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Searching For a Former Clarity

Our scars whisper tales of a journey

About Me

Hi,My name is Steven, I go by Steve and like my name just fine. I am in love with music and movies. Books are working their way into the list, but it's often difficult to make time to just sit down and turn down all the noise to hear the words on the page louder than life outside of them. Somedays it feels like all I'm doing is racing the clock. I like my friends, family, job, car, and spinning my record collection.

Lately I'm using facebook more and more http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=11501331.

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My Interests

family, friends, music

I'd like to meet:

Someone to recomend a worthwhile book or record. Someone with a great smile, and zest. Someone to go hiking with.

Thrice - That Hideous Strength with Ray Harkins of Taken & Mikoto
City and Colour cover of Happiness By The Kilowatt

Music:

504 Plan
37 Slurp
7 angels 7 plagues Acceptance (RIP)
AFI
Against Me
Agent Felix/Mashlin
alexisonfire
Alkaline Trio
Allister
American Nightmare/Give Up The Ghost
Anatomy of a Ghost
Anberlin
The Appleseed Cast
Armor For Sleep
As I Lay Dying
At The Drive In
old Atreyu
autopilot off (RIP)
Bad Relgion
Band of Horses
Baroness
Bayside
The Beach Boys
Believing In June
Beloved
Ben Kweller
Best Interest
the Bled
Botch
Braid
Brand New
Brandtson
Bright Eyes
Brutal Fight
Cassino
Cave In
The Chariot
the cinema (portland)
Circa Survive
Circle Takes The Square
City and Colour / Dallas Green
Civ
clarity process (RIP)
The Clash
Codename: Rocky
Coheed and Cambria
Comeback Kid
Converge
Count The Stars
Crosstide
CURSIVE
Dashboard Confessional
Death Cab For Cutie
The Decemberists
Def Leppard
the Deviates
Dont Look Down
Down To Earth Approach
The Early November
Eisley
Emery
Everett (dallas taylor)
Every Time I Die
Explosions In The Sky
The Fall of Troy
The Faint
Fear Before The March of Flames
Finch
From Autumn To Ashes
Fugazi
Funeral For a Friend
Gatsbys American Dream
The Get Up Kids
Glassjaw
The Good Life
Gorilla Biscuits
Grade
The Hatchet Diaries (troutdale Oregon)
Haste The Day
Hey Mercedes
Hopesfall
Hot Rod Circuit
Hot Water Music
I Am The Avalanche
Idlewild
Jawbreaker
A Jealousy Issue
Jesu
Jets To Brazil
Jimmy Eat World
Journey
Joy Division
Judge
The Juliana Theory
The June Spirit
Killswitch Engage
Less Than Jake
Liam and Me
Like Lions
Lifetime
Long Shot (Portland)
Lyndsay Diaries/The Umbrellas
Madison NJ
The Mars Volta
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
Midtown
Mikoto
Misery Signals
Motion City Soundtrack
The Movielife
Murder By Death
Muse
My Chemical Romance
My Hotel Year
Name Taken
New Found Glory
New Society (Portland/Huntington Beach)
No Motiv
Norma Jean
Northstar
Not Long After
Oasis
Offset
Open Hand
Orange Island
Over It
Park
Penny Lane (Portland/Hawaii)
Piebald
Poison The Well
Pedro The Lion
Pelican
Portugal The Man
The Postal Service
Punchline
Quicksand
Radiohead
Reel Big Fish
Refused (RIP)
Remember Maine
Remembering Never
Reunion Show/Action Action (RIP)
Rival Schools
Rocket From The Crypt
Rudiger
Rufio
Rx Bandits
Saves The Day
Scraps and Heart Attacks
Set Your Goals
Showoff
The Silence
Silverstein
Slick Shoes
The Smiths
Snapcase
Something Corporate
Sparta
Spitalfield
The Start
The Starting Line
A Static Lullaby
Sufjan Stevens
Story Of The Year
Straylight Run
Suburban Legends
Sumara
Taken
TAYF era Taking Back Sunday
This Day Forward
This Is Hell
This Runs Through (RIP)
Thrice
Thursday
Thru Being Cool/Dumbstruck/Amity
Tokyo Rose
Travis
Underminded
Underoath
Under The Weather/Sloppy Meat Eaters
Unsung Zeros
Waking Ashland
Weezer
Yellowcard (old)
Zao
Local bands: Sumara, clarity process, the cinema, anatomy of a ghost, crosstide, redline 6, the buddy system, lead off, Penny Lane, Believing In June, Dayton, New Society, Long Shot, Not Long After, The School Play,

