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hi, i'm brad

choogle.

About Me



I like to write things in my notebook and drink coffee and play music, and that's all.

oh, and I like it when it isn't too painfully hot outside. Also, I'm slightly obsessed with tennis, but in a sexy way. I'm sure there are other things I'm obsessed with that we could talk about. Like cheese.

Dislikes include- shirts that get shrunk in the dryer, rugby, having cracked ribs, tuning guitars, phil collins, dryers that shrink my shirts, waiting for illegal downloads to finish downloading, old people, going to the bar when I'm broke, and when Taco Bell fucks my order up. They're gonna pay. Is it so wrong that I don't like sour cream? C'MON! Karma will get you eventually, Taco Bell.

and I'm in a band called Covered in Bees.

My Interests

Writing, recording, music, choogling, guitars, tennis, theoretical physics, notebooks, ink pens, sounds, whiskey, people, time machines, chopsticks, cafe mimosa, coffee, cigarettes, winter, making new things, frothy walrus, christmas presents, big ol' headphones, coast to coast am with george noory, machines that go "ping," cutting, louisville cardinals, LOUISVILLE, being too nice to people who don't deserve it, bean burritos, pretty ponies, orange drink, spring break '05 woo, gravy, parties, Minneapolis, adult swim, comic books, driving my car while on acid, swimming, Check-Minus! , road trips, Falafel King, kool-aid, band-aids, pomade, gatorade, potatoes. i'm probably forgetting a bunch of stuff.

I'd like to meet:


Music:

List of a bunch- Neutral Milk Hotel, Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Silver Jews, Wilco, Will Garrison, Chris Rudy, The Commonwealth, Joden Roshi, The Bloody Kondoms, Covered in Bees (!), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Apples in Stereo, Television Personalities, Woody Guthrie, The Beatles, Pavement, Olivia Tremor Control, Syd Barrett, Townes Van Zandt, Modern Lovers, Pinback, Lucky Pineapple, Ayin, Venus Trap, Tom Waits, Shannon Wright, The Flaming Lips, Steve Malkmus, Guided by Voices, George Harrison, Daniel Johnston, Darondo, Elliott Smith, Fugazi, the Pixies, Deerhoof, Meat Puppets, John Coltrane, Sonny Sharrock, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Captain Beefheart, XTC, John Prine, Hokum County, Gram Parsons, Al Green, Liberation Prophecy, (some)Ryan Adams, Charlie Hunter Trio, Sean Lennon, Skip James, Holy Modal Rounders, Michael Hurley, Violent Femmes, The Clash, Leadbelly, The Rolling Stones, Sly and the Family Stone, Peter Bjorn and John, Talking Heads, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Uncle Tupelo, Prince, They Might Be Giants, Frank Zappa, P.J. Harvey, Nirvana, Beck, Neil Young, early Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Motoflou, Slint, Postal Service, the Buzzcocks, Papa M, Vivaldi, Alice Cooper, Robert Johnson, They Might be Giants, Stevie Wonder, Tears for Fears, Smashing Pumpkins, Dolly Parton, Blonde Redhead, Rilo Kiley, Braid, The Neil Young Bros., Of Montreal, The Who, Elvis Costello, Sebadoh, John Lee Hooker, David Bowie, the Cure, T-Rex, Keith John Adams, Hank Williams, and I'm tired of typing shit, but rest assured there are more. Music is pretty much all I ever think/do/care about. I have a band called Covered in Bees. Mostly I like music with pretty words or pretty music, sometimes both. Genius Car was pretty rockin', as well.

