I like: the sun, warmth, sand, dirt, swimming, running, biking, laughing, acting the fool, flipping, volleyball, air hockey, rocks, sticks, beetles, camping, picking scabs, loud noises, loud music, bleeding, 5 dollar bills, tiring myself out, drinking water, friendships, random phone calls, animals, grass, climbing, jumping, piercings, nickels, looking under big rocks, sneakers, jetties, kayaks, chipmunks, life, bridges, slurpees, my friends, surprising people, astroturf, cheese graters, non verbal communication, kitchens, motorcycles, pondering, bright green sections of the earth
I dislike: girls, dating, relationships, (i am currently in a relationship dating an amazing girl, which i guess goes against my first 3 dislikes, but she is amazing, and we rule together -- so i'll leave them as dislikes because i already have somebody amazing and i am not interested in any girls, dating, or relationships besides this one with her), subzero temperatures, winter, pants, baked potatoes, body hair, alcohol, cigarette smoke, grapefruit, tough guys, the radio, rain (except hawaiian rain), shaving, dim lighting, vitamin water, wind on my bicycle, my birthday, making decisions, my brain, sleeping, food that is super hot and burns my mouth, christianity, superficial compliments, fighting, spoons that are too big for my mouth, capitalizing letters, dilly-dallying, being scrutinized
I look forward to: the rest of my life, summer, daylight, days off work, traveling, seeing old friends, getting old and staying the same, shows, being an uncle some day, looking back with no regrets, road trips, super sundays with the x808x family
I'm good at: soccer, basketball (sort of), listening, hugging, juggling, writing, cooking, giggling, air hockey, frisbee, dancing (of the punk rock/hardcore/ska persuasion only), climbing, digging, not worrying, yelling, appreciating
I stink at: wiffle ball, buttoning buttons, remembering things, speaking my mind, snapping snaps, tying shoes, cleaning, keeping in touch, most video games, bommeranging
I can eat endless piles of the following foods: mashed potatoes, pasta, pancakes, carrot cake, candy spearmint leaves, roasted red pepper hummus, applesauce, ice cream, waffles, sweet potatoes, apple pie, cinnamon raisin bagels, iceberg lettuce, grapes, chili and rice, pumpkin pie, banana bread, swedish fish, peanut butter and jelly, chocolate brownies
I say the following phrases alot, or have said them alot in the past: i'm in, right on!, aw horse shit!, true story, ::insert word from the previous sentence here:: party!, weehoo!, makes the thumbs heavy, yeah right, dude brah!, what the frigg, i swear, holy crap!, ::high pitched squeal thing i can't spell::, good!, yeeeaaaahhhhh!
A highlight reel of my life would include: my teddy bear, blue feet pajamas, and mom's rocking chair, my grandmother, my transformers big wheel, the sandbox in my yard and the color-changing matchbox car i buried in it, the big-bird swingset, the obstacle courses we used to make in my backyard, (friendly) acorn fights with my neighbors, all the time spent in the woods, street hockey, street luging, bicycles, alot of clips of me laughing, several years of soccer, parasailing, skydiving (twice), many camping trips, a few treeforts, ziplines, and half-pipes, more bicycles, the ocean, a slew of little kids that i entertained, long hair, a million shows seeing a million bands in a million places, playing in a band for 5 years, sharing the stage with tons of friends and some big names, lots of great hugs and totally amazing friends, Hawaii, handcuffing myself to my best friend through 1/2 a day of high school and insisting we couldn't get them off, intentionally jamming an elevator between floors and having to pry open the doors and climb out, hiking through boar country at 2am with flashlights and a knife, reaching the peak of the mountain at 4am, blasting queen's "we are the champions" and watching the sun rise from 1800 feet above the best ocean view you'll ever see with 2 of the best kids ever, then passing out under the cover of new sunshine for a nice nap, and plenty more i'm sure i'll think of later.....
