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PCV Brian

the life of brian...on myspace

About Me

I'm a guy. I like flying kites, throwing boomerangs, lounging on the beach, reading and watching movies. I enjoy trying to get people to see the world through my eyes and hear it through my ears. I love meeting new people and learning new things.I have a website: brianwoods.comI write for a webmag: writhaus.comI take lots of pictures, sometimes professionally:

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6 !

My Interests

Traveling is a lot of fun. Listening to some of the great music played live is, too. I enjoy getting up early, spending hours at the beach on Saturdays. I am interested in leisurely games of volleyball and in bettering my boomerang throwing.

I'd like to meet:

People with new perspectives, fresh ideas and outgoing natures.

Music:

Sirius Satellite Radio, The Go! Team, New Radicals, U2, Interpol, Bowling For Soup, Blue October, Relient K, Peter Gabriel, Black 47, A Perfect Circle, Alkaline Trio, Caviar, The Doves, Incubus, Long-View, Shiny Toy Guns, The Bird and the Bee, Jack's Mannequin, Stereophonics, Centro-Matic, Pelican, Rise Against, Better Than Ezra, Army of Me, Another Day, The Academy Is, She Wants Revenge, Hard-Fi, Better Than Ezra, Belle and Sebastian, Motion City Sountrack, Spoon, The Decemberists, Living Things, The New Pornographers, The Fray, Matt Nathanson, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, Rock Kills Kid, Billy Bragg, Athlete, Kris Kristopherson, John R. Cash, Pinback, Talkdemonic, Kill Hannah, Rainer Maria, In-Flight Safety, Sparta, Catherine Wheel, Archers of Loaf

Movies:

The Departed, Pan's Labyrinth, Casablanca, Psycho, The Exorcist, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Batman Begins, King Kong, The Descent, Lord of War, Out of Sight, Goodfellas, Serenity, Trainspotting, Step Into Liquid, City of God, Arsenic and Old Lace, Superman, The Corporation, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, High Fidelity, Twice Upon A Time, Why We Fight, tons more that I always forget to list

Television:

My Name Is Earl, Lost, Dead Like Me, Angel, The Muppet Show, Dr Who, Rome, Tales from the Crypt, This American Life, Saving Grace (Holly Hunter is hawt!)

Books:

anything by Neil Gaiman, anything by Brian K Vaughn, anything by Brian Wood, Thucydides, Xenophon, Epictetus, Epicurus, Nick Hornby, Revolutionary Road by Yeats (I read it long before it was going to be a movie), Gene Wolfe, Ernest Hemmingway

Heroes:

Jim Henson and Elwood P. Dowd, both people I'd like to emulate.

My Blog

Yay, I Am a Volunteer

I made it across the finish line.  Training is over, and I am now officially a Peace Corps volunteer in the Crimea in Ukraine.Starting shortly, I will be teaching English and figuring out what se...
Posted by PCV Brian on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:43:00 PST

I posted pictures!

Go check out all the pics I have taken over the last couple of months...And I passed a kidney stone...More info, as always, at brianwoods.com...
Posted by PCV Brian on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:24:00 PST

Hey, I’m Moving!

To Ukraine, no less.  Click it to read more.
Posted by PCV Brian on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:48:00 PST

Trying New Things

So last weekend I had my first set pa experience.  It was for The Contender.  It wasn't bad at all.  Maybe I can figure out a way to transition from wage slave to doing that if nothing ...
Posted by PCV Brian on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:02:00 PST

Fun with Renga!

I wrote a short renga.  You can check it out at brianwoods.com.  Maybe I will try writing more of them.And I am listening to the Moonrats.  Since they are indie, you won't see them bein...
Posted by PCV Brian on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:39:00 PST

Tidying

So I added a few of my videos on here.  They're kind of scattered around.  I use Youtube for things that have no problems and eyespot for things that might get deleted via Youtube.  Now...
Posted by PCV Brian on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:18:00 PST

Ooo, words!

brianwoods.com just got a brand new story posted.  just head to the homepage for info on where it is on the site.ah hell.  here's a direct link if that's too much work for ya....
Posted by PCV Brian on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:47:00 PST

Summer Reading!

So far, I read the complete xkcd.com, I started A Movable Feast by Hemmingway and am working my way through The Darkness Omnibus.How's that for a wide range of genres?...
Posted by PCV Brian on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:28:00 PST

Ooo, Music!

Well, how the heck about that...writhaus.com has a music feature up!  That's right, it's a "Top of '06" list.  Sure, we're halfway through '07, but writhaus didn't exist last year, so what b...
Posted by PCV Brian on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:12:00 PST

Interesting Things From the Tubes...

Ok, so a fleet of ducks are storming England in an invasion 15 years in the making.Also, 1000 indie films are about to blow the doors off the high def disc format war.I wrote about both these things o...
Posted by PCV Brian on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:34:00 PST