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About Me

I have worked for the Park District of Batavia for the past two years, where I manage the crew that maintains each park on the east side of town. I have learned a slough of skills at this job, including welding/torching, quite a bit of knowledge about automobiles, and how to operate just about any piece of machinery I want. Trust me, it's a pretty glamorous job.I drive pretty much my dream car. (For all you gearheads out there: '97 Wrangler_I6_AEM brute force intake_complete Gibson exhaust_Dana44 frontand rear with airlockers, 4.10 gears_4.5" Rubicon Express lift with Rancho rsx9000 shocks_35*12.5*15 Goodyear MTRs on American racing aluminums_Ramsey 9k winch_and a lot of my own custom fabbed bumpers, rocker gaurds, spare/jack rack, etc)I don't know what I want to do with my life.But enough about me let's hear about you.

My Interests

Guitar, snowboarding, Off-roading, building stuff for/working on my Jeep, writing crappy poems and songs, being an idiot

I'd like to meet:

Just a living scarecrow (a nice one)

Music:

Born and raised on: Led Zeppelin, Yes, UK, Rush, Loggins & Messina, ELP, the Doors, Pink Floyd, etc classic rock. Also an assortment of music my father did not bestow upon me: Megadeth, Alice in Chains, the Faint, Bright Eyes, Radiohead, the list goes on

Movies:

Edward Scissorhands, American Beauty, the Wall, Fear and Loathing, Falling Down, Amelie, the Bear, Platoon...

Television:

Arrested Development, the occaisional Simpsons episode, I'm more of an outside cat

Books:

the Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs - every man on this planet should be required to read this book, Catcher in the Rye, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Tarzan series, Wrangler service manual haha

Heroes:

Paul Bunyon, Leif Ericsson, John Henry, Blackbeard, Jack the Ripper

My Blog

Awakened

Ancient stone statue cast by love's regrets move not for sunrise be still through sunsets An unused heart dwells in an untouched breast with no need to beat lies frozen at rest Weary&nbs...
Posted by Alex on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:58:00 PST

I found this while cleaning my room

I wrote this a few years ago about some rough times so don't think I'm a psychokiller, anymore. Come here little boy, you're going away Into the darkness, and out of the day We've tried hard to mold y...
Posted by Alex on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:57:00 PST

Rust

Where is that familiar feel I knew when I was young? Why with age does it get old? Then perched high in a tree now stuck low in a life An abandoned carriage waiting for spring Why try not to want what...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:54:00 PST

Robot poem

Here's something I found on my computer a while back when I reformatted. I don't remember writing it at all, but I think I must have slept somewhere outside the night before. Wake up, the...
Posted by Alex on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:28:00 PST