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BJ

Work Hard, Play Harder

About Me


You Are 88% Texas
Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit. This ain't your first rodeo! You probably married a Texan to top it off!!! How Texas Are You?
You Are a Margarita
You aren't just the life of the party, you are the party!
You mix a good drink, bust out some great music, and know how to get down. What Mixed Drink Are You?

My Interests

Aside from music and teaching I enjoy living with my wife, playing Halo, water sports, and poker.
Your Kissing Purity Score: 23% Pure
For you, it's all kiss and no talk. Obviously a trumpet player.

You're in a permanent lip lock. Kissing Purity Test </div

I'd like to meet:

Wynton Marsalis, Chuck Mangione, Herb Alpert, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Doc Severinsen, and Raphael Mendez. Unfortunately many of those great musicians are deceased... but they live on in music and I meet them everyday in that aspect.I have met: Jazz Artists Maynard Ferguson, Bob Mintzer, Ernie Watts, Ed Shaughnessy, Stockton Helbing, Actors Burt Reynolds, John Ritter, Michael Richards, John Bowman, Tess Drake, Trumpeters Craig Morris, James Thompson, and Douglas Prosser.


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Music:

..>ANYTHING. Some people will say "Anything" and not realize how vast and encompassing the word anything reaches into the realm of music, so I'll abbreviate a bit and list a sample of my more common tunes:***ROCK & ROLL***Metallica, Korn, Nirvana, Godsmack, Green Day, Cake, Coal Chamber, The Offspring, Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine, Puddle of Mudd, System of a Down, 3 Doors Down, 311, Rolling Stones, The Eagles, The Beatles, and many more.***RAP***Eminem, Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, Snoop, Ice Cube (and many other west coast guys), Ja Rule, Naughty by Nature, Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes, Puff Daddy, and Run DMC.***POP/R&B***Yes, I enjoy a few: Maroon 5, Lisa Loeb, Natasha Bedingfield, Black Eyed Peas, Bowling For Soup, Collective Soul, Evanescence.Gwen Stefani, and so forth.***JAZZ***Old and New: Wynton, Maynard, Mangione, Harry Connick Jr., Tower of Power, Earth Wind and Fire, Tijuana Brass, Dizzie Gillespie, Bill Watrous, Ernie Watts, Ron Wilkins, Bobby Shew, Ed Shaughnessy, Buddy Rich, Bob Mintzer, and many others. See a clip of Buddy Rich and Doc Severinson throwing down "Well Git It", which we do a similar arrangement of with the Pittsford Fire Department Band.***COUNTRY***Garth Brooks (until he turned traitor), Faith Hill, Lost Wolf, Chris Cagle, Willie Nelson, Tim McGraw, Trace Adkins, Charlie Daniels, Toby Keith, Buddy Holly, Charlie Robison, George Strait, Cledus T. Judd, and David Allen Coe.***SWING***Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Count Basie...***SKA***Reel Big Fish, Monkies Doin' It, No Doubt, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Skatalites...**BLUES***Ray Charles, B.B. King, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Cab Calloway, Muddy Waters...***OTHER***Obviously, I can continue like this for ages... I also enjoy lots of the classics like Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, Hummel, Arutunian, Mozart, Handel, Bach (J.S., J.C., C.P.E.), Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, Gilbert & Sullivan, Chopin, Mussourgsky, Mahler, Wagner, and the occasional Cage. If there are any prominent artists that I didn't list, its not because I don't like the genre, but because I either forgot them or haven't gotten around to them yet.

Movies:

Here We Go Again:Braveheart, Gladiator, Glory, Dances With Wolves, Saving Private Ryan, the Star Wars Series, War, Robin Hood (Prince of Thieves), all Mel Brooks movies, Kevin Smith movies (except Jersey Girl), the American Pie series, most of Adam Sandler's Work, and National Lampoon's Van Wilder.

Television:

1) Nip/Tuck - Probably the most controversial hit tv show ever. 2) South Park - You can tell I dig controversy. 3) Mind of Mencia - He reminds me of Chunk.
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My Blog

Thinking

Just thinking alot these days.  Here's a few. 1)  $700 Billion Dollars - that's a lot of money.  And now it's in limbo?  If the members of Congress were my employees, everyone woul...
Posted by BJ on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:32:00 PST

Two Flicks

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRLScarlett Johannson, Natalie Portman, Eric Bana, and a few other familiar faces grace the screen in this elegantly dressed bodice-ripper. But that's only the first half of the movi...
Posted by BJ on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:14:00 PST

another one

joke, i mean. every fight is a food fight   ..for a cannibal.
Posted by BJ on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:53:00 PST

a waterfall

is also a personfall if you stand in the wrong spot.     ...courtesy of Demetri Martin.  He's here:  www.myspace.com/demetrimartin Check him out....
Posted by BJ on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:02:00 PST

Old Forge Trip

Whoever said its better to give than to receive, must have been a musician.  We've spent the last 9 months with the Pittsford Fire Department rehearsing, instructing, and performing music with in...
Posted by BJ on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:21:00 PST

A BJ Update

For those of you who don't call, read my space, or otherwise inform yourself of everything BJ, here's the skinny: 1)  House -  Easily the biggest thing going on right now in my life is buyin...
Posted by BJ on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:52:00 PST

Grindhouse

So this past Saturday I finally slid out to see the new Robert/Quentin feature:  Grindhouse.  If you've seen the previews and you're wondering how all those seemingly random images can come ...
Posted by BJ on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:57:00 PST

The Loss of Legend - Maynard Ferguson, 1928-2006

I bulletined this news release, but here it is for everyone.Maynard Ferguson May 4, 1928 - August 23, 2006 August 24, 2006Maynard Ferguson passed away yesterday, at the age of 78. Here is the statemen...
Posted by BJ on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:28:00 PST

Miami Vice

MIAMI VICE This movie, based loosely on the popular tv show of yester-year, stars Colin Farrel and Jamie Foxx as two Miami detectives that go undercover in hopes of catching the bad guys and plugging ...
Posted by BJ on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:54:00 PST

True Story

Everybody who has read my blog knows that on May 5th my Blazer, which I have put endless amounts of time, money, and effort into, was stolen from me.  It was recovered quickly, I repaired the maj...
Posted by BJ on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:28:00 PST