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Tyler

I finally have direction.

About Me

I'm in the Air Force right now, stationed at Luke AFB in Phoenix, AZ. I'm slated to separate in August of 2008, and we know now that my wife and I will be going to Korea together for approximately one year, and after that, to Germany. I'm training in Muay Thai right now, and this is a video of me fighting in my first amateur Muay Thai kickboxing match on March 15, 2008.

My Interests

Martial Arts, music, and people.

I'd like to meet:

Anybody who's into the same stuff I am and more people to introduce music to me.

Music:

Right now I'm listening almost exclusively to J-Rock, so here are some specific bands: Dir en Grey- D'espairsRay- Gackt- Hyde- MUCC- Merry- Girugamesh (the picture in the background)- Kagrra,- The GazettE

Movies:

Old Kung Fu flicks, Quentin Tarantino stuff, epics, Office Space, Legend, The Lost Boys, Lost in Translation, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, The Usual Suspects, Napoleon Dynamite, Broken Flowers, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Legend of Drunken Master, House of Flying Daggers, Wild Zero

Television:

LOST and The Office

Books:

The Divine Comedy, the Sword of Truth series, William Gibson, Jack Kerouac, and Kurt Vonnegut. I also read as many martial arts books as I can be interested in at a given time.

Heroes:

Just not sure anymore

My Blog

Updates

For those who don't know, here are the major updates with me lately:I'm getting out of the military in July of this year, and when I get out I'll be following my wife to Korea for a year.  I'm go...
Posted by Tyler on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:57:00 PST

My Trip to Japan

             So, I just got back from Tokyo where I was with my wife for 9 days.  We planned a 10 day trip, but we crossed the international ...
Posted by Tyler on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:47:00 PST

Martial Arts, Training, and Reading

I started lifting weights again for the first time since I got back from the desert.  Hopefully I can keep a regular routine of that.  Sometimes I wonder how I'm really going to reach all my...
Posted by Tyler on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:00:00 PST

Identifying with Music...

So, I've found, now that I'm married, that certain music is not as interesting to me as it once was.  I've decided that its because I don't identify with it as much as I might have in the past.&n...
Posted by Tyler on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:48:00 PST

Suddenly, it was all in my head.

The purpose of martial arts is freedom.  Originally I thought it was control, but it isn't.  The purpose is freedom, and through freedom you gain control to alter the real truth; actual real...
Posted by Tyler on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:02:00 PST