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Brian

When I Grow Up I Wanna Be A Rock Star

About Me

Been a musician, journalist, media whore and purveyor of Las Vegas Kultur well over 20 years now, still haven't learned a damn thing. Found my soulmate, but still seeking a good pastrami on rye. Meanwhile, just playin guitar, poker, drinkin, smokin, thinkin. Trying to take over the world, pinky...
Someone sent me this, too... so copy and paste forward...
Accurate as of 2.20.07...
Birthday: September 7, 1966
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Current Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Black
Height: 6'2"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Left
Your Heritage: Jewish
The Shoes You Wore Today: non-descript and brand new velcro strapped black walkers. I'm jellin' like a felon.
Your Weakness: Sushi, Marzipan, Dark Beer, Dark Chocolate and Women, not necessarily in that order.
Your Fears: I try not to name them lest I give them too much power. Fear creates a vacuum.
Your Perfect Pizza: deep dish pepperoni and mushroom
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: A return to a loving relationship and a successful career. That, and an appearance on a televised final table.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: Still a luddite. I rarely text.
Thoughts First Waking Up: What did that dream mean?
Your Best Physical Feature: Eyes
Your Bedtime: my nom de plume is nitewalk... because I'm an insomniac. My bedtime is when I fall asleep. Fortunately, these days, it nicely coincides with my swing shift schedule.
Your Most Missed Memory: I've had some great highs in my life, but I suppose the moment I realized I had a achieved a childhood dream (playing a big outdoor concert) was a moment I knew was a passage in my life
Pepsi or Coke: By itself, Pepsi. With alcohol, Coke.
MacDonalds or Burger King: Barf. Neither.... In and Out. Or at least KFC, Jack, Arby's, Wendys. Actually, I try to avoid them all. My daughter does not appreciate this.
Single or Group Dates: More the merrier, though quite Togetherness ain't so bad.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Celestial Seasonings, thank you.
Chocolate or Vanilla: DARK Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Grande Americano w/half & half
Do you Smoke: Like a fuckin' chimney when I can
Do you Swear: The word "fuck" is probably the singularly most powerful word in our culture. Use it often. Or go fuck yourself, I don't care.
Do you Sing: Been known to belt out one now and again. Sometimes even ... I'm a Karaoke terror. And by that, I mean, you really should take cover if I start to sing.
Do you Shower Daily: Usually
Have you Been in Love: I only know if someone wants me. -Jane
Do you want to go to College: I would like to continue learning, but I don't think College is necessarily my answer.
Do you want to get Married: Been there. Done that. Might do it again someday, if she insists.
We don't need no piece of paper from the city hall, keeping us tight and true - Joni Mitchell
Do you believe in yourself: If I don't, who else will?
Do you get Motion Sickness: perhaps a little on extreme rides, like upside down and backwards and fast.
Do you think you are Attractive: Only to fish that still need bicycles.
Are you a Health Freak: No, but I do try to eat well and exercise, to at least balance the damage I do in other ways.
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes. I might even call them friends.
Do you like Thunderstorms: Absolutely love them.
Do you play an Instrument: Other people think I do, but I think I just hack madly at six strings and make squealing sounds. (Guitar since I was 13)
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Ab-so-lutely. Not a drunk, but a social drinker.
In the past month have you Smoked: Mama she once told me son, you be hard working man, Daddy he once told me son you do the best you can...
In the past month have you been on Drugs: All I wanted was a Pepsi. I'm not Institutionalized.
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Does flying to CO every other month to my heart's embrace count?
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: No, thank god. Run away! Run away!
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No, I'm more of a dark chocolate kind of guy.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Quite long overdue again.
In the past month have you been on Stage:
All the world's indeed a stage, and we are merely players, performers and portrayers, each another's audience inside the gilded cage - Geddy Lee (or Shakespeare, whichever)
In the past month have you been Dumped: Neither dumper nor dumpee be.
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Nope. Any offers?
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Not a penny.
Ever been Drunk: Dude, on a dare I once let a guy buy my drinks just to see how many I could down before getting sick. Brandi, the fabulous and sexy bartender at Dino's will serve as witness if asked. 12 mixed whiskey drinks inside of two hours. Doubt I'll do that again. Smell of Bushmill's still makes me nauseous.
Ever been called a Tease: I only tease once I already have you.
Ever been Beaten up: Not really, though I was beaten many times in competitive martial arts as a teen. Don't think that counts.
Ever Shoplifted: Yup, and even got busted at 14 for lifting a 4-Pack of Twix candy bars. Ah, foolish youth.
How do you want to Die: Coming and going at the same time sounds pretty fun to me.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: I wanna be a rock star! Then again, I hear being a professional poker player is the new rock star.
What country would you most like to Visit: Thailand
In a Boy/Girl..
Favorite Eye Color: As long as they sparkle
Favorite Hair Color: dirty brown
Short or Long Hair: long
Height: 4'10" - 5'6"
Weight: healthy normal to athletic
Best Clothing Style: Chameleon (able to wear multiple styles depending upon occasion)
Number of Drugs I have taken: I've personally met Dr. Leary. I've done ALOT of drugs in my life. Past tense (mostly).
Number of CDs I own: less than a dozen, though at one time I actually owned nearly 8000. God bless mp3.
Number of Piercings: Just my soul. Multiple times.
Number of Tattoos: One so far, though I have many more planned. They're like potato chips. Do the two burn scars I now have on my arm from foolish dares count as intentional body adornments, too?
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Lost loves and paths not taken. Still, regret is a mind killer. I try to keep off the drama channel in my head (though it is always on, anytime I want to tune in).

