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Jamey Bresden

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About Me

I have a B.A. in Political Science.
I play a Reverend Rocco guitar through a Line 6 amp.
I only play one video game, but I play it well.
I don't eat meat.
I don't appreciate any discussion about why I don't eat meat when I'm trying to enjoy a meal. It usually turns into someone wanting either to debate me (which I have no interest in) or them saying things such as "I could neeeeever give up steak! I'm sorry, but cows are yummy!" (which makes me cringe.)
I could watch ESPN Classic Boxing every day for years and never get bored of it.
Lipstick, colored nails and fake eyelashes repulse me. I find a majority of women's makeup moderately to intensely frightening.
I'm the third generation to live in this house;
My grandfather and then my dad lived in the attached studio before me.
When I would come visit my dad in this house when I was a kid, I would sit at my grandfather's old metal desk and pretend to be a writer on his manual typewriter. Now I do most of my writing in the same room at the same desk.
I have nightmares nearly every night. Usually when they wake me, unless they are unbearably terrifying, I'll try to fall back asleep immediately so I can see how they end because the story is so interesting.
I leave notes for myself everywhere on Post-its and little scraps of paper, even though I have a dry-erase board and a digital voice recorder for that very purpose.
Now, please go help some schools. They need it.
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Free the West Memphis Three. Now.
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Change the world.
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My Interests


Classic and modern films (I collect silent films, mostly comedies), cars/motorcycles, most styles of music, live theatre, photography, all types of museums, and a number of sports.

I'd like to meet:


I've been pretty fortunate on this one, as I have met many of the people I've wanted to. Of those I have not yet:

Stephen Hawking, Nellie McKay, Lewis Black, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Bill Gates and Willie Nelson.

And, you know, I wouldn’t mind meeting the future Mrs. Bresden at some point.

Slam poet Taylor Mali on "What Teachers Make"

...and now, it's time to meet your meat!..

Animal testing is seriously f***ed up. ..

Winner of the 2007 Best Eyewitness Video. Battle at Kruger.

Music:


Television:

I don't watch much, but I do like House, the late-night shows, Charlie Rose and Inside the Actor's Studio.

Heroes:

In no particular order: The Unknown Rebel of Tiananmen Square, Mohandas Gandhi, Steve Prefontaine, Albert Einstein, Sir Charles Chaplin, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lennon, Brian Wilson, Thomas Jefferson, Kerri Strug, Nelson Mandela and whoever invented key lime pie.