Brigadier General Bussavus - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I lift a ton of weight at the gym. Usually, girls hang from the weight bar and giggle while I do it. "Betcha can't lift it now!" WRONG. I like people who speak honestly, 9' grand pianos, curiosity, ice cold milk, superlatives such as Mt. Everest, Habanero Peppers, the world's oldest _____, widest _____, finest _____, bluest _____, etc. I'm really intrigued by the purest extract of the absolute best the world has ever produced. And I want to learn all of it, but I'm having too much fun f'n around with all my goofball friends. Love 'em. I like singing old-timey songs with hordes of people such as "Rule Britannia" and "Good King Wenceslaus", shooting water balloons at squirrels (it's fun), people smart enough to know geniuses don't exist, people hip enough to be unhip (Huey Lewis already covered this), train noises in the winter, pondering time and how cool it is, Saturdays completely devoted to music, people who laugh a lot, people who get really excited about food, drinking followed by kitchen pot-n-pan jams at 2 a.m., Katie and Ray, being in planes when they take off, being right beneath planes when they land, showing up in full costume unannounced and for no reason, and people who see the big, big picture. What do you like?I don't like conformity. It's making many people I know very sad. And that just breaks my heart.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

THUNDER DAN KOPECKY.

Music:

James Brown, Frederic Chopin, John Medeski, Paco de Lucia, Parliament, Astor Piazzolla, Yann Tiersen, GOSPEL ELVIS, Glenn Miller, Franz Liszt, Fernando Suarez Paz, Tito Puente, Beethoven, Bjork, lots of Polka, Etta James, Astrud Gilberto, Orchestra Baobob, Sinatra, Sly and the Family Stone, Mel Torme, Mozart's Requiem, Dean Martin, D'Angelo. Basically all indie rock snobs can kiss my ass. Your knowledge of rock trivia doesn't make you a music lover. Also, if you say you listen to "everything," name ONE band from Africa. Okay, now name 13 bands from Antarctica. Jus kiddin.'

Heroes:

"...Most of us get so scared to go around dancing free-form or singing out loud in public or laughing at the madness around us -- most of us get so scared, so civilized that we teach ourselves how to be ashamed and embarrassed, and we invent a disguise for ourselves, and we walk around looking serious and acting very somber and self-important. And we call it grown-up.""...HarpoMarx had the good sense and the great gift never to Grow Up. And that was the soul of his Comedy. Children loved him and old people loved him because they saw themselves in those beautiful big rolling eyes. They saw themselves moving and dancing free and unembarrassed and not a bit worried about being Grown-Up. And Harpo made eyes at pretty girls, the way we all wish we had the nerve to do, and he invented harps out of broken pianos, and piccolos out of strands of spaghetti. And wherever he was, there was music for everyone, and laughter. And when he was sad, he was so sad, so very very terribly sad that we could see that there is even something funny about being sad, and so we laughed and forgot some of the things that made us sad.Harpo was Comedy.Comedy is gentle and sweet and good and intelligent and honest, and that is what Harpo Marx was.Comedy makes you feel good, and that is what HarpoMarx did.And when I met him, I found out the best thing of all: That the man, the person, was even more beautiful than the image." ---------------- an excerpt from "A Gift Of Laughter" by Allan Sherman.