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benja

I am here for Friends

About Me

i will most likely try to talk you into trading something with me- if my bag is full of different stuff when i come home...it's been a good night. i thrive on learning- new things, people, ideas, shoes. make me laugh, tell a good tale and turn me on to great new book and you'll win me over. i desperately want an el camino and could drink grape juice or eat sushi every day.

My Interests

reading, writing, laughing, nightlife, travel, grant writing

I'd like to meet:

storytellers and pirates...folks with something to challenge, entertain or enlighten me- people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and hometowns

Music:

triphop, electronica, hiphop, shoegazer, supreme beings of leisure, cure, smiths, pixies, iggy pop, baxter, hooverphonic, bjork, fugees, jane's addiction, outkast, esthero, snake river conspiricy, morcheeba.... albums on my table right now: lovage, verve re-mixed, red hot & gershwin

Movies:

harold and maude, igby goes down, clockwork orange, drop dead gorgeous, run lola run, house of yes, snatch, waiting for guffman, hedwig and the angry inch, sid and nancy, being john malcovich, sugar and spice, royal tennebaums, rushmore, playing by heart, city of lost children, the whole nine yards, stormriders

Books:

vonegut, neil gaimon, tom robbins, christopher moore, jeanette winterston, cormack mcarthy, douglas adams, david mack's kabuki, david foster wallace

Heroes:

dorothy parker, rita dove, the dread pirate roberts

My Blog

trade master

for those of you who know... the art of the trade is something that i work to perfect- let it be said... on this day... i have just made the ultimate trade. just ask when you see me b
Posted by benja on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

unlikely....

...that i would post anything here- i don't like the phonetics of the word "blog" just one ugly syllable that sounds kinda dirty, but not very fun yet, my weekend deserves some kind of fanfare- ...
Posted by benja on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

we all knew it was true....

Shiver me timbers you know loads about piratevocabulary matey so Splice the Mainbrace andcelebrate!yoho!{please vote} ...
Posted by benja on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST