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M@

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About Me

I'm a pretty simple guy (I think). I really love Jesus. Sometimes I don't show it. I don't believe in coincidences, I believe in God. The one true God. YHWH El Shaddai. The God of the Bible: The Creator of all things. Conversely, I don't consider myself a religious person in the conventional sense. I'm not hung up on traditions, rituals, or boxed-in formulas about God and religion. However, I do have a personal relationship God and believe that Jesus Christ is my savior, and that He died to redeem me and every other person in this world from our sins. And thats something I do not take lightly. If I ever come off preachy, its because I love you. By no means do I plan on being successful in this life. My goal is not to stay here foever but to use what little time I do have to glorify God, in whatever way He sees fit. I anxiously await for the Lord to take me home whether it be by death or by rapture. Either way, the day will come when I am no longer bound by this earthly vessel and I will experience unhindered fellowship with my Creator. However, in the mean time you will see me fail, and do so utterly, in trying to live according to what I have so boldly proclaimed. After all Christ has done for me, I still find ways to lose myself in this world. I praise God that He is faithful, even when I am not. Music is my best friend. I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be. I am a sloppy combination of youthful pragmatism, jaded emotionalism, and good intentions. Saying I'm lazy is a nice way to put it. Technically I'm known as what's called a Chronic Time Waster. I think there are some things better left unsaid. Empty parking lots make for the perfect company. I like to party. Mario Party, that is. I consider myself a deep thinker; a philosopher with a bad case of apathy. I am as dangerous as I am safe, and I mean that in the most abstract way possible. I really don't like conflict, it makes me feel awkward. I like to come to my own conclusions, however naive they may be. I've been described as someone with keen insight into the obvious. I'm more of a teddy bear than a linebacker. I like my coffee black, just like my metal. My favorite numbers are: 4-8-15-16-23-42. I can make people chuckle, on occasion. I tend to say one thing, and do another. I think there's more to life than right and wrong. I'm no revolutionary, but I believe in a purpose. I believe in change. Have a great day. And you stay classy San Diego.
Is your God really God?
Is my God really God?
I think our God isn't God if He fits inside our heads...

My Interests

Praising God, Music, The Bass Guitar. Pure Unadulterated Relaxation (in the Metaphysical Sense), Eating, Sleeping, Running, Dreaming, Poetry, Drinking Coffee, Emotions, Mindless Day Dreaming, Silence, Noise, Friends, Long Car Rides, The Rain, Childhood Memories, Smooth Jazz, Facial Hair, Conversations, Girls That Make You Smile, Real Hugs, Going to Shows With Friends, Cold Mornings, The Wind in Your Face, Chipotle Burritos, Reading Books, Inside Jokes That No One Understands, Good Mexican Food, Bonfires at the Beach, Writing Music in the Key of E Flat Major, Feeling Good, Trolli Peachie-O's, Chocolate Pretzels, Abstract Thoughts, Watching the Sunset, Stepping on the Crunchy Leaves, Sleep-Induced Disorientation, Holding Hands, Little Caesars, Christmas Lights, Deep Thinking, Sea Monsters, Headache Medicine, Nice Smells, Hanging Out Under the 15 Freeway, Sarah Park, GI, The Power House, The Palace of Refuge, High Voltage, The 138, Horseshoe, The Towers, Tits Beach, The Balcony, EPL, The Neutral Zone, Field of Dreams/Cloverfield (the places not the movies), and The Fountain.

I'd like to meet:

Someone groovy.

Music:

