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I ? Bruce

About Me



Me, Connie, Joe & Karen @ Joe's Army Grad March 2006

I will be coming home Sept. 23-27 for Noodles' Bday. He will be turning 3 and I hope everyone will think of him on his special day. (September 23rd) Bruce & I will be moving to Girdwood in Oct. I am sooo excited. Hopefully I will learn how to ski this season. We will be living in a kick-ass house for the first part of the winter and will then have to find a new pad in Feb. I am hoping to settle down and get a "real job" so we can bu a house next winter.

Anything else ya need to know... just send me a message.
My AIM is: haydenbrooks

This is dedicated to my ROOMIE: Kim Moran

My Interests

It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.
When two are stripped, long ere the course begin,
We wish that one should love, the other win;

And one especially do we affect
Of two gold ingots, like in each respect:
The reason no man knows; let it suffice
What we behold is censured by our eyes.
Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe

* Scuba Diving - Hawaii. I got certified in June 2004 in Panama City, FL
Bruce & I are taking a cruise for our honeymoon and will be diving in Cozumel. :o) I cant wait.
* Alaska - Visited July 2004, August 2005 & the entire summer of 2006 ~*~BEST SUMMER OF MY LIFE~*~
* Painting / Sculpting - A few of my paintings are on this website, I will be taking pics of my others soon

Some of my most recent pieces:

My Paints (18 X20, Oil on Canvas)

Given to Case-A-Mase



Creative Waste of Paint (12 X12, Oil on Canvas)

Private Collection

Body of Fall (16 X 20, Oil on Canvas)

Private Collection ~ better photo to come



City of Lights (24 X 32, Oil on Canvas)

Private Collection ~ better photo to come ~ To be loaned to Nataline



Madonna (16 X 20, Oil on Canvas)

Private Collection ~ better photo to come



Kid & Bear (16 X 20, Oil on Canvas)

Private Collection ~ Inspired by Tony Crumpton



Lost in sound (24 X 20, Oil on Canvas)

Private Collection ~ Painted for Brent McCoy



Vainity (18 X 24, Oil on Canvas)

Private Collection



Frozen Nipple (18 X 20, Oil on Canvas)

Private Collection



Sunset (36 X 24, Oil on Canvas)

Private Collection



Different Ideas (16 X 18, Acrylic on Canvas)

Private Collection



Dutchess (20 X 24, Oil on Canvas)

Private Collection ~ Painted for Brent McCoy



Boat (11 X 14, Oil on Canvas)

Private Collection ~ On loan to Toddy Clark... sorry James!!!



Brushfire Fairy (16 X 20, Acrylic on Canvas)

Private Collection



Liam (18 X 24, Acrylic on Canvas)

Private Collection



Lady (16 X 20, Acrylic on Canvas)

Private Collection



Hut (16 X 20, Acrylic on Canvas)

Private Collection



Dirtraction (18 X 24, Acrylic on Canvas)

Private Collection ~ On loan to Rockoley Hill



Cabin (11 X 18, Oil on Canvas)

Private Collection ~ Inspired by Jefferson Simmons



Cabin (11 X 18, Oil on Canvas)

Private Collection ~ Inspired by Jefferson Simmons



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* Photography - I am a profession photographer when it comes to taking self portraits. :o)
* Traveling - I have been to the following:

USA: I've been to 20 of the states & DC

ALABAMA - Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery, Auburn, Tuscaloosa, Gulf Shores
ALASKA - Anchorage, Homer, Seward, Anchor Point, Cooper Landing, Talkeetna, Denali, Kenai
ARIZONA - Phoenix, Flagstaff, Sodovia
ARKANSAS - Fayetteville
CALIFORNIA - Los Angeles
COLORADO - Denver Airport :o)
CONNECTICUT
DELAWARE
DC - White House, Mount Vernon
FLORIDA - Miami, Jacksonville, Orlando, Panama City, Key West
GEORGIA - Atlanta
HAWAII - Kona, Hilo
IDAHO - Corde lane
ILLINOIS - Somewhere in the middle of nowhere for a hippie festival
IOWA
Kansas - Kansas City
KENTUCKY - Mammoth Caves
LOUISIANA - New Orleans
MAINE -
MARYLAND -
MASSACHUSETTS -
MICHIGAN -
MINNESOTA -
MISSISSIPPI - Cornith, Gulf Port, Biloxi, Tunica
MISSOURI - Drove through on the way to MT
MONTANA - Big Sky, Bozeman, Yellowstone, Chico Hot Springs
NEBRASKA - Drove through on the way to MT
NEVADA - Las Vegas
NEW HAMPSHIRE -
NEW JERSEY -
NEW MEXICO - Albuquerque
NEW YORK - Niagra Falls
NORTH CAROLINA - Charlotte
NORTH DAKOTA -
OHIO - Cinncinatti
OKLAHOMA - Tulsa
PENNSYLVANIA - Pittsburg, Philidelphia, Bradford
RHODE ISLAND -
SOUTH CAROLINA - Hilton Head
SOUTH DAKOTA - Badlands
TENNESSEE - Nashville, Memphis, Gatlinburg
TEXAS - San Antonio
UTAH - Salt Lake City
VERMONT -
WASHINGTON - Seattle
WEST VIRGINIA - Drove through on the way to DC
WISCONSIN - Dells
WYOMIING - Yellowstone

OTHER COUNTRIES:
Jamacia - Montego Bay
Mexico - Cozumel, Yucatan
Canada
Belize

I'd like to meet:

Someone as creative and beautiful as I am.

