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Ben

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My Interests

Squeezing myself into small boxes. Rolling out of bed. Feeling out of place.

I'd like to meet:

Vincent Gallo, Steve Nash

Music:

sincere, genuine, truthful music from nice intelligent modest people ... helps if it sounds sorta folky... i like that.

Movies:

sincere, genuine, truthful movies from nice intelligent people

Television:

Dbacks and Suns games, Lots of HBO series when I used to have HBO

Books:

authors: jk rowling, neil gaiman, orson scott card, chuck palahnuik, dave barry, douglas adams

Heroes:

ghandi, bono, jonny depp, kurt cobain, ender wiggin, walt disney, john lassader, rocky balboa, noam chomsky, steve nash

My Blog

RIP

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Posted by Ben on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:47:00 PST

still waters

Man, I used to feel like I was moving, heading towards some exciting climax.  But somewhere in the last year or two (or three) it feels like I fell off the wave.  Became disillusioned with G...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:06:00 PST

6 year loan

Remember that scene in Good Will Hunting when his 4 poor friends pooled their money together to buy Will his first serviceable but ugly as hell car?  This was the most unbelieveable part of that ...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:32:00 PST

DAntoni, Nash, and Marion

Brian Colangelo put together a brilliant, magical team.  The bastards finally squashed them.I just spent the last few hours laying it bed staring at the ceiling and not being able to sleep. ...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:12:00 PST

Phoenix

I moved back.  I'm here now.
Posted by Ben on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:22:00 PST

remember who called it.

This is an old xanga site I used to write in occasionally.  I was really into the 2004 election at the time.  Check out the entry I wrote on July 28th, 2004 (shortly after the Democratic Nat...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:20:00 PST

please don’t cut your tongue in half

I have mistakenly come upon some pictures of what the kids are calling the "split tongue" procedure.  Basically you go pay some dude to cut your tongue in half up the middle and let it heal with ...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:33:00 PST

Shaq

So I've been absolutely exasperated by the Suns, who currently hold the best record in the Western conference and have as good of title hopes as anyone else in the league, blowing up the core of their...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:42:00 PST

How to find information?

So I'm sitting here studying for this Java certification I've chosen to inflict upon myself because I hope it will make me more marketable.  I learned how to program in school but never had to st...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:14:00 PST

smokers

Smokers are assholes.  Seriously... what a horribly obnoxious habit.  I'm currently wearing an old jacket because my regular jacket smells like an ashtray.  I don't care what you do to ...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:08:00 PST