The Academy Is, The Age of Rockets, Akon, Alexisonfire, Alive in Wild Paint, All That Remains, The Almost, Anberlin, Anchor & Braille, Andy & the Lions, Armor for Sleep, As Cities Burn, As I Lay Dying, As Tall As Lions, At the Drive-In, Atreyu, August Burns Red, Augustana, Avenged Sevenfold, Band of Horses, The Becoming, Betray the Passenger, Between the Buried and Me, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Bled, Bleeding Through, Bless the Fall, Blindside, Bloc Party, The Blood Brothers, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Brightwood, Brighten, Bring Me the Horizon, Bullet for My Valentine, Catherine, The Chariot, Chasing Victory, Chiodos, Circa Survive, Coco Rosie, Coheed and Cambria, Coldplay, Conjure One, Cool Hand Luke, Copeland, Darkest Hour, Dashboard Confessional, The Dead Tree Edition, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, De Facto, Depeche Mode, Destroy the Runner, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dntel, Do Make Say Think, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Dustin Kensrue, Eczem, Emery, Evanescnce, Everett, Every Time I Die, Explosions in the Sky, Fair, Falling Up, Far-Less, Feist, A Fine Frenzy, A Fire Inside, The Flaming Lips, Francisco the Man!, The Fray, From First to Last, Further Seems Forever, The Glass Ocean, The Glorious Unseen, God is An Astronaut, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Goodbye Tomorrow, Gridlock, Gym Class Heroes, Gypsy Parade, Haste the Day, Havocxx, The Higher, The Hush Sound, I Killed the Prom Queen, Imogen Heap, Inhale Exhale, Intransit, Iron and Wine, It Dies Today, Ivoryline, James St. James, Jars of Clay, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Jeremy Camp, Kanye West, Katherine Gehl, Keane, The Killers, Killswitch Engage, Kronos Quartet, Lamb of God, Leeland, Linkin Park, Lost Ocean, Lovedrug, A Love Ends Suicide, Mae, The Maccabees, The Mantra Above the Spotless Melt Moon, The Mars Volta, Matchbook Romance, Matt Costa, Matt Pond PA, Matt Thiessen and the Earthquakes, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Mew, mewithoutYou, Minus the Bear, Mogwai, Motion City Soundtrack, My Chemical Romance, Nancy Wilson, Newsboys, Nodes of Ranvier, Norma Jean, NSYNC, Of Montreal, Oh Sleeper, One Republic, Parade the Day, Paramore, Pierce the Veil, Posion the Well, The Postal Sevice, Q and Not U, Race the Dawn, Rachel Bishop, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Raining & OK, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Relient K, Rich Mullins, Rilo Kiley, Rosie Thomas, Rufio, Ruth, Saosin, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Secret & Whisper, The Send, Shadows Fall, Shaunteclair, Sherwood, Showbread, Sigur Ros, Silverstein, A Skylit Drive, Sleeperstar, Smashing Pumpkins, Snow Patrol, Something Corporate, Sonny, The Sound of Animals Fighting, A Static Lullaby, Still Remains, Story of the Year, Sufjan Stevens, Sullivan, Switchfoot, System of A Down, Take the Crown, Taking Back Sunday, Tears for Fears, Tegan and Sara, This Providence, Thrice, Thursday, Trivium, Turn Off the Stars, Tycho, Underoath, Unearth, The Used, Usher, VNV Nation, Waking Ashland, The Warriors, We Are Scientists, We Shot the Moon, Weezer, Wilco, Windsor Drive, Winter Solstice, Yellowcard, Yesterdays Rising, You In Series, Zao.

Movies:

A Scanner Darkly, Across the Universe, The Alien Series, Anchorman, American Beauty, Batman Begins, The Back to the Future trilogy, The Bourne Identity, The Butterfly Effect, Casino Royal, Cast Away, Children of Men, Cloverfield, The Count of Monte Cristo, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Equilibrium, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Finding Neverlnad, Forest Gump, Garden State, Grindhouse, Hardball, Heavyweights, Hot Fuzz, Hotrod, The Indiana Jones Series, The Lake House, Little Miss Sunshine, Little Women, Lord of the Rings, Lords of Dogtown, Man on Fire, Matchstick Men, Meet the Parents/Fockers, Minority Report, Mystic River, Nacho Libre, Napoleon Dynomite, The Notebook, October Sky, The Prestige, The Princess Bride, The Pursuit of Happyness, Requiem for a Dream, Rookie of the Year, Saving Private Ryan, School of Rock, Sleepless in Seattle, The Shawshank Redmption, The Sound of Music, The Spider Man Series, The Star Trek Movies, The Original Star Wars Trilogy, Stranger Than Fiction, Talladega Nights, Team America, Thank You for Smoking, That Thing You Do, Traffic, Tristan and Isolde, The Truman Show, 25th Hour, 28 Days Later, V for Vendetta, Vanilla Sky, Waiting, Walk Hard, Waking Life, Wedding Crashers, The Zodiac, Zoolander.

