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O'Brien

Going...Going...GONE!

About Me

MY KIDS ANALISA (10) AND OWEN (8) ARE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE TO ME. I like driving small cars like the 2006 VW GTI I'm piloting at the moment. I've played football (soccer) for 33 years now, as a forward, and I have the knees to prove it. I like playing ice hockey as well, but I don't think like a jock. I like music that lyrically either says something or is funny. "Love songs have been done."-Joe Strummer. I was lead vox for The Faction a million years ago, we did alright. My support of West Ham United, Celtic, and San Jose Earthquakes has been called ridiculous on a good day. The beautiful game does that to ya.

My Interests

Good music.

Like this from The SPECIALS

I'd like to meet:



Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (Lenin), Charles Bukowski (RIP), George Best (RIP), Paolo DiCanio, Pelé, Galilea Montijo, Martin O'Neill, Eric Cantona, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Diego Maradona.

Music:

Right now The Briefs and The Demonics are the best bands in the world. Admit it. Old Ska from the 60's. Punk from the 60's 70's and the 80's. The Clash, Baba Brooks, Slaughter And The Dogs, Rancid, The Epoxies, The Skulls, The Skatalites, Los Olvidados, Cockney Rejects, 999, Sir Lord Comic And His Cowboys, The Weirdos, TSOL, Harry J Allstars, Adolescents, Eddie And The Hot Rods, Tommy McCook, The Velvet Underground, Killing Joke, early Misfits, Social Unrest, Sham 69, Jimmy Cliff, The Maytals, Stiff Little Fingers, Blondie, DOA, Serious Drinking, Rezillos, The Sonics, Radio Birdman, Public Image Ltd, The Professionals, The Damned, Naked Raygun, Pegboy, Cock Sparrer, Iggy. Ya know, just the KILL stuff. I have the best iTunes library the world has ever seen.

Movies:

SlapShot, Green Street Hooligans, Drugstore Cowboy, Bar Fly, Happy Gillmore, Meet The Parents, Office Space, This Is Spinal Tap, Goodfellas, Ghost World, Resevoir Dogs, Night Of The Living Dead, Hard Core Logo, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Repo Man, Suburbia, Trainspotting, Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, The Shawshank Redemption, Evil Dead II.

Television:

Fox Soccer Channel, GolTV, Setanta Sports, FuelTV, Discovery Channel, A&E, The Office, Fresh Prince Of Bel Air (Carlton Fan Club), All In The Family, Sanford & Son, Cheers, SpongeBob SquarePants, Three's Company.

Books:

All of Charles Bukowski, John Fante, William H. Boyer, John Steinbeck, Lama Yeshe, Michael Moore, Al Franken, English football writers galore.

Heroes:

I have no heroes, but I admire

My Brother Corey

Hugo Chavez

Eric Dressen

Tom Knox

Howard Dean

Joe Strummer

Fidel Castro

George Best

Buddha

My Blog

The Skateboard Mag

Buddy, ol' pal Dave Carnie at The Skateboard Mag interviewed my brother and I for the latest issue in grocery stores now. It's the August 2005 issue. Check it out if ya get a chance and let me know wh...
Posted by Gavin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Older I Get...

Land Of The Free, Home Of The Brave. Support The Troops. Freedom. Words and phrases of cowards. People hide behind the flag and spout off how great the US is...best country in the world, they say. All...
Posted by Gavin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

San Jose Earthquakes DESTROY!

Yeah, my San Jose Earthquakes posted a 3-0 DISMANTLING of the HATED Los Angeles Galaxy tonight at lovely Spartan Stadium. We're gonna win the Cup for the third time in 5 years...watch! I have a vision...
Posted by Gavin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Indie 103.1 On February 24 @ 8pm

I'll be a guest DJ and get interviewed on Joe Sib's Complete Control radio show on Thursday February 28th at 8pm on LA's Indie 103.1. You can get his show's info here http://indie1031.fm/completec...
Posted by Gavin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My Web Site

I have a web site at Winchester SkatePark Revisited It's a tribute to one of the 4 first generation skateparks that were in San Jose, Winchester. So much of the San Jose scene owes a great deal to th...
Posted by Gavin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My Space Horse***t

Okay, I'm sick of everyone telling me "You HAVE to get on MySpace!". "No." I'd say. Then I go to the bar and all I hear is... "You HAVE to get on MySpace!". "NO!" I'd say. (repeat this idi...
Posted by Gavin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST