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brian K

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

You can hear me live, Saturdays 1800-2100 EST here: mms://bscvs01.buffalostate.edu/wbny
You have to know either my email address or my last name to request me as a friend to cut out the deluge of random frienders. If you know me and want to be added, send a message to me please.
I am a vegetarian, which means I do not eat fish either. do eat some dairy though. This has been going on since 1996 and I do not miss it.
I regularly donate blood, every eight weeks. I once thought that I would get a red cross tattooed on me, but then I couldn't donate for a year so I just wear a Red Cross bracelet.
I have several books with bookmarks in them, only because I can never get past my three magazine subscriptions fast enough: Readymade and Collectible Automobile (every other month), and The Hockey News.
I keep my records neat, my shirts and shoes not. I always put records back into their white sleeves before going into their main jacket.
slower traffic keep right plz.
I tend to keep quiet in a group of people I don't know who are already having a lot of fun for themselves. I then notice that I may seem like I am keeping myself in a corner so I stop what I'm doing and turn around. But I am not afraid to dance, speak, or act out in front of a crowd of people I may or may not know. I have nothing holding me back there.
Despite things that I have said, I do not have OCD. Although it is not a bad idea, I don't carry around a hanky and use it to open doors or cover telephone receivers. Not being sloppy makes things last longer.

My Interests

dancing, seriously just finding a groove and keeping to it. venue does not matter.
riding rails
eating carrot cake
scrabble, upwords, literati, othello, connect four, stadium checkers, fireball island, blokus, sequence, clicheables, pass the pigs, Blokus
signaling
calling streets by route numbers, not their real names.
driving
vinyl records
creekwalking
kite flying-gratwick park, krull park
owning my own skee-ball machine
wearing headphones
yves veggie supplies
1964 corvette stingrays
1968 chargers
water feature landscaping, especially drainage landscaping
cataloging, map studying

I'd like to meet:

Tom Peters, Parker Lewis, Chris Petersen, Angela Chase, Jeff Moody, Marsha, George, Wesley, Kevin, and Heather Owens and Don Fernando.

Music:

Sloan
K records
Kill Rock Stars

Pavement
Galaxie 500
The Raveonettes
Eric's Trip
Pale Saints
Moose
Luna, Lush, Mary Timony, The Verve, Victory At Sea, Rainer Maria, The Association, The Monkees, Aloha, The New Pornographers, Stereolab, the Tyrades, Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Julie Doiron, Archers of Loaf, Autolux, Hayden, Low, Chavez, Dandy Warhols, American Analog Set, Archers of Loaf, Calvin Johnson, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Beat Happening, Am I Lost, Halo Benders, The Frenchmen, The New Year, Le Tigre, Helium, The Shins, Tiger Trap, Jale, The Super Friendz, Thrush Hermit, The Softies, Satisfact, Plumtree, Broadcast, Charlatans UK, Beachwood Sparks, Young and Sexy, The Stay Lows, Neko Case, Velocity Girl, Primal Scream, Ride, La Cachouette, Dressy Bessy, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions, Landing, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Palomar, Modest Mouse, Cass McCombs, Lovers, Seaweed, Elevator, Engineers, The Mean Red Spiders, SIANspheric, Tristan Psionic, the Evaporators, Operation Makeout, Sleeping Kings of Iona, The Organ, Cat Power, Boyskout, Flora di San Contino, Weird War, Black Mountain, Rondelles, Prosaics, Sonic Youth, Sleater-Kinney, Slumber Party, Spacemen 3, Shoplifting, Headlights, Talulah Gosh, Neko Case, Kimya Dawson, The Ponys, Q and Not U, Nora Keyes, Madame P, Gossip, The Jerky Boys, Mr. Rude....

Movies:

Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Freddy Got Fingered, Bullitt, Jesus Is Magic, The French Connection, American Beauty, Se7en, Mad Love, But I'm A Cheerleader, Ghost World, Saved, Heathers, Anchorman, Girl--Interupted, Pump Up The Volume, Election, The United States of Leland, The Edukators, Hardcandy, Knocked Up, Superbad,

Television:

Grounded For Life, Less Than Perfect, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Get A Life, Haywire, Sledgehammer, The Mole, Eeeeek! The Cat, Bobby's World. Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Tom Goes To The Mayor, Street Smarts, Dead Like Me, Wonder Falls, Teachers., Forensic Files, 2 On Your Side Daybreak weather with Chesley McNeil, Teachers., The Office, Pushing Daisies

Books:

The Christian Right and their cartoon pamphlets about going to HELL. Books I am in the middle of reading: (note: sort of acutal titles)Story of Coca Cola, Trixie Belden Mystery, Spin 20 yrs of Alt Rock, After Roswell,

Heroes:

Calvin Johnson, Dean Wareham, Ira Glass, and Phil Hendrie. Also Frank Nicotero, Chris Elliot, Sarah Silverman, David Cross.

My Blog

designing 70s cars: mission impossible?

last week, jessica and i walked from my house to Anderson's on niagara falls boulevard, it took about an hour and fifteen minutes each way.  part way through the walk, we were very upset that i h...
Posted by brian K on Sun, 04 May 2008 05:13:00 PST

the trees on the hillside where we once laid, are all dead and gone

Watching television programs that involve people with intense indulgences in their lives really gets to me. "Who wants to date me?"-so-let-me-elliminate-the-possibilities reality shows suck twiz. Pimp...
Posted by brian K on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:20:00 PST

when they kick down your front door

The Original Pancake House serves up some good stuff fast.  My blueberry pancakes tasted like there were clumps of cinnamon in them, but now I'm thinking it was most likely brown sugar.  How...
Posted by brian K on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:48:00 PST

my head will turn to yellow, my eyes will turn to green

Salvation Army Bell Ringers.  This year, it seems that everyone of them is a bored highschool student that was hired/volunteered to do this.  No one of them is ringing a bell.  One of ...
Posted by brian K on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:32:00 PST

Bud is dud.

"BUD IS DUD"  I saw spray painted on a boxcar on a slow moving train today.  More blog material to come, plus a music survey I will fill out.  Right now, I've got an overdue appointment...
Posted by brian K on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:36:00 PST

This is not Joaquin Phoenix

But he is Mikey Randall.
Posted by brian K on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:11:00 PST

do you remember? when october disappeared in a flash

I followed through with the plan from my last blog, about going to Canada to get the new Sloan record.  I had this image in my head, of some Niagara Falls, Ontario mall that the entrance led down...
Posted by brian K on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:09:00 PST

Cages, Nora Keyes and Madame P.

Ok, Soundlab tonight was supergreat!  I hate it when I see a show, of some really rare performers, and can think of a few people in town who should have been TOTALLY there.  It would've been...
Posted by brian K on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 01:02:00 PST

my biggest hero retired today

This may be a little long, but it is a good story about the best man on radio ever, Phil Hendrie.  Phil made his last radio broadcast tonight, sadly, and I can't wait to hear from him again soon....
Posted by brian K on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:36:00 PST

In memory of:

This is taken from the Go-Betweens website: http://www.go-betweens.net/ 6th May 2006 Grant McLennan On Saturday 6th May, legendary Australian singer songwriter Grant W McLennan died in his sleep at h...
Posted by brian K on Sat, 06 May 2006 03:48:00 PST