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About Me


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Brian is noted for his curiosity, his writings (popular, political and scientific), and his diversity of interests. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the iron furnace stove (also known as the Grady stove), a carriage odometer and a musical instrument known as the armonica. Many historians hail him as the "First American."
Young Brian was drawn towards the arts community that was gathering in Montparnasse and in 1920 moved to Paris. Generally thought of as a Surrealist because of his interest in automatism and the use of sexual symbols (for example, ovoids with wavy lines emanating from them), Brian’s style was influenced in varying degrees by Surrealism and Dada, yet he rejected membership to any artistic movement in the interwar European years.
Brian later pursued a more mainstream direction, which resulted in wider success but decreased artistic credibility among critics and hip-hop purists. Furthermore, Brian's increased commercial success was accompanied by stylistic changes that fostered accusations of giving in to corporate wishes and compromising the style that had enamored his fans of him.
Mr. Grady has spent the last three years of his life largely confined to his cork-lined bedroom, sleeping during the day and working at night to complete his novel.
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My Interests

Passport Stamps. Art. Writing. Photography. Film. Elephants. Books. Music. Languages. Old Movie Theaters. Bric-à-brac. Illustration. Screenprinting. Plants. WW2. Wikipedia. Pseudonyms. Treehouses. Sports. Jokes. Bad Impersonations. Helping people. Triscuits and cheese.

Music:


Movies:

Let's talk about bread. Now to my mind, its an abomination to consider that any man, woman or child in this magnificent country of ours should have to look upon a loaf of bread as a luxury. We're going to dig water wells here. Water wells means irrigation, irrigation means cultivation. We're going to raise crops here where before it just simply was impossible. You're going to have more grain than you'll know what to do with. Bread will be coming right out of your ears, ma'am. New roads. Agriculture. Employment, education. These are just a few of the things we can offer you, and I assure you ladies and gentlemen, that if we do find oil here, and I think there's a very good chance that we will, this community of yours will not only survive, it will flourish.

Television:

I keep various weaponry strategically placed around the office. I saved Jim’s life with a can of pepper spray I had velcro’d under my desk. People say, “oh, it’s dangerous to keep weapons in the home or the workplace”. Well I say, “it’s better to be hurt by someone you know accidentally than by a stranger on purpose.”

Books:

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

Heroes:

Most elderly folks.

My Blog

five artists that’ll make you want to go draw or bend something:

1. http://www.davidchoe.com/b. http://www.kendrahaste.co.uk/12. http://stellaimhultberg.com/VII. http://www.blublu.org/ugh. http://www.antonymicallef.com/...
Posted by brian on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:39:00 PST

Also Known As...

Here are a list of the best pseudonyms I could come up with from 1:13 pm to 5:30 pm (in between doing a bit of work and playing two games of ping pong with two friends and having a m...
Posted by brian on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:20:00 PST

32 good (and by good I mean bad) band names: available now!

Each and every band name listed here is up for grabs and was inspired by conversations I have had or overheard during the month of February.  Now, if you intend to adopt a band name listed he...
Posted by brian on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:28:00 PST

A short list of happenings on the way to work...

Crossing the intersection at Steinway and Broadway on my way the the R, I take note of something strange, even by New York standards:  A portly elderly man, slightly resembling Picasso, playing h...
Posted by brian on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:01:00 PST