes and I can ride on their words, just as it flows. I want to meet someone that I can just taste what they say...

"... In my univers, she's Godzilla and tears down my cities..."

Oh, and a few of my old friends too... Sure... That works...

By the way, if i don't know you, please at least say what's up before you try to add me. ____________________________________________________________ __

There's a paradise somewhere...
... that someday i'll know again.

I know I have a lot of youngins on my friends list :) They're either my students or the folks I've worked with... ... ... ... ... ... ... (or maybe i'm really just 13 years old O_o)

Music:

Jazz
Hip Hop
R&B
Rock
Alternative

Movies:

Time And Tide
Dark Days
...

Television:

Attack Of The Show
X-Play
Farscape
Adult Swim
Space: Above And Beyond
Stargate SG1
CNN Headline News *sigh*

Books:

America is in the Heart
Super Fudge
Robotech Novels

Heroes:

Myself
My Mentors
My Friends
My Family

My Blog

A letter to Ann... That then turned to a blog.

(Sorry in advance... it was about 3am at work when this was written and I never bothered to proof read) Ann, If I could assure you that writing the things that I wrote was not in attempt to discredit ...
Posted by Usually Jon on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:34:00 PST

The Incoming  9/6/07

Something inevitable is coming, and as aware of it as I am, I've done little to ready myself.  Maybe I've even acted upon the exact opposite of what preparation I needed to set.  I've gained...
Posted by Usually Jon on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:24:00 PST

We Are Not the Dancing Filipinos! 9-19-07

What happened to our knowledge dropping teens   And our culturally active scenes.   And our Know History Know Self conference   Rather than all this Hyphy nonsense.   Because I cou...
Posted by Usually Jon on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:37:00 PST

The Side Road (More Ramblings of the Graveyard Shift)  9/4/07

I no longer see clearly the priorities of my life while the lines between the wants and needs blur.  I've become picky with the essentials as if to believe that I had the luxury of spare opportun...
Posted by Usually Jon on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:06:00 PST

Being a Dreamer (Back in the Struggle)  9/1/07

A few of my ambitions have taken blows and I find myself back to aiming at goals that seem all too familiar.  I've constantly tried pushing my life forward, but I've never felt as though I've got...
Posted by Usually Jon on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:02:00 PST

Today (July 15, 2007 1:33AM)

Just finished a great movie.  I highly recommend Stranger than Fiction if you haven't already seen it. It's not much of an update on life or a full on blog, but it's a start on getting back to wr...
Posted by Usually Jon on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:40:00 PST

On Reflections: Driving forward [page 2]

I feel like I'm getting the hang of it.  Driving the Civic currently leaves me at an odd place, but I suppose I was expecting that.  I'm still edgy and on ends from barely learning how to dr...
Posted by Usually Jon on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:28:00 PST

The Last Day; So anti-climactic [Page 1]

This motherfucker... Man, total laughs.Tony Santa Ana calls me at about 7:30 in the morning and says something along the lines of, "Dude, I'm such a dick.  I checked my itinerary, and my flight l...
Posted by Usually Jon on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:49:00 PST

The Return

Tony Santa Ana Theres quite a bit of history about this man.  As I was told, Tony was one of the first founding members of the Filipino Youth Coalition.  I met him in 1997 during the Know Hi...
Posted by Usually Jon on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:20:00 PST

Before The New

From where I last left off, things might have looked a little bleak.  Out of time and without a place that really felt like home, I moved back in with my father.  This was still in January.&...
Posted by Usually Jon on Mon, 01 May 2006 12:11:00 PST