TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Brian Lawrence Ridings
Birthday: January 25, 1977
Birthplace: Kalamazoo, MI
Current Location: Los Angeles
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Same
Height: 5'10''
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Scottish and English
The Shoes You Wore Today: New Balance
Your Weakness: Intoxicants, similarly off-kilter people
Your Fears: Bad weeks, losing my edge, utter failure
Your Perfect Pizza: Meat toppings. There's enough bread and other carbs there, anyway, right? Not that I don't like veggies.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Get into WGA
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: AIM-a-phobe
Thoughts First Waking Up: Dread/hope/determination
Your Best Physical Feature: My calves or my butt-chin
Your Bedtime: All over
Your Most Missed Memory: In St. Charles, walking the train tracks to get around w/ Jim
Pepsi or Coke: Coke Zero
MacDonalds or Burger King: Mm, mostly places with less feces in their meat
Single or Group Dates: Single, thanks
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Not into ice-tea.
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee
Do you Smoke: Less and less
Do you Swear: Most certainly
Do you Sing: Mm, yes, badly
Do you Shower Daily: Yes, I am clean
Have you Been in Love: I sure hope all that gut pain was for something
Do you want to go to College: No mas, por favor
Do you want to get Married: To the right girl, absolutely
Do you belive in yourself: Fuckin' A
Do you get Motion Sickness: Very unusually
Do you think you are Attractive: With calves like these? You kidding?
Are you a Health Freak: Not a freak, no. Active.
Do you get along with your Parents: Mom, yes, Step-dad, sure, Birth-dad, not so much
Do you like Thunderstorms: I miss them
Do you play an Instrument: Used to play the sack-butt (trombone), but no more
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Several times
In the past month have you Smoked: Cigarettes and the devil-weed
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Whuah? Who has drugs?
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Depends on your definition. A couple, maybe?
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: A few times into stores, but not all gingerly browsing or nothing
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Nah, though I like dessert
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: I don't like it. But I'm fine with noodles, edamame, and sake
In the past month have you been on Stage: Not truly, but did read stage directions for a staged reading at Endeavor, w/ many awesome celebrities, the mere mention of which would make me sound like an obnoxious name-dropper
In the past month have you been Dumped: Fuck that
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Yeah, like, seventeen times, at least. Can't get enough of it.
Ever been Drunk: Thas' a joke, right? (belch)
Ever been called a Tease: Um, no. Do guys get called that alot?
Ever been Beaten up: Nearly. Certainly deserved it more than a couple times, I have a big mouth. See, also: karate lessons
Ever Shoplifted: Long ago
How do you want to Die: In a state of non-horror, not buried under rubble.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: I am what I want to be, I guess. Huh.
What country would you most like to Visit: Italy, and back to France. Africa/China in my life.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Brown
Favourite Hair Color: Brown
Short or Long Hair: Either
Height: Just shorter than me, hopefully
Weight: Let's not be silly
Best Clothing Style: Wear what you dig
Number of Drugs I have taken: NARC!
Number of CDs I own: I haven't bought a CD in a long ass time. Mostly buy (yes, buy) online.
Number of Piercings: None
Number of Tattoos: 2
Number of things in my Past I Regret: One thousand nine hundred and seventy four
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