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Swordfish

Be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Ghandi

About Me

I'm a 20-something guy who cooks Thai food for a living. I've been told I'm conscientious. I'm at the point in my life where I'm changing everything to fit how I want it to fit, and I'm constantly striving to keep it that way. I guess I'm easy going, I keep trying to get all my friends to relax a bit more. I used to be a Buddhist monk - that was fun, and I guess it makes me conscientious and easy going. I have a cat and a few guns. I like thunderstorms and Halo.

My Interests

Guns, Shooting, Halo, Sleeping, Finding the quickest way to anywhere, Listening to good music, Perfecting every little thing I view as important, Having long-winded conversations about morality and religion, Meditation, Running, Cooking, Playing the trumpet, Wasting time on the Internet, I dunno, I really need to get more hobbies. That's what all my friends tell me.

I'd like to meet:

I used to have "you" in this field, but then I did and, well, yeah. I wanna meet someone else. I guess whoever wants to meet me. Tenzin Gyatso, Ajhan Bram, an Arahant who fluently speaks English and will be around for a good number of years.

Music:

ACEN, A Perfect Circle, Arch Enemy, Audioslave, The Beatles, Beethoven, Bleeding Through, Boom Boom Satellites, The Bravery, Busta Rhymes, Cannibal Corpse, Charlie Parker, Chopin, Coldplay, Cradle of Filth, The Cruxshadows, The Crystal Method, The Cure, Custom, Daft Punk, The Decemberists, Deftones, Deicide, The Delgados, Dir en Grey, DJ Shadow, The Doors, E Nomini, Flogging Molly, The Foo Fighters, Gackt, Gazette, gODHEAD, Gorillaz, HYDE, Ike Yoshihiro, Incubus, Jamiroquai, Jimi Hendrix, Keane, The Killers, KoRn, Lamb of God, Led Zeppelin, Linkin Park, Louis Armstrong, Ludacris, Marilyn Manson, Martin O'Donnell, Miles Davis, Miyavi, MONORAL, Mozart, Muse, Mushroomhead, Nickle Creek, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Orange Range, Orgy, Outkast, Pillows, Pink Floyd, Planet Killswitch, Portishead, The Postal Service, The Raconteurs, Radiohead, Rammstein, Rhymester, Rob Zombie, The Rolling Stones, Rush, Seatbelts, The Shins, Slipknot, Snow Patrol, Static-X, Steve Conte, System of a Down, Team Sleep, Tool, White Zombie, Wumpscut, Wu-Tang Clan, Yes, Yoji Biomehanika, Yoko Kanno, Yoshida Brothers, etc. etc. ad nauseum

Movies:

The Butterfly Effect, Die Hard series, Lethal Weapon series, Requiem For a Dream, The Last Samurai, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American Beauty, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Fight Club, Akira, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Pulp Fiction, The Boondock Saints, A Clockwork Orange, Yellow Submarine, Ghost in the Shell series, Vampire Hunter, Vampire Hunter D, Underworld, Resident Evil (1), LOTR trilogy, The Professional, May, Full Metal Jacket, Mad Max, Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, Shaun of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead (both), The Fifth Element, Ravenous,

Television:

ATHF, Boondocks, Sealab2021, Farscape, Macgyver, The A-Team, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Robot Chicken, Big Bang Theory

Books:

The Heart of the Buddha's Teachings, Kirimananda Sutra as translated by chef Joe, Inner Peace, Atlas Shrugged, The Deathlands series, Rainbow Six

Heroes:

Siddhattha Gotama, Mahatma Ghandi, Phra Ajaan Mun Bhuridatta Mahathera, Jesus Christ, Carlos Hathcock, and lots of other people that don't suck.

My Blog

So I have a new layout

I totally dig it. It took me a while, but I finally got things the way I want them. If anyone sees an ad saying "brought to you by" or something like that, let me know.
Posted by Swordfish on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:28:00 PST

HAHAHAHAHA

Sweet, I just found out today is Saturday. Tomorrow, the abbot comes back from Georgia, and I should be able to ordain as a novice monk. Bitchin', lol. Not much is going on here, except my internals a...
Posted by Swordfish on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 06:01:00 PST

Three Days Left

And then I go to the monastery. I can't say much more because I fear for my life right now, but hopefully that will all change soon. Peace
Posted by Swordfish on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:47:00 PST

OMG BLOG

Today sucked. Relatively. I woke up at 7:30, ate food, then got picked up and went to some church thing to talk to highschoolers about Buddhism. That lasted about an hour, and I think it went really w...
Posted by Swordfish on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:08:00 PST

An Update for You's

So today was an odd day. I called Faith to ask about the talk on Buddhism I'm supposed to give. It's at 9:15 for Sunday school in Belvue. I'll be talking to about 10 people, and it lasts one hour. She...
Posted by Swordfish on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:58:00 PST

Sawadi-khap (hello in Thai)

Eh, it's Saturday at the temple. The past two days the monks have been gone throughout the day. A man died and they've been doing the funeral proceedings or whatever. His two sons became monks for a d...
Posted by Swordfish on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:43:00 PST

A Trip to the Zoo

Well, actually it wasn't the zoo, but the Wright Patterson Air Force Base/Museum. I ended up driving three monks there to have a look around. Two were from out of town so Thavorn said I should take th...
Posted by Swordfish on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:31:00 PST

Ok so I'm chilling at a monastery in Columbus

Blah. I just woke up from a two hour nap. Everyone here is extremely nice, but I'm restless. I don't do anything. I meditate like I used to, and my teaching of teh English has been more like me having...
Posted by Swordfish on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:29:00 PST

Categorizing

People these days seem to want more freedom but the way they go about getting it just traps them more. I was listening to a friend of mine today talk about how someone he just met was of a certain gro...
Posted by Swordfish on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:49:00 PST

I dunno if this is real or not but I thought it was kinda cool.

A scene took place on a BA (British Airways) flight between Johannesburg and London a few years back. A white woman, about 50 years old, was seated next to a black man. Obviously disturbed by this, ...
Posted by Swordfish on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:54:00 PST