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In Amity you say 'yahhhhd'.

About Me


i'm a wiseacre with sweet sunglasses who nearly always is drinking a slurpee, air-guitaring or inventing my stand-up routine.

My Interests

Kylee.
Adventures.
Dudes with beards.
Air guitaring.
Taking pictures
BASEBALL.
the 1960s
motown and indie rock.
shenanigans.
High fives.
text messaging.
putting RED HOT on everything.

I'd like to meet:


- Anyone looking for a dare to be great situation.
- Or a bear
- In a perfect world... a bear looking for a dare to be great situation.

Music:



The Cars
Huey Lewis and the News
ELO
Fountains of Wayne
Iron and Wine
Death Cab For Cutie
Rooney
Belle and Sebastian
The Spinto Band
Rogue Wave
Rufus Wainwright
Joshua Radin
Ben Folds

Movies:



JAWS!
The Prestige.
Jurassic Park.
Batman.
Beetlejuice.
Halloween.
Fight Club.
Top Gun.
The Sure Thing
High Fidelity
A Few Good Men
The Goodbye Girl.
Wet Hot American Summer.
The Wizard of Oz.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Back To The Future.
The Harry Potter series.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
The Wizard.
The Great Outdoors.
Newsies.

I love pretty much every movie about baseball, zombies or sharks and anything with John Cusack or Jeremy Piven.

Television:



House.
Lost.
Shark Week.
Brothers and Sisters.
Arrested Development.
October Road
Mythbusters.
Ed (bring it back TBS!).
Mad Men.
Anything on the Discovery Channel or HGTV basically.

Books:

stephen, i love you...



Everything Harry Potter.
The Zombie Survival Guide.
Perks of Being a Wallflower.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
Jaws.
anything by Chuck Pahlaniuk
or Bret Easton Ellis.

Heroes:



Kermie, Batman, Adam Schlesinger, Jeff Lynne, Bruce Dickinson, Douglas Adams and Tucker Max. But mostly...

My Blog

radin-adin-adin.

september 24, 2002 i conducted an experiment of AIM proportions: i asked whoever was online on my buddy list to tell me what the first thing that camed to mind when they thought of me was. the results...
Posted by b. on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:00 PST

40x40.

thank you to my grandmother for setting me up for the most amazing lent journey ever. it is important to note that before lent is over, 10 of the 40 days of lent will be spent on vacation in st. maart...
Posted by b. on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:05:00 PST

30-something things.

the good thing about not believing in making new year's resolutions is that you never have the guilt or disappointment in not keeping up with them. don't get me wrong. i'm not lazy. i'm all about mak...
Posted by b. on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:53:00 PST

two thousand 7.

january! "florida! jellyfish! jd? NO JD. dying. let's back pack europle. 43 things. pushups! oy." february! "dolphins! turtle hospital. key wesssst. "j'aime le film jaws" CHRIS RICHARDSON = YAY. MELIN...
Posted by b. on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:20:00 PST

101 dalmations.

1. Do you snore?no, i'm busy dreaming about plane crashes and trees with red eyes?2. Are you a lover or a fighter?fight to lurv, dude. 3. What's your worst fear?cruella deville.4. As a kid, where you ...
Posted by b. on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:37:00 PST

dudes in july

july has flown by. long island. my first trip to ikea. dudes. johnny hoy. camper crushes. sickness. two week visits. family reunions. family reunion farewellls. tears. potential cross-country moves. c...
Posted by b. on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:19:00 PST

The Homestead

back in michigan now for 24+ hours. here's the scoop:   trip in was awful. airport and plane ride were both fine. bus ride into boston was full of a lot of half-on-the-way-to crying and listening...
Posted by b. on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:41:00 PST

why i love paul willard.

    i got a phone call today and the first twenty seconds went like so:   "um... b. reiner i have an important question for you." "yeah?" "yeah i need to know when you're going to be a...
Posted by b. on Wed, 30 May 2007 01:28:00 PST

fest-fest.

ahhhhh. this weekend was all sorts of crazy and all sorts of party. to top off the lows of the weekend where i was fighting with the people i shouldn't be and finding my camera with it's internal expl...
Posted by b. on Wed, 30 May 2007 01:15:00 PST

the best AIM conversation ever.

shark as attack: holy cripes. shark as attack: my friend mel, the alien. shark as attack: this is sweet. shark as attack: i bet you bleed green. shark as attack: and have a little alien living insi...
Posted by b. on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:43:00 PST