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Brian (Is Vedge!)

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I work out, eat, read, go to class (I'm in college). I'm Quite opinionated, but not dogmatic. Protective of family/friends. I'm vegan and straight edge (vedge..get it?) I'm not originally from IL. I travel by bicycle frequently. My favorite animals are dogs, snakes, sharks, and jellyfish.

My Interests

Vegan Bodybuilding. Makin' fires! Self-control. Paralogy. Outdoor stuff. Photographing. Fixing things like cars and bikes. Apocalypses. The paranormal. Welding. Bicycling!. Meaning & Symbolism. Thrifty living. Vegan Cookery. Dumpster Diving. Vegetarian history. Temperance/Prohibition History. Weaponry. Strengthening myself. Computer games. Radical Politics. Environmental stuff. music. anger. reading. Animal liberation. veganism. Resistance movements. Counter culture. conspiracy theory. Psychology and counseling. The philosophies of: existentialism and behaviorism.

www.infowars.com

And read up on libertarian thought @ lewrockwell.com and strike-the-root.com

Other than that I also like to garden.

For interesting animal rights centered discussions I reccomend Animal Voices (http://www.animalvoices.ca)

I'd like to meet:

Various an's, ist's, er's, fellow heretics and all around honest folks. My one request is that if you want on my friends list for some reason then drop me a line and we'll chat a little.

Music:

Henry Rollins,
Danzig,
Black Flag,
DOA,
The Misfits,
Throwdown,
Miles Davis,
Ministry,
Slayer,
Sepultura,
Earth Crisis,
Black Sabbath,
Biohazard,
The Grateful Dead,
I listen to Pow-Pow music sometimes (Black Lodge Singers, Kiowa tunes),
Agnostic Front,
DRI,
Operation Ivy,
Against All Authority,
AFI,
ANTI-FLAG,
Crass,
Blood for Blood,
Obituary,
Minor Threat,
Gorilla Biscuits,
88 Fingers Louie,
Authority Zero,
All Out War,
Canned Heat,
Iron Butterfly,
John Lee Hooker,
Jimi Hendrix,
The Damned,
Fear Factory,
Boy Sets Fire,
Circle Jerks,
Son of Sam,
Samhain,
Dead Kennedys,
Hatebreed,
TSOL,
Johnny Cash,
Subhumans,
Austin Lounge Lizards,
Every Time I Die,
The Lounge Lizards,
John Coaltrane,
Charles Mingus,
Dillinger Escape Plan,
Corporate Avenger,
Modest Mouse,
Nirvana,
Soundgarden,
The Pixies,
Pearl Jam,
System of a Down,
Pantera,
Explosions in the Sky,
Led Zepplin,
Morphine,
Cannibal Corpse,
Madball,
Opeth,
Lamb of God,
Purified in Blood,
Oubilette,
Terror,
Discharge,
A Thorn For Every Heart,
Phish,
Angry Samoans,
Sheffield Drive,
Duke Ellington,
Count Basie,
Rush,
Bad Plus,
David Bowie,
Shattered Realm,
The Doors,
Tool,
H20,
Dead Milkmen,
GG Allin,
Dead Boys,
Neurothing,
The Fugs,
MC5,
Yngwie Malmsteen,
Ronnie Dawson,
The Eyes,
Pavement,
Alice in Chains,
Cadillac Angels,
Opium War,
Body Count,
Arch Enemy
Charles Mingus
Herbie Hancock
Anti-Heroes
Wesley Willis
What Feeds the Fire
Strife
Matisyahu
Mozart,
Bethoven
Liszt
Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine
3els
Adhamh Roland and Shannon Murray (riotfolk.org)
...(always lookin out for more)

Movies:

The Davinci Code and Brokeback Mountain are my favoritest movies!!! (Haha just foolin' I've never seen them) Oldboy, The Day After, Saved, Red Dawn, Quills, The Aviator, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Falling Down, Braveheart, Taxi Driver, Dawn of the Dead, Boondock Saints, SLC Punk, Natural Born Killers, Stigmata, The Grudge, The Ring, 12 Monkies, the Patriot, They Live, Martial Law, LOTR (all 3), Star Wars (3-6 only. Prophet Lucas was insane during 1 & 2), Office Space, Ghost in the Shell, Zombi 2, Documentaries by Alex Jones, Films by Michael Moore, Finding Nemo, Man on Fire, The Constant Gardener, Quills, It's a Beautiful Life, Uprising, Fight Club, Walk the Line, Serenity, the Hellraiser (series), The Patriot, Day of the Beast, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), The Big Lebowski, Dr. Zhivago, Legend of 1900, Russian Ark, What Dreams May Come, Lonely are the Brave, V for Vendetta, Good Night and Good Luck, School of Rock, High Fidelity,Contact, Bomb the System, Dallas 362, The Quick and the Dead, Open Range, Brazil, Little Miss Sunshine ...I'll have to put some more down here later.

