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Brooks

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About Me



recent posters I did for Rock Paper Rock (click on images for high res versions)Photo's from Rebecca's Sweet Sixteen (+20) are right here.

My Interests

design photography blogging my kitters (click for more)

I'd like to meet:

Your mom

Music:

Sonic Youth, Prince,R.E.M., The Smiths, The Cure, The Replacements, Violent Femmes, Radiohead, Coldplay, The Pixies, Elvis Costello, Prince, The Police, U2, Outkast, Kanye West, Missy Elliott, Gwen Stefani,Janet Jackson, Elliott Smith, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Dinosaur Jr, The Smiths, The Pretenders, XTC, fIREHOSE, The Clash, Husker Du, New Order, Crowded House, The Finn Brothers, Lauren Hill, Wilco, Bjork, Gus Gus, Daft Punk, Cat Power. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beastie Boys, Liz Phair (from the 90's), De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Built to Spill, The Beatles, Beck, Jeff Buckley, Pavement, Pylon, Nirvana, Luna, Bone Dali, Neil Young, Matthew Sweet, Guadalcanal Diary,Air,Fugazi, Ani DiFranco, Keane, Kraftwerk, Devo, Blondie, The Sugarcubes, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Velvet Underground, Jane's Addiction, Let's Active, The Rave Ups, The Church, The Cars, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams I, Johnny Cash, June Carter, Dolly Parton, Billie Holiday, The Flaming Lips, Flat Duo Jets, Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, Southern Culture on the Skids, The B-52's (with Ricky Wilson), Human League, Tears for Fears, Run D.M.C, Public Enemy, Frank Sinatra, X, Tiny Lights, Parliament, Talking Heads, Gorillaz, Depeche Mode, Camper Van Beethoven, Kitchens of Distinction, Eurythmics, Mary J. Blige, Aimee Mann, Razorlight, Low, Badly Drawn Boy, Beth Orton, Etta James, Massive Attack, Cocteau Twins, Morningwood, Annie Lennox, Fetchin' Bones, The Decemberists, Midlake, Death Cab for Cutie, Rilo Kiley, Sly and the Family Stone, The Sugar La Las, Amy Winehouse, Tegan and Sarah, Leslie and the Lys, Gil Mantera's Party Dream ... old jazz, new wave and the occasional 95.7 jam

Movies:

Juno (go see it while it's still in theaters...seriously!) Fargo, Jackie Brown, Raising Arizona, Sling Blade, Lost in Translation, Napoleon Dynamite, Ghost World, Office Space, She's the One, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Urban Cowboy, Saturday Night Fever, Sex, Lies and Videotape, Tree's Lounge, Election, Rushmore, Boogie Nights, Carrie, The Changeling, Poltergiest, Trainspotting, But I'm a Cheerleader, The Bad News Bears (1976), Catch Me If You Can, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Sideways, River's Edge, Coal Miner's Daughter, Sweet Dreams, Crooklyn, Do the Right Thing, Son of Sam, Something Wild, Dazed and Confused, Hairspray, Pecker, Polyester, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Mommie Dearest, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Big, Waiting For Guffman, This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Election, Friday, Sid and Nancy, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, Mary Poppins, Shrek, Shrek 2, Coming to America, Dogtown and Z Boys, Say Anything, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Better Off Dead, High Fidelity, Hoop Dreams, Dead Poet's Society, Blues Brothers, Animal House, The Shining, GoodFellas, The Untouchables, Far From Heaven, High Art, Slums of Beverly Hills, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Hustle & Flow, The Squid and the Whale, Walk the Line, New York Doll, The Devil and Daniel Johnson, Ray, Jesus Camp, Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet, Capote, is anyone actually still reading this list?

Television:

The Office; Freaks and Geeks; The Young Ones; 120 Minutes; The Muppet Show; City Confidential; Six Feet Under; Queer As Folk; The L Word; Top Chef; Intervention; Best Week Ever; Project Runway; The Amazing Race; Sex and the City; The Sopranos; The Soup; Power, Privilege and Justice; The Surreal Life; The Daily Show; The Colbert Report; Top Chef; Ghost Hunters, any show with Jamie Oliver, Bill Kurtis or Paula Deen as the host and a bunch of reality show 'best of' trash that I'm not going to own up to.

Books:

David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Barbara Kingsolver, Armistead Maupin, Rita May Brown, Dave Barry, Maurice Sendak, Fannie Flagg, John Kennedy Toole. Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Whelty, Truman Capote, Dr. Suess, Kathryn Tucker Windham, Harper Lee, Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, Stephen King, E.B. White Recently read "In Cold Blood," "Under the Banner of Heaven" and "Middlesex" -- am reading "Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers." Does Rolling Stone and trashy tabloid magazines count as a books? Good.

Heroes:

is a show I don't watch.

My Blog

reflections on another year

Ten speed, 1984 = iPod, 2008
Posted by Brooks on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:31:00 PST

birthday backtrack from way on back

Birthday number two, Farmville, Va. with my fanstastic Mama and my present -- a Fisher Price barn. This set lasted for years and like all vintage FP toys, was indestructable....
Posted by Brooks on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:29:00 PST

Please vote for my photo!

I've entered a photo in the Humane Society of the United States photo contest and need help with votes.http://www.spaydayusa.org/rate.htmlGo here and enter the words "Maddy Lou" under pet name search...
Posted by Brooks on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:13:00 PST

Romney = the ultimate tool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwwAaVmnf4&feature=relat ed Thanks to Roy for excavating this precious gem.  ...
Posted by Brooks on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:08:00 PST

Bollywood meets Neverland

I came across yet another foreign version of Michael Jackson's "Thriller." This one's from India and has some intense workout video choreography and is more gay than Micheal Jackson could ev...
Posted by Brooks on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:01:00 PST

help a sister out

My good friend, Angela, a mom, teacher, photographer, artist, all-around fanstastic person and creator of one of my favorite blogs My Daily Struggle, has entered a photo contest with a picture she too...
Posted by Brooks on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:51:00 PST

snow way ...

... yes way! It snowed and actually stuck around for a couple hours here in the Yellowhammer state today and I've got photos to prove it. Two hours after these were taken there were just a few reminen...
Posted by Brooks on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:32:00 PST

holidays are over -- hell to the yes!

Some dogs got dressed up, some cats didn't (see my cheap-ass holiday electronic greeting) and Christmas came and went and I'm happy to say it's all over although I enjoyed the day with my family and n...
Posted by Brooks on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:08:00 PST

a party...a dream...a party

This was the best Wednesday night I've had in quite sometime.
Posted by Brooks on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:40:00 PST

Superbad

From the looks of historical documents, Superman really used to be a dick.
Posted by Brooks on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:46:00 PST