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About Me

After I die, I will only be remembered by a trace amount of people: those few whom I have allowed to get close to me. But...what I've done and what I aim to do will never be forgotten. Never.
You won't remember my name. But you'll know my story. Everyone will.
The Joker Revealed:
Carousel
Alex Row
Life came back to us like a car crash.
An eternity - giftwrapped in two seconds.
But they were wrong.
Your life doesn't flash before your eyes.
Instead, you worry about the person
sitting next to you.
And, in the two seconds you think you're going to die,
you sit in regret that you won't see the rest of that life.
That you won't be a part of it.
Then the spinning stops, and -
as fate would have it -
you're not as dead as you thought you would be.
You're alive. Without a single scratch on you.
There's no way to explain it,
with the exception that guardian angels do exist -
and we happened to catch ours on a good day.
Lights streaked around us, swerving to miss us.
Walls loomed nearer, the axis of a carousel -
only there were no smiling children on porcelain horses.
Instead, there was the silence of the surrender.
I didn't cry out to God to save us.
She didn't scream in terror.
There were no tears of regret
or last words of love.
Instead, we waited.
Patience in the face of death - only us.
We are alive. Nothing else matters.
Everything else is trivial.
Trivial to the point of laughter.
It is only when you have seen the end,
when you have reached out and touched it,
that you can fully appreciate everything
leading up to that moment.
The pain, the sadness, the joy and the bliss.
It is all necessary.
And none of it is wasted.
In essence, life is both heaven and hell.
And - because I am not yet ready to reside in either -
I choose to stay for a little while longer.

My Interests

Her.

I'd like to meet:

"Two more years and you'll be done with school, and I'll be making history like I do."

"Our friends would all make fun of us, but we'll just laugh along because we know that none of them have felt this way."

Music:

Favorite Bands/Artists:
Thrice
My Chemical Romance
Brand New
Muse
Vera Mesmer
Funeral For A Friend
Honorable Mentions:
(+44), 30 Seconds To Mars, A Perfect Circle, A Static Lullaby, A.F.I., Against Me!, Anberlin, Angels & Airwaves, The Anix, Anti-Flag, At The Drive-In, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, Biology, The Black Maria, Blink-182, Box Car Racer, Bullet For My Valentine, Calling For Fire, Chiodos, The Classic Crime, Colon Open Bracket, Danny Elfman, Dashboard Confessional, Dead Poetic, Destroy The Runner, Dremnt The End, Dropkick Murphys, Dustin Kensrue, Emery, Fei Comodo, Finch, The Firing Order, Flogging Molly, FM Static, From Autumn To Ashes, From First To Last, Further Seems Forever, Green Day, Hellogoodbye, The Hero Factor, Hollywood Undead, Ice Nine Kills, In Reverent Fear, Jimmy Eat World, Jonezetta, The Killers, Lars Frederiksen & The Bastards, Lithik, The Living End, Lostprophets, Madina Lake, Mae, Marilyn Manson, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Moneen, Plain White T's, The Postal Service, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Reel Big Fish, Relient K, Rise Against, Ryan Adams, Sage Francis, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Social Distortion, Sparta, Spoken, Straylight Run, Strung Out, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, Thousand Foot Krutch, Thursday, Tool, Underoath, Vertigo, Yellowcard
Song of the Moment:
"These Adult Bones"
Vertigo
"I'm innocent - or, at least, I used to be."
Desert Island Albums:
Exile In Oblivion
Strung Out
The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance
The Artist In The Ambulance
Thrice
Absolution
Muse
Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation
Funeral For A Friend
American Idiot
Green Day
The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Brand New
And I've heard that this band called
Some Madder Holiday
isn't all that bad. Maybe you should give them a look.
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Movies:

