Kevin - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hey, I'm Kevin. I'm 21 years old, stuck in the Army for another 2 years or so... (yeah I reenilisted... my bad). I'm not really a big fan of the army... Anyway, I love to watch movies and discover new music, and as most of you know i love to listen to music i already love until well past the point where everyone else is sick of it. I play a bit of Xbox, but i'm not that much of a gamer, and I watch TV when i'm bored.... I also like to find new restaurants, because food is good. Arguing just for the sake of argument can be a great way to pass the time (maybe I should start debating people or something), especially when putting way too much thought and logic into incredibly inconsequential topics (i.e. If you had the option to be able to fly or to be able to make yourself invisible, which would it be? Think about it and post a comment) I think thats about it... Oh yeah, random internet videos can be a great waste of time... Thats about it, send me a message or a friend request, I check this crap entirely too often.

My Interests

Ummm... I think this has kind of been covered in the about me portion... so I'll go with see above.

I'd like to meet:

Homer Simpson and My 2 grandpas and 1 grandma again... I hope they would be proud.

Music:

In no particular order... Tool, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Lamb of God, Rise Against, Alien Ant Farm, Green Day, Chevelle, Taproot, Radiohead, Jimmy Eat World, Story of the Year, Crossfade, Seether, The Smashing Pumpkins, Incubus, Eminem, Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyke, Christopher Lawrence, DieselBoy, Thrice, Orgy, Saosin, Circa Survive, Deftones, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and many more i can't think of right now.

Movies:

Once again, in no particular order... The Departed, Blood Diamond, Batman Begins, Fight Club, The Prestige, The Usual Suspects, The Matrix, Kill Bill, all the Kevin Smith Movies (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy etc...) Requiem For A Dream, Saw (all of them), Trainspotting, Reality Bites, The Big Lebowski, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, American Pie 1 & 2, Old School, Eulogy, Election, Road Trip, Saving Silverman, The Shawshank Redemption, SLC Punk, Seven, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Way of the Gun, 25th Hour, 28 grams, 10 things I Hate About You, Scarface, The Godfather, American History X, A Day Without a Mexican, Boogie Nights, Buffalo Soldiers and much more i cant think of right now, but talking movies is definitely a favorite past time of mine, so if you have an opinion on any of the above or something you think I should have seen I'd love to hear it.

Television:

I'm a die-hard classic simpsons fan, although i couldnt tell you the last time i watched a new episode. Family Guy, King of the Hill, Futurama, South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Da Ali G Show (I dont know if i've laughed so hard recently), Friends, Scrubs, Lost (up until i missed a few episodes and stopped watching, i'll buy the dvd eventually) Smallville (same as Lost)... I'm sure theres more.. I'm not a big fan of reality tv, tho i do get sucked in on occaision (I will absolutely not admit to what shows)... I think thats about it. Moral of the story I watch a lot more TV than i should.

Books:

I dont read as much as I'd like to, but my favorites are Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson (may he rest in peace), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers, The Beach (i'm well aware of how much the movie sucked, the book is still an amazing depiction of paradise found and lost. Even more quickly than they achieved it did it all go to hell. ) - Alex Garland, Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk, Midnights Children (Took me forever to finish, but well worth it) - Salman Rushdie, A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe, The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides, Freakonomics - Steven Levitt... Other than that i like most Dean Koontz, a bit of Steven King, John Saul, John Grisham, Michael Chrichton (did i spell that right?). Any reccomendations are welcome, i'm always looking for a good book to read.

Heroes:

My grandma & grandpa and Hunter S Thompson for completely different reasons.

My Blog

What really happened on 9/11

I’ll preface this by saying I am pretty liberal. At a minimum you could say that I am not a fan of George Bush & Co. However, up until very recently i thought that people talking...
Posted by Kevin on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:27:00 PST

The Army Strikes Again

As the title implies, the Army has done it one more time. I was told while I was at the range that I am now on orders to become a recruiter. No one seems to be entirely sure what this mean...
Posted by Kevin on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:50:00 PST

All Thats Left

After quite a bit of time spent in the field with little else to do but listen to music and think I decided somewhere in there that I should post a blog about all the random reflections boun...
Posted by Kevin on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:21:00 PST

2007 survey with some extra crap thrown in

As 2007 comes to an end, and a few people have been posting these, I thought why not? And since I've got nothing better to do I'm going to go into a little more depth than your average survey an...
Posted by Kevin on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:00:00 PST

Leave, The Board and Returning to the Land of the Morning Calm

Where to begin? I'm not entirely sure where I last left off, so I'll go through the basics of the past few months. After some time in the field, inventories and some time doing next to no...
Posted by Kevin on Sun, 27 May 2007 04:15:00 PST

RIP James

I just found this on a friends page. I wish I could get the picture to work. Coming home wont be the same knowing I wont see you again man. I miss you. James D. Riekena James Rieken...
Posted by Kevin on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:13:00 PST

Taste of Chaos Tour

That was a damn fun night. Even though we showed up late because I couldnt get off work, and then I realized when we were halfway there I forgot the tickets. But it turned out our timing w...
Posted by Kevin on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:15:00 PST

Too late, its already done

I reenlisted yesterday, February 21, 2007. When given the choice of going to another batallion where I don't know a soul only to be stop lossed and go to Qatar in September or reenlist for 2 yea...
Posted by Kevin on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:28:00 PST

Contemplating doing something stupid... Talk me out of it please

Re-enlisting... Yeah... I couldnt tell you why exactly... but I'm beginning to fear life outside the army. I'm afraid I'm going to get out and fall flat on my face despite having every possible ...
Posted by Kevin on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:58:00 PST

A few really shitty months

So... I dont know exactly where to begin with all of this. We'll start at the beginning. Some parts will be omitted at the request of those involved, but suffice it say that there ar...
Posted by Kevin on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:16:00 PST