Yea, I really do like this but it could use work.

First of all, I don't think that the motion blur on the boxes are necessary at all. If you would take those off, it would clean up the layout a lot.

Secondly, like Shawon stated in his post, the pattern in the content area is a little too bright, try bring down the opacity and playing with it until you have to look for the pattern to see it, not when you first see the layout.

Also, what I think would look really nice is instead of that bright green, you should use a nice blue, not too strong though. Good luck with it. Keep working with it, you should get it.