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Bender

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About Me

Are you there god? It's me, Bender. No, Michael Bender. Yeah, the tall one. No, the one from Seattle. Ah crap, forget it...I still laught at things i probably shouldn't... Iambic Pentameter, Maloactic Fermentation, Inorganic Chemistry, Everybody Loves Raymond, bail sections, (un)intelligent design, Gordon Brown, Debt relief, honesty, The Warsaw Pact, Dude Where's My Car, etc...Here's where I'm so honest about myself that I speak only in cliches: A straight-shooter with Upper Management written all over him...Perhaps not. Most important thing in life: balance. Ironic that I have little in the equilibrial sense, but working on the big life picture. In the mean time I split my time between work, play & discovery, which I think kinda falls under both aforementioned categories. Family comes first always, tho I see family as who you make it as well as who you are born amidst. I am also a card-carrying hedonist, as many good people are. Quiet or shy sometimes, outgoing and gregarious others, I'm at heart an introvert, which means I'm my own best friend. I made two spelling/gramatical errors in this blurb, if you can find them then you probably have good standardized test scores.Myspace Contact Tables , hosting by Imgdump.net

My Interests

The Medòc. Pinching. International conference calls. The Revolutionary War. Penguins. Snowboarding + Skiing in the winter, Surfing in the warmer months. When I get the chance: hiking (eastern sierras über alles), pick-up basketball, English Premier League football, Risk: "a game of world domination being played by two men who can barely run their own lives", travelling near and far, asking homeless people for change, asking elected officials for change, good food, girls with accents (except New Jersey), exploring the past to better understand the present, expanding my knowledge of all things esoteric, beer, games of spin the bottle, southeast-indonesian hardcore.

I'd like to meet:

Concubines.

Music:

The Talking Heads, The Who, Radiohead, REM (pre-Out of Time), The Roots, Pink Floyd, The Stones, Beatles, Nas, New Order, Face to Face, Sum 41, Miles Davis, Guns 'N Roses, The Cure, The Smiths, The Boss, Fischerspooner, Wu Tang Financial Group, Bad Religion, Pennywise, Social Distortion, Beck, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Husker Du, Jesus Christ Superstar, Flaming Lips, The Meters, The Strokes, Jedi Mind Tricks, Interpol, Shiny Toy Guns. Great Movie Soundtracks: Rushmore, Top Gun, Last of the Mohicans, Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels

Movies:

All things Kubrick & Hitchcock: esp. Dr. Strangelove + Vertigo, Citizen Kane, Lock Stock, Snatch, Usual Suspects, Giant, Psycho, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, The Insider, Heat, Rosemary's Baby, Star Wars, Nerd of the Rings. Grenade, Absinthe & Standard snowboarding flicks, The End, The Conversation, The Godfather, Primer, Swingers, Fight Club, Caddyshack, Napolean Dynamite, Step Into Liquid, Riding Giants, BOTTLE ROCKET, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Marion Barry smoking crack with a hooker (don't know the director on that one, I think DC Police). Volver. Miller's Crossing. Team America (fuck yeah!).

Television:

Voltron, Sopranos, Arrested Development, The Office (British version; Steve Carrel is funny, Ricky Gervais is god), Charlie Rose, Ali G, Entourage, Seinfeld, Fox Soccer Channel. Chinpokomon.

Books:

My roommate insists I read Papillon, while I insist on reading books on tape. Authors: John Irving, David McCullough, Vonnegut, Roald Dahl, CS Lewis, David Sedaris, Tolkein, Robert Kolker, Doug Adams; Classics: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Life of the BoBo's, Catch-22, Hitchcock/Truffaut, A People's History of the United States, My Uncle Oswald, The Autobiography of Malcom X, Jansen's History of Art, Black's Law Party Edition, The coffee table book about coffee tables, anything you can buy at Urban Outfitters

Heroes:

Pengy

My Blog

NPR & PBR: Together at Last

So, I was getting my daily fix of monotoned current events from our wonderful National Public Radio affiliate here in San Francisco, and I heard a commercial, which in itself is nothing out of the or...
Posted by Bender on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:54:00 PST