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Brent

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About Me


Hi! I'm Brent! I was born and raised in Aalst and Oostduinkerke (all my holidays and many weekends at the beach! :-D) and now mostly living in Ghent. Last summer I graduated as an Industrial Psychologist. I enjoy the little things in life, but also the big things! ;-) Although I don't have mucht spare time for it nowadays, I love swimming, surfing and playing basketball and soccer.
I'm also a musician. therefore music is my life... listening, playing, discussing (you're always welcome to start a discussion with me about music ;-)), ... I play guitar and piano. For 5 years I played guitar in One Piece Puzzle, a folk-rock-metal influenced band that loves experimenting. Since last year I'm the lead guitarist in a band in Sint Niklaas. We're mixing Dream Theater and Pink Floyd, with an awesome sound as result! Soon I'll put some sounds online!!!
I want to see the world! Of course money can be a problem, but still I try to go on vacations as much as possible: city trips, backpacking,... = I love exploring different cultures, music, lifestyles (nothing better than to sleep over at the home of a local citizen!), ... so I'm not that kind of person who loves to go on beach-tanning-doingnothing-holidays!! :-)
I'm active in politics too. I am a member of the counsil of Animo Aalst (and partially bear the task of making it work financially :-p) and of SPa in Aalst. And finally, I'm a member in the Prevention Counsil of Aalst. But let's not get too much into politics on myspace! ;-)
I'm a huge animal friend and try to do as much as I can to help them. Linked to that, I'm also an environmentalist: doing everything in my power to help and safe/preserve our environment/mother Earth (read my Blog please)!
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:


Some guitar-mania! :-)

Michael Romeo

John Petrucci

Pain of Salvation, a superior progressive band from Sweden...
[BE - Iter Impius]

[One Hour By the Concrete Lake - Used (live)]

Music:

I love so many genres. Most of all the more complex one's like progressive rock/metal, classical music, jazz, ... but to give a more specific idea: A LIST! ;-) Ok, Here we go!

Pain of Salvation, Dream Theater, Adagio, Symphony X, Planet X, Spastic Ink, Evergrey, Liquid Tension Experiment, Machine Head, Channel Zero, Zero Hour, old-Metallica, Iron Maiden, Racer X, Children of Bodom, Pantera, Enchant, ARK, O.S.I., Reptilian, Beyond Twilight, Tim's Favourite, Transatlantic, Flower Kings, Tool, Gordian Knot, Rush, Incubus, Yes, Genesis, Marillion, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Clouseau, dEUS, The Police, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Helsen, 2pac, Jamiroquai, Counting Crows, Tom Helsen, Zjef Vanuytsel, Cocorosie, Yann Tiersen, Enya, Jadis, Tomas Bodin, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Al Dimeola, Paco de Lucía, Buena Vista Social Club, Gotan Project, Jazzanova, Jaga Jazzist, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Jun Chiki Chikuma, Matt Uelmen, Paganini, Mozart, Rachmaninov, ...

Some Samples...
Liquid Tension Experiment (Petrucci, Rudess, Portnoy, Levin)

King Crimson

working on this...

José González - Heartbeats

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain, butterfly effect, A Beautiful Mind, Ice Age, Requiem for a Dream, Cidade de Deus, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Jurassic Park (the sentimental & nostalgic value of this movie is priceless to me), Sin City, The Pursuit of Happyness, Kids, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, An Inconvenienth Truth, ... and so much more!

Television:

Het eiland, in de gloria, buiten de zone, Alles kan beter, family guy, futurama, seinfeld, Jay Leno, neveneffecten, Fast show, little britain, the fast show, duckman, Heroes, prison break, temptation island (stupid people's stupidities can be funny!), ...
And more serious: Het nieuws, ter zake, de zevende dag, villa politica, panorama, BBC documentaries, national geographic (yes, the channel in a whole! :-)), ...

Crazy fragment from The Fast Show!

Seinfeld - Kramer!

And for the dutch visitors... ;-) Hans Teeuwen!

Urbanus!

My Blog

Keyboardist gezocht

Sinds 1,5 jaar speel ik lead gitaar bij een band uit de regio Gent - Sint Niklaas (daar ergens tussen :-)). De bandleden zijn: een progressive drummer met meer dan 15 jaar ervaring, een funk-rock-prog...
Posted by Brent on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:58:00 PST

Verkiezingen '07: is het in België of in Vlaanderen?

  Verkiezingen '07: is het in België of in Vlaanderen?     Het is weer duidelijk hoe we in Vlaanderen toch steeds weer het separatisme (onbewust) in de hand werken: kijk naar het v...
Posted by Brent on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:53:00 PST

Extraterrestrial life now plausible!

Now that've found the time to change a few things to my myspace, I might as well put something here too. :-) So, I'll give you the latest scientific (read: real) news on the possibility of extraterres...
Posted by Brent on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:15:00 PST

me on tv --> advertizing for the band

Voor zij die een tv hebben én TMF ontvangen: ik zeg enkele stomme zinnekes vanavond voor mijn band One Piece Puzzle... Als ge niet weet wa doen, lach dan met mijne kop eens, tis eens wat anders! ...
Posted by Brent on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:07:00 PST

CLIMATE PROBLEMS...

    A few weeks ago I went to see 'An Inconvenient Truth' by Al Gore. It adresses the present climate problems we're all dealing with and the predictions for future climate problems. The mov...
Posted by Brent on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:27:00 PST