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Brian

Turn up the gain on the brain

About Me

Read my latest local art reviews in City Weekly!

Concert previews at NewWest.net

Check out a brief excerpt of my poetry book Mediatations III at backdoorbooks.com

And some art reviews at webshots.com

My podcast The Awkward Hour: you just stepped in it!"; I edited my profile at Freeweblayouts.net , check out these Myspace Layouts!

My Interests

reeding & wreeting, art, & music--jazz, experimental, indie rock, classical. Running/physical fitness, cigars, cooking asian food, bbq & almost anything else edible!!!

I'd like to meet:

practitioners of Brianetics(tm); also hot chix or pictures of hot chix.

Music:

Guided By Voices, I never met a Robert Pollard solo project I didn't like, King Sh!t and the Golden Boys, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, the Who, Stones, Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Blue Oyster Cult, Belle & Sebastian, Weezer, Queens of the Stone Age, Pavement, Stephen Malkmus, Echo & the Bunnymen, Julian Cope, Butthole Surfers,Neutral Milk Hotel, Scene Creamers, Remote Encoding Center, Built to Spill, Sonic Youth, Flaming Lips, Yo La Tengo, the Fall, Velvet Underground, Radiohead, Yes, King Crimson, Skip Spence, Jackie Oh Motherfucker, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Captain Beefheart, Bob Moss, JSBach, Bartok, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Julian Cope, Coil, Zoviet France, Skozey Fetisch (check out his stuff on myspace), Get Stakerized! (that's me!)

Movies:

Royal Tenenbaums, Werner Herzog, Kubrick, Monty Python, Koyaanisqatsi, Barton Fink, Minority Report, My Dinner With Andre, Harold & Maude, Easy Rider, Eraserhead, Jarmusch, Fear & Loathing (HST RIP), American Movie, American Beauty, The Saddest Music in the World, Richard Linklater's Waking Life & Scanner Darkly, Borat, Brothers Quay, Naked by Mike Leigh, Crispin Glover's What Is It?, Peter Greenaway esp. Prospero's Books, Secretary, Crash, Dead Ringers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle, Garden State, how could I forget Spinal Tap

Television:

Conan O'Brien, Reno 911, Mr. Show, Monty Python, the Prisoner, 24, Arrested Development, SCTV, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Aquateens, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Heroes, Tim and Eric

Books:

Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Mark Strand, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, William T. Vollman, Wm H Gass, Pynchon, McLuhan, Baudrillard, Bataille, Deleuze & Guattari, Derrida, Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, Language poetry, Ron Silliman, Hannah Weiner, Kurt Vonnegut RIP

Heroes:

Since they don't have a space for visual artists, here, Ohs: Rauschenberg, Chihuly, Cindy Sherman, Frank Stella, Gerhard Richter, Leonardo, Van Gogh, Bob Moss

My Blog

337 Project demo

I didn’t make it in time. We’d been meaning to go see the building on 337 South 400 East, given over entirely to artists in the meantime about a year ago, before the building would be demo...
Posted by Brian on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:28:00 PST

Awkward Hour Episode One Show Notes 3/24/08

My guest tonight is a very good friend of mine, David Smith, also known to many and on myspace as Dave 23. Dave and I met almost twenty years ago when we both used to go to City Arts Poetry readings i...
Posted by Brian on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:16:00 PST

PODCAST NAMED!

Friends, I am excited to announce that the voting for the name of my podcast is over and the overwhelming winner is The Awkward Hour. Damn, you guys know me too well. Officially, 'The Awkward Hour, a ...
Posted by Brian on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:12:00 PST

Ken Jen Again

Ken Jennings of Jeopardy!What Mark Strand, Andy Warhol and Ken Jennings have in common. How long one can stretch out one's fifteen minutes of fame. The similarity between trivia and pornography.Answe...
Posted by Brian on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:40:00 PST

Re: Name My Pod

If you haven't taken the opportunity to vote for the name of my upcoming podcast, there's still time! You can check the myspace results so far, although I have had a few trickle in on my regular email...
Posted by Brian on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:32:00 PST

Name my pod

Help name my podcast, chatting with people who are fascinating (at least I think so) & maybe playing a few tunes. Working on development, before too long I'll have something for you to put between yer...
Posted by Brian on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:45:00 PST

True Story 137

This is the poem that's tattooed on my testicles;it was difficult to write because of the feathery, translucent skin,reticent and reluctant to receive the stain of ink,blushing and bashful in its parc...
Posted by Brian on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:21:00 PST

Andy and the Antecedents

Some Assembly RequiredThis is just a little commentary to go along with my article in this week's City Weekly about the Assemblage/Recycled Art tandem shows opening at the Salt Lake Art Center tomorro...
Posted by Brian on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:50:00 PST

Strand Lands

A Poet's Life: Mark Strand reads September 27The poet Mark Strand evokes stronger reactions, both positive and negative, than any other contemporary poet, it seems to me. Since after something like te...
Posted by Brian on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:26:00 PST

Art and Science on Gallery Stroll night

This show looks to be one to catch on tomorrow's gallery stroll. I interviewed her and I still don't quite get exactly what the art part is going to be like. But the ideas behind it sound fascinating....
Posted by Brian on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:48:00 PST