Movies:

The Royal Tenebaums, Amelie, Oldboy, Leon the Professional, Harold and Maude, American Splendor, Dazed and Confused, Catch-22, A Clockwork Orange, Four Rooms, Ghost World, Rushmore, High Fidelity, Garden State, Rocky, A History of Violence, The Fountain, Be Here to Love Me, The Rutles, Coming to America, Do the Right Thing, The Kids are Alright, Pulp Fiction, Benny and Joon, Behind the Mask, Cemetary Man, Pan's Labrynith, Volver, Children of Men, etc. My favorite directors are Jim Jarmusch, Richard Linklater, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Woody Allen, Sam Raimi, Kubrick, Aronofsky, Tarantino, P.T. Anderson, Spike Lee, Kevin Smith, Ted Gohmann, etc. And every really bad horror movie ever made.

Television:

Twin Peaks, Dexter, Mr. Show, Deadwood, Sifl and Olly, Six Feet Under, Scrubs, The Venture Brothers, Home Movies, ATHF, Frisky Dingo, OZ, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The X-Files, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Family Guy, The Sopranos, The Elephant Show, Today's Special, Quantum Leap, and a bunch of random stuff.

Books:

in no order- Richard Brautigan, T.S. Eliot, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, J.D. Salinger, Steve Martin, E.E. Cummings, Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Chuck Palahniuk, Hubert Selby Jr., Lester Bangs, David Berman, R.D. Laing, etc. I dunno, I'll read pretty much whatever. I mostly like a bunch of philosophy, beatnik, weird shit. But let us not forget the wonder and glory of the comic book.

Heroes:



and batman.

My Blog

working, smoking, drinking...

So my new job is amazing.I work for a company called Vittitow.  Basically, I sit at a desk all day typing up refrigerator listings like this- http://www.vittitow.com/crb3628ss-federal-36%E2%80%9D...
Posted by hi, i'm brad on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:16:00 PST

i got a job...

I finally have a job.  And it's looking to be a damned good one.I'll be listing refrigerators online for a Louisville company called Vittatow.  I start on Monday.The money is great, benefits...
Posted by hi, i'm brad on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:48:00 PST

saget is my motor.

I've been writing on this blog thing a lot lately.  Weird.  Flashbacks of my younger days!So, life has been decent lately, aside from the fact that they shaved part of my chest when I was at...
Posted by hi, i'm brad on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:49:00 PST

my heart is smart and steady...

So, I went into the hospital for a stress test, and was released with a clean bill of health.  Apparently my heart is very strong and I have zero blockages.  I'm actually kind of surprised, ...
Posted by hi, i'm brad on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:18:00 PST

my heart is stupid and unreliable...

nono, I mean heart in the literal sense.(preface- this is my blog, I can whine about life if I wanna, you ain't gots to read this shit)  ...I have to go to the hospital early Wednesday morning fo...
Posted by hi, i'm brad on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:16:00 PST

life and other funny jokes...

I'm bored and feeling bad, so I figure I'll write something on here for my peoples.The "quitting smoking" thing has not been going so well.  I was at least managing to just bum cigarettes and not...
Posted by hi, i'm brad on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:32:00 PST

covered in beans?

Good afternoon, hip cats.So, my band (Covered in Bees) has been practicing, and we're slowly but surely starting to sound more like a band and less like three people playing songs together.  I'm ...
Posted by hi, i'm brad on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:46:00 PST

cowboy bearz...

I don't care what Jody says, this music video is the best thing ever created.  Especially 0:52-1:05.  But I'm an Of Montreal lover- dig?oh, in other news, Quimby tracked down a prac...
Posted by hi, i'm brad on Tue, 15 May 2007 05:44:00 PST

old shiny dudes

Something I've never thought to mention before-So, I play 95% of my tennis at Central Park in Old Louisville.  It's a big fenced-in area that has six tennis courts.  I prefer to use the cour...
Posted by hi, i'm brad on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:40:00 PST

six-string samurai, and other delicious foods...

Have any of you ever seen the movie Six-String Samurai (1998)?I was introduced to the film several years ago by a friend, and have spent all of the following years restlessly trying to track down a co...
Posted by hi, i'm brad on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:19:00 PST