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Bearded Ben

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About Me

To sum me up, I am an idealist trapped in a realist's body. I value balance over pretty much everything else, and I really believe that almost anything in the extreme can have negative effects, even the greatest things in life; still, even writing this I can think of a few exceptions. Which brings me to my other defining trait: seeing multiple angles of the same thing. I am left and right-brained, and the two sides constantly war with each other in my decision-making process. To top it all off, I lean towards believing in duality in all aspects of existence; it is something that always fills my thoughts and writings, and something I would love to argue about any day.
I am a dreamer who does, a doer who dreams. I am a thinker, a writer, and a philosopher. I make video games, and play them with a passion, but I am also a huge sports enthusiest, especially when it comes down to hockey. I hike as often as I can, ride my bike as often as I can, and generally enjoy the world around me as often as I can.
BTW, this chart fairly accurately describes me...

Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||| 30%
Stability |||||| 23%
Orderliness |||||||||||| 50%
Altruism |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Interdependence |||||||||||| 43%
Intellectual |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Mystical |||||||||||| 43%
Artistic |||||||||||||||| 70%
Religious |||||||||||| 50%
Hedonism |||||||||||| 50%
Materialism |||||||||||||||| 63%
Narcissism |||||||||||| 50%
Adventurousness |||||| 23%
Work ethic |||||| 30%
Self absorbed |||||| 23%
Conflict seeking |||||||||||| 43%
Need to dominate |||||||||||| 50%
Romantic |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Avoidant |||||| 23%
Anti-authority |||||||||||| 50%
Wealth || 10%
Dependency |||||||||||| 50%
Change averse |||||||||||||||| 70%
Cautiousness |||||||||||||||| 63%
Individuality |||||||||||||||| 63%
Sexuality |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Peter pan complex |||||||||||||| 56%
Physical security |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Physical Fitness |||||||||||||||| 70%
Histrionic |||||||||||||| 56%
Paranoia |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Vanity |||||||||||| 50%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Female cliche |||| 16% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
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HOCKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (go wings!)

My Interests

Life. Dreaming. Thinking. Writing stories. Writing poems. Writing songs. Playing bass. Video games - making and playing them. Reading. Listening to music. Watching movies. Discussing... anything. Biking. Any of the major sports. Hanging out. Socializing. Being alone. Hiking. Admiring the beauty all around me.

I'd like to meet:

Well, seeing as I recently moved to Utah and didn't know a soul, I'd sure like to meet some people in this area. I'm really looking for a friend, and, perhaps, hoping to find something more... Generally, I'll just take things as they go!

I'd like to meet anyone who is interested in actually talking, about whatever! Anyone should feel free to say hi if they genuinely want to get to know me... I'm always up for conversation :) Oh, and I hope you can look at my picture and chuckle, and not think I'm a total loser. Because, anyone who is anyone thinks that picture is 150% badassery.

Someone with good taste in music would be awesome, someone who can chill and play video games, someone who likes to watch and talk about sports, someone I can discuss literature with. These things would be superb. /endrandomthought

Music:

I will give any music a chance... even rap or techno or country, which I don't love but can certainly stand for the most part. My top favorite genres would have to be classic rock, alternative, plain 'ol rock, and 'pop rock'. Woo!! I never get sick of Muse and Say Anything and Collective Soul... And my current 'new' favorites are Tilly and the Wall and Cold War Kids.So... the list of what I'm listening to mostly now (which does include even close to everything on my list)...Muse, Say Anything, Tilly and the Wall, Cold War Kids, Mando Diao, Young Love, !!!, Belle and Sebastian, The Hush Sound, My Chemical Romance, Straylight Run, Tapes 'n Tapes, Eisley, Brand New, Arctic Monkeys, Smashing Pumpkins, Collective Soul, Foo Fighters, Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, Weezer, The Wallflowers, Zeppelin, Floyd, Hendrix, Van Morrison, The Beatles, The Eagles, etc etc etc....

Movies:

Cyrano de Bergerac... wonderful movie. Casablanca (just, wow), LA Confidential, Seven, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, The Shawshank Redemption, The Rock, Ferris Bueler's Day Off, Princess Bride, Memento, The Lord of the Rings, just to name a few. Oh, and can't forget one of the all-time greatest: Seven Samurai. Amazing piece of cinema.

Television:

I don't watch much when it's on, seeing as I either 1. don't remember when it's on, or 2. I'm not home when I do remember. Still, I'm mightily addicted to House and Heroes. And quickly getting sucked into The Office as well...

Books:

Currently reading: Georges, by Alexander Dumas. I aaaalso enjoyed: A Tale of Two Cities, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Idiot, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, The Giver, Harry Potter series (woo-hoo, seventh book soon!), The Lord of the Rings series (still need to pick up the 'new' one), and much more...

Heroes:

Anyone who has followed their dreams and achieved their goal.

My Blog

Some more random thoughts

Hey, finally got internet in my apartment again!  Really wasnt without it for very long in fact... not like I usually am, where Comcast takes upwards of three weeks to be able to come and install...
Posted by Bearded Ben on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:47:00 PST

Goodbye, today. And F you, too.

Today day sucked, beginning to end, plain and simple.  As if it weren't enough already, on the way home some jackass just about gets his passanger severely injured as he tries to turn into a park...
Posted by Bearded Ben on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:08:00 PST

My lovely neighbors.

So my downstairs neighbor blares his redneck rock at loud volumes all hours of the night... and now my upstairs neighbor has apparently decided to start a rodeo in their bedroom.  Either that, or...
Posted by Bearded Ben on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:47:00 PST

My pathetic dating life. (a long rant)

So what to blog about...?  Life has been up, down, and all around lately.  Ever since moving to Utah, I've done a really great job of keeping a good attitude...  I have a job I love, ne...
Posted by Bearded Ben on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:21:00 PST

I am such a loser :)

Why?  I just had a 20 minute conversation with my best friend about Pokemon. I would post it, but, ya know, I can't just copy and paste stuff into myspace.  *Shakes fist* So, might as well...
Posted by Bearded Ben on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:08:00 PST

Sofas

A quote from a book I'm reading now... "I always say - a prejudice on my part, I'm sure - you can tell a lot about a person's character from his choice of sofa.  Sofas constitute a realm inviola...
Posted by Bearded Ben on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:04:00 PST

Yummy

Fry sauce, where have you been all my life?  You are now almost my favorite condiment.  Though, you still cannot beat virtually anything with honey in it.  mmm.... honey... Yes, Utah p...
Posted by Bearded Ben on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:51:00 PST

I'm back. Online that is. I live in Utah now.

Yes, if you haven't heard, I live in Utah now.  Not Chicago.  Not Michigan.  Not the Midwest. Sad, eh?  Yeah... it does suck that I'm so far away from home.  Don't really hav...
Posted by Bearded Ben on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:44:00 PST

Epic poem, in Five parts. WARNING: Very sad, true story

So appears the hat and matching scarf. Hat and ears meet... love. Train steals hat! Ears and scarf are sad... and lonely. But at least they have each other. -End...
Posted by Bearded Ben on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:07:00 PST

Sex and media

I just got done reading an article about the Hot Coffee mod for GTA.  For those of you who don't know what that is, apparently it is some mod that lets you have sex in GTA.  Or something.&nb...
Posted by Bearded Ben on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:55:00 PST