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Brendan

All great art is made from suffering...and so are we.

About Me

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"Since the one thing we can say about fundamental matter is, that it is vibrating. And since all vibrations are theoretically sound, then it is not unreasonable to suggest that the universe is music and should be perceived as such."
I write music, I worry about fucking everything, I play connect the dots with all the components of existence, striving to have the whole picture figured out some day...
Sometimes existence drives me completely fucking nuts, nevertheless. But I'm glad I have things driving me nuts, because the frustration is inspiring and I feel like it's my job to be inspired by just about anything I can manage to be inspired by these days.
Why? Because that's how I tie into things. I'm an artist. I take the energy life gives me to feel and I translate that energy in the only language I'm truly fluent in...Music. Then I influence others in return; or try to at least; Encourage them to tear down their walls and renovate their mind into a wide-eyed landscape of its own, ready to take their existence to another level, as opposed to keeping their mind a maze of shit biases and fears and neglectments of what really matters. A lot of people play music because they like it...they enjoy the guitar around them, lost lusting after their own fantasies of a free life handed to them if they just keep strumming those generic chords (seeking existence where nothing's encumbering, where you feed endlessly on the decadent attributes of a star life with no challenges or sorrows to exercise your strengths...sounds like the exact opposite principle from submitting yourself to living as a musician in the first place...); Me, I play music because I need to. It's the only thing I can do. That affects my self-awareness and it affects the behavior I have around others. I approach interaction with people knowing that I am what I say I am, and the various reactions thrown back at me from people I talk with show how I do or do not mesh well with the ideal human being in the ideal human environments.
I know my place. I know I can be mocked, condescended to, neglected and flat out easily forgotten by most everyone else by exerting the behavior I do with people; Recognized in other people's brains as a lesser quality being because I don't pretend to be stronger or tougher or less concerned with the beauty of challenging our species' existence than I really am, but if I compromise my personal integrity to solidify social approval, everything I know myself to be would be forsaken, banished to the back of my mind so my ambition could wrap itself around the petty happiness it can gain from 10-percent-of-the-brain-operating human life.

My ambitions include one day being held responsible for helping chop away the barrier between how we percieve the universe and how the universe TRULY is (considering they are two completely fucking different things right now) through music and words, foiling the more despicable details of the human design in my own lifetime of experience & education, and to live a (justified) genuine life by accomplishing the former actions. Now the biggest question is whether fate (what a quaint illusion fate is) will give me the time to do so before everyone and everything dies.
"I don't know what my life will lead to, or what small part I'll be found playing in the navigation; But every day I wake to find myself still drifting through the moons is a day I strive with all to keep shining with life. My efforts are thorough yet still, results are a wary chance; There are demons here that I know not how to rid from this. It's then, I learned, that the only evils to prevail are those which share my (in)side and, with me, drift through these daily sights." - Introspect in E Minor. I promise you'll hear the music some day.

My Interests

Everything and nothing I guess.

I'd like to meet:

Everyone with something to offer. Send me messages, I'm willing to hear it all.

Music:



Dispatch - Symphony X - The Mars Volta - Yes - Aerosmith - Tomahawk - Fantomas - Alice in Chains - Rush - Incubus - Queens of the Stone Age - Avenged Sevenfold - Blackfield - In Flames - The Who - Waking Judea - Infectious Grooves - Fuel - Jacob Miller (REAL fucking reggae, you fags) - ALL Metallica - Bowie - Coheed & Cambria - Children of Bodom - Between The Buried And Me - Dillinger Escape Plan - The Doors - AFI - Korn(sometimes) - Cradle of Filth - Coldplay - Dimmu Borgir - Rilo Kiley - Ra - Faith No More - Emerson Lake & Palmer - The Clash - Kings of Convenience - Goo Goo Dolls - A Perfect Circle - Shadows Fall - Depeche Mode - Killswitch Engage - Disturbed - RHCP - Keane - U2 - Gang of Four - plennnty more.

Movies:

All Star Wars, all CKY, Haggard, Dead Poets Society, Almost Famous, Donnie Darko, Silent Hill, The Royal Tenenbaums, Silence of the Lambs, American Beauty, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Tommy Boy, Ace Ventura 1+2, LiarLiar, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, Plenty of Documentaries/recorded concerts of bands I love, The Ring, American History X, SLC Punk, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1+2.....

Television:

The majority of television blows...doesn't have much to offer me...But there's always that handful of shows that make an exception to me: South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Roseanne, Death Clock(when it comes out)....

Books:

Give me books to read. Please.

Heroes:

Whoever wrote the song "Row Row Your Boat"

My Blog

Mild Masochist on a Bitter Winter Drive

I saw the trains, their destinations, their dominance. I saw it all. I burn the wool with silent revolt.To breathe is to choose and to live is to admire, but in the suit of a being made to ignore?A ce...
Posted by Brendan on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:53:00 PST

The Aftermath of Hesitation

I remember it well, the drawbacks and the high tides: The traits of my pacing belief on what this means to me. Closing time for life as a silent. Picture albums still empty. Waves come in, creeping al...
Posted by Brendan on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:52:00 PST

who woulda thought

Your Dominant Intelligence is Musical Intelligence Every part of your life has a beat, and you're often tapping your fingers or toes. You enjoy sounds of all types, but you also find sou...
Posted by Brendan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST