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brendon

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About Me

Hi, I'm Brendon. I like to read stuff, write stuff, think about stuff, and make music-stuff. I like to have deep philosophical discussions with people, then secretly resent them for their outrageous viewpoints. I had to move from my hometown of Inwood to the raging metropolis of Winnipeg to go to university, and I miss being able to lie out on the grass at night and see stars. I also miss my band, the Greasy Knots, which I killed by coming here. C'est la vie.*

*I don't speak French.

My Interests

Playing guitar, listening to music, painting, reading, writing, helping Jenny make movies, correcting people's grammar, clicking "random article" on Wikipedia, calling people "honky faggots" for no real reason, learning, lying down on the kitchen floor, being a crusader for justice, laughing where laughter is due.

I'd like to meet:

Nice people.

Music:



7 Year Bitch
Bon Scott-era AC/DC
Alice in Chains
Arctic Monkeys
Audioslave
Babes in Toyland
the Beatles
Beck
Black Sabbath
Black Sheep
Blue Öyster Cult
Bob Dylan
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cream
the Dead Kennedys
Devo
the Doors
the Dresden Dolls
Elliott Smith
the Ex-Girlfriends
the Flaming Lips
Gogol Bordello
the Headstones
Heart
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
Jimm the Dog
Johnny Horton
Kaki King
Knuckleduster
L7
Led Zeppelin
Local H
the Mamas and the Papas
the MC5
Metric
Neil Young
the New York Dolls
Nick Drake
Nirvana
Northern State
the Papsmears
Patti Smith
Pink Floyd
the Pixies
Primus
Rage Against the Machine
Rammstein
the Rolling Stones
Sahara Hotnights
the Sex Pistols
Sonic Youth
the Stooges
Soundgarden
the Subways
the Tragically Hip
the Velvet Underground
Weird Al Yankovic
the White Stripes
the Who
Wolfmother
Woody Guthrie

Movies:

Anastasia.

Television:

Heroes
the Kids in the Hall
Coronation Street
the Office
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Arrested Development
Jeopardy!
Little Britain
the Colbert Report
Planet Earth
Mr. Bean

Books:

-Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, John Steinbeck, Roald Dahl, or Ray Bradbury
-"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
-"Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell
-"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
-"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson
-"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach
- Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series
-Mad Libs
-and the poetry of E.E. Cummings

Heroes:

Rachel, Holly, Jacque, Jenny, Heather, Annie Oakley, Pierre Trudeau, The New York Three, and more musicians and writers than I could name.

My Blog

Three Wise Men -- a true story

She gets off the bus and makes a beeline for me. Average height, wrinkles. Very skinny. Raggedy grey hair and dusty-looking army-surplus-type clothes. Portage Avenue incarnate. She's wearing a white s...
Posted by brendon on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:52:00 PST

seven seven four oh one

I haven’t posted a blog in a long long time. Why do you think that is? Is it because I have less free time these days? Because most of the people I wrote them for no longer read them? Or is it j...
Posted by brendon on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:52:00 PST

Holy cow I was drunk: a short journal excerpt

Translation: "Nov. 24 - Papsmears and I talked to Laurie and I spilled my beer and got way drunk and hot waitress and Harlequin guy Guinness"I'm not going to explain what any of that means, because it...
Posted by brendon on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:30:00 PST

Fuckin cutzz

Sweet caps, it has been a while.I got a haircut today. Many factors played into it: me needing to renew my license (and needing to get a new picture taken for it), the coldening temperature and the ef...
Posted by brendon on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:01:00 PST

Near death experience

Today I went out exploring the so-called "park" that is just down the street from my house, and I almost got hit by a train. Real almost-got. Like, 15-feet almost-got.No joke.
Posted by brendon on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:59:00 PST

Worst internet purge EVER

So yeah.Moved in today. I'm in the place right now.I was with Mom and Aunty Jan basically all day, they were helping me move stuff and pick up stuff and other stuff.Then they left, and...I dunno, I gu...
Posted by brendon on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:08:00 PST

Movin’ out

I'm moving in to my apartmentdungeon in the 'Peg today, so I won't be around for a while. I don't know how long I will be internetless, because I have no idea how long these things take to get going. ...
Posted by brendon on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:24:00 PST

Boys of Inwood 2007 - The Sexiest Blog Of All Time

Mr. January:Jimothy, 20, is a brown-eyed Gemini whose hobbies include architecture, golf, and organizing burlesque shows for local daycares.Mr. February:This hot tomato is Rupert, a 4-year-old volunte...
Posted by brendon on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:19:00 PST

Savantism

It turns out I'm some sort of freaky number-freak.Today I memorized a sixty-digit number, for no real reason. My brother just wrote out sixty numbers in a sequence and I had them memorized in about te...
Posted by brendon on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:43:00 PST

Accidental Pun

Do any of you people watch CSI in any of its incarnations? I don't. It's a stupid show. It's a stupid show with bad acting and even-worse dialogue.The ubiquity of CSI, however, means that in my daily ...
Posted by brendon on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:32:00 PST