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Brady

I love with you with both of them, though.

About Me


Full of contradictions, vigor, charisma and rage. I'm pretty charming, actually.

My Interests

Revolutionary Anarchism, Poker, Chess, Coffee, Rockstar Energy Drink, Old Gold cigarettes, Talking too loud, Pushing the envelope, Getting in "friendly" political debates with people I barely know, The Enneagram, Being cocky, Staying up late, Sleeping in late, Singing Neutral Milk Hotel, Calling the flop in position and bluff-raising the turn with total air, Fantasizing about insurrection, Overdressing for the occasion, Texting like a girl, Spontaneous road trips, and Living a life worth dying for.

I'd like to meet:


Rich people who want to stake me in the 2009 WSOP, Pug Enthusiasts, Psychics, Hippies, and Freaks...

Music:

Albums that I can't stop listening to: Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates, Neutral Milk Hotel Aeroplane Over the Sea, The Fall of Troy Doppleganger, The Grouch My Baddest Bitches, The Blood Brothers Burn Piano Island, Burn, Cat Power You Are Free, Dead Prez Let's Get Free, Gillian Welch Soul Journey, Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity, Botch We Are the Romans, A Tribe Called Quest The Love Movement, The Postal Service Give Up, Saul Williams Amethyst Rock Star, Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth, Talib Kweli & DJ Hi-Tek Reflection Eternal, Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo, Lupe Fiasco The Cool, Rent 2005 Movie Soundtrack, Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, and just about anything Pharrell touches.

Movies:

Muppets from Space, Miami Vice, The Maker, Tully, The Cincinnati Kid, Heat, I Heart Huckabees, Buffalo 66, The Grifters, Fight Club, Confidence, My Own Private Idaho, The Maker, Manufacturing Consent, The Corporation, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Sin City, Romeo and Juliet, The Jerk, Deal of the Century, Harold and Maude, National Lampoon's Vacation, Running on Empty, Wildstyle, The Raspberry Reich, California Split, A Little Romance, Rounders

Television:

High Stakes Poker, Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies, Arrested Development, MST3K

Books:

The Death Ship by B. Traven, The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller, All About Love by bell hooks, No Limit Hold Em Theory and Practice by David Sklansky, Super/System by Doyle Brunson, EVERYTHING by Noam Chomsky, Pacifism as Pathology by Ward Churchill, Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

Heroes:

My Mom, Stu Ungar, and Mick Lamb

My Blog

General strike shuts transit and services in Belgium

Unions protesting the "rising cost of living" and the "decline of purchasing power" -- uh, don't you think we could/should do the same here? -bradyGeneral strike shuts transit and services in BelgiumB...
Posted by Brady on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:10:00 PST

This is Your Nation on White Privilege

This is Your Nation on White PrivilegeBy Tim Wise9/13/08For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhap...
Posted by Brady on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:29:00 PST

Stranger article about the RNC Protests

As far as Stranger writers go, Brendan is the coolest!A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to McCain's SpeechOur Skin-Burning, Cigar-Chomping, Douchebag-Studded, Palin-Aghast Report from the RNCby Brenda...
Posted by Brady on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:39:00 PST

In Case You Didn’t Know, We’re At War

We're at war.When I say "we", I don't actually mean "the people of the United States". Who I mean when I say "we" is something more meaningful than that. I mean all of us who don't have any power to...
Posted by Brady on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:34:00 PST

Video and Analysis of the RNC Protests

When I get home I'll post my pictures and write a bunch of shit that's spinning through my mind... about the nature of mass protest mobilizations, middle class white anarchists, and a bunch of other s...
Posted by Brady on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:06:00 PST

Gondolas, Scumbags, and Getting a Tan

Just a few pictures from Lake Tahoe... I'm not showing you guys the lurky ones....
Posted by Brady on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:10:00 PST

Real Estate Purgatory: Free Sheep Foundation

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=626670&hpReal -Estate PurgatoryA Group of Artists Called the Free Sheep Foundation Is Moving from One Dying Building to Anotherby Jen GravesReal-Estate Pu...
Posted by Brady on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:34:00 PST

RIP Jason Bogar

My Mother called me at 8am this morning to tell me the unfortunate news that Jason died while fighting in Afghanistan. I'm still a little in shock about hearing this, but, simultaneously, I knew some...
Posted by Brady on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:18:00 PST

A Summer Dream

For those of you that know me (and, do more than simply "lurk" me) you will know that I rarely remember my dreams. I woke up this morning, went to the store, got my morning Rockstar, and jotted down ...
Posted by Brady on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:59:00 PST

What to Expect from the Conventions

this was taken from: http://crimethinc.com/texts/recentfeatures/whattoexpect.phpW hat to Expectfrom the Conventions An Analysis of the Strategic Opportunities and Challenges Presented by the 2008 Dem...
Posted by Brady on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:39:00 PST