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Ben

Konichiwa Bitches

About Me

I'm not very cool... you probably don't want to be my friend... if you do, then you're a loser, and I probably don't want to be your friend. Let me know either way...

My Interests

Surfing, Music, Travel, Good Food, Good Wine, Photography (though I'm quite amateur), Buildings, Bridges (also see: "Being a Nerd"), the Beach, the Slopes, and the Pittsburgh Steelers...

I'd like to meet:

Duke Kahanamoku, the Dalai Lama, Jack Johnson, Bob Marley, and Larry David

Music:

Interpol, Arctic Monkeys, Ratatat, the Kings of Convenience, the Shins, Bloc Party, Belle and Sebastian, Wolf Parade, My Morning Jacket, the Faint, the Postal Service, the Strokes, G Love, Gary Jules, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Donavon Frankenreiter, Citizen Cope, Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, Stereophonics, Jet, Keane, Coldplay, Incubus, Badly Drawn Boy, Creedence, and a dash of Pink Floyd to let me know I'm still (in)sane.

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smokin Barrels, Napoleon Dynamite, Office Space, Anchorman, Garden State, Step Into Liquid, Thicker Than Water...

Television:

Family Guy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, the Office, the Simpsons...

Books:

On The Road - Jack Kerouac; Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden (the movie doesn't even come close); Siddhartha - Herman Hesse; Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut; Harry Potter (yea, that's right... wanna fight about it?); The Bourne Series - Robert Ludlum; Angels and Demons - Dan Brown; Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

Heroes:

My Mother and both of my Grandfathers