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About Me

Fencer. Stickfighter. Amateur Historian.AND YOU?
.. You scored as Maximus. After his family was murdered by the evil emperor Commodus, the great Roman general Maximus went into hiding to avoid Commodus's assassins. He became a gladiator, hoping to dominate the colosseum in order to one day get the chance of killing Commodus. Maximus is valiant, courageous, and dedicated. He wants nothing more than the chance to avenge his family, but his temper often gets the better of him.

Maximus


88%

Batman, the Dark Knight


75%

Captain Jack Sparrow


67%

James Bond, Agent 007


63%

Indiana Jones


58%

El Zorro


58%

William Wallace


54%

Neo, the "One"


50%

Lara Croft


46%

The Amazing Spider-Man


42%

The Terminator


33%
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.. You scored as Christianity. Your views are most similar to those of Christianity. Do more research on Christianity and possibly consider being baptized and accepting Jesus, if you aren't already Christian.Christianity is the second of the Abrahamic faiths; it follows Judaism and is followed by Islam. It differs in its belief of Jesus, as not a prophet nor historical figure, but as God in human form. The Holy Trinity is the concept that God takes three forms: the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Ghost (sometimes called Holy Spirit). Jesus taught the idea of instead of seeking revenge, one should love his or her neighbors and enemies. Christians believe that Jesus died on the cross to save humankind and forgive people's sins.

Christianity


79%

Buddhism


63%

Judaism


54%

Hinduism


54%

Paganism


42%

Satanism


38%

atheism


33%

agnosticism


21%

Islam


17%
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You are Vlad the Impaler. The man behind the legend of Dracula. You hanged your victims, stretched them on the rack, burned them at the stake, boiled them alive, but mostly impaled them. Most of your killings were politically targeted but sometimes you killed just because you were bored. Your "reign of terror" lasted from 1456 to 1462. Estimated numbers of victims vary between 30,000 and more than 100,000.Evil Evil man. Fie on you!
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Name: David
Birthday: August 23
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'7"
Your Heritage: Italian & Scot-Irish
The Shoes You Wore Today: Black 10-eyelet steel-toed Doc Martens
Your Weakness: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Your Fears: Fear of the unknown, as per Lovecraft
Your Perfect Pizza: Thin crust, w/Italian sweet sausage (crumbled)
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Become a personal trainer
Thoughts First Waking Up: Hit those kettlebells
Your Best Physical Feature: Eyes, forearms, & hands
Your Bedtime: Varies according to the situation
Your Most Missed Memory: I have several
Pepsi or Coke: Diet Dr. Pepper
MacDonalds or Burger King: Chinese takeout
Single or Group Dates: Either
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Green or black tea imported from Continental Asia
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Chocolate milk
Do you Sing: Does karaoke count?
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: Possibly
Do you want to get Married: Yes
Do you belive in yourself: Yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: Not usually
Do you think you are Attractive: Yes
Are you a Health Freak: Yes
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes, God rest their souls...
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes
Do you play an Instrument: No
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Only perscription ones
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yes
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: No, and I miss my kappa maki, wasabe, & pickled ginger
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: Yes
How do you want to Die: When the time comes--Honorably
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Curator of Arms & Armor at a major museum
What country would you most like to Visit: UK and Italy
In a Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Brown (but pretty eyes are pretty eyes)
Favourite Hair Color: See above
Short or Long Hair: Depends on the person
Height: We're all the same height horizontal ;)
Weight: Marilyn Monroe would be considered "heavy" today, which is really sad
Best Clothing Style: Black
Number of Drugs I have taken: I prefer vitamins, actually--it's a long list
Number of CDs I own: A lot
Number of Piercings: Two small gold hoops in my left ear
Number of Tattoos: None!
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Not sure, but I have my fair share of regrets
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You love your music, and you hate having the
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My Interests

Progressive Christianity, foil & saber fencing (escrime Francaise, in my case), Filipino martial arts (FMA)--eskrima; arnis de mano, Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), submission wrestling, old English backsword/singlestick-play, martial arts & combat sports in general, boxing history, kettlebell lifting, old-school physical culture, myofibrillar hypertrophy, concientious omnivorism, military history & hoplology, reading, writing, figurine & model painting, ethnic cuisine (esp. Japanese, Thai, & Chinese), going to museums, attending historical reenactments and cultural festivals, wildlife documentaries (crocs, komodo dragons, & other primal predatory creatures), molosser (i.e., mastiff)-type dogs, etc.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet Randy Couture...
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Music:

Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Doors, The Stooges, MC5, David Bowie, Marc Bolan/T-Rex, Ramones, Dead Boys, The Clash, Buzzcocks, The Damned, Elvis Costello, Hard Skin, Sham 69, Cockney Rejects, Cocksparrer, Blitz, The Business, Major Accident, The Oppressed, The Templars, Step2Far, Sheer Terror, Cro-Mags, Inspecter 7, Hub City Stompers, Steel Toe Solution, The Wretched Ones, The Harletts, Blanks 77, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Powertrip, English Dogs, Metallica, Slayer, Son of Sam, Prong, Killing Joke, Saint Vitus, The Sword, Cathedral, Kyuss, Goatsnake, Fu Manchu, Danava, Corrosion of Conformity, Laibach, The Cult, Bauhaus, Lacuna Coil, Concrete Blonde, Elastica, Dead Can Dance, Loreena McKennitt, Sarah McLachlan, Basil Poledouris, Ennio Morricone, & Jerry Goldsmith.

