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About Me

I want a jetpack that runs on hydrogen, so I can point and laugh at all the assholes driving giant SUVs on the road below as I fly to work. I want to invent some minor thing that changes everything. I want a soapbox so high the whole word has to listen. I want every business to be open 24 hours. I want the people I care about to have good fortune. I want to unlock time and space, light and matter, and all the other secret ingredients of life. I want to understand. I want to be understood.

My Interests

Music, movies, old muscle cars, philosophy, reiki, politics, psychology, mythology, sociology, human behavior, zen, quantum mechanics, astral projection, genetic engineering, reading, writing, neurophysiology, lounging, laughing, discussing, debating, art, entropy, technology, hieroglyphics, jeopardy, reincarnation, and last but not least....truth.

I'd like to meet:

More myspace bands! Seriously, though, NO MORE myspace bands. God. Honestly, most of the people I'd want to meet, I already know. My list is too big already, so if I don't already know you,(you know, in real life) propably, I won't respond. Unless you have something intelligent to say, that is.

Music:

Fugazi, The Pixies, The Violent Femmes, Nirvana, The Beatles, Eminem, Tool, The Decemberists, Pinback, Cake, Outkast, The Faint, Prick, Charles Mingus, Good Riddance, Beck, Bad Religion(old), Dead Kennedys, Radiohead, The Clash, Beastie Boys, The Dead Milkmen, The Shins, Johnny Cash, Bush, The Strokes, Oingo Boingo, Morphine, Dead Can Dance, The Postal Service, The Reverend Horton Heat, George Clinton/Parliment, Ladytron, Le Tigre, Fischerspooner, The Killers, Bjork, Fatboy Slim, The Police, The White Stripes, System of a Down, Rage Against The Machine, Operation Ivy, Black Heart Procession, 3 Mile Pilot, Pink Floyd, They Might be Giants, Live, Weezer, Subhumans, The Cure, AK1200, Mystical, The Specials, Swingin Udders, The Pogues, Social Distortion, The Moog Cookbook

Movies:

Cohen Bros (especially Big Lebowski and Oh brother), Tim Burton, Kevin Smith, Terry Gilliam(Brazil!!!) David Lynch, PT Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Trey Parker / Matt Stone, Martin Scorcessi, Oliver Stone, Paul Verhoven, Army of Darkness, Secretary, Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko, PI, Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club, Eyes Wide Shut, Monty Python, The Royal Tennenbaums, Adaptation, Ameile, American Beauty, UHF, Cannibal the Musical, Liquid Sky, Breakfast Club, Glory, Akira, Ghost Dog, Schizopolis, Braveheart, Goodfellas, Casino, Full Metal Jacket, Wishmaster 1&2 (3 sucked) Dead Alive, Meet the Feebles, True Romance, Instrument, Jaccobs Ladder, Event Horizon, Naked Gun, Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, Rushmore, Beetlejuice, Indianna Jones, Star Wars, SFW, Sid and Nancy, Princess's Bride, The Shining, In the Mouth of Madness, Napoleon Dynamite, Shaun of the Dead, A Clockwork Orange, What the Bleep Do We Know?, American Psycho, Little Miss Sunshine, Unforgiven, Scarface, Battle Royale, Brick, and at least 50 more I can't think of...

Television:

South Park, Daily Show, Sopranos, Deadwood, Adult Swim (Aqua Teens, 1 in da hood G!) Anything on the discovery channel aside from all the obnoxious cop shows, the 5th wheel (the sluttiest dating show on TV thank you very much) Cable news when I'm very bored, of course the simpsons, family guy, ect (so many cartoons on this list) but TV generally sucks.

Books:

Clive Barker, Carl Jung, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Stephen King (if you've read the dark tower books you BETTER add me!) Depak Chopra, William Gibson, Robert Heinlein, George R.R. Martin, Stephen Hawking, Anne Rice, Chuck Palahniuk, Bob Frissel, Jane Roberts (Seth), Frank Miller, Jonen Vasquez, many more.

Heroes:

Bill Hicks, Buddha, Galileo, Eric Cartman, Jubal Harshaw, George Carlin, Holden Caufield, John Stewart, Jello Biafra, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jonen Vasquez, Salvador Dali, Timothy Leary, Albert Einstein

My Blog

STILL President Bush

Yes, before I say anything else, the title IS plagiarized from John Stewart. What can I say? He's not my only hero, but... Anyway. So now Scott McClellan is jumping on the bandwagon. Or off it. I doub...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 29 May 2008 04:04:00 PST

On human nature

The first technology was weapons technology. Way back when, some simian-ish, hairy looking pre-cousin of mine picked up a rock with a sharp pointy edge, and thus began our long and distinguished hist...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:45:00 PST

And now, back to our regularly scheduled ranting....

Todays guest ranter...Mr Kurt Vonnegut... I couldn't put it beter if I had a million years to try... Cold Turkey By Kurt Vonnegut May 10, 2004 Many years ago, I was so innocent I still consider...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The universe according to Ben

I want to talk today about my understanding of the nature of reality. Where is the best place to start? How can we objectively quantify what we experience only subjectively? For the purposes of this ...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Another asshole in a big goofy hat...

...19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Why I'm anti-christmas

There are many reasons that I despise christmas, but I will attempt to not have this become a rant. First, a bible story: 15On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area and began driving ou...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Not up in the sky God...

I have been waiting a long while to make this post. Most anyone who knows me personally already knows this story, or at least most of it, and those who don't, honestly, it may sound entirely too m...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Paradoxes of a mostly reasonable mind

I know that control is an illusion...Yet, I could tell you about any number of things I believe that I control.I know that appearance is superficial...Yet I am perpetually aware of my own, and judging...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Death, fame, and the morning after...

For all those dark children out there so enamored with death, gather round, as if you were back in kindergarden, gather round in a circle, one and all, gather round a candle in the dark, and listen......
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

midget pirates

It seems like whenever I see a movie or show with pirates, there is without fail at least one midget pirate amoung them. Does this make any sense...you know, historically? Would midgets have made very...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST