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Ben

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About Me

I'm Down With Mike Gravel.

"They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for i showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance."-Christopher Columbus

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My Interests

"come from out of the tunnels we dig in, to see that tunneling's not living, and working dosen't work

or come to find that loveing is labor, labor's life and live's forever

or come to see that keeping's not giveing, you get what you've given, you get what you deserve

in the midst of all of the action, maybe only there for satisfaction...

Chaseing sea foam dreams around another dirty old town

parallel run streams towards gray ocean from the green ground; 'Oed und leer, das meer' but look beneath the glassey surface

all the songs you hear; down there they have a purpose.

All in all, we cannot stop singing, we cannot start sinking

we swim until it ends

they may kill and we may be parted, but we will ne'er be broken-hearted."-(Biomusicology) Ted Leo

I'd like to meet:

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who would i like to meet on my space? probably no one on myspace, i mean rather than collecting a bunch of fake internet "friends" i'd much rather just use this to communicate with the people i already know. who would i like to meet in the real world? people who aren't crazy, people who tell the truth about telling the truth, people who can entertain me almost as much as i entertain myself....... and Rickey Henderson, always Rickey Henderson.

Music:

The Who, The Clash, Wilco, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, The Old 97's, Elvis Costello, Billy Bragg, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Neil Young, Pedro The Lion, Randy Newman, Cheap Trick, The Replacements, Spoon, Pavement (they rep the east bay and are A's fans, this band is easily closer to my heart than any other) while i'm at it Stephen Malkmum and the Jicks, The band, They Might Be Giants, Nada Surf, Ryan Adams, Radiohead, Alkaline Trio, Hot Water Music.

Movies:

..1 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissiou, Being There, Anchorman, Dr. Strangelove, Coming to America, Raising Arizona, Usual Suspects, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Billy Madison, Rageing Bull, anything by Martin Scorscesse, anything by Wes Anderson, the good half of all of Jim Jarmusch's movies. a lot more than i can think of, or should probably get into; i could be here all day.

Television:

it's almost always on but i rarely find myself watching, i usually just leave it on comedy central or ESPN so that when i glance at it i can be randomly hit by a joke or a sports score or something that my short attention span can easily digest without too much thought, my one television weakness is sketch comedy, any skectch comedy show (except MAD TV *what a steaming pile of crap that show is*) also i've started watching Entourage a lot lately and have found it to be pretty entertaining.

Books:

overall i am in favor of them. Moneyball: the art of Winning at an unfair game, A Riot of our own by Johnny Green, anything by Hunter S. Thompson, he's insane and i love his writing style, and when my mind starts to drift Stedmand Grahm drawings are there to scare my eyes back to the text. Man on the Moon (Andy Kaufman biography) by Bob Zmuda, A People's History of The United States by Howard Zinn, i had it at work the other day, and somebody said, isn't that a text book. and i said "yeah, it's like a text book, but better." Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans (the best of McSweeney's humor category) i picked this book up while at Black Oak books in Berkely and spent the rest of the afternoon reading passages from it aloud to friends, and laughing until i cried, maybe the funniest book i've ever stumbled across.

Heroes:

...for me to poop on.

My Blog

More Adam Curtis (The Power of Nightmares)

hopefully some of you out there in myspace land made it through "The Century of The Self" i just finished another Adam Curtis series via youtube called "The Power of Nightmares" about the politics of ...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:53:00 PST

"The Century of The Self"

I just recently watched this BBC documentry miniseries called "The Century of The Self" and found it to be absolutly mind blowing! i watched it on youtube, so i figured i'd try and post it and share i...
Posted by Ben on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:59:00 PST

Something every American Voter should see.

more info on the full length film here: http://www.americanblackout.com/...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:08:00 PST

dominionism... a word you should know well.

what is dominionism? "In the context of American evangelical efforts to penetrate and transform public life, the distinguishing mark of a dominionist is a commitment to defining and carrying out an a...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:53:00 PST

ahhhhhhh theres always baseball right? WS PREDICTION

So anyway, i'm writing this mainly to get my head on some lighter subject matter at the moment. it's that wonderful time of year again, October is back and it has brought us exciting playoff baseball ...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:42:00 PST

insomnia leads me to deeper reflection on the Kennedy assassination ...leads to more insomnia..

I would suppose it all started, for me anyway, when I was 11 years old. The year would have been 1993, the 30th anniversary of the "big event" in Dallas that changed our government forever. Prior to t...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:46:00 PST

fuck this shit...

...i'm going for a drive. "i swallowd a bug. no more dialogue todday."                              ...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:20:00 PST

Magical Three Armed China Baby!

Over this past week a baby was born in China... this is noteworthy, NOT because it was thrown into a Dumpster for being the wrong gender, but because this baby was born with 3 arms. Oh most magical o...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:34:00 PST

thoughts, records, feelings, various other shite

that's right, Shite; not shit. it's not a typo, i did that for stylistic purposes. a lot of people think i am a shitty speller, and it's true. but that's not what I'm here to address. just wanted to c...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 03:39:00 PST

wow, i actually got myspace hate mail!!!

wow, i actually got myspace hate mail!!! apparently this means either i have arrived as a comentator; or some jackasses have entirely too much time on their hands, and furthermore spend an unhealthy a...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:44:00 PST