Movies:

Fight Club, American History X, The Matrix,Gangs of New York, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Swing Kids, The Goonies, The Breakfast Club, Dazed and Confused, Far And Away, The English Patient, Love and War, Top Gun, Risque Business, The Scarlet Letter, Reqiuem For A Dream, Trainspotting, Leaving Las Vegas, Cool Hand Luke, The Great Escape

Television:

Law and Order, CSI, 24, That 70s Show, Married With Children, anything on The History Channel or A&E, Turner Classic Movies, baseball, CNN, MSNBC, the Travel Channel, Heroes, Shark, The Unit, Jericho.

Books:

Anything by Clive Cussler, A Farewell To Arms by Hemingway, or Fight Club and Lullaby by Chuck Palahnuik...The Progressive magazine.

Heroes:

Howard Zinn, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR, Ike, Bill Bowerman, Steve Prefontaine, Dustin Kensrue, Geoff Rickley, Conor Oberst, Chino Moreno, Daryl Palumbo, Keith Goodwin, Matt Skiba

My Blog

Davey Jones Locker

"I feel these words falling out of me, but am I drying up inside cause I can't help but feel like a sinking ship. Ballast, ballast keeps weighing me down, the man overboard is the one that got out ali...
Posted by Searching For a Former Clarity on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:33:00 PST

A Song To Fan The Flames of Discontent

title stolen by Refused "I need an introspective contraceptive, cause this racing heartbeat is ticking life away at an alarming speed. These lungs are swelling but breath is wasted just chomping at th...
Posted by Searching For a Former Clarity on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:47:00 PST

Hurt People Hurt People

So after cruising facebook for awhile I came across this little thing. I guess there's not much to say other than after seeing it, it hit that there is truth in those simple words ...
Posted by Searching For a Former Clarity on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:22:00 PST

one in a million

So I wrote about and listened to this song Million by Number One Gun pretty consistently a few months back but could never find it on hypem.com to download it from a blog. And in the meantime I kind o...
Posted by Searching For a Former Clarity on Fri, 16 May 2008 12:36:00 PST

Premonitions and deja voodoo

A long while back I remember having really weird deja vu while working in self serve and I had it again tonight after we closed. It was really eery and took me back to a vivid dream I had all but forg...
Posted by Searching For a Former Clarity on Mon, 12 May 2008 11:56:00 PST

Until We Have Faces

So spring is here, and it feels like it's a chance to break free of winter's cold arms, to shed our past skins. So here's a song I haven't listened to in what seems like forever, but is good nonethele...
Posted by Searching For a Former Clarity on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:22:00 PST

Fortune favors the bold

This relates to my last post about Forrest Gump, and the pilot episode of One Tree Hill which I’ve been watching lately. I need to play the hand I’ve been dealt. There is a tide in the aff...
Posted by Searching For a Former Clarity on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:59:00 PST

What’s Your Favorite Movie?

That’s the question I was thinking of today, and surprisingly tonight I was reminded of one of my favorites that I’ve almost forgotten about. Forrest Gump. Great screen play, cinematograph...
Posted by Searching For a Former Clarity on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PST

Retiring the demise

So I am in dreadful need of a new description considering how old and worn out it is. It’s like an old sneaker, comfortable, contoured exactly to the past and wearing the signs of that past, mak...
Posted by Searching For a Former Clarity on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:07:00 PST

Wishes to float down the river

I used to watch a tv show in late high school about a post apocalyptic world where the main character would write letters to his dead father and believed when he burned them they’d reach him. Vi...
Posted by Searching For a Former Clarity on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:52:00 PST