Television:

Ace of Cakes, American Idol, Aquateen Hunger Force, Boy Meets World, The Daily Show, Degrassi, Dexter, Dinner Impossible, Emeril Live, Everyday Italian, Family Guy, Family Matters, The Flight of the Concords, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Full House, Futurama, Gilmore Girls, Good Eats, Gundam Wing, I Love Lucy, Iron Chef America, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, King of the Hill, LOST, Myth Busters, The Naked Brothers Band, Next, The Office, Parental Control, Reno 911, Robot Chicken, Seinfeld, South Park, Star Trek Deepspace Nine, Throwdown with Bobby Flay, Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

Books:

A Wrinkle in Time, The Bible, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, Boy Meets Girl, Chicken Soup, The Circle Trilogy (Black, Red, and White), Eragon/Eldest and the Inheritance Trilogy, Girl Talk: Mother Daughter Conversations On Biblical Womanhood, The Harry Potter series, The Hobbit, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Left Behind, Lord of the Flies, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Mere Christianity, The Mormon Mirage, 1984, The Purpose Driven Life, Searching for God Knows What, The Silmarillion, The Star Wars Novels, To Own A Dragon, What Every Mormon Should Know.

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Paul the Apostle, Moses, King David, Zacchaeus, My Parents, Elliott and Spencer Watson, Ryan Miller, Andrew Valenzuela, Luke Creswell, Ian Allison, Jason Wine, Jordan Wine, Dean Carlson, Luis Otrando, David Forsyth, Dustin Bilton, Ron Offringa, Danny Arbeezu, Eileen Crowl and the entire Crowl Household, Donald Miller, Paul Washer, Rob Bell, Jon MacArthur, Sufjan Stevens, Matt Thiessen, Cody Bonette, Dustin Kensrue, Aaron Gillespie, Ryan Clark, and John Avery Whitaker.

My Blog

Moving Mountains

I speak in many tounges to many menArgue with angels and always win But I don't know the first thing about love. I prophesy and know all mysteries All hidden things are opened up to me But I don't k...
Posted by M@ on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:53:00 PST

The Boy Made of Wood

I am a boy made of wood...The tree to which I once belonged is deadThe master’s hand cut me downAnd gathered me from the earthWith the hammer and the axeHe formed this fragile bodyAnd brought to...
Posted by M@ on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:55:00 PST

Have You Given Up?

Is this what You had in mind?I don't think so No, I don't think soBut I'm not gonna lieThis has never felt so rightI've never felt so rightGod, I know this must be wrongBut I feel so aliveYeah, I feel...
Posted by M@ on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:32:00 PST

The Dead Never Sleep

Longning and fufillment. I think that these two seemingly simple ideas are the foundation of my entire existence. I would go on to elaborate and spend hours explaining this fleeting epiphany...
Posted by M@ on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:54:00 PST

Held Captive, I'm a Prisoner

Snow on the ground. Sunrise. Sunset. The face of a child. Unread letters. Silence. Falling Down. Broken Promises. Laughter. Roads to nowhere. Birds across the skyline. "It's me!" She screams, "It's me...
Posted by M@ on Sun, 20 May 2007 02:28:00 PST

I'm At a Loss For Words

I've never been goood with words. Unless you take into consideration my completely random ability to describe things with freakish accuracy; (in fact Dean and Ryan said that I should be the guy the ma...
Posted by M@ on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:08:00 PST

Chronic Dissatisfaction

I have Chronic Dissatisfaction. This is true. I know this may come as a shock, but before you grab torches and form a lynch mob, let me explain: In the past 19 years I have come to an understand...
Posted by M@ on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:55:00 PST

What've You Been Doing Lately?

"Pardon me while I throw up, I guess some people never grow up. What happened to the salvation you claimed? It breaks my heart to see how much you've changed...Whoa...it breaks my heart to see how muc...
Posted by M@ on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:48:00 PST

A Golden State of Mind

Our whole perception of the world is based on our thoughts. How we think, and what we think define our actions. They define who we are in a sense. Our mind is the window through which we see our world...
Posted by M@ on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:12:00 PST

Jesus

The popular writer and theologian from Britain, C.S. Lewis once wrote, "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus a...
Posted by M@ on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:08:00 PST