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About Me

I understand that people are much more complex than this, but when you break it down, this is what defines me. Plus, it's an easy way to do this, so here:
I'm a pessimist and a cynic, but deep down I'm always hoping for the best. I find it extremely rewarding when I've done something to make someone else happy. My sarcastic personality is an acquired taste, and I think it's very easy for people to write me off as an asshole before they really know me. I think that writing people off as assholes before you really know them is shallow and naive. I'm a firm believer that laughter is the best medicine, and will attempt to make light of any situation...even if it's borderline inappropriate. I'm a push-over, and I will do almost anything to avoid conflict. I find it extremely difficult to trust people until they prove in some way that they are, in fact, trustworthy. Once someone has gained my trust, it is extremely difficult to lose it. I'm scared to take risks. I find it extremely difficult to open myself up to people. Politically, I'm still very much undecided on where I stand. If I could, I'd eat breakfast for every meal. I love dogs, and dogs love me. If I give it a chance, I can pretty much get into any sport...except for golf, which shouldn't be considered a sport anyway. I rarely go a day without watching at least one episode of both Saved By The Bell and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
I believe that you can take something useful away from everything you experience, no matter how that experience turns out. I believe that there is something out there, in both the universe as well as the afterlife, that is bigger than us, probably bigger than our minds can even comprehend.
I believe that, with the simple combination of good friends and good music, you can always, ALWAYS be happy.
I believe that you should take some sort of pride in whatever you do. I believe that there's something very noble about putting your head down, working your ass off, and not complaining. I think that the interstate highway system and the zipper are two of the greatest inventions of all time. I believe that self-confidence is a huge key to whatever you do in life, and I frequently struggle to maintain it. I believe that if you do good things, good things will happen to you. Some people call that karma...I call it common sense. I honestly think that if I could witness the Rangers winning a World Series just once in my lifetime, I'd die a happy man... Even though I think there's a lot of things wrong with this country, I really wouldn't want to live anywhere else, and I still find a great deal of solitude when the National Anthem is performed at sporting events.
I don't know the first thing about true, romantic love, I'm often afraid it will never find me...and that, in turn, scares the hell out of me.
I love contemplating God and life itself. I love going to church on Sundays when I make myself wake up for it. I love my job even though I'm just a lowly intern. I love movies. I love "LOST"...I repeat, I LOVE "LOST" I love reading, and really wish I had time to do more of it. I LOVE MUSIC. I love playing music. I love every single one of the bands I've listed on my profile. I LOVE BASEBALL. I love the Texas Rangers and always will, no matter how much I say they suck. I love Facebook. I love MySpace more. I love laughing. I love making people laugh more. I love food. I love ALL of my friends more than they know. I love my parents more than they know. I love my iPod. I love singing off key along with my music. I love road trips and traveling in general. I love cold weather. I love camping in cold weather. I love sleep. I love the stars. I love cheesecake. I love...===================================================== =======================================================

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

Josh Lewin, Tom Grieve, Justin Timberlake, Andrew W.K., Stephen King, Dave Grohl, M. Night Shyamalan, Every single person in every single band I named in my "music" section, most of the writers/directors/actors/actresses involved in the movies I listed, the entire Texas Rangers baseball team aaaand...I don't know...as many people as I can.

Music:

Third Eye Blind, Rage Against the Machine, the Deftones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Nugent, Queen, Iron Maiden, Rush, Credence Clearwater Revival, Hendrix, Jimmy Eat World, Brand New, Thrice, Underoath, A Wilhelm Scream, Hot Water Music, The Gaslight Anthem, The Matches, The Bled, Polar Bear Club, At The Drive-In, Sparta, the Mars Volta, Explosions in the Sky, Pelican, Rise Against, Darkest Hour, He Is Legend, Haste the Day, Anberlin, Mae, Say Anything, Alexisonfire, Motion City Soundtrack, Cursive, The Receiving End of Sirens, Chiodos, The Fall of Troy, Paramore, The Higher, Sufjan Stevens, Dredg, As I Lay Dying, Norma Jean, Senses Fail, Coheed and Cambria, 3, The Academy Is..., Gym Class Heroes, Punchline, All Time Low, Emanuel, Head Automatica, Northstar, Ted Leo + Pharmacists, Moments in Grace, Finch, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, Recover, Funeral For a Friend, From First to Last, Killswitch Engage, AFI, Death From Above 1979, Hawthorne Heights, Relient K, The Early November, Bloc Party, Something Corporate, Jack's Mannequin, Fall Out Boy, Alkaline Trio, the Format, Limbeck, the Postal Service, the Juliana Theory, the Jealous Sound, Saves the Day, the Get Up Kids, The Jazz June, Blindside, Gatsby's American Dream, The Streets, Enjoy the Fall, KK Holiday, Kid Vegas, Ten Seconds To Go, Transistor Radio, Race the Sun, ...the list goes on, believe it or not...

