Interests and Hobbies: Skateboarding is my favorite! I really like animals, nature, and anything outdoors. I also like reading, photography, movie making, meditating, practicing martial arts (Kali and some Tae Kwon Do), drawing, painting, practicing a discipline called Le Parkour, working on cars and computers, running, airsoft, paintball, and lots of other stuff. I really like meeting people too; whether they be people with similar interests, people who might be able to steer me in the right direction as far as a career in anything related to skateboarding, or just nice people in general! Also, here are my other profiles besides this and Facebook which is listed in the website section: http://my.theberrics.com/profile/vertiasbetold
http://www.myspace.com/esophie434
http://www.loopd.com/members/veritas213/Default.aspx
http ://www.google.com/profiles/ematt85
http://www.youtube.com/user/ematt85
or you can check out my music playlist at http://www.playlist.com/esophie435
Favorite Movies/Shows: Shooter, The Happening, Dr. Strangelove, No Country For Old Men, Memento, Dead Man's Shoes, Gleaming The Cube, all the Bourne movies, The Island, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, The Guardian, Face Off, Rodney Mullen vs. Daewon Song 1, 2, and 3, the Plan B Fourology, Rodney's 411 footage, Cataclysmic Abyss, Opinion, and basically any skateboarding videos, rollerblading videos, Le Parkour and freerunning videos, marital arts and stunt films, anything with Jackie Chan, Will Smith, Harrison Ford, David Belle, Sebastien Foucan, Daniel Craig, Mark Wahlberg, Angelina Jolie, Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, and/or Christian Bale, Léon The Professional, Predator, I Am Legend, The Omega Man, Terminator, The Notebook, Nights In Rodanthe, The Jackal, Waterworld, Sniper, Evolution, Stand and Deliver, Superbad, Jump London, Jump Britain, Yamakasi films, District B13, and on and on....
Favorite Music: I can't possibly list everything. Here's a few artists I like a lot though: Millencolin, IAM, Sade, Fonky Family, Le 3ème Oeil, Keny Arkana, Simply Red, British Sea Power, Blaqk Audio, Stereophonics, Jason Mraz, John B, The Streets, The Wallflowers, Tupac Shakur, Potlatch, and almost every other band there is. Rap in any language, (especially French), country, rock, soul, classical, and anything with a good tune is awesome.
Favorite Books: The Perks of Being A Wallflower, No Country For Old Men, The Road, It, Outer Dark, Letters To A Young Poet, The Picture of Dorian Gray, I Am Legend, Duel, The Elegant Universe, Hawk: Occupation Skateboarder, The Mutt: How To Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself, phrase & language books, any books concerning astrology, physics, wilderness survival, how to, etc. I'm a big Cormac McCarthy and Richard Matheson fan. Oh yeah, "I Am Jackie Chan" was really good too.
Attempting to find enjoyment in everything is important to me. My life has been very strange thus far and I'm as distant from the paths that most people take as one can get while still going about existing in some way. It's hard to explain. It's like everything freezes and I'm the only one able to move about. I usually imagine most things as if they were different than they actually are for me. It helps me put things in perspective. Photography, writing, drawing, and Le Parkour are all stress relievers for me but nothing comes close to skateboarding. I don't think I'd even exist without it at this point, haha. I strive for uniqueness in everything I do and skateboarding is not only a hobby for me, but a way of life. I see most of the tricks I do as puzzles. This is why I feel skating so perfectly represents my life because life itself is similar to me. One must search for ways of finding solutions through careful thought and sometimes must step away for a while to look at things in different ways so they'll work better. After this, everything can be "re-constructed" to make a whole; kind of like a puzzle.