Favorite Movies of All Time:
Vanilla Sky
"Look at us. I'm frozen and you're dead. And I love you."
Big Fish
"There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost; the ship has sailed and only a fool would continue. Truth is...I've always been a fool."
Almost Famous
"And while women will always be a problem for guys like us, most of the great art in the world is about that very problem. Good-looking people, man, they got no spine; their art never lasts."
At The Theatre:
Knocked Up
Rating: 5 out of 5
Very Highly Recommended
(It's funny. It's uplifting. There wasn't a single moment in the movie where I wasn't smiling or laughing.)
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End
Rating: 5 out of 5
Very Highly Recommended
(For a truly awesome experience, watch Dead Man's Chest right before going to the theatre to watch this one. They work best as one movie.)
Recently Watched:
A Knight's Tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Highly Recommended
(Sure, the soundtrack makes parts a bit cheesy, but it works. Cliched, but funny. Paul Bettany and Alan Tudyk truly steal the show.)
Pan's Labyrinth
Rating: 5 out of 5
Very Highly Recommended
(Watch it tonight. Have your anti-depressants ready.)
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Television:

Favorite Series of All Time:
Firefly: The Complete Series
"This is a fertile land; we will flourish here. We will rule over this land, and we shall call it...This Land."
Series Box Set of the Moment:
Robot Chicken: The Complete First Season
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Books:

Favorite Book of All Time:
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
Recently Finished:
Good Omens
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
Currently Reading:
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
It's Not News, It's Fark
Drew Curtis
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Heroes:

Anyone who truly knows what it means to inspire someone.

My Blog

When something can't be fixed, it must be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up.

That's how I feel about the state of this country.We live in a great country. But, unfortunately, it is a great country where a lot of things are going wrong. Where the government is acting against th...
Posted by We could change the world. on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:11:00 PST

I indulged my childish side.

My kitchen table is in complete and utter disarray right now. But I'm doing something I haven't done since I was twelve years old. And I'm more excited about it than you could possibly believe.It all ...
Posted by We could change the world. on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:25:00 PST

To anyone vaguely interested in my musical side...

I'm working on a cover of Brand New's "Jesus Christ," the song currently featured on my front page. I am a firm believer in the thought of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, and intend to...
Posted by We could change the world. on Tue, 29 May 2007 12:56:00 PST

If the pistol never leaves the holster, it can never save your life.

Life is stretching me thin. I simply can't do all the things I want to do with the time I'm given. And, in an oddly expected twist of fate, the time that I do spend with everyone just doesn't seem to ...
Posted by We could change the world. on Wed, 23 May 2007 07:14:00 PST

"Madness is the emergency exit." (The Dark Knight spoilers inside.)

Yeah...so I've posted it on my front page, but I want to get this out as much as possible. This is awesome.The Joker has finally been revealed. And, unlike the last one I put up...this one is official...
Posted by We could change the world. on Mon, 21 May 2007 07:15:00 PST

Everybody's cool playin' Rock 'n Roll; I don't feel cool, feel cool at all.

I have discovered my destiny. And what is that destiny, you ask?I will never run out of material. I will always have motivation for songs, stories, poetry and the like. My own life is my muse. I have ...
Posted by We could change the world. on Mon, 14 May 2007 08:25:00 PST

I'm not scared to die, but I'm a little bit scared of what comes after.

Jesus Christ, that's a pretty face;the kind you'd find on someone I could save.If they don't put me away...well, it'll be a miracleDo you believe you're missing out?That everything good is happening s...
Posted by We could change the world. on Mon, 07 May 2007 08:38:00 PST

"You want forgiveness? Find religion."

Oh. My. God.Spider-Man 3 was awesome. I'm not going to do my usual spoiler-heavy review. Just suffice to say that there wasn't an entire moment during the movie that I wasn't smiling.And the "dance nu...
Posted by We could change the world. on Fri, 04 May 2007 06:25:00 PST

Guy with eight hands. Sounds kinda hot.

In seven hours, I will be sitting in a movie theatre, minutes away from seeing Spider-Man 3. I am so excited, you would not believe it. To those who know me well enough, the little wind-up circus monk...
Posted by We could change the world. on Thu, 03 May 2007 01:40:00 PST

Sword-wielding monkeys from outer space...

...have absolutely nothing to do with this post.I am far from an open book. That has actually been pretty well established. But why is that the case? I'm not sure. I'm not sure why I'm so cautious of ...
Posted by We could change the world. on Tue, 01 May 2007 09:22:00 PST