Movies:

Once, Vanilla Sky, Brick, The Beach, Half Nelson, The Departed, Blood Diamond, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, the Royal Tenenbaums, the Life Aquatic, Batman Begins, Cool Hand Luke, Hud, the Great Escape, West Side Story, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, The Blues Brothers, the Back to the Future trilogy, the LOTR trilogy, Most of the Star Wars saga, the Die Hard series, the Indiana Jones series, Three Men and a Baby, Mr. Mom, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Green Street Hooligans, Legends of the Fall, Crash, Se7en, Identity, 28 Days Later, Stand By Me, The Sandlot, Little Big League, Tommy Boy, Beverly Hills Ninja, Black Sheep, Super Troopers, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Good Will Hunting, American History X, 25th Hour, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Lady in the Water, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, The Shawshank Redemption, Go, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Fight Club, I Heart Huckabees, Run Lola Run, the Boondock Saints, Constantine, Amores Perros, City of God

Television:

LOST, Arrested Development, Daybreak, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Soup!, Seinfeld, King of Queens, Newsradio, Friends, That 70s Show, Futurama, the Venture Brothers, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Dirty Jobs, MythBusters, BASEBALL - namely TEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL.

Books:

The Stand by Stephen King is the best book EVER. 1984, The Thief of Always, Bearstone, Dead Poets Society, The Natural, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, The Beach, I Am Legend, The Dark Tower vol. 1 - The Gunslinger (I need to read the others)

Heroes:

JT, Josh Lewin, Tom Grieve, all of my friends in one way or another, and most of my family in one way or another. And Andrew W.K., duh.

My Blog

What the French call a certain "I don't know what"

But seriously folks, all Austin Powers jokes aside... Today I experienced something I never really have before. Termination. Being "let go." Being "layed off." However the hell you want to sugar...
Posted by Swatch on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:59:00 PST

Deception in Perception

She's got this restless mind It won't stop turning She'll close her eyes but they'll just start burning through images of a life's long past images that presently cast an endless shadow of doubt Not t...
Posted by Swatch on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:11:00 PST

Help Wanted

It's push and pulla constant warmy mind is fullbut I want more......answers to problemsI can't ignore I can't seem to solveSeethere's this one problemaround which all of my thoughts seem to revol...
Posted by Swatch on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:54:00 PST

Why I hate smoke alarms...

Why do I hate smoke alarms, you ask? Well, my friend, I'll tell you why... While a smoke alarm is probably a vital piece of technology when it comes to warning people of house fires, and w...
Posted by Swatch on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:01:00 PST

The Argentina Chronicles, Vol. 1: Sugar, Were Goin Down

First off, for those of you who don't know, I'm supposed to be dove hunting in Argentina over the next few days. Random, I know, but my dad was going with this group and some dude dropped out, so (ca-...
Posted by Swatch on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:42:00 PST

Violencia! En la Casa de Svacek

So, it's 2:46 in the morning, and I just got done conquering this cocky little bastard of a spider that was sneaking around my room. Spiders creep the shit out of me, and as I got done posting that ba...
Posted by Swatch on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:10:00 PST

I’m just gonna be honest here...

I need a job.I graduated from college. I moved to Fort Worth. I lived off graduation money and savings all summer. I went to a few Rangers games, flew to Virginia to drive back a '94 Isuzu Trooper wit...
Posted by Swatch on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:09:00 PST

Explanation; First blog ever

All right listen up, this is the first time i've ever even ATTEMPTED a blog, mostly because I'm just too lazy to get on here and "write about my feelings" or whatever the hell it is you're supposed to...
Posted by Swatch on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:18:00 PST

Writing, pt. II

Curses I can't say no I feel like my head's gonna blow up And that's the only way I'd feel freedom From the cage I've locked myself in. I've taken one too many to the chin, and my patience is the th...
Posted by Swatch on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:12:00 PST

Writing, pt. I

Shiftless Silhouettes I once idolized those now idle eyes Adamant with obvious disguise Initially so affable Now reticent with lies Thrice I asked but was never told, The futility soon took h...
Posted by Swatch on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:51:00 PST