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Bryan

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About Me

Straightforward, artistic, painter, drummer, witty, tall dark and handsome... oh, and modest. I am from Reno, started my new life here in Seattle and am very happy being away from that old town, or 'Satan's A$$ Hole' as I like to call it. I've lived in Seattle now going on 3 years. It's hard to believe. I am currently close to have enough finished work to be putting some art shows, I am looking forward to that with unbridled enthusiasm. I am a social and economic liberal who values my right to bear arms. I am very politically aware and spend a good portion of my free time keeping abridged of the happenings of our fair nation. I live life one day at a time, extracting all the joy I can from it and replacing the vaccum with gratitude. Life is too short to waste on negativity, and too vibrant to focus on what I DON'T want. Too mystic for you? Neato. =) (I use those little smily jobbies WAY too much..)You can check some of my art out at www.diarmad.com/bryan

My Interests


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You scored as Art. You should be an Art major! How bohemian!

Art


100%

Theater


100%

Dance


100%

Philosophy


92%

Mathematics


92%

Journalism


92%

Psychology


92%

Sociology


83%

Biology


83%

Engineering


75%

Linguistics


67%

English


58%

Anthropology


42%

Chemistry


8%
What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!
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Your Love Life Secrets Are
Looking back on your life, you will have a few true loves.

You've been deeply wounded in the past, and you're still recovering from that hurt.

You expect a lot from your lover - you want the full package. You tend to be very picky.

In fights, you seek compromise and back down from conflict. You always try to smooth things out.

A break-up usually comes as a shock to you. You always think things are going well. Your Love Life Secrets, Revealed
You Are 76% Evil
You are very evil. And you're too evil to care.
Those who love you probably also fear you. A lot. How Evil Are You?
Your Russian Name Is...
Vanyusha Maksimillian Lebedev What's Your Russian Name?I am a painter, I work in oils. I also enjoy working with charcoals, pen and ink, water colors, pencil and just about any other medium I can exploit. I am also a drummer, mostly kit drumming with a little jaunt into percussion when the mood takes me. I had a brief stint in singing but once I made the song I was trying to make my drive to sing dried up. I like to keep fit, I am pretty vain so I try to stay active, snowboarding, riding my bicycle, swimming, active gym membership, hiking. I love camping and fishing, even though I haven't caught a fish since I was 12. I enjoy the loyalties and companionship of the amazing friendships I have been graced with. If I have been blessed with nothing else, I have been given amazing individuals to be part of my closest circle of friends. Of course, I also have put a lot of effort into those friendships. about once or twice a month I hit the local goth or industrial clubs and get my dance/flirt on. That's it for now.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who knows me, or of me, and would like to renew old ties is optimum. Old friends and new. Not interested in being another notch in your myspace belt, respectfully =). As far as dating, I am celibate at the moment and will remain so for quite awhile. I have ZERO interest in dating. Meeting folks of interest or like mind and enjoying life is never something I will turn away.
You scored as Batman, the Dark Knight. As the Dark Knight of Gotham, Batman is a vigilante who deals out his own brand of justice to the criminals and corrupt of the city. He follows his own code and is often misunderstood. He has few friends or allies, but finds comfort in his cause.

Batman, the Dark Knight


100%

Lara Croft


92%

James Bond, Agent 007


88%

Indiana Jones


79%

Captain Jack Sparrow


79%

The Terminator


71%

Neo, the "One"


67%

William Wallace


67%

Maximus


67%

El Zorro


63%

The Amazing Spider-Man


17%
Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0
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Music:

Bach, The Cure, NIN, The Faint, Switchblade Symphony, Ministry, Depeche Mode, Marylin Manson, Massive Attack, Orgy, Siouxie, Muse, Beastie Boys, Portise Head, David Bowie, Eminem, Skinny Puppy, Endif, The Cure (yes, they deserve to be listed twice..) Gomez, Cocteau Twins, REM, Project Pitchfork, Type O -, (wish I had my cd collection in front of me)to name a few. I will continue to add them as I think of them I guess.As well as just about everything else from classical to jazz to modern rock, industrial, alternative, darkwave, techno, 80's pop, rap, folk, Hate country. Hate it. Passionately. No really, I would rather be stapled to a manticore. A mean one with a sore tooth.