Music:

Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, Sigur Ros, Pinback, Pearl Jam, Aqualung, Jenny Lewis, Radiohead, Hot Hot Heat, JEM, Imogene Heap, Charlotte Martin, NIN, Dresden Dolls, Bright Eyes, Jack Johnson, The Smiths, Beck, Sheryl Crow and BRITNEY SPEARS... oh yeah... I said it... I looove me some Britney. I also love almost everyone I have seen in concert with the exception of: anything country or country related... aka Charlie Daniel's Band, Almann Brothers, Willy Nelson, Counting Crows... mainly a bunch of shitty bands I saw when I was dating Chris. :o)

Concerts
3 Doors Down - Birmingham 3x
3rd Eye Blind - Birmingham
Alice Cooper - Huntsville
Almann Brothers - Birmingham
Arlo Gutheri - Ninilchik, AK
Bob Dylan - Birmingham
Britney Spears - Birmingham
Cake - Birmingham & Anchorage
Carnigans - Las Vegas
Celine Dion - Las Vegas
Charlie Daniels Band - Birmingham
Charlotte Martin - Las Vegas
Counting Crows - Las Vegas & Birmingham
Destany's Child - Huntsville
Dexter Freebish - Birmingham 2x
Dixie Chicks - Birmingham
Eve 6 - Birmingham
Foo Fighters - Birmingham
Goldfinger - Birmingham
Gretchen Wilson - Birmingham
Hank Williams Jr. - Birmingham 2x
Hootie & The Blowfish - Huntsville & Birmingham
John Mayer - Birmingham 2x
Katy Rose - Las Vegas
KISS - Birmingham
Liz Phair - Las Vegas
Ludacris - Birmingham
MC Hammer - Illinios
Motley Crue - Birmingham
Nora Jones - Birmingham & Las Vegas
Outkast - Birmingham
Pain - Montevallo
Pearl Jam - Birmingham & Atlanta & Nashville
Pete Yorn - Birmingham
POD - Birmingham 8x & Illinois
Reel Big Fish - Birmingham
Relient K - Birmingham
REM - Birmingham
Run DMC - Birmingham
Sarah McLaughlin - Birmingham & Las Vegas
Sister Hazel - Birmingham 2x
Sixpence None the Richer - Birmingham & Huntsville & Illinois
Stringcheese Incident - Anchorage, AK
Strokes - Birmingham
Tenacious D - Birmingham
Tom Petty - Birmingham
Vertical Horizon - Birmingham 2x
Willy Nelson - Birmingham 2x
& a shit load more I cant remember right now. :o)

Movies:

The Little Mermaid (Disney Version), Cruel Intentions, Love Actually, Amelie, The Dreamers, Pumpkin, Lost and Delirious, Closer, Meet Joe Black, Garden State, Very Long Engagment, Katy the Catapiller, Seven Swans, Pan's Labrith, Crash, Sideways, The Notebook, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Memoirs of a Geisha, Imagine Me & You

Television:

Dawson's Creek, Lost, Everwood, Grey's Anatomy, Gilmore Girls, Sex In The City and The L Word

Books:

Books KILL trees!!! But the few books I own are: The Book of Bunny Suicides, Return of the Bunny Suicides, Hollis Woods, Coraline, A Millon Little Pieces, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Wolves in the Walls, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Miss Suzy and a few Architect books I have started collecting.

Heroes:

macintosh & hot tub designers...

My Blog

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY

Okay... MORMANS + SUNDAY = LAME!!! Bruce and I headed off to Salt Lake City last Sun. I was pretty excited to be in a real city FINALLY. They had real stores... like J CREW, ABERCROMBIE, Etc. I was a ...
Posted by astrawhut.riversa on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:39:00 PST

It's 2:20am & I havent slept.

So now that I am leaving and wont have to face any of you on a daily basis, here is another lil "golden" story in the day and life of Hayden Brooks. So I am going to see Bruce tomorrow!!! This we all ...
Posted by astrawhut.riversa on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:34:00 PST

Road Trip Thus Far

I can't type right now b/c Allison is trying to sleep.
Posted by astrawhut.riversa on Wed, 03 May 2006 11:14:00 PST

Lint

For lint I gave up LAZINESS and being WHITE.Today I got up @ 8am and took lil Noodes to Oak Mt. where we hiked a good 6 miles. Then I bought us cheese mcmuffins... cause nothing says healthy like McDo...
Posted by astrawhut.riversa on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:34:00 PST

I can make you the best fuckin drink ever...

How you ask??? Welp... I went to bartending school last week and I passed my practical in 7:11 minutes (made 14 drinks) and my written test I scored a 94. Now... my show-off boyfriend finished under 7...
Posted by astrawhut.riversa on Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:46:00 PST