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Bruce Murphy

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About Me

Expat Canadian living in Chicago. My RJ is dentistry, but I pretend to be a musician. I pretended well enough to be a member of proto synth band Men Without Hats. Until recently played Hammond B3 and Clavinet in the funk band dbcooper. My obsolete music is over at http://www.myspace.com/lochnessbruce, and the Coops' is at http://www.myspace.com/dbcooperfunk I'm finally pulling all my recording studio gear out of storage and will have some new material up soon.

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Funniest trainwreck ever!!

My Interests

Playing music, snowboarding, racing cars. crashing cars, fixing cars, repairing tiny little holes in people's heads, drinking to excess, swearing at computers, clubbing seals. Hanging out with Ducky and Kati.

I'd like to meet:

Chicago Iconoclasts. People who know the value of a stylish homburg. And nearsighted drunk chicks.

Music:

Greasy B3 and Clavinet funk! Industrial, House, Detroit Techno, Jazz, old C&W, unbalanced washing machines, glitchpunk, lounge. Pretty consistent stuff........

Movies:

William Freidkin's Sorceror is the best film ever made. Aside from that, who really gives a crap what I watch? I have Battlefield Earth on a permanent 24/7 loop on my DVD, OK?

Television:

What's a Television?

Books:

Haynes 1973 Porsche 911 repair manual with forward by Jerzy Kosinski.

Heroes:

I hate having heroes. I'd rather be my own hero. I have T-shirts with my own picture on them. Oh, actually Seamus is my hero.

My Blog

Thanksgiving thoughts and Seamus update

  With Thanksgiving next week, one of the moms on my HLHS support group made a posting of the things she is thankful for. This inspired me to take a step back to evaluate what I'm thankful for an...
Posted by Bruce Murphy on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:15:00 PST

Seamus Bedtime Stories-Seamus and the Nuk Pirates

Seamus and the Nuk Pirates When Seamus was a baby, his favorite thing in the world was sucking on his nuk. His Mom and Dad always knew when he was fine without even looking, because the noise of ...
Posted by Bruce Murphy on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:31:00 PST

Seamus Bedtime Story- Seamus' First Christmas

Seamus' First Christmas   When Seamus was only 6 weeks old, Christmas came. Christmas is a wonderful time of year, when people are happy and cheerful and much less likely to file nuisance law sui...
Posted by Bruce Murphy on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 05:12:00 PST

How Seamus got his Stripe

How Seamus got his Stripe   When Seamus was born, the first thing he tried to do was punch the doctor. Because he was so tiny, and his aim was poor because his eyes were closed, the doctor barely...
Posted by Bruce Murphy on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:18:00 PST

Seamus' First Bedtime Story

Seamus' First Bedtime Story    Once Upon a Time, in a far off country called Canada, there was a Prince named Bruce. Prince Bruce was a pretty happy guy, and made his living giving people bi...
Posted by Bruce Murphy on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:40:00 PST

Baby Blog- Yah! Our baby only has half a heart!

Funny how good news is often along the lines of "no airplanes crashed into your house today" but we take what we can get. Sorry I didn't update people on the amniocentesis. I got shit from a few of yo...
Posted by Bruce Murphy on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:51:00 PST

Ways to piss off the pregnant chick

First of all, let me point out that EVERYTHING pisses off the pregnant chick. I'm still trying to dig that bouquet of flowers out of my ass. She complained today that I hadn't been on MySpace for a wh...
Posted by Bruce Murphy on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:11:00 PST

Baby Lumpy Blog Part III- The Name Game

Its pretty much down to the wire as far as the baby's sex now. Another ultrasound on June 23rd will finally confirm what color we paint Lumpy's room. Oddly enough I have discovered a) newborns pr...
Posted by Bruce Murphy on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:56:00 PST

Rock Star Life

A guy just sent me this article I put on a BBS (remember those?) in the early 90's; The career of an average rock star makes dentistry look pretty good. They feed you champagne and caviar, then s...
Posted by Bruce Murphy on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:46:00 PST

Lumpy Blog 2

So Wednesday April 5 we trundled down to the Wheaton courthouse to pick up a marriage license, which was remarkably easy. The only criteria seem to be that you're not siblings, and you have ten bucks....
Posted by Bruce Murphy on Mon, 15 May 2006 02:45:00 PST