Movies:

Romance, comedy, action, drama, sci-fi, fantasy and all combinations therein. Some of my fav's; Snatch, Star Wars, Suicide Kings, Usual Suspects, Goodfellas, X-men, Spiderman, Shawshank Redemption, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Butterfly Effect, Pirates of the Carrabean, Heat (common, DiNero AND Paccino!) Firefly, Excalibur, Blood of heroes, Seven, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Zoolander, Eddy Izzard Stuff.

Television:

The Daily Show, Space ghost; Coast to Coast, Invader Zim, Neon Genisis Evangelion, Firefly, King of Queens, That 70's show, Simpsons, Family Guy, News Radio, SNL, Seinfeld, Friends, Stargate SG1, The Shield, Sopranos, King of Queens, Lost, CSI, Animal planet, History channel, Comedy Central.

Books:

Tad Williams, Salvatore, Jordan, Hickman, Weis, Friedman, Eddings,Williams, Greek and Egyptian Mythology, Gibson, Anthony. (sci-fi, history, fantasy)

Heroes:

F.D. Roosevelt. Batman. Frank Frazetta. Vincent Van Gogh. Robert Smith. And most of all.. MY MOM! She is the best hero of them all.

My Blog

Sober.... musings.

Balance. Jesus effing christ I need some balance. All I can do is analyze my actions and strive to do better. I am what I am, I make no excuses for myself. I am just walking out of the darkest, most m...
Posted by Bryan on Thu, 08 May 2008 08:34:00 PST

B.U.I.

B.U.I. stands for Blogging Under the Influence... Let's pretend the last blog didn't happen. So yeah... I kinda ranted in that last one. Had some valid points, to be sure, but had a few alcohol induce...
Posted by Bryan on Wed, 07 May 2008 02:30:00 PST

The most magnificent weekend EVER!

If I had to be trapped in a never ending cycle of one day for the rest of eternity, it would be this last Saturday. Ahhh the weekend, what an amazing experience. Let us begin on Friday night. So as us...
Posted by Bryan on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:28:00 PST

Getting the hell out.. Temporarily.

 Ahhh.. Fresh air, sea water. beaches. skipping rocks.I needed this. I’m at my brother’s place on Whidbey Isle. My neices are the cutest little girls ever, and of course, the love me....
Posted by Bryan on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:43:00 PST

Awakening.

These last few weeks I feel as though I am awakening from a dream, a trance, perhaps a haze. I feel like my thoughts are reconnecting to parts of my brain that had been shocked into numbness. I look a...
Posted by Bryan on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:28:00 PST

part 4

So more on my mom. Once I became a loud mouthed, rebelious, angry, know-it-all teenager our relationship became very strained. Even more so beginning at around 14 when she divorced Bussey. By 17 I was...
Posted by Bryan on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:46:00 PST

Part 3

 So, I think I will share with you some of what My mother meant to me in this blog. My mother, born Patricia Anita Nightingale was an artist, a hero, a guardian, an example, an idol, a martyr, a ...
Posted by Bryan on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:37:00 PST

part 2

Once again, not sure where this will go. I am sitting here, just now over the last few weeks beginning to come to my senses after being struck by tragedy repeatedly for the last year. I am trying...
Posted by Bryan on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:39:00 PST

Part 1....

I know not where to begin, nor where it will end. I will now begin to share the last year of my life; Relationships, the death of my father, the death of my mother, my pain, my hope, my joy and my sad...
Posted by Bryan on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:21:00 PST

There needs to be an intervention!

(I copied this from my post on the Diaspora)   Or 5! I recently spent a very brief weekend in Reno and I was shocked and appalled..1st, before I go any further, I am sorry for those of my friends...
Posted by Bryan on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:21:00 PST