VegasGreg - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Consume and die, the rest is all fun...
I've gotta have my music, my motorcycle, my guitars....and some fun, with a minimum of drama.
A few months ago, rediscovered the joy of playing guitar, martial arts, and some old friends from WAY back (you folks know who you are)-and I'm having a ball. My priorities are straight again...
My friends are incredible, and know that what's mine, is theirs. Always.

My Interests

Music, Motorcycles, Martial Arts, Recovering from injuries, Playing through pain, Guitars, Women, Football, Cooking (I've been told I'm a heckuva cook)

I'd like to meet:

Nobody really, since I have enough trouble maintaining activity with the friends I have.
Seriously....
Are you still here?
If you are, I'd probably want to meet you...(because if you really knew me, you'd know I totally rock....)

Music:

Big Mountain Fudgecake, Dream Theater, Tool, Jim Croce, Life Sex and Death, Caroline's Spine, Collective Soul, Jim Steinman, Alterbridge, Zebra, Live, Matchbox 20, Strapping Young Lad.

ALIAS lyricsClassical Guitar-Segovia, John Williams, etc...

Movies:

The Edge, Lords of Dogtown, The Flamingo Kid, American History X.

Television:

Pimp my Ride.
The Ultimate Fighter
How I met Your Mother.
A guy needs nothing more.

Books:

"Slaughterhouse Five" (The greatest book ever, and the one that got me hooked on Vonnegut), "God Bless You, Dr Kevorkian"
I've also recently started rereading some John Updike (Rabbit Run), Norman Mailer (Why are We in Vietnam?), and Saul Bellow (Seize the Day)

Heroes:

There are no more heroes in this world. Well, maybe Batman, but he's really just a pissed off vigilante when you think about it. Which, now that I've pondered it for a while, makes him pretty damn cool.
Chairface Chippendale
Seriously, my Pop, who has bailed me out of so much crap that I've gotten myself into while growing up that he may as well be Batman.

My Blog

Quote for July 6

"Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise, and thousands of nodding acquaintances."-William Powell
Posted by VegasGreg on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:38:00 PST

Post for July 5th

"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy." I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter: to cou...
Posted by VegasGreg on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:22:00 PST

Quote for 7/3/07

"For the mental patient's family and society, mental illness is a "problem;" for the patient himself it is a "solution."-Thomas Szasz
Posted by VegasGreg on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:57:00 PST

Random quote

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. -Kurt Vonnegut
Posted by VegasGreg on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:09:00 PST

Just an extra quote that I like, by my favorite author....

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. " -Kurt Vonnegut...
Posted by VegasGreg on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:41:00 PST

Quote for 6/28/07

"When the universe has crushed him, the human being will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of it's victory the universe knows nothing."-Blaise Pascal...
Posted by VegasGreg on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:02:00 PST

Quote for 6/27/07

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by VegasGreg on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:11:00 PST

Quote for 6/26/07

"If I die, I forgive you; if I recover, we shall see."-Spanish Proverb
Posted by VegasGreg on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:53:00 PST

Quote for 6/25/07

"Though your enemy be a hundred miles off, act as if he were visible beside your bed"-Indian Proverb
Posted by VegasGreg on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:49:00 PST

Quote for the day 6/24/07

"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury"Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Posted by VegasGreg on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:58:00 PST