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(Bryan) Billy

"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning." - Calvi

About Me

It rains a lot in Seattle. Seriously.I moved here in 1998. Before I came out here, everyone back home in Columbus, Ohio told me that I would hate the wet winters here. I told them that I liked rain and didn't mind at all.Now, I mind.3 1/2 years ago I weighed 155 lbs. Now I weigh significantly more than that.Significantly more.I'm not proud of that. But, it is what it is. I sometimes think about doing something about that.I guess I should.Let's see, what else?Oh! I never got the chance to play laser-tag when I was a kid. All of my friends did. I never did.I don't know why I never played.But, it stings a little today that I hadn't.Weird that something like that would stick with me for this long.
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My Interests

writing - reading - music - reason - philosophy -And this Guy:

I'd like to meet:

They're all Dead.

Music:

Guided By Voices, Frank Sinatra, Afghan Whigs, Blues Explosion, Matthew Sweet, Keane, Coldplay, Placebo, RJD2, Elliot Smith, Radiohead, Superchunk, Wilco, Airport Cathedral, Neko Case, Allison Krause, Band of Horses, Franz Ferdinand, Superdrag, The Who, Miles Davis, The Get Up Kids, Death Cab For Cutie, Travis, The Radio Nationals, The Killers, ED WANG, The Broadcast Debut, Pedro The Lion, Kasey Chambers, Helio Sequence, Ryan Adams, Sun Volt, Liz Phair, Allison Krause, Built to Spill, Wayne Shorter, The Delays, Bjork, Aryka Badu, Peter Illych Tzaichovsky, Eels, Jessie Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, The Twilight Singers, Interpol, The Replacements, The Police, John Coltrane, Eels, Soul Coughing, The Vines, Ben Harper, Pearl Jam, Social Distortion, Juliana Hatfiled, Snow Patrol, The Scissor Sisters, Postal Service, Portishead, The Jackson 5, Bob Marley and The Wailers, Billie Holiday, blah, blah, blah....

Movies:

'Stranger Than Fiction' - a classic.

Television:

Frontline and American Experience on PBS. HBO on DVD

Books:

'The Nick Adams Stories' and 'A Farewell to Arms' by Ernest Hemmingway. 'Naked' (Or anything, really), by David Sedaris. 'Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson. Attention Deficit Disorder' by Brad Listi. 'The God of Small Things', by Arundahti Roy. 'The Art of Happiness', by His Holiness, The Dali Llama of Tibet. A Revolutionary Life, The Biography of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara', by Mark Anderson. 'Mr. Brown Can Say Moo, Can You?', by Dr. Suess.

Heroes:

Grandpa, Frank Sinatra... Barak Obama... Hemmingway... Tweedy... Penn...

My Blog

Call Me Naive, but I Honestly Think I Sense a Movement Coming On.

Call Me Naive, but I Honestly Think I Sense a Movement Coming On by Bryan Richards Something's going on here, folks. This is not just a political campaign. Call me naive. Call me ignorant. But, I beli...
Posted by (Bryan) Billy on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:21:00 PST

A Simple Hat to Make Me Proud

  I have a new hat. I can't seem to keep it off my head for more than an hour at a time. I even wore it to bed last night. No lie. To find out why this new, seemingly insignificant hat has mad...
Posted by (Bryan) Billy on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:50:00 PST

Ugh. Another gut-wrenchingly personal story?

Yeah& ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  If you really wanted to know the crutch of my existence, if you've ever asked yourself "What the hell is wrong wi...
Posted by (Bryan) Billy on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:41:00 PST

The Fourth Grade: The Awkwardness of it All

The Fourth Grade: The Awkwardness of it All Category: Life The Fourth Grade: The Awkwardness of it All by Bryan Richards Today on:  The fourth grade was such a powerfully awkward year for me. ...
Posted by (Bryan) Billy on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:05:00 PST

An Open Letter to The Youth of the 1960's: What the Hell Happened?

Today on The Nervous Breakdown An Open Letter to The Youth of the 1960's: What the Hell Happened? by Bryan Richards Call it a rant. Call it a desperate plea for solutions that seem unreasonable. Eithe...
Posted by (Bryan) Billy on Thu, 17 May 2007 09:25:00 PST

A Little Bit of Self-imposed Phlog Therapy: Onset Panic and The Fear of Failure

I worry and I panic... all the time. I'm aftraid to fail and sometimes afraid to even try. But I know that ultimately there is only one kind of failure that I am personally responsible for.....
Posted by (Bryan) Billy on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:30:00 PST

Science has Found Another Way to Poop on Our Party...

Science has Found Another Way to Poop on Our Party and Why This Time We'd Be Better Off Actually Heeding Their Collective Wisdom by Bryan Richards I heard the news and my heart sank to the pits of my ...
Posted by (Bryan) Billy on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:53:00 PST

The Joy of Knowing that I Have Not Yet Destroyed the Possibility of Happy Life for My Daughter

The Joy of Knowing that I Have Not Yet Destroyed the Possibility of A Happy Life for My Daughter by Bryan Richards You can read it now on The Nervous Breakdown.com I am the father of a seven year old ...
Posted by (Bryan) Billy on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:28:00 PST

Immature Boys Do Foolish THings and Always Grow to Regret Them

I've been in a retrospective mood lately. It's not as though my childhood was unique or catostrophic, but there are those who have said, after hearing a story or two, that it was definately "interesti...
Posted by (Bryan) Billy on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:32:00 PST

The Memory of a Cold Ohio Winter Makes Me Wish I Had Smoked the Joint

This time it's personal. Maybe a little too personal. But it's me and there comes a time when telling the story is the only way to feel better about it. This is part of my story: The Memory of a Cold...
Posted by (Bryan) Billy on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:18:00 PST