Bret [only1 t] - ProfilesArchive

About Me

oh great, one of these "about me" things. I never really know what to put here.... how about....I'm originally from the South Pole, I grew up with a family of eskimos. I had a pet penguin, his name was Gilderoy. One day he got all pissed off cause I named him Gilderoy and teamed up with his penguin friends and destroyed my whole village and family. Then, I umm.... ok, I'm making this up.Well I'm going to skip the obvious descriptions, like my name, and just give miscellanious info. I grew up in L.A. (Pasadena mostly) - then I moved to Tuscaloosa. I was there for way too long... then moved to Fort Walton Beach. not sure what else to say ....I do a lot of video editing in my spare time (Adobe Premiere and Avid). Mainly roller coaster videos. Right now I'm working on "Coaster Encounters of the 2006 Kind".

My Interests

movies
roller coasters
amusement parks
waffles
traveling
home theater systems
Blue Man Group
video editing

and too many other interests to list here

I'd like to meet:

the pacman ghosts

Music:

Blue Man Group
John Williams
Nellie McKay
Bob Marley
Pink Floyd
U2
Ludacris
The Pixies
Jurassic 5
Against Me
Thomas Newman
All American Rejects
The Postal Service
Jimmy Eat World
Crystal Method
Venus Hum
The Who
Tenacious D
Stephen Lynch
Rage Against the Machine

Movies:

American Beauty is probably the best movie I've seen
but I also like...
Seven
Traffic
Amelie
Kill Bill
Dogma
Batman
Star Wars
Fight Club
King Kong
The Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Garden State
Ghostbusters
Indiana Jones
Donnie Darko
Lilo and Stitch
The Godfather
Batman Begins
Almost Famous
V For Vendetta
Life As a House
The Wizard of Oz
Punch Drunk Love
I Heart Huckabees
Requiem for a Dream
Eternal Sunshine...
any Monty Python movie
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Pirates of the Carribean
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Television:

24
CSI
Lost
Firefly
Scrubs
Entourage
West Wing
Sports Night
Six Feet Under
The Family Guy
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Arrested Developement
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Books:

Harry Potter novels
Feel This Book - Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo
50 Ways To Fight Censorship - Dave Marsh
Steal This Book -Abbie Hoffman
Phantom Tollbooth
1984 - George Orwell
Crashing the Party - Ralph Nader

and anything by
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Noam Chomsky
Dr. Seuss

Heroes:

Conrad Hall
Edwin S. Porter
John Miller
Anton Schwarzkopf
Walt Disney

My Blog

Indiana trip photos - Holiday World and Beech Bend

This was a quick weekend trip I took a couple weeks ago. I flew to Indiana, met up with Matt and Carin, then we went to Hoilday World and then drove to Kentucky for Beech Bend. Both parks ...
Posted by Bret (only one t) on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:46:00 PST

Six Flags Over Georgia... 2 times

Here are some photos from the 2 trips I took earlier in August. The first trip I went with Laura, Brian, Byant, and lil' Trey. A week later I went with Carin, Charlie, and Billy. Interst...
Posted by Bret (only one t) on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:32:00 PST

my big toe VS a big metal film reel

Thursday night, 6:30 pm....and in this corner: weighing in at around 50lbs, a big metal film reel... and in this corner: weighing in at... well I've never felt compelled to cut my toe off a...
Posted by Bret (only one t) on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:26:00 PST

Six Flags Magic Mountain photos... with TATSU ! ! !

first a few pics of I-5 now, on to Six Flags Magic Mountain... X is currently the only "fourth dimension" roller coaster in the world... and not really easy to describe - here is how RCDB desc...
Posted by Bret (only one t) on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:04:00 PST

DCA park photos

Time for the pics from Disney's California Adventure... Let's start this off with the hotel - Paradise Pier and this is the view from our room La Brea Bakery - this is the best Bakery named La Br...
Posted by Bret (only one t) on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:57:00 PST

Disneyland trip photos

Well we had to get to Disneyland before the 50th Anniversary celebration was over, and we got a trip in just in time. FYI - Disneyland opened on July 17th, 1955. There were a lot of "50"s arou...
Posted by Bret (only one t) on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:47:00 PST

Greetings from 20,000 feet

Atlanta is the Delta hub, but its not like you can tell... park photos coming soon......
Posted by Bret (only one t) on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:26:00 PST

Lemurs!

So someone said I have a bit of a trend going with my blogs, so I'm changing it up a bit today. I went to the Gulf Coast Zoo Saturday (my parents were in town, had to find something to do). ...
Posted by Bret (only one t) on Sun, 07 May 2006 12:28:00 PST

Goliath media preview at Six Flags Over Georgia

Well March 30th was the media preview day for Goliath. Most parks have a media day before a new ride officially opens so they can get some publicity out just before the ride opens. They al...
Posted by Bret (only one t) on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:57:00 PST

Mr. Yeti's trip report of Everest

"Hello, my name is Yeti, welcome to my trip report." "This is one of the statues they have made for me." "This one is my favorite." "Technically I'm not tall enough to ride, but since this w...
Posted by Bret (only one t) on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:03:00 PST