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Brandi

When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.

About Me

Illustrator/animator/space cadet with a profound love of music, films, travel, bicycles, art, and gin & tonics.

My Interests

painting, fabric and patterns, sewing, handkerchiefs, traveling, music, movies, animating, the Von Trap family, cul-de-sacs, diners, illustration, swiss design, vintage, gated communities, the american dream, polaroids, comics, Saturday Evening Posts, coffee, fashion, opera, old documents and info/commercials from the 50's, randomness..

I'd like to meet:

travelers and networking artists, movie buffs, and musicians, the owners of a chocolatier or bakery, or anyone with similar interests. i'm friendly:)

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Music:

too much, i should ignore it all and take a vow of silence, it would be better for my hearing. Recently: The Knife, New Found Glory, Coheed & Cambria,:( , Tegan & Sara, Blonde Redhead, Bjork, Bears, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Ivy League, Devendra Banhart, Tilly & the Wall, My Dad Is Dead, The Buzzcocks, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, Metric, Ratatat, Montt Mardie, Devin Davis,Reggie & The Full Effect, The Clash, The Slits, Heart, The Scorpions, The Beatles, Del Shannon, Dionne Warwick(60's Warwick! pre-Psychic Friends!!) Frank Sinatra, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Cash,Rilo Kiley, Voxtrot, Vells, Maritime, Pulp, PINBACK, David Bowie, Misfits, Lansing- Dreiden..these guys still amaze me.... there's way more, but i'm too lazy for this.

Movies:

ZOMBIES!! Kubrik to George Romero, Cohen Bros to Sergio Leone and lots of others all over the place. Mr. Wes Anderson, Sophia Coppola, and Michael Gondry (The Science of Sleep was amazing.) some others: City of God, The Conformist, The Passenger, V for Vendetta,The Prestige, The Jacket, Amelie, Every Which Way But Lose, Carlito's Way, Jaws, Shawshank Redemption. The Born Losers, Underground, Black Cat White Cat, Breakfast At Tiffany's, My Fair Lady.. Lots of obscure foreign films if I find them, and a great appreciation for avant garde such as Kenneth Anger, Harry Smith and Stanley Brackage.

Television:

Q.I., Torchwood, Dr. Who., Flight of the Concords, The I.T. Crowd, Trailer Park Boys

Books:

lots of "ad-agency" type magazines, since i'm a strategic working-girl now :) also David Sedaris.

Heroes:

my mean and rotten grandma

My Blog

gafaw!

PINK PLASTIC LAWN FLAMINGOS Date: 2008-04-17, 2:31PM MDT three pink plastic lawn flamingos, the momma, the daddy and two babies. in good shape except the momma has a bullet hole. will trade f...
Posted by Brandi on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:12:00 PST

why i love craigslist so

i almost crossed the street ... - m4w Date: 2008-02-28, 11:54PM MST before you hit me with your car. i guess it’s not exactly a "missed" connection. i figure i don’t have much else to ...
Posted by Brandi on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:09:00 PST

heh

i'm starting to really love these... To the Man in the Motorized Wheelchair Date: 2007-11-27, 6:45PM PSTYou have restored my faith in humanity. Lamentably, I work in the Lloyd District, and the large...
Posted by Brandi on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:47:00 PST

hahaha YES!

Hot zombie sex roleplay - t4w Date: 2007-12-03, 1:00PM PSTI am *so* serious. Sex has become so boring! For a while, I was having sex at the Power Exchange, because that was fun -- I could mix things ...
Posted by Brandi on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:39:00 PST

uh..

when i say i'm a "space cadet" i definetely don't mean a "stoner".. someone just pointed that out to me.
Posted by Brandi on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:20:00 PST

rant

All i'll say is i'm not happy today.
Posted by Brandi on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:02:00 PST

i’m it..

so i have been tagged by nicole, here's a few things about myself that some of you already know, some of you don't :)1) i have a ridiculously large collection of handkerchiefs2) i'm a total nerd at ch...
Posted by Brandi on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:50:00 PST

effin prunes!!!

so the one accident i get into is OF COURSE involving old people... possibly the only old person on 85 in Atlanta. who drives away from the scene... fuckers. not much damage, his car looks way worse ...
Posted by Brandi on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:12:00 PST

blah


Posted by Brandi on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:29:00 PST

SICKO

i'm up for moving to France.. or Canada.. or Cuba?
Posted by Brandi on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:32:00 PST