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About Me

MEN & WOMEN] 25-75 all ethnicities. Interesting blue collar types. Salt of the earth types. Working people, business people, real father and sons, real mother and daughters. Faces of regular real people with humanity.

My Interests

theatre (new, bway, off bway, offoff, and figuring out ways to see it for free or at discounted prices), good food, great conversation, going to museums, the water taxi beach, the new york times - every now and then it's good to stay connected to the world, movies, finding money for grad school

I'd like to meet:

Helen Mirren, Tonya Pinkins

Music:

basement jaxx, justin timberlake, bob marley, nikka costa, india.arie, che fu, the color purple, the beastie boys, missy elliott "we run this" [i could run for miles on that], stay with me by ne-yo, USHER!!!, destiny's child [representing h-town], crystal waters, james taylor, stevie wonder, john mayer, kanye west, maroon 5, snoop d o double g, mariah carey, caroline or change soundtrack,

Movies:

pursuit of happyness was super lovely, looking forward to catch a fire, last king of scotland, jonestown:life and death of people's temple, and notes on a scandal, THE DEPARTED!!!! fear and loathing in las vegas, team america: world police (amerikuh f*** ya), sexy beast, mahogany, you can count on me, coming to america, gone with the wind, the color purple, napoleon dynamite - saw tsotsi recently that's a pretty crazy movie - i was in tears in numerous parts of the movie; good night and good luck, city of god

Television:

greys anatomy, OnStage (patrick pacheko and roma torrey keep things feisty), wheel of fortune, the girls next door,

Books:

the temple of my familiar and the color purple by alice walker, orson's shadow, fear and loathing in las vegas, blink, the tipping point, they poured fire on us from the sky, extreme exposure [an anthology of solo performance texts], chick with baggage seeks same, anything by zadie smith

Heroes:

cliff gulibert, the creators of napoleon dynamite, steven sapp and mildred ruiz, the propeller theatre company, fiona shaw, my mom and dad, connie rice [sister of you know who and knockout aclu lawyer from la - go little sisters], the person who invented cookies, lachanze, hiro yamagata (www.hiroyamagata.com), tonya pinkins, betty buckley, meryl streep, cate blanchett, judi dench, suzan lori-parks RON VAN LIEU!

My Blog

the diagonal path

not being accepted into any of the grad schools i auditioned and joining sag $2gsbeing accepted into the shakespeare lab at the one and only public theatre(with some financial aid of course) $1000bein...
Posted by B on Thu, 24 May 2007 08:56:00 PST

so yeah 2007 is basically halfway through and...

just figured i'dpass on the bulletin style updates of brie's lifei'm BUSY aka SLEEP DEPRIVED working way too much to keep my credit card(s) paid on time and fundraise for our move and my participation...
Posted by B on Thu, 17 May 2007 07:36:00 PST

the soundtrack of my life

as i avoid doing something important - PROSCRASTINATION RULES!!!If your life was a movie, what would the soundtrack be?So, here's how it works:1. Open your library (iTunes, winamp, media player, iPod,...
Posted by B on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:49:00 PST

the soundtrack of my life

as i avoid doing something important - PROSCRASTINATION RULES!!!If your life was a movie, what would the soundtrack be?So, here's how it works:1. Open your library (iTunes, winamp, media player, iPod,...
Posted by B on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:49:00 PST

i might be possessed and you might say i'm crazy...

that line is at the end of my third audition piece, cassandra from classical theatre of harlem's trojan women....it's O-V-A, the first round of auditions. 2 out of 3 ain't bad. my nyu audition was the...
Posted by B on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:38:00 PST

well well well

WOAH..I send all the best wishes in the world to anybody preparing to audition or who has already auditioned for grad school. i wish the same hugs and blessings to my playwright and designer buddies ...
Posted by B on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:37:00 PST