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Brett

I am here for Serious Relationships

About Me

Rhythm and Blues, not Rap and Bullshit.

My Interests

Clamming, Beer gardens, book gardens, yardsales, racks of yard tools at Sears, Zeus, The Remains of Old Latin, folklore, mythology, legend, red red wine, mis-interpreting I Ching hexagrams, twenty-three, pretending that I'm not a musician, avoiding the landlord, lucid dreaming, hazy waking, baking cakes and eating them for breakfast.

I'd like to meet:

A witness.

Music:

60's Motown, 60's-70's Rocksteady/Dub, Robert Earl Keen, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield/The Impressions, The Pharcyde, Public Enemy, Descendents/All, Minor Threat, Misfits, Dag Nasty, Fishbone, Skatalites, John Coltrane, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, The Ramones, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, The Cardigans, Alkaline Trio, The Pogues and other bands.

Movies:

Pretty much anything with a vampire in it. Also, The Ten Commandments, Big Trouble in Little China, Napoleon Dynamite, The Breakfast Club, Dracula, Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Mummy, The 'Burbs, Happy Gilmore, Dazed and Confused, Slacker, Lord of the Rings, Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski, Rounders, Weird Science, Drugstore Cowboy, Lost Highway, The Freshman, Groundhog Day, Rushmore, Ghostbusters, Blues Brothers, Rosemary's Baby, The Works of Werner Herzog.

Television:

Rebelde y otras telenovelas

Books:

by Bret Easton Ellis, Dennis Cooper, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vergil, Horace, Seneca the Younger, Homer, Stephen King, H. P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, Peter Carroll, Phil Hine, Anton LaVey, Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, J. R. R. Tolkien, Bram Stoker, Douglas Rushkoff, Truman Capote, Cormac McCarthy, Raymond Chandler, Donna Tartt, Philip K. Dick, Lawrence Block, David Sedaris, Georges Bataille, Montague Summers and others.

Heroes:

My Brother Matt, My Sister Shel, Tim Selewski, Ryan Reeves, Dad, Mom, Professor Ronnick, Doug Woolsey, Matt Van, Brian Pollock, Rob Nichol, Mike Mouiyanis.

My Blog

A little political

This is going to be difficult to frame, but strikes me as quite profound and needs to be shared.  It comes from an interview with the journalist Robert Fisk, conducted in the most recent issue of...
Posted by Brett on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:08:00 PST

nf f ns nc

Leave it to the Romans.This is a common epitaph found on grave markers.  It stands for:"non fui, fui, non sum, non curo."trans.: "I wasn't, I was, I'm not, I don't care."I usually feel this way after ...
Posted by Brett on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:48:00 PST

motto workshop

Well, I've got two, and they've been here for at least ten years, so why I haven't posted them before is beyond me:"Homo locum ornat, non hominem locus."trans.: "The person makes the place special, no...
Posted by Brett on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:01:00 PST

Joke comprehension may decrease with age

I dont get it.
Posted by Brett on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:01:00 PST

Department of Redundancy Department

"Candy cigarettes predispose children who play with them to smoke the real things later, new research concludes."-Posted on Yahoo! News,  6/18/07.Who'd've thunk it?
Posted by Brett on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:12:00 PST

3 things (maybe 4)

1. Enchant Long.2. Divine Short.3. Invoke Often."Those who spell 'magic' with a 'k' aren't."- LaVey, Anton S. Satan Speaks.  Feral House, 1998....
Posted by Brett on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:53:00 PST

Black Heart

the blackheart by Kendra (The Library, 7 Ave. A at Houston, New York, NY) 1 part flavored vodka (blueberry or raz) 1 part apple pucker 1 part blue curacao roses lime juice dash sloe gin fill with sour...
Posted by Brett on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:40:00 PST

Good old "E. P."

"I have only once seen witchcraft in its path.  I had been sitting late in my hut writing notes.  About midnight, before retiring, I took a spear and went out for my usual nocturnal stroll.&...
Posted by Brett on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:33:00 PST

the interests of science...

"I take it as fairly certain that the Pythia's trance was auto-suggestively induced, like mediumistuc trance today.  It was preceded by a series of ritual acts: she bathed, probably in Castalia, ...
Posted by Brett on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:08:00 PST

kind of like myspace...

"...the relation of an individual subject to society as a whole in Althusser's theory is rather like the relation of the small child to his or her mirror-image in Lacan's.  In both cases, the hum...
Posted by Brett on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:00:00 PST