Born A Girl

About Me

My parents met in August of 1989. They fell for each other, hard, but there were complications. They were both just teens. My mother was a senior in high school, and my dad had just graduated and enlisted in the U.S. Army. My parents had a rendezvous embrace before my dad had a chance to go to basic training, and almost 9 months later, I was born! Despite the fact that my mother was never able to finish high school, she has never regretted her decision to become a teenage mother. My parents were wed on January 18th, 1990.
The year was 1990: rap had just begun to spring into action, synth pop and hair bands were at their worst and grunge started a revolutionary new chapter in the world of popular culture. I had no idea that I would even care about music at all, but fate does what it wants with us. After living two years with just me to take care of, my parents had another child, the best sister in the world, Kelli Rai. In 1994, my parents packed up their stuff and headed towards Kentucky, the state where my dad was stationed. We lived there happily for about a year or so until my father was transfered to Texas. We packed up and moved again.
While in Texas, I met people that have changed the course of my life. Just to name a few: Brittany Gile, Joshua Smith, Jessica Allison, Nancy Allison, Miss Esqueda. I even got a new sibling out of the move: my awesome little brother, Jim! The nights were hot, and the spirit of my youth roamed freely. Sadly, we were stationed to somewhere unthinkable: Germany. I was sad at first, but my family found out that the Allison household, our closest family friends, would be stationed not far from where we were for the 3 years we were supposed to be set there.
Germany was the place where I really grew. Being exposed to such a wonderfully off-beat culture than the one that I had been used to up until then was such a shock. I like to think that it was a shock for the best, though. Some of the people that I'll always remember from there are Jake Purdy, Shabron Dorsey, Marina Ledesma and the dear town of Schweinfurt! I've had the best of memories there that I wouldn't dare trade for anything in the world! The good times have never stopped rolling while I was there. It was honestly like magic.
So, we lived out our days in Germany and when they all evaporated up, we moved back to the United States and chose Alamosa, Colorado as our hometown. We've lived here for the last 6 years or so, and I'm a bit tired of seeing the same old place, day after day. So, I will be moving to Chicago, Illinois in the fall to go to college at DePaul University.
If you are ever in Chicago when I am there, hit me up and I'll totally set up dinner plans for us or something! It'll be a ton of fun!! You know you want to have dinner with a total stranger. I could be a that stranger! I'm not too creepy, but I am neurotic a little bit.
Lastly, I love to smile. Happiness is the only thing on my mind every single day. Normal men think of sex every seven seconds, but I'm the odd one out that can't get optimism out of his head every seven seconds. Don't believe me? Give me a chance to prove it to you. : )

My Interests

Not too sure anymore.

Music

9mm, +44, 1997, The Academy Is, Aerosmith, AFI, Against Me!, Alesana, The All-American Rejects, The Almost, American Nightmare, The Amoreys, Amy Winehouse, Apartment, The Arctic Monkeys, Arma Angelus, Armor For Sleep, As Tall As Lions, The Audition, Avril Lavigne, Beach Boys, [the] Blackboard Decals, Big Deal, The Birthday Massacre, Black Eyed Peas, Blink 182, Bloc Party, Bowling For Soup, Boys Like Girls, Boys Night Out, Brand New, A Brand New Brand Of Energy, Bright Eyes, Burn The Port, Cartel, Chiodos, Circa Survive, The Clash, The Classic Crime, Cobra Starship, Coldplay, Corinne Bailey Rae, The Cure, Cute Is What We Aim For, Damnation A.D., Dan Andriano, The Dear Hunter, Def Leppard, The Descendants, The Detholz, Drop Dead, The Early November, The Editors, Elliot Smith, Equals 226, Escape the Fate, Fall Out Boy, Feist, Fergie, Fireworks, Flyleaf, The Forecast, The Format, Forty Piece Choir, Four Letter Lie, From First To Last, Funeral For A Friend, Gertrude, Get Up Kids, Glassjaw, The Graduate, Gwen Stefani, Gym Class Heroes, H.I.M., Haste The Day, Hawthorne Heights, Head Automatica, Heads We Dance, Hellogoodbye, The Higher, Hot Hot Heat, The Hush Sound, Imogen Heap, Incubus, Joy Division, June, Justin Lanning, Kato The Houseboy, Kelly Clarkson, Kent, Kill Hannah, The Killers, Killswitch Engage, Left Setter, Left Undone, Lifehouse, Lifetime, Lil' Mama, Madonna, Mamzers Dream, Maroon 5, Mayday Parade, Mighty Six Ninety, Mika, Modest Mouse, Morissey, Morningwood, Motion City Soundtrack, My Chemical Romance, Natasha Bedingfield, New Found Glory, New Years Day, Nick Drake, No Doubt, Now It's Overhead, October Fall, Panic! At The Disco, Paramore, Patrick Wolf, Paul Mabin, Permanent Me, Pierce The Veil, The Pink Spiders, Pistol Whipped, Plain White Tees, Powerspace, Premium, Puddle Of Mudd, Queen, ! The Red Fetish !, Relient K, Richard Neal Miller, Rick Springfield, Ripley Caine, Rise Against, Rock Kills Kid, Rooney, Run For Tomorrow, Saosin, Saves The Day, Say Anything, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Sean Kingston, Seether, Senses Fail, Sherwood, Silversun Pickups, The Smiths, Smoking Popes, The Sounds, Soundstill, Stolie, The Strokes, Switchfoot, Taking Back Sunday, Thanatopsis, theStart, The Tiger Lillies, Thrice, Thursday, Timbaland, Underoath, The Used, Velvet Revolver, The Vincent Black Shadow, The Weakerthans, The White Stripes, Yellowcard

Movies

1408, Across The Universe, All Over The Guy, Amelie, America's Sweethearts, The Bachelor, The Butterfly Effect, Chocolat, De-Lovely, Donnie Darko, Duplex, Encino Man, Final Destination, Final Destination 2, Final Destination 3, Frequency, Grease, Grease 2, Hairspray, Hannibal Rising, House Of Wax, Jacob's Ladder, Just Like Heaven, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2, L'Auberge Espagnole, Mean Girls, Memory, Monster, The Mothman Prophecies, My Fellow Americans, Phantom, Pretty In Pink, The Princess Bride, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek 3, The Stepford Wives, Titanic, Venom, Wilde, Zodiac

Television

Addams Family, American Dad, Andy Griffith, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Best Week Ever, Biography, Brady Bunch, Charles In Charge, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Cowboy Bebop, Dexter, Fairly Odd Parents, Family Guy, Friends, Futurama, Good Times, Green Acres, I Love Lucy, Inuyasha, Invader Zim, The Jeffersons, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Leave It To Beaver, Loaded, Mad TV, Queer As Folk, Robot Chicken, Sanford and Son, Saturday Night Live, Scrubs, Self Serve, The Simpsons, The Soup, Spongebob Squarepants, Tattoo Stories, Three's Company, Two and a Half Men, Will & Grace

Books

Hearts In Atlantis, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Papa, Great Expectations, A Tale Of Two Cities, Catch 22, Jack The Ripper: Portrait of a Killer, Number The Stars, Night, Pride and Prejudice