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Branch Buchannan

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About Me

I'll start with an anecdote from my youth..I was raised in the Andes in Chile. God I used to love walking through the mountains in winter. A short story comes to mind, in 1972 I was hiking past a crazy bunch of Argentinian Rugby players whose plane had apparently crashed in the mountains near my house. They were eating dinner and asked if I would like to join them. I had a quick bite of their mystery meat, it was kinda tough and tasted like chicken, but it satisfied me escpecially since I didn't want to have another one of those 20 extra power bars i had in my backpack. I was just soo sick of peanutbutter crunch. I threw them over the cliff as they watched. I think they were happy cause they were loaded with carbs. Unfortunately I had to get back to my uncle Ingrous who needed his hemoroid pillow stat so I didn't stay for long. Many years later I heard they wrote a book about those kids.

My Interests

I believe strongly in transcendentalism. Emerson and Thoreau are my idols. I am a minimalist and I like to keep things simple. For instance, when I am driving to work in my Porsche 911 Turbo, taking full advantage of its all-wheel drive electronic Traction Control system annd talking on my hands-free wireless Bluetooth equiped cell phone, I often leave the windows open instead of putting on the electronic dual climate A/C. In addition, at work as I am implementing enterprise servers into multi-billion dollar companies I often think of the simple world these complex machines could create for me, if programmed accordingly, in a virtual environment. That's me. Just plain and simple. Walden, damn that's a great ebook.

I'd like to meet:

My brothers, my sister, my cousins and all of my family and friends. Not much into fame.
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Music:

Hey Champ, The Kinks, The Pixies, The Secret Machines, Ambulance Ltd, The Strokes, Grandaddy, BRMC, Clinic, Radiohead, The Labels, Albert Hammond Jr., The Sounds, Stellastar, Modest Mouse, Sex Pistols, The Stills, The Clash, The Who, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Talib Kwali, The Ravoenettes, Radio Department Dogs Die in hot Cars, Tupac, The Features and a whole bunch more
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Movies:

TonsI'll tell you some really bad ones.Random Hearts, Raising Helen, Problem Child 3 ohhh and add Xmen 3 to that list too

Television:

The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, The History Channel, The Comedy Channel. Recently discovered DVR and Sweet jesus is that nice.

Books:

Count of MOnte Cristo, Les Miserables, American Skin, Atlas Shrugged, Enders Game, Metamorhpisis by Kafka, The Overcoat by Gogal, some Kate Chopin short stories and some other shit that I really don't want to write about right now OHHHHH WAIIIIITTTTTTTTTT... My friend Amanda Trimble just wrote a book called Singletini. It is great and has gotten great reviews. Check it out www.amandatrimble.com. YOu can buy it anywhere borders, barnes and noble, amazon and the like...

Heroes:

My Parents, My Uncle Bill, My Siblings, and myself

My Blog

Roomate...ohhh roomate

My roomate moved out mid December instead of Nov so that was cool and I thought I had a roomate, but he ended up sucking and just went dark on me. Not cool. Anyway, the place is back on the mark...
Posted by Branch Buchannan on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:09:00 PST

Finding a roomate....

Yesterday I received word that fantastic rooamate is moving out and on. Soooooo.......... i need a new one. I figured this would be a great place to post. I have a great place in East Village/Wicker ...
Posted by Branch Buchannan on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:25:00 PST