A bloopers reel of my life would include: crashing my sister's cabbage patch bigwheel into a tree, slicing my eyelid open on a chain link fence and requiring 2 stitches, an attempted shoe wedgie gone astray resulting in a broken/dislocated finger, surgery, and a cast for 3 weeks, breaking my saxophone and ruining a song in front of my entire school, and crying for hours about it, trying to tear down a half-pipe with the claw of a hammer, tearing down my leg instead (3 stitches), falling asleep at the wheel and destroying my car -- which scared me so badly i cried, climbing into the booth at a diner and throwing my arm around a kid i thought was my neighbor, and having him turn his head and completely proove me wrong, being half asleep, cutting my leg on sheet metal, trying to go to school anyway, and leaving during 2nd period to go get 5 stitches, some idiot old guy hitting me on my bike, and my leg removing his license plate, my own idiot self on my bike getting plowed by a car that was going 45mph, doing what one woman called "3 cartwheels in the air" and walking away without a scratch, riding a rented moped 100 miles around an island in a hellish downpour of rain with no trouble at all, then slipping on some perfectly dry gravel and crashing at 2mph at 5:30am, and you can be sure there's more to come here
James and The Giant Space (or, about my myspace life): damn near everybody on my friends list is a person i know and like in real life, exceptions being a few friends of friends that i haven't met in real life yet, but plan to someday soon or eventually, and there's also a bunch of amazing bands/groups/organizations that i think are worth telling others about, so check some of them out and see what the deal is, get into it! if i don't know you, and you just add me without a message, it won't work, i like meeting people and enhancing my life with rad relationships, not expanding my friends numerically, so please, send me a message, and if you're going to get creeped out when i try to set something up for us to meet and hang out, why did you even try to talk to me?, all that being said, i don't take much in life seriously, certainly not the internet, so don't think i'm wierd for saying all of this, i'm not wierd, and to my friends who are reading this, sorry if i don't keep in touch that often, i get distracted by alot of things, but i still love you just as much as when i'm with you
I'm afraid of: getting beat up, alligators, being alone forever, missing out, public drunkenness, being misjudged, cops, riding my bike into giant potholes at night, growing away from my family, talking to strangers, 4 legged ninjas, human beings
I'm planning to: vacation to unlikely areas, move where it's warm(done), visit iceland, go on a week long bike ride, climb a mountain(done), die in some adventurous way, swim in the mississippi river, camp on a glacier, sleep outside(done), watch a humpback whale breach
The cutest/most amazing animals are: humpback whales, chipmunks, black squirrels, pelicans, kinkajous, caterpillars, moray eels, elephants, horses, skunks, snakes, pigs, roosters, seagulls, cicadas, hawks, woodpeckers, slugs, owls
A little bit extra: if you're a girl and interested in me, please take this one thing away from my profile more than anything else -- do not try to date me, it will, i promise you, end in disaster, i'm a lunatic with no business involving other people in my stupid brain, you can find somebody better, i'll hang out with you and we can have a blast though :), the one exception being any girl who is at least 24, shaves her head, is vegan straight edge, rides bikes, climbs trees, doesn't think twice about climbing a 2,000 foot mountain littered with wild boars at 2am, wants to cook me delicious food with dessert all the time, lives in hawaii with no plans on leaving -- ever, and doesn't mind being teased by me 24 hours a day -- if this is you please let me know, we need to hang out sooner rather than later, haha, (i'm currently dating a radiant lady named kristina, who doesn't entirely match that criteria i listed, but she is some of those things and many more amazing things i never thought i had the chance of ever finding in a girl, for now i'm spending less time disliking girls and dating and more time liking her, i hope you meet her one day, she rules) i'm not huge on big fancy hellos or goodbyes, but i absolutely love the time we spend together, i don't talk much but i think more than i'd like to sometimes, i eat my peanut butter and jelly with the peanut butter side up - always, i love laying awake in the dark and chatting with people, which usually leads to giggling also, i love people in NJ, PA, VA, KC, AZ, Iceland, NY, MA, RI, and Seattle, and i hope they love me back, i don't think i'll ever be comfortable thinking of myself above others, not even for a minute, and i think that will seriously limit what i can accomplish in my lifetime, i think people ruin most things, especially pictures, so please don't aim your camera at me, i enjoy letting people know that you shouldn't kill or otherwise abuse dogs, cats, rats, mice, snakes, pigs, cows, elephants, chickens, pandas, whales, or any other cute defenseless being, no matter how big or small, so go vegan, and stay that way, the animals thank you, i'm a huge dork, i absolutely love it when my friends fall asleep, especially in the car while i'm driving, it's the cutest thing ever, when i see tall things (trees, buildings, poles, ladders, mountains) i always form a plan in my head as to how i'd get myself to the top of it, and many times i actually act out the plan and enjoy the view for a minute, i type the same way i talk, or so i'm told, i walk pretty fast, and apparently i enjoy writing novels on my myspace page....
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