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enviro. METAL. ist.

brantleytyndall

About Me



Facebook
Livejournal
My Music Myspace
My Band's Myspace
Things I like:

Hands.
Symbols.
Nature and the outdoors.
Offensive jokes.
The simple truth of proverbs.
Spirituality.
The smell of books.
Genuine smiles.
Undoing socialization.
Complex emotions.

Things I don't like:

Complex relationships.
Waste.
Superficiality.
Gluttony.
Commercial perversion of emotion and expression.
Religion.
Losing indigenous culture.
The dying of the art of questioning.
Comfortable lifestyles.
Classifying and defining people and animals.

My Interests


My Band
civic responsibility
guitar
learning
tree-hugging
art
pondering
romance
Vikings
TATTOOS

I'd like to meet:



Music:



Andy Timmons
At The Gates
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Cherry Poppin Daddies
Coldplay
Dark Tranquillity
Death Cab for Cutie
Dire Straits
Everclear
The Fray

Freak Kitchen
Green Day
Imogen Heap
In Flames
Johnny Cash
Keane
Lamb of God
Loreena McKennitt
Metallica
Mew

Muse
Nevermore
Nightwish
The Offspring
Opeth
Orgy
Ozzy Osbourne
Pantera
Rammstein
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Rise Against
Sarah McLachlan
Scar Symmetry
Smashing Pumpkins
Soilwork
System of A Down
Tom Petty
Tool
U2
Unearth

Movies:



V for Vendetta
Amelie
Pulp Fiction
Garden State
The Fugitive
An Inconvenient Truth
The Hunt for Red October
Death to Smoochy
Good Will Hunting
The Village

Signs
Full Metal Jacket
Sin City
Indiana Jones
The Philadelphia Story
The Thin Man series
Ferngully
Batman and Batman Returns
Terminator series
Ninja Turtles

Top Gun
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Fight Club
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Monster’s Inc.
Saving Private Ryan
Willy Wonka
The Fifth Element
Forrest Gump
Spirited Away

Everything is Illuminated
Beetlejuice
The Departed
Young Frankenstein
The Constant Gardner
The Notebook
Jet Li's Hero
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
Home Alone

Television:



Family Guy
Good Eats
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show
Metalocalypse
Planet Earth
Coupling
Firefly
Mythbusters
Little Bear

Books:



The Assault on Reason [Al Gore]
1984 [George Orwell]
Soul of a Citizen [Paul Loeb]
I am America [Stephen Colbert]
Catcher in the Rye [J.D. Salinger]
Common Sense [Thomas Paine]
Seventeen Traditions [Ralph Nader]
The Giver [Lois Lowry]
Animal Farm [George Orwell]
Brain Droppings [George Carlin]

Johnny Got His Gun [Dalton Trumbo]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [Ken Kasey]
Fahrenheit 451 [Ray Bradbury]
Franny and Zooey [J.D. Salinger]
The Hitchhiker's Guide [Douglas Adams]
I, Robot [Isaac Asimov]
The Good Fight [Ralph Nader]
Night [Elie Wiesel]
To Kill a Mockingbird [Harper Lee]
The Athiest's Bible [Joan Konner]

Heroes:



Dimebag Darrell (RIP)
Tim Burton
Alton Brown
Stewart and Colbert
Zach Braff
Ray Bradbury
George Orwell
Benjamin Franklin
Al Gore
Ralph Nader

My Blog

Say what? A picture post? Naw!

Let's see, what's been going on the past couple weeks.Funk the War went well and we got good media coverage, though I anticipated more than the 40+ people we had.  We blocked traffic, dancing in ...
Posted by enviro. METAL. ist. on Mon, 05 May 2008 07:49:00 PST

In the newspaper and on TV:)

SDS's Funk the War got in the Commonwealth Times and Richmond-Times Dispatch:Richmond-Times Dispatch's InRich.com - click for article and VIDEO.Commonwealth Times - click for article and pictures.We a...
Posted by enviro. METAL. ist. on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:12:00 PST

The zen of balance.

I rarely update this blog anymore!  If you are interested in reading about my life, you should check out my livejournal instead!Anyway.  Protesting rocks.  School sucks.  Friends r...
Posted by enviro. METAL. ist. on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:13:00 PST

Just Killing a Rusty Car

The first time I saw youyou were chasing downa cyclone, all alone in a field-------------------I sit reflectingI feel the end has begunIt seems my days now mirror the setting sunSo many places that I ...
Posted by enviro. METAL. ist. on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:24:00 PST

2007

So now that we're halfway through February, I guess it's time to finally get down my 2007 review blog.The year started with me quitting Ruby Tuesday (one of the best decisions of my freaking life), st...
Posted by enviro. METAL. ist. on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:50:00 PST

Message from John.

These were sent to me and the SDS board several days ago. I told him that he should present at least a preliminary statement to ED and SDS, and he agreed. However, my mind blanked and forgot that many...
Posted by enviro. METAL. ist. on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:00:00 PST

Grace/John follow-up.

Message from John.I've spoken with John a few times over the last couple of days. He gave me a brief rundown of his side of the story and described the exclusion he's been experiencing regarding his a...
Posted by enviro. METAL. ist. on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:39:00 PST

Afterthoughts on the Grace/John thing.

Message from John.Follow-up!I'm going to record my feelings about this situation as they spill from my brain, so please forgive any errant rambling. I'm also not going to include last names to protect...
Posted by enviro. METAL. ist. on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:02:00 PST

Im disgusted by...

...electrically operated automated paper towel dispensers and similar wastes.  How the fuck did we get so excessively lazy?|m|
Posted by enviro. METAL. ist. on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:10:00 PST

Things I miss and long.

Home.Love.Boundless friendship.The right touch.The right words.Four lips.Answers.Two hearts.  One beat.Accomplishment.Naivity.Real winter.Amae.Worth.Beauty and charm that only I could see.The flo...
Posted by enviro. METAL. ist. on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:46:00 PST