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Brian

A spoonful weighs a ton.

About Me



I'm a self-proclaimed observer of humanity. There is so much happening between people everyday, that you never get bored. In fact, a wise man once said that declaring boredom is only admitting that you're too stupid to amuse yourself. Now that's what I call a motto for life. So far, so good. Other than that, I think Hunter Thompson put it best when he said: "There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen— despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths...."

My Interests

LIVE MUSIC!!!!!, reading, The Fender Telecaster (Greatest invention of the 20th century), social justice, NPR, satire, turn-based-strategy, Shiner Bock, obscure board games, Nintendo Wii, the environment, Glasgow Celtic, irony...

I'd like to meet:

April in Paris:

Music:

Jazz, jam and just about anything unique. Thelonious Monk, String Cheese Incident, Benevento/Russo Duo, Flaming Lips, Gov't Mule, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Bob Marley, The Killers, GZA, Phish, Led Zeppelin, Arcade Fire, Faith No More, The Beatles, Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet, New Grass Revival, The Strokes, moe., Widespread Panic, Primus, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Particle, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Donna the Buffalo, Radiohead, Herbie Hancock, Garage a Trois, Les Claypool's Frog Brigade, El-P, The Rakes, Voxtrot, Critters Buggin', Wu-Tang Clan, TV On The Radio, Bloc Party, Charlie Hunter, White Stripes, John Ellis, Umphrey's Mcgee, Keller Williams, Peter Tosh, Tool, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Miles Davis, Medeski Martin & Wood, Derek Trucks Band, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Shins. Check out www.ropeadope.com. Best record label on the planet!

Movies:

Army of Darkness, King Pin, Dirty Work, Indiana Jones...all 3 of 'em, The Road Warrior, Mad Max, Almost Famous, Pulp Fiction, Orgazmo, American Beauty, Requiem for a Dream, The Big Lebowski, 28 Days Later, For a Few Dollars More, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, National Lampoon's Vacation, Baseketball....

Television:

RED DWARF, Lucky Louie, South Park, Da Ali G Show, Grounded for Life, Sanford & Son, A Different World, Designing Women, Are You Being Served? and anything on the History Channel.

Books:

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, What Liberal Media?, The Good Fight, 1984, Herbs and Things, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Animal Farm, The Great Shark Hunt: Gonzo Papers Vol 1, Naked, and A People's History of the United States...tr

Heroes:

Harvey Washington Smart, Dr. Cynthia Wilkey, Robert Charles Mcintyre, Jack White, "Big" Bill Haywood, Richard Dawson...who else?

My Blog

There he goes again!

While reading "Bait and Switch", by Barbara Ehrenreich, I stumbled across a reference to an interesting article from the November 21, 2004 issue of the  Financial Times.  Here's a little se...
Posted by Brian on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:17:00 PST

Wayne Coyne on NPR

Wayne Coyne reads an essay he wrote for the NPR series "This I Believe." Here's the link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7572601 ...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:28:00 PST

Just another dead whore.

Americans can now sleep soundly that Anna Nicole Smith is finally in the ground.  I don't know how I could have survived these last few weeks without the "news" coverage of this debacle.  ...
Posted by Brian on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:24:00 PST

Japanese Legislature Demands U.S. Apologize for Slavery!!!!

NOT!!!!! That was a good one, huh?  Actually, it's the other way around.  Congress is having a love affair with the "non-binding" resolution these days.  It seems nobody on Capitol Hil...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:58:00 PST

Corporate Accountability

I found the following article on the BBC News page this afternoon.  Check it out:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6365123.stm...Alrigh t...first, I would like to say that I do not su...
Posted by Brian on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:45:00 PST

Well, well, well...what have we here?

The following post is to insure the longevity of a specific message I posted, in the form of a bulletin, yesterday.  Amazingly, when I logged in today my bulletin was nowhere to be found. &n...
Posted by Brian on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:38:00 PST