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BRIAN KELLY!

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About Me

brian kelly likes to talk about himself in the third person.www.briankellyarmy.com

My Interests

art, words, magic, robbing banks, comic books, the world, anarchy, shiny plastic things, life and how to navigate through it, tattoos, leather, elvis, girls, shoes, nice hats, cowboy shirts, and obviously, brian kelly. oh, i also like the space between things.

I'd like to meet:

good people and bad ones too.

Music:

rock n' roll, and other stuff too.

Movies:

there are few really great movies to enjoy. most movies serve as suitable entertainment and escapism and can be enjoyed for that purpose. every once in a while a movie makes me feel something. which brings up another thing. have you ever noticed how movies feel more real than life sometimes? a funeral in a movie can be very sad and have the proper tone of what we think it should be (but maybe that is only because we have been programmed by the movies to know how something should feel). when faced with a real funeral, it seems so poorly done. "well, that's grandpa in the casket. he looks kind of fake and plastic though. oh well." the music is keyed with the proper images to produce the tears at the appropriate time. we fumble through life waiting to watch actors pretend to live so they can show us how we should feel.

Television:

i don't own a television, my new place didn't come with one.

Books:

robert anton wilson, denis johnson, grant morrison, hemmingway, henry miller, irvine welsh, brenden behan, frank miller, On the Road, GO, The Catcher in the Rye, philip k. dick, charles bukowski, aldous huxley, warren ellis, preacher, the dictionary (sometimes words i think i know the meaning of really have a slightly different definition, the dictionary can be fun reading.) the short memoir Baghdad Express by Joel Turnipseed has the best artwork i have ever seen.

Heroes:

all of our heroes have been wrong.

My Blog

where in the world is brian kelly?

okay, here's an update for anyone who reads these things. right now i'm still in the asshole of clare in ireland, but i'm moving to dublin on friday. later in the afternoon i guess. i hope everythi...
Posted by BRIAN KELLY! on Thu, 17 May 2007 05:33:00 PST

london burning?

nah, it wasn't that hot, but it wasn't so cold either. i spent the last few days in london, looking at art and mostly roaming the streets. i actually went into the turner prize this year and liked a...
Posted by BRIAN KELLY! on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:40:00 PST

cowgirl...

so, earlier today i got a topless cowgirl tattooed on my arm. it was funny, because i have a mole right around where i wanted to get it. as a child i would circle my pointer finger and thumb around ...
Posted by BRIAN KELLY! on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:45:00 PST

so the other day..

im standing on the street corner, smoking a cigarette, in rome.  im thinking about sticking a sticker on the metal box next to me and i look up and a car pulls up.  im thinking, trying to id...
Posted by BRIAN KELLY! on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:01:00 PST

i suppose this is what happens...

when you push things. last night, around 8 pm i put my car into the wall. accidents are so strange. i rounded a corner and the back of the car kicked out, because i guess the roads were a little ic...
Posted by BRIAN KELLY! on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:15:00 PST

school, what a concept!

i had three tutorials in two days i believe last week. i bullshitted tom, cause it's so easy and fun and he's such a bullshit artist himself. i gave him my andy warhol. "i don't know", "not really"...
Posted by BRIAN KELLY! on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:20:00 PST

third time's the charm.

i got a new car a couple of weeks ago. the guy i bought the last lemon off of gave me this one and i'm supposed to give him a hundred euro at some time in the future, but i haven't yet. the car work...
Posted by BRIAN KELLY! on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:12:00 PST

one car, two car, new car, none

last night i stayed in a hotel in kinvara.  my car broke down right on the outskirts of town.  i took a wrong turn out of ennis and ended up going through kilcogen and then towards kinv...
Posted by BRIAN KELLY! on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:26:00 PST

BK

here is an interesting if not strange phenomenon. when i was younger i really disliked my name. i won't go in to all the reasons why, and they were silly really, more of a sign of low self esteem th...
Posted by BRIAN KELLY! on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:21:00 PST

23

i know i've been writing boring things about ireland, but stay with me on this one. i arrived in ireland on sept 1st. i was in dublin today wondering around and i went into a used book store and was...
Posted by BRIAN KELLY! on Sat, 24 Sep 2005 04:42:00 PST