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byron

Quality over quantity everytime

About Me

Talk to me. Ask questions and I'll tell you whatever you want to know.

My Interests

Good food, Writing(Scripts/Treatments) for film and tv, Running my production company with my partner and friend, Spending quality time with friends and family (My mom might disagree though) and Music (I'm learning Pro-tools)

I'd like to meet:

George Bush Jr...or at least get close enough to slap him. HARD! Gandhi(not gonna happen) Martin Luther King (Not gonna happen) Afrika Bambaataa (If you don't know, Google him) Sean Combs Shawn Carter Bill Clinton Bill Cosby My Father...so I could ask him where he's been all these years Paris Hilton...I have a theory she's not as dumb as she lets on Lady Day (Not gonna happen) Miles Davis (Not gonna happen) Chuck DToo many people to list really...

Music:

Recently changed my mind about country, sort of...Listened to Johnny Cash's last American series C.D (with NIN cover of "hurt")Hip Hop (Def Jux Fam, Kanye, De La, Dead Prez,Beat Nuts, and a lot of old school cause the new stuff just doesn't do it that much for me anymore) UK Grime(love the Vice records comp "Run the Road"), Rock (a brother into Strokes, Metric, Death From Above1979, Weezer, What?!!), House (Alvarez, Vega, Felix, Morales) Jazz (miles, coltrane,Lady day,... Diana Krall(just kidding)Latin...almost anything with some soul to it. (That leaves out anything with Micheal Bolton) Damn, I'm pretty much what you'd call an eclectic listener of music.

Movies:

Fight Club, Blow, Ocean's 11, The Perfect Storm, Swingers, Friday, Boyz in the Hood, The Maltese Falcon, Deep Cover, Traffic, Heat, Scarface, Collateral, Boondock Saints, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Uptown Saturday Night, The Harder They come, Glory, A Soldier's story...Too many movies in too many genres to list.

Television:

The Wire, Curb your enthusiam, Prison Break, Lost, the food network (I like to think I'm a gourmet), Wild on (beautiful women, sand and surf), Sopranos, Seinfeld, Cosby Show, A different World, Cheers, Conan O'Brien, Flintstones, Space Ghost, Transformers, Arsenio Hall show (Anyone remember him?) Chappelles Show (Dave come back)Third Watch (great writing) again, a lot of stuff...oh, and 24!!!!!!

Books:

I really should read more. i'm more of a magazine guy. GQ, Details, Men's Health, Black Book, Complex and anything that looks interesting.

Heroes:

My mom (All together now... AWWWWW)

My Blog

Plight of the Lebanese Canadian vs. the "sympathetic" moral majority

I received this email from a friend last week.  I assume its just one of those general emails sent out into the universe, or it was a friend of friend.  Whatever, I had to respond to it.&nb...
Posted by byron on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:49:00 PST

The medium is the message

Sitting at the alter of tell-lie-vision       &nb sp;         &nb sp;         ...
Posted by byron on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:05:00 PST

STUPID PEOPLE

Have you ever had a debate with a stupid person?  You ever notice how you can never actually win a debate with a stupid person?  Thats probably because they're too stupid to know when they'v...
Posted by byron on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:45:00 PST

To thine own self be true...

To many times have I read profiles on myspace, mainly women, tried speaking to that person, only to find out their profile is a lie.  Now, I don't mean in the typical "telling a fib" type lie.&nb...
Posted by byron on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:04:00 PST