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Brandon

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm fantastic. Really. If you really want to know the only bits of me that I'll allow you to know in a public forum, be sure to check out the BLAWG. It's filled with quirky observations and awash in the blood of the innocent!!! And go here so my band can rock your face. As if all of that wasn't enough, My friend Wil (artist and author of the webcomic Marty Tanenger Tales and amateur cocksman) and I (infrequent Blawger and NBA superstar) have cobbled together a little podcast for your listening pleasure, displeasure, amusement, bemusement, delight, or disgust. WARNING: EXPLICIT! We'll post a brand new one bi-weekly.
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Add to my Page Also, if you're done pretending that you have better things to do, check out my boy Wil's web comic Marty Tanenger Tales. It goes well with a dense brie and a dollop of shame, and gently toys with an acrid finish.

My Interests

Music, Movies, Reading, all that boring shit that everyone puts in this box so I won't bore you further. You're Welcome.

Music:

Iron and Wine, Drive By Truckers, The Toadies, Burden Bros., Zep, Bob Marley, Natalie Merchant, Beth Orton, Damien Rice, Pearl Jam, Umphrey's McGee, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, etc, etc.

Movies:

Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, The Godfather 1 & 2, Trainspotting, Mystic River, Sleepers, The Edge, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Halloween (1, 2, 4, and 5), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Fire in the Sky, In the Mouth of Madness, Poltergeist, Elizabeth, and many, many more.

Television:

The Office (BBC - fucking brilliant), Curb Your Enthuisiasm, Carnivale (HBO canceled this and they will parish for their sin!), Lost, Rescue Me, Arrested Development (another cancelled masterpiece)

Books:

Anything by Palahniuk, Hornby, Bukowski, Steinbeck, or Twain. I also really dig the poems of E.E. Cummings and Ethridge Knight. Favorite book of all time? To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee... amazing.

Heroes:

Brangelina, the Monopoly guy, Jesus, Viv Savage, and Mitch Buchannon

My Blog

An Incoherent, Disjointed Rant from a Long-Absent Blawger

If you're not employed in a Human Resources department, not a member of local government, or your communities Roads Commission, DO NOT post little signs in public places. Who are you to tell me what I...
Posted by Brandon on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:07:00 PST

The Parliament Effect: Things I Would Do for a Smoke

I've made a number of New Year resolutions for '08.  Usually these kinds of things, resolutions and the like, go by the wayside by January 3rd, but I've decided to make certain changes this ...
Posted by Brandon on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:32:00 PST

Best of 2007

It's that time of year again.  Everyone else is doing year end wrap-ups and the Blawg isn't about to let you (you) get away without suffering yet another critic (me) shoving down your throat all ...
Posted by Brandon on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:31:00 PST

Gaysian Dating and Coke Zero

Okay.  I'm retardo-busy at work and shouldn't be blawging at all, and this will ultimately be a one-off disappointment to my readers, but I need to address the MySpace ads on my page (perhap...
Posted by Brandon on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:31:00 PST

From Al Jolson to Maverick: A History of the "High Five"

The "high five" - a modern, culturally significant, form of youthful exuberant celebration - is one of many things at which I suck.  I simply cannot do it without either looking like&nb...
Posted by Brandon on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:22:00 PST

Tips for Your Personal Ad

I've never placed an ad in the Personals section of my local paper, and perhaps I shouldn't judge those who do.  But you know me better than that, don't you.  I must say that I do very much ...
Posted by Brandon on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:05:00 PST

A Eulogy for Revolution (And Britney Spears’ Hymen)

Britney Spears' vagina is like a Ren and Stimpy ladder match: violent, colorful, irritating, and kinda gross.  What happened to the sweet innocence of the school girl line dancing down a high sch...
Posted by Brandon on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:02:00 PST

Obvious Culture Sweat

It's so hot.  It's sooo fucking hot.  Is it hot enough for you?  God, I wish it wasn't so hot.  It's not the heat, it's your stupidity.  I've found that the heat brings out th...
Posted by Brandon on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:13:00 PST

Dew Drop Debauchery

The Dew Drop Inn in Scottsville, Virginia is an accident waiting to happen.  Or, perhaps, a hate crime; time will tell.  A few weeks ago I went to see a friend of a friend's band.  I fo...
Posted by Brandon on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:39:00 PST

Band Names

Okay.  I know.  It's been a while since the last installment of the Blawg.  I've been getting a lot of views, so at least you guys are still checking in.  I appreciate it.  Th...
Posted by Brandon on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:59:00 PST