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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