Movies:

Gladiator, Rob Roy, Queen Margot, Elizabeth, Dangerous Beauty, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Heaven and Earth, The Warlord, Flesh and Blood, Captain Blood, Last of the Mohicans (w/Daniel Day-Lewis), The Duellists, Moby-Dick, Little Big Man, Das Boot (The Boat), Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, Cinderella Man, Million Dollar Baby, American History X, Romper Stomper, This Is England, Green Street Hooligans, The Sand Pebbles, Conan the Barbarian, Highlander, Planet of the Apes (original), A Clockwork Orange, Straw Dogs, The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly, Leon/The Professional, Snatch, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill I & II, Formula 51, Boondock Saints, Nosferatu (1922), Frankenstein (w/Karloff), Bride of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Count Dracula (BBC tv production w/ Louis Jourdan), Star Wars, Sirens, Belle Epoque, Valley Girls, Clerks, Clerks II, Mallrats, Cable Guy, Liar Liar, & too many others I can't think of at the moment.

Television:

TLC, The History Channel, AMC, Animal Planet, FitTV, Spike, etc....and HBO'S ROME, which is the greatest TV show ever, in the entire history of tv shows! 13th LEGION FOREVER, bitches!!!

Books:

Fiction:Dracula by Bram Stoker, Ivanhoe and The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott, The "Conan" and "Solomon Kane" stories of Robert E. Howard (esp. "Hour of the Dragon"/Conan the Conqueror, the horror tales of H.P. Lovecraft (esp. "The Colour Out Of Space"), I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, & Salem's Lot by Stephen King.Non-fiction:Spirit of '69 by George Marshall, Dungeon, Fire, & Sword & Born in Blood by John Robinson, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Secret History of the Sword by J. Christoph Amberger, Mastering Jujutsu by Renzo Gracie and John Danaher, Cold Steel--The Art of Fencing with the Sabre by Alfred Hutton, Enter the Kettlebell by Pavel, The Maker's Diet by Jordan Rubin, The Warrior Diet by Ori Hofmekler, The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain, Contingency Cannibalism by Shiguro Takada, Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon, & Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price.

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Emperor Trajan, Leonardo da Vinci, Gonzalo de Cordoba, Juan de Salzedo, Martin Luther, Georg von Frundsberg, Agostino Barbarigo, Alessandro Farnese, Maria la Bailadora, George Silver, James Figg, Alfred Hutton, Luigi Barbasetti, Jem Mace, Joe Choynski, Jack Johnson, Sam Langford, Joe Louis, Martin "Farmer" Burns, Frank Gotch, George Hackenschmidt, Yukio Tani, Mitsuyo Maeda, Helio Gracie, Renzo Gracie, "Judo" Gene LeBell, Randy "The Natural" Couture, Gina Carano, Angel Cabales, Flaviano Vergara, Leo Giron, Jose Rizal, John Ericsson, Weston A. Price, Jack LaLanne, Teddy Roosevelt, Jane Goodall, Roy Chapman Andrews, Robert Bakker, Steve Irwin, Jaques Cousteau, & my Father.

My Blog

Sheer idiocy within the MMA fanbase.

    UFC 84--among the various fights last night, Brazilian shotokan/BJJ stylist Lyoto Machida defeated Tito Ortiz by decision.  I've read a shitload of flak today, regarding Machida's f...
Posted by David the Black on Mon, 26 May 2008 05:32:00 PST

Feeling the Beta-Alanine

Well, I popped six Twinlab Nitric Fuel tabs about a half-hour ago, and so far, so good. The tingly sensation is vaguely familiar--there's some niacin in this formula, but not a particularly huge amou...
Posted by David the Black on Wed, 14 May 2008 10:55:00 PST

20 Random Facts About Myself ’cuz ’Manders Tagged Me

Here's how you play: Once you've been tagged you have to write a blog with 20 weird random facts about yourself. At the end choose 6 or 8 people to be tagged, list their names and why you tagged them....
Posted by David the Black on Wed, 14 May 2008 09:24:00 PST

Old guys you wouldnt want to mess with 1: Sebastiano Venier

"A soldier all white-haired and at the extreme of old age, Venier performed the feats of arms of a young man--like a serpent that issues out of the dark in spring, casting off his old skin for a respl...
Posted by David the Black on Mon, 05 May 2008 09:35:00 PST

"Flaming Marble" by Robert E. Howard

Pulp author Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan and Solomon Kane, amongst a host of other fictional swordsmen) was quite a poet.   FLAMING MARBLE   I carved a woman out of marble when The wal...
Posted by David the Black on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:17:00 PST

"Lepanto" by G. K. Chesterton

This is a very powerful & stirring poem by G. K. Chesterton, about the naval battle of Lepanto (between the Holy League Fleet of Spain, Venice, & the Papacy, and the Fleet of the Ottoman Turks...
Posted by David the Black on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:17:00 PST

Age

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." --H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series "Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man."&...
Posted by David the Black on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:58:00 PST

Spanish influence on Filipino martial arts.

The following excerpt is from Cebuano Eskrima--Beyond the Myth, by Ned R. Nepangue, M.D., and Celestino C. Macachor:  Is Eskrima Spanish? In a way it is true that the Spaniards brought good thing...
Posted by David the Black on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:36:00 PST

The dreaded Roman gladius.

According to Roman Army expert Peter Connolly in the book Swords and Hilt Weapons, the gladius Hispaniensis (lit., "Spanish sword") was adopted by the Romans sometime during the First Punic War, ...
Posted by David the Black on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:16:00 PST

Animal Abuser, a message to you...

If you're too dumb, lazy, or otherwise incapable of properly taking care of a pet, don't fucking get one.   Simple as that.     I swear, if I see one more friggin' episode of Animal Cop...
Posted by David the Black on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:09:00 PST