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Brian

I don't want to hear about your bad childhood.

About Me

Optimistic guy who's pretty content these days. I love restaurants but I can't say the same for cilantro. It tastes like soap! After 4 years in Philadelphia, I'm in Wilkes-Barre for the next few months. I love having the chance to revisit my NEPA roots and see friends that I've been away from forever. The outdoors are beautiful here, especially in the summer. I like to swim and I am comfortable in a lot of different settings. I find that forgiveness is a strength that does the world a favor but to forget is to learn nothing. I'm generally in a good frame these days, but if I go a week without eating a Reese's Peanut Butter Egg, I may get moody. :-O Hershey is paying me $0.05 a day to write that.Above is a song I wrote this year called Green Bag of Jellybeans. Also, I love Hillary Clinton. She might not give flowery speeches about hope and change and all of those kindergarten fairy-tales, but she knows her stuff. This is my favorite clip of her discussing Barack's naive view of politics:

My Interests

Music, Politics, Creative People, Brown/Hazel Eyes, Demographics, Suikoden, My Friend Joy's Album, Real Friends, Swimming, Rights Advocacy, my dog, and to a lesser extent my cat.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with good values who can argue over what that actually means. Mild bias here for the smart ones.

Music:

The Cardigans, No Doubt, Tori Amos, Fleetwood Mac, Madonna, Gin Blossoms, Mutemath, Bertine, Genesis, Bjork, Radiohead (before they got all "art-music"), Loreena McKennitt, The Doors, A Girl Called Eddy, Eurythmics, Kate Bush, Good Charlotte.

Movies:

American Beauty, Amadeus, Best in Show, Snakes on a Plane, Mulholland Drive, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Fight Club, Pumpkin.

Television:

Twin Peaks, American Idol, The L Word, Random Clips of Drunken Celebrities in TV Newscasts (cough, cough). I used to not watch TV but I've mellowed out on my hardcore leftwing isolationism. TV is pretty funny sometimes and occasionally lucid.

Books:

Too much forced reading. Ok but I've read Middlesex, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and some others.

Heroes:

Ed Rendell, Hillary Clinton, Pip.

My Blog

BPK Piano/Keyboard Covers (Tori Amos)

I'm keeping track of all the songs at: BPK Piano/Keyboard Covers They're now separated by albums and have links embedded.  Y Kant Tori Read Etienne Little Earthquakes Crucify G...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 12 May 2008 11:17:00 PST

Tori Amos

Ok, so I was the last person on the planet to hop on the T.A. bandwagon.  For years, I really disliked her.  I always had a taste in music that overlapped significantly with her fan base's, ...
Posted by Brian on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:26:00 PST

Invisible Fangs: The Psychologically Abusive Relationship

Invisible Fangs: The Psychologically Abusive Relationship This one goes out to all my ladies and genteel men out there. I'm going to talk about emotionally/psychologically abusive relationships, which...
Posted by Brian on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:02:00 PST