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Brian

All my bags are packed, it's early morn'...

About Me

ARIES - The Daredevil (Mar 21 - April 19) Energetic. Adventurous and spontaneous. Confident and enthusiastic. Fun. Loves a challenge. EXTREMELY impatient. Sometimes selfish. Short fuse. (Easily angered.) Lively, passionate, and sharp wit. Outgoing. Lose interest quickly - easily bored. Egotistical. Courageous and assertive. Tends to be physical and athletic. 16 years of bad luck if you do not forward.
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If You're Out There - Obama Campaign Video Tribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn4cmCr-gLI

In the homestretch for the 2008 election, we sometimes lose sight of the trail that has led us to this moment. I compiled this video tribute to honor the hope, the inspiration, and the movement that is Barack Obama, accompanied by John Legend's stirring campaign theme song.

Music:


everything but the girl, Swing Out Sister, George Michael, Morcheeba, Fleetwood Mac, Journey, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Tracey Thorn, Style Council, Sade, RENT, Les Miserables, Wicked, Mozart, Holly Cole, Cassandra Wilson, Cher, Madonna, Indigo Girls, Judy Garland, k.d. lang, Lighthouse Family, Massive Attack, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, New Order, Morrissey, Trashcan Sinatras, Chicane, Deep Dish, Grace Jones, Dead or Alive, Nickel Creek, Beth Orton, 80's

Movies:

Cinema Paradiso, Fight Club, A River Runs Through It, Run Lola Run, Go, Sliding Doors, Forrest Gump, Citizen Kane, Mildred Pierce, The Crowd, Audition, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, Dreamgirls, Evita, Red Dirt, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Black Lizard, Tea With Mussolini, Like Water for Chocolate, Babette's Feast, Paris is Burning, Boys in the Band, Love Valour Compassion, Amelie, Once Were Warriors, Jungle Fever, Schindler's List, In the Company of Men, Timecode, Thank You For Smoking, All About Eve, Pandora's Box, Muriel's Wedding, Apartment Zero, Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, In the Mood for Love, The Others, Devil's Backbone, Amores Perros, Titanic, Brokeback Mountain, Mulholland Drive, Vanilla Sky, 28 Days Later, Open Water, Unzipped, Memento, Kill Bill, Tarnation, Cold Comfort Farm, Hands on a Hard Body, Raising Victor Vargas, The Rules of Attraction, Female Trouble.... shall I continue?

Television:

Collects dust on the wall.. but when it happens to be on: CNN, HGTV, PBS, America's Next Top Model, Food Network

Books:


Anything from the 20's, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, Langston Hughes, F Scott Fitzgerald (and Zelda, of course), Somerset Maugham, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, David Sedaris, and a smattering of other lesser-knowns.

Heroes:

Democrats, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Da Vinci, Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Galileo, and all the heretics who died at the stake just so that you can post a sparkle comment on MySpace.

My Blog

prepare for impact

Seatbelts fastened. Ankles grabbed in braced position. So many synapses firing... thoughts flooding my cranium as life continues to lose altitude. November 4 is accelerating toward us and my window sh...
Posted by Brian on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:05:00 PST

highlights from mile-high

As a happily reformed Clintonista, I woke up this morning with a hangover from last night's love-in at Invesco Field with Barack Obama.Here are some highlights from that irresistible cocktail of polit...
Posted by Brian on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:08:00 PST

come sit next to me

Humor me. This will only take up three minutes, twenty seconds of your valuable time.... perhaps not that long.  In the span of one Britney Spears "song" (and I do  use that term loosely), I...
Posted by Brian on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:58:00 PST

my life as a dink

I got a chuckle from reading a headline in this morning's paper -- or internet rather, as papers seem to be so 1993 -- proclaiming gay couples as the new "dinks." Apparently, this serves as an acronym...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:35:00 PST

yes we can

Driving to work this morning, the words from Hillary Clinton's concession speech were still reverberating in my head. Refuting the failed policies of the past eight years... restoration... and renewal...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:18:00 PST

turn texas blue

.. Texans for Obama's Turn Texas Blue Party at the Texas Democratic Convention 08 Thursday Jun. 5th, 8pm to midnight Club de Ville, 900 Red River Austin, TX 78701 RSVP HERE, PLEASE: http://texansforob...
Posted by Brian on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:26:00 PST

modern furniture and the gays

..Since the earth is curved, when one points a finger, physically speaking, said finger is generally accepted as being aimed back at the pointer. Attached is an article I recently stumbled across tha...
Posted by Brian on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:17:00 PST

untitled

 I have a severe case of writer’s block.  The words just don’t flow, as if the tap has been turned off at the source for non-payment. This is synaptic constipation at its best......
Posted by Brian on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:39:00 PST

Obamas Doctrine

Ok... I admit. I'm coming around slowly. Although it really bites that next week's Texas debate is invitation only. As if.  "I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circums...
Posted by Brian on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:47:00 PST

2008

I am good. I will be better. I will be on time, and have more patience for those who aren't. I will eat less red meat. I will eat more red meat. I will read my Kabbalah books. I will be a better liste...
Posted by Brian on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:11:00 PST