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Brandon

I am here for Friends

About Me

I wish we could all live in the mountains...at high altitudes. That's where I see myself in ten years. (I commend you if you can place the movie.)
Let's see...What really gets me going is people seeing new possibilities for their lives, things they never thought were possible.
I'm most happy having a long dinner with my friends and family or taking a long walk through the countryside.

My Interests

being with friends/family, reading, writing, playing guitar, hiking, taking a photograph, drawing/painting, ballroom dancing, broken cisterns, pirate noises, noriyuka pat morita, hypothetical situations; I also like to travel, so here is a map feature that is fun to whirl around on (it also marks the locations of people who visit your website or myspace):

I'd like to meet:

The Baby BelugaOr Ali with an 'i' (O ye without understanding, watch this clip...)

Music:

Paul Simon, David Wilcox, Dar Williams, Yo-Yo Ma (so hot in tux pants...arrrrr), The Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughter

Movies:

Glory/ The Karate Kid/ Shawshank Redemption/ Dead Poets Society/ What the Bleep Do We Know?/ Notting Hill/ Ocean's 11/ Groundhog Day/ Searching for Bobby Fischer/....and for Amon and Mac...

Television:

Two words: Wayne Arnold. And the episode of the Wonder Years that has Madeleine for the first time. Two more words: David Brent.And here he is...

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Books:

Let's see, through the ages...Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry (i shouldn't laugh, but gosh i do)/ Frog and Toad/ Lion (William Pene du Bois)/ The Story of Jumping Mouse/ A Single Shard/ The Twenty-One Balloons (read anything by William Pene du Bois, now damn you!)/ Til We Have Faces/ Jane Eyre/ The Brothers Karamazov

Heroes:

Tom Harris. If you've met him you know why. Amon, Mac, Brice, Michael, Chris, Courtney, Jonathan, Alayna, Mom, Dad. That mole who is Danger Mouse's sidekick. And this little boy... width="425" height="350" ..

And let's not forget this guy...

My Blog

Just some quotes...

Just some quotes I like... My favorite one is the Norm Howe one near the bottom. The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. John Milton (1608-1674)   ...
Posted by Brandon on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:29:00 PST

Two Months in California

Im writing on my laptop as Mac and I have just hit stop and go traffic outside of Oakland, on our way to spend the weekend with John and Jean Jobs.  And as it happens, it is the two month anniver...
Posted by Brandon on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:45:00 PST

Ghostrider Fear

I don't like roller coasters anymore.  I started to get sick the last time I rode one, which was in the 90s, but last weekend I thought I'd give it a shot again.  My sister Courtney and I w...
Posted by Brandon on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:18:00 PST

Opportunity

OPPORTUNITY by: Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887) HIS I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:-- There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, ...
Posted by Brandon on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:59:00 PST

Great Song Lyrics...Feedback Requested

I'm sitting here listening to Paul Simon and it led me to think of great song lyrics. I've come up with a few, two of which, not surprisingly, come from Mr. Simon. "Negotiations and love songs a...
Posted by Brandon on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:31:00 PST

Chuck Norris

The Bible says Samson killed 15,000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. When God asked Chuck Norris what he thought about that, he said, "That's one way to do it." God laughed at Chuck's wisdom, a...
Posted by Brandon on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:35:00 PST

Things that Make Me Laugh

There are things that make me laugh, but I'm not sure other people think they are funny.  My friends James definitely has helped me view the world with this awkward strain of laughter. Mostly it ...
Posted by Brandon on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:20:00 PST