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Benjamin

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I can talk your ear off on politics , video games , history , indie rock or the finer points of teaching your cat to high-five .

Right now I'm listening to Shearwater , reading Silent Night and watching the first season of Battlestar Galactica .

My Interests

Listening to records. Making music. Going to shows. Making breakfast. Teaching the cat. Walking the dog. Nintendo. Card tricks. Whiskey sours. Fixing things around the house. Board games. Steak & potatoes.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who enjoys my cooking.

Or maybe a magician.

También, algunos amigos para ayudarme a aprender español.

And if you want to read my ramblings, I'd suggest going here: eightbitguy.livejournal.com instead of reading on myspace 'cause there are more picture bloggings there.

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Music:

Aereogramme. Bella Lea. The Blake Babies. Blueline Medic. Blueburd. Bluetip. Botch. Braid. Jeff Buckley. Burning Airlines. The Cancer Conspiracy. The Cardigans. The Cranes. Criteria. Dag. The Dandy Warhols. Denali. The Dirty Three. The Dismemberment Plan. Do Make Say Think. Julie Doiron. Early Day Miners. Elysian Fields. Engine Down. Explosions in the Sky. Far. From Monument to Masses. Gang of Four. Girls Against Boys. PJ Harvey. Juliana Hatfield. Hum. Ida. Iron and Wine. Jawbox. The Jazz June. Joy Division. June of 44. Juno. K. Kaki King. Lotion. Low. Lush. The Malarkies. Mates of State. Medicine. Metroschifter. Minus the Bear. Mogwai. Morphine. Murder by Death. My Bloody Valentine. New Order. Ninety Day Men. Heather Nova. Beth Orton. The Pinkslips. David Poe. Portishead. Postal Service. Rachel's. Shudder to Think. Sixteen Horsepower. Songs: Ohia. Spinanes. Sunny Day Real Estate. Trans Am. Chris Whitley. Will Haven. The Wrens. Shannon Wright.

Movies:

Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, Kevin Smith, Greg Araki, Pixar,

Television:

Lost, Rome, Heroes, Arrested Development, The Sopranos, and the new. Dr Who.

Books:

Most recently: The Federalist Papers, Richmond Burning, Strategies of Containment, Lies my Teacher Told Me, The Doomsday Scenario: How America Ends, and many other books about dead people.

Heroes:

Edward R. Murrow.

My Blog

I am giving up on myspace.

but not deleting it. There are too many random people from my past on here, that I might like to check in with every now and again. But I am way too busy with school to even think about loggin in here...
Posted by Benjamin on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:16:00 PST

My new modern lit crush

"It is a strange thing to see the source of your phobia systematically disemboweled. It made me feel guilty again. These lobsters were senior citizens, after all. The might have been grandparents. For...
Posted by Benjamin on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:50:00 PST

The new school.

Still, she had disappointed him by saying nothing whatever about returning with his shield or on it. He had privately primed himself for a beautiful scene. He had prepared certain sentences which he t...
Posted by Benjamin on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:55:00 PST

Kindle.

Wow.Go to amazon.com and click on the Kindle thing on the main page. Watch the video.Right now they have 90,000 books, their goal is eventually to have everything ever written available.And the thing ...
Posted by Benjamin on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:31:00 PST

Sparhawk, Gore and O’Neill

Right now, I have the itch to write. Unfortunately, I have to leave for class in less than an hour, so a piffy little blogging will have to do.Don't act so innocent / I've seen you pound your fists in...
Posted by Benjamin on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:00:00 PST

1977

Oh sweet jesus. its 1977, all over again...
Posted by Benjamin on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:08:00 PST

Not sneaky

So we have this football picks thing going on at work now, and since I'm not the type of guy who goes out and gets a jersey to wear every tuesday, I figured I'd splurge the $2.49 and get a 'skins key....
Posted by Benjamin on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:52:00 PST

¿Voy loco, necesitas algo?

Women. More trouble than their worth, sometimes. But for all the weirdness and stupid arguments and strange words found in the morning, every morning I wake up without you is a bad one.And you can rea...
Posted by Benjamin on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:41:00 PST

Politics

I rarely talk about politics in here, but I stumbled across something that really makes me happy, in a strange round-a-bout kind of way: Ron Paul raised $5 million this quarter. Thats equal with John ...
Posted by Benjamin on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:24:00 PST

¡Lámparas nuevas!

The color doesnt really look right in that pic, but its really a bright, fire engine or apple red. These lamps (there are two) are the basis of a new look for my room! New bed when I can afford it, an...
Posted by Benjamin on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:01:00 PST