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About Me

Representing Springfield MO via Casselberry FL, its THE JUSTIN ALLEN! (Much love to the MO folks I left behind..)
the truth of the matter is i've done some crazy stuff in my life. that goes for things that are good crazy, and then some things that might not be so good. but everyones done it, and if you haven't, then i can guarantee you missed out on a lot. heres some stuff that'll help you know me better:
i'm 22 years old.
i travel A LOT. nearly every state and 3 continents.
i was on power rangers when i was 12.
i can melt your face off with a guitar.
i was in argentina when their government collapsed I know I'm smart, but I think it's the root of my insanity.
i love to write. id like to think im pretty good, but you tell me?
i've slept in the back of a tour van when it was 26 degrees outside. burrrr.
i like shopping. i appreciate the nice shit.
ive played on warped tour

lastly, i'm pretty kickass. you should be my friend. i bet we'd get along.

My Interests

people. music.
laughing! troublemaking.
my completely irrational quest to understand everything. it goes on.
snowboarding. guitar. movies.
well performed movie quotes.
grrrrls
Diesel, Fred Segal.
good stories. practical jokes.
a good song that makes you feel IT all over.
an amazing person that can give you that same feeling.
songwriting. metaphysics.
learning.

I'd like to meet:

people who want more from life

Music:

I listen to everything. My recent favorites have been:

Allman Brothers Band.
Year of the Rabbit.
Copeland.
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Van Halen.
Jackson Browne.
Limbeck.
Lamb of God.
N.E.R.D.
DJ Shadow: Endtroducing
Phish: It
No, seriously. I wasn't kidding. I like A LOT of EVERYTHING.

Movies:

Current Favorite:
Grandmas Boy

Television:

Family Guy, 24, Forensic Files, McGuyver, Real World, Modern Marvels, Sealab, Psychic Detectives, the OC, Mr. Show

Books:

The Tenth Insight, The Elegant Universe, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Celestine Prophecy, Many Lives Many Masters, Only Love Is Real....anything to do with relative physics, mysticism, or metaphysics will do. I'm MOSTLY a nonfiction reader.

Heroes:

Mike McCready, Trey Anastasio, and Dave Chappelle.

My Blog

Rock to rock, baby

does anyone else think it's weird that punk isn't punk anymore? i mean, it used to be that these were the terms for the counter cultural manifestation of brats that didn't want to conform. ...
Posted by Justin Allen on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:18:00 PST

I wouldn't try to say it any better

i suddenly realized then [that year] that life was already happening.i think it was because my mother was so obsessed with education, and the idea that childhood and adolescence, and well everything, ...
Posted by Justin Allen on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:16:00 PST

With much love to you all...

Today I noticed my neighbors Sylvester and Mike, the Rastafarians from downstairs, gathering for another get-together. They are in fact the most fun-pursuing, love-having indi...
Posted by Justin Allen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

An abstract account of my Easter revelations.

It's a weird feeling to avoid the clock the way I did today...It was somewhat remniscent of the times I avoided class, fleeing from a test with hopes I could explain and excuse my way out of trouble l...
Posted by Justin Allen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Is what I'm doing right...?

Do you ever think about choices? I find myself again crammed in the back of the van, the nearly black scenery of Illinois misses me as it flies by....I'm together with friends yet strikingly alone. ...
Posted by Justin Allen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

what good are your dreams if they never leave your head?

People waste all of their attention cramming into their own and everyone else's minds that dreams are just that, dreams. Fantasies with no means of realization. Let it be known that the people who e...
Posted by Justin Allen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST