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Brian

the to-do list will have to wait

About Me

I am human. Just what exactly that entails is subject to great debate.Some would conclude that my humanness directly influences tendencies toward intelligence, compassion, awareness, and creativity.Others would suggest that it makes me cruel, greedy, violent, and stupid.I'm still not sure what it means. I sure like burritos though.

My Interests

subjective, 1st person

I'd like to meet:

Your Mom.

Music:

Aphex Twin, Arvo Part, Bedhead, Bill Frisell, Bjork, Blonde Readhead, Boards of Canada, Calexico, Neko Case, Cat Power, Cornelius, Deerhoof, Devo, Dianogah, The Dismemberment Plan, DJ Shadow, Don Caballero, Nick Drake, Brian Eno, Explosions in the Sky, Fugazi, Godspeed you Black Emperor!, Lou Harrison, PJ Harvey, Helmet, Iron and Wine, Isis, The Jesus Lizard, June of 44, Kaki King, Led Zeppelin, Low, The Magnetic Fields, Matmos, Mates of State, The Melvins, Mice Parade, Charles Mingus, Mirah, Mum, Nina Nastasia, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jim O'Rourke, Charlie Parker, Pinback, Portishead, Prefuse 73, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Rachel's, Radiohead, Steve Reich, Rothko, Shellac of North America, The Shins, Shudder to Think, Nina Simone, Slint, Elliot Smith, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Sparklehorse, Squarepusher, Igor Stravinsky, Stereolab, The Talking Heads, Thingy, Tin Hat Trio, Tortoise, Tool, The Velvet Underground, Ween, Shannon Wright, Yo La Tengo, John Zorn

Movies:

Rushmore, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Groundhog's Day, Hannah and her Sisters, Sex Lies and Videotape, Broken Flowers, The Royal Tenenbaums, Raising Victor Vargas, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Little Miss Sunshine

Books:

- Tom Robbins - David Sedaris - Douglas Adams - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Tim Sandlin - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Robert Pirsig - Aaron Beck - Albert Ellis - Robert A. Johnson - Ken Wilber - Joseph Goldstein - Carl Jung - Hameed Ali

Heroes:

Joseph Campbell

My Blog

War as I understand it

A quote from Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials: "Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all,...
Posted by Brian on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:21:00 PST

U.S. Troops Draw Up Own Exit Strategy

From: The ONIONBAGHDADCiting the Bush Administration's ongoing refusal to provide a timetable for withdrawal, the U.S. troops stationed in Iraq have devised their own exit strategy."My marines are t...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:09:00 PST

Eat Food

By MICHAEL POLLAN Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in orde...
Posted by Brian on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:40:00 PST

Temperance

Continuing on his spiritual path, the Fool begins to wonder how to reconcile the opposites that he's been facing: material and spiritual, death and birth. It is at this point that he comes upon a wing...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:32:00 PST

with patience

If each day fallsinside each nightthere exists a wellwhere clarity is imprisoned.We need to sit on the rimof the well of darknessand fish for fallen lightwith patience.-- Pablo Neruda...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:33:00 PST

Little Miss Sunshine

Everyone should see this movie.  Or, at least, everyone who thinks and feels like I do.  I recommend that you see this movie.  It's up there with Rushmore, seriously.  
Posted by Brian on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:46:00 PST

Radiohead

Radiohead is awesome, in case you didnt know that already.  I saw them in Berkeley at the Greek Theatre Saturday night, and it majorly kicked ass.  I havent been to the Greek Theatre since 1...
Posted by Brian on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:14:00 PST

Broken English Spam Poetry Vol. II

she reading carefully evening. find reference whom?taught side back suddenly very off,wrong appearance wrong young out. steps beautiful friends human, thats human explain very across sandwich.slow fil...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 05:33:00 PST

broken english spam poetry

I recieved an extremely bizarre junk email today.  The subject said something about buying cheap licences for XP, or something about penis enlargment.  Then the body of the email had this ra...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:20:00 PST

My Butt 2.0

Well, I had surgery last week, and everything went really well, as far as I can tell.  I had to have this drain system thing attatched to my body after the surgery, which was just removed today.&...
Posted by Brian on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:45:00 PST