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About Me

I do lots of stuff. I work for a website called Sosauce .
I blog at some different places like Reproduction Is Pollution .
DJ Shenanigans: my DJ profile on myspace and Excess Energy .
Online Mixtape: http://idontlikemusic.muxtape.com
Look at my photos on Flickr
Read my updates on Twitter
I've got a Last.fm profile

My Interests

Convergence, little pockets of global spice and kitsch, Eastern Bloc imagery, crisp Autumn weather, precision grammar, peanut butter, abandonware, outmoded futurist visions of the past, traveling, cooking, wiping away the dust, dancing, embracing everything all at once over and over, pumping up the jam, putting the needle on the record til the drum beat goes like this

I'd like to meet:

IM: SynchronizeUs

Music:

Style.
Disco, cosmic, italo, Chicago house, electro house, French house, indie rock, arena rock, glam, punk, funk, psychedelia, post-punk, reggae, industrial, britpop, indiepop etc.

Substance.
Glass Candy, David Bowie, Velella Velella, Shocking Pinks, Junior Boys, Electric Light Orchestra, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Goldfrapp, Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, Broadcast, Heart, Belle & Sebastian, Erlend Ã˜ye, the Smiths, New Order / Joy Division, the Go-Betweens, Slowdive, Prince, Kate Bush, Thomas Dolby, the Wake UK, My Favorite, Pixies, Versus, Saint Etienne, Serge Gainsbourg, the Comsat Angels, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, T. Rex

Movies:

Dune, Slacker, Blade Runner, Nausicaa, Enemy at the Gates, A Clockwork Orange, Brazil, Labyrinth, Watership Down, Fantastic Planet, Valley Girl, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Memento, War Games, the Big Lebowski, Napoleon Dynamite, Lord of the Rings, the animated version of The Hobbitt (I know every line)

Television:

Adult Swim, anime, les Mondes Engloutis, lots of podcasts

Books:

Everything Is Illuminated, Dune, Lord of the Rings, Cryptonimicon, 1984, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Geek Love, Artifact, China Mountain Zhang, At Swim Two Birds, On the Beach

Heroes:

Aleksandr Rodchenko for his art, George Orwell for his convictions and writing, Gary Numan for his style, David Bowie for his sound+vision

My Blog

This is where you can find my blogs

So obviously I’m not really using my myspace blog much anymore. So here’s where I do actually blog:http://www.sosauce.com/j/brianblackout...
Posted by Brian on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:52:00 PST

Songs Answering Life's Questions

1. Put your music player on shuffle.2. Press forward for each question.3. Use the song title as the answer to the question.What does next year have in store for me?"Impossible"the ClienteleWhat does m...
Posted by Brian on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:22:00 PST

Deathly Bored

So all this week I'll be working in the WVU computer lab. My shift runs from a bit before midnight until 8am. Thankfully it's only this week. Actually, the job is really easy. I rarely have to do an...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:26:00 PST

Gainfully employed, em-effers!

I got a call today. They're doing a background check on me. Providing that they don't find out about that family I murdered, I've got the job. I'll be working for the university as a graphic designer,...
Posted by Brian on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:24:00 PST

Raiding my own record collection

In some ways I remind myself of an old man.Years ago I purchased one of those component stereo CD burners. The idea was that I could use this wizardly device to made CD copies of some of my vinyl. As ...
Posted by Brian on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:36:00 PST

Here's a survey if you're so inclined....

1) How old do you wish you were? // I like the age I am now. Every year I appreciate being the age I am that year. Although I'm not quite used to being 28 yet. It'll happen.2) Where were you when 9/11...
Posted by Brian on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:33:00 PST

Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes

So, last week I got laid off.Now, normally this would be a bad thing. But oddly enough, it's more akin to a stroke of luck. I've been working at said job for a little under a year, and for that compan...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:39:00 PST

Kitty Relocation

So last night I loaded up my two cats, Lux and Luna into my car. My new roomates are moving in this week with cats of their own, so as part of the moving arrangements I'm taking my cats to Charleston,...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 08 May 2006 12:36:00 PST

These depths to which we sink

These are supposedly 31 questions that no one would EVER think to ask. Answer them, then REPOST the bulletin!1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?Th...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:21:00 PST

Striving for the Lazy Perfection

As I'm making my morning chai tea, the little tag on the teabag provides me with a quote that I think is as quite apt about me. Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain...
Posted by Brian on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:58:00 PST