Television:

If I'm around a t.v. I become incapacitated. I pretty much go into a coma and drool on myself. So be kind and put me in front of: Adult swim. 30 Days. History Channel. Discovery Channel. Animal Planet. C-SPAN.

Books:

I read lots of different things... Philosophy, politics, ed abbey, sci fi, dictionaries, various school texts, research journals (Journal of Humanistic Psychology is my favorite), magazines like soldier of fortune, new press review, annals of improbable science, mother earth news, earth island journal, and the economist. Anyways ask me about things you've read. I hope Ive read it and we can talk about it. I'd like that.
Months ago: Hardcore Zen, If you see the Buddha on the road kill him, Self-Hypnotism, See a grown man cry now watch him die, and various books on legal competency. Fast Food Nation. Lies Inc. Dispatches. Amerika (it was made into a show on CBS way back in the day when we still cared). 1776, Cider House Rules, American Nomad, The Vegan Sourcebook, The Natural Mind, The Robots of Dawn.

Heroes:

Sea Shepherds,
Henry Rollins,
Edward Abbey,
Jello Biafra,
Ned Lud,
Viktor Frankl (logotherapy),
Carry A. Nation (Hatchetation!),
Nietzsche,
Ralph Nader (I),
Albert Camus,
Dave Foreman,
Bill McKibben,
Dennis Kucinich (vegan, D),
Lewis Black,
Dalton Trumbo,
Leon Kass,
Travis from Taxi Driver,
Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi),
Alex Jones (infowars.com),
Lew Rockwell (lewrockwell.com),
Mike Mahler,
Robert Cheeke of Veganbodybuilding.com,
Dr. Steve Best @ http://www.drstevebest.org/,
Ron Paul (R),
Einstein,
Ronnie Lee (founder of ALF)
John Brown ("The Father of American Terrorism"?/Abolitionist),
Karl Buechner (voice of Earth Crisis),
William Glasser
Robert Solomon
Emma Goldman
Abbey Hoffman ("steal this book" is great)
Eugene Debbs
Animal Liberators, and various masked others
dissidents, Judi Bari, Voltaire, Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson, Rabelais
Gary Francione
Rod Coronado
Virgil Butler
Howard Lyman (http://www.madcowboy.com/) ...more to come i'm sure.

My Blog

no candidate will change the nation aside from Ron Paul

A link to the beatle's song revolution featuring Ron Paul footage.  Yes we've got a revolution going on.  One that is non-violent and isn't about failed ideals of wealth redistribution and m...
Posted by Brian (Is Vedge!) on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:51:00 PST

A 6 part Ron Paul interview

I'd say this is one of the better interviews with Ron Paul, mainly because the interviewer is so unknolwedgeable and puts forth several myths that are quickly dispatched.  I think these come abou...
Posted by Brian (Is Vedge!) on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:17:00 PST

vaccines

YouTube Breeding Ground for Anti-Vaccination Views, Say Researchers "As cold and flu season hits this year amid growing debate over the necessity of vaccinations, University of Toronto researc...
Posted by Brian (Is Vedge!) on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:35:00 PST

Just read all of this...important news!

Spitzer Announces Bill Clearing Way for Anyone to Get a Driver's License "A rally Friday to support Governor Spitzer's decision to allow New Yorkers to get driver's licenses without having to ...
Posted by Brian (Is Vedge!) on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:45:00 PST

God is dead...Kids in the Hall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9ESphZkANc
Posted by Brian (Is Vedge!) on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:34:00 PST

War Against God

This is a song by Adham Roland...
Posted by Brian (Is Vedge!) on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:53:00 PST

Farting Preacher

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Posted by Brian (Is Vedge!) on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:37:00 PST

Cyberpunk

   cyberpunk!!!
Posted by Brian (Is Vedge!) on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:07:00 PST

Ron Paul on issues

Here he is on the IRS, Environment, and Abortion. ...
Posted by Brian (Is Vedge!) on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:51:00 PST

this has promise

    we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.romans 5:3-4
Posted by Brian (Is Vedge!) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:22:00 PST