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Ben

its the end of a fucked up year, there's another one coming.

About Me

still punk, still straight edge, still pissed off, still hating the man, still trying to enjoy life, still hungry for spicy vegetarian food, still getting tattoos........

My Interests

punk rock/hardcore, soccer, social change, trying to avoid depression, current events, coffee, biking, enjoying life, tattoos, subversive behavior, eating vegetarian food (and everybody elses too) sports, travel, books, movies, the great outdoors...

I'd like to meet:

humans, like minded or otherwise.

Music:

Neurosis, Born Against, Avail, Isis, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Christ on Parade, From Ashes Rise, Bad Brains, X, Public Enemy, Tragedy, Nick Cave, Mastodon, Joy Division, Crass, Rudimentary Peni, Rites of Spring, Embrace, Fugazi, The Coup, Converge, The Clash, A Tribe Called Quest, Johnny Cash, Black Sabbath, James Brown, The Mob, Void, Subhumans, Articles of Faith, Swiz, Rorshach, SSD, Negative Approach, Gang Starr, Ghoastface Killah, The Roots, Dead Can Dance, The Specials, KRS-One, Minutemen, The Big Boys, John Coltrane, Sonic Youth, Social Distortion, Discharge, Soulside, Leatherface, The Dicks, Jimi Hendrix, Jawbreaker, Bikini Kill, Zounds, 7L and Esoteric, At The Gates, Botch, Low, Radiohead, The Germs, Operation Ivy, combatmusicradio.com, and a shitload more.......

Movies:

Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Children of Men, Jackass Two, The Departed, A Clockwork Orange, Buraka, Fahrenheit 9-11, Hoop Dreams, Another State Of Mind, We Jam Econo, Alien, Manufacturing Consent, Menace To Society, Amores Perros, Star Wars, Europa Europa, Dr. Strangelove, The Breakfast Club, Repo Man, The Bad News Bears, A Dog Day Afternoon, Once Were Warriors, Whale Rider, Bend It Like Beckham, Do The Right Thing, Love Liza, Boogie Nights, Midnight Cowboy, 2001, Sling Blade, Hotel Rwanda, Breaking the Waves, Boys Don't Cry, The Shining, Raging Bull, Blade Runner, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Magnolia, Wild Strawberries, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, City of God, Breaking Away, The Natural, and many more.....

Television:

The Wire, Deadwood, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Rome, Chappelle Show, sports like: Arsenal, EPL, Champions League, MLS, and international soccer; Raiders and the NFL; Warriors, Arkansas Razorbacks; UFC, Pride Fighting...other shit that's on when i'm too tired to do anything except watch t.v.

Books:

The Kite Runner, 1984, Beloved, Native Son, The Bone People, Torture Taxi, Life of Pi, The Painted Bird, Invisible Man, Catch-22, Breakfast of Champions, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Crime and Punishment, Wise Blood, A People's History Of The United States, Savage Inequalities, King Leopold's Ghost, Geek Love, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, The Dispossessed, The Plauge, The Stranger, No Exit, A Confederacy of Dunces, Living My Life, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Grapes of Wrath, Monster, Steal This Book, This Side Of Glory, Our Band Could Be Your Life, My Jihad, Fast Food Nation, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, The Freedom, and more............

Heroes:

Noam Chomsky, Malcolm X, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Assata Shakur, John Brown, Fredrick Douglas, Sitting Bull, Anarchists of the Spanish Civil War, Howard Zinn, Baader-Meinhof Group, Angela Davis, Pele, Muhammad Ali, Subcommandante Marcos and the EZLN, The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Earth First!, ALF/ELF, AIM, Dr. Kevorkian, others who fight the power..............