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Ben

I am here for Dating, Friends and Networking

About Me

"to be nobody-but-myself - in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."- e.e. cummings

My Interests

Bourbon, music, movies, books, video games (GUITAR HERO ADDICT), comics, pills, grass, basketball, football, and other crap.back in april of '06, i came up with a concept called "Groovelounge". it's my #1 friend on here. click on it and check it out. it's a music night that i do one night a week.

I'd like to meet:

actually to be perfectly honest, i don't like people. well, very few people. seriously. i'm not kidding. my circle's kind of full right now. NDSC, bitches!besides, i'm weird. you wouldn't like me anyway. only other weird people seem to like me. doesn't mean we can't share a drink, though.shallow, stoopid, narrow-minded, non-aware of politics/issues/current events, bad taste in music, liars, drama queens, groupies, blow-heads, self-involved, strictly suburban, superficial assholes may do us both a favor and steer clear of me. we won't get along.

Music:

Marvin Gaye, the Beatles, Prince, Moloko, Jamiroquai, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Tosca, No-Man, Lenny Kravitz, Black Crowes, NIN, Jonatha Brooke, Parliament/Funkadelic, Nikka Costa, VAN FUCKING HUNT, Joss Stone, Massive Attack, Thievery Corp, AMY FUCKING WINEHOUSE IS BACK!!!, Fiona Apple, Air, Brassy, Terence Trent D'Arby, Miles Davis, Stephanie McKay, Clara Hill, Ben Harper, Hendrix, Zero 7, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, John Coltrane, Betty Davis, PJ Harvey, Esthero, Lewis Taylor, Corinne Bailey Rae, Lily Allen, Morningwood, The Magic Numbers, Portishead, EVERYTHING on Naked Music, Petrol collections (you heard it here first), Disco!

Movies:

West Side Story, the Matrix, Kill Bill, GRINDHOUSE!, Blade, the Godfather, Tombstone, the Killer, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, La Femme Nikita, Zhang Yimou films, most flicks with John Cusack, any of the good comic book flicks.

Television:

HEROES and CHUCK and JOURNEYMAN (NEVER call me Monday after 8pm unless there's death involved), Bionic Woman(i said it FIRST) My Name Is Earl, Reaper, John From Cincinnati(FUCK HBO) ,Deadwood(FUCK HBO), Life, Buffy and Angel and Firefly (thank god for dvd's), 24, the Shield, Battlestar Galactica (yeah i said it), the Sopranos, South Park (is STILL the best), Smallville, Supernatural, Discovery/Science Channel.

Books:

Divided Soul the life of Marvin Gaye, Behold a Pale Horse, Fortunate Son, The Art of War, Rule by Secrecy, old Stephen King & Michael Crichton.

Heroes:

Marvin Gaye, Malcolm X and Batman!

My Blog

a memo to assholes with kids (not good parents).

just a couple of thingsthat have been grinding my assover the last couple of weeks. here's the deal.people or "parents" that take their kidsto completely inappropriate places.case in point.me and my f...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:58:00 PST

a memo to Amy Winehouse’s record label.

alright.i think it would be obvious to EVERYONE by nowthat this girl's in a WORLD of trouble. she's a bad dayaway from dying.she can't even get through a show now. which begs the OBVIOUS question. &nb...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:01:00 PST

this one stays!!!!!

love me some NE!     ...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:39:00 PST

okay. deja vu.

yep.  had to.     ...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:08:00 PST

finding yourself on YouTube is disturbing part 2.

and i'm pretty sure my mic was off this night.     ...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:50:00 PST

finding yourself on YouTube is disturbing.

wow.     ...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:47:00 PST

a memo to Prince.

wow.okay, it's not bad enough that your last 3 albums have collectively sucked so bad that's it's almost criminal.first the whole YouTube thing. you don't want ANYONE using your image "without permiss...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:30:00 PST

a memo to movie theater owners.

last night i went to the moviesto see "American Gangster"and had to sit through COMMERCIALS.which i HATE.one of which was a full 4 minute commercial from the National Guard featuring some ball licking...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:28:00 PST

vegas stories vol.2 (area 51)

i kind of forgotthat i promised a second story from my vegas excursion. so, i wanted to check out area 51.any of my good friendsknow that i've been somewhat ufo obsessedfor quite awhile now. so my fri...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:03:00 PST

a memo to Amy Winehouse.

you're making me really, really sad.you are SUCH an amazing talent.easily the most excited i've been about an artist since i discovered Prince as a kid back in the day.and it pains me to see you self-...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:52:00 PST