My Interests

Beer and Boobs. No intellect to speak of, though I have been known to occasionally worship wax fruit and dance naked to Diamanda Galas. I don't even know what that means, but it reads good, eh?

I'd like to meet:

You? Probably not. How about your evil twin Skippy? Either that, or perhaps a sexy swedish woman with big hands to work on my back, and a petite asian goddess to work on my... ummm... Did I mention the hot tub, bottle of merlot and chronic to go with my dream ladies? Hey, a man can dream, right? RIGHT? ~sigh~

Music:

Hum a few bars and I can try and play it on my guitar for you.. if it will give me a better chance of getting into your pants. But, seriously... no, I mean it. Why else did I learn to play?

Oh... you mean "music" as in "what do I listen to?"

I listen to whatever is on. I am pretty open to most music, though there are a few genres I just really don't care much for... still, I can listen to anything, and I'm ecletic.

In my mp3 player right now; RHCP, Tool, Steely Dan, Jimi Hendrix, Kate Bush, Bob Marley, Grateful Dead, David Bowie, Sublime, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Foo Fighters, Benny Goodman, Dave Brubeck, Parliment Funkadelic, JAMES BROWN, Bootsy Collins, Bob Dylan, King Crimon and last but not least, Van Halen (Diver Down, if you care). I need to add some crooners, a little bluegrass, klezmer, reggae and salsa and a few country standards (no modern country shit, sorry. If they ain't dead, or will be soon, or should have stopped long ago.... I ain't interested) and I think that's a pretty rounded selection of the kind of musical tastes I have.

Movies:

Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling.
Hartigan, you stupid old man. You led them right to her.
Mongo only pawn in game of life.
It's ok, Charlie. I've got an angle.
Louie, This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
Rizzo, wake up.
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
That is the sound of inevitability, Mr Anderson.
No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.
...Rosebud.
Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore
Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my cameo
What is your major malfunction, Numbnuts!
Luke, I am your father.
They call me... Tim.
Give us.... Brian!

Television:

I used to make it for a living once upon a time. Really. Sorry. Just doing what the producers told me to. By the way, that looked great. Can we do it again? Same as before, only different... reality TV is an oxymoron.

Books:

Biblioholic, if you can't tell. Blame my parents. Even worse, my current gig is working in a bookstore. I used to manage them a deacade ago. Now, apparently the added ten years of learned wisdom has reduced me to serfdom (extremely literate and socratic serfdom, but serfdom nonetheless). Isn't life grand? Need a book? Ask me.

Heroes:

Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Henry Thoreau, Chuck Liddell and Muhammed Ali. If you can't teach peace, just kick the sh*t out of them instead. G*d love George Bush! (smell that? That's SARCASM)

My Blog

Should I stay or should I go now?

A blog to my dearest friends....Ok, so here it is.A little over a year ago, I made a desperate plea to those in my community who might be able to help.I said "HELP!". I was unemployed, scared, broke a...
Posted by Brian on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:20:00 PST

The Great Pumpkin needs children (blame the Anasazi)

(Author's note: Ok, so look... Eventually I will go back and edit this piece to put in the correct spellings, urls and complete titles of all Authors and Books mentioned. In fact, I'll most likely mak...
Posted by Brian on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:46:00 PST

Towards a literary life (of celibacy and poverty, though only by inference)

(Author's note: Ok, so look... Eventually I will go back and edit this piece to put in the correct spellings, urls and complete titles of all Authors and Books mentioned. In fact, I'll most likely mak...
Posted by Brian on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:31:00 PST

My life as an amphibian enduring rising temperature within a cylindrical steel structure

The word for the day is: Entropy.   First, let us review...   Syntropy is the simple act whereby things fall together. The sum becomes more than the individual pieces. Think about a football...
Posted by Brian on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:10:00 PST

Fuck it, Dude. Let’s go bowling. (or Brian at 41)

Fuck it, dude. Let's go bowling.- The Big Lebowski (Ed note: you had damned well better have seen the fucking Big Lebowski, or this will make absolutely no sense. I'm just waiting on my Maude.) This i...
Posted by Brian on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:49:00 PST

Remembrance of a Queen of Las Vegas... (in eulogy to Julie Brewer).

So, a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (Las Vegas circa mid 90s) there was a small cultural scene here...   Oh, it wasn't much. We had a few places. Places we liked. Places we calle...
Posted by Brian on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:05:00 PST

An open letter - My application to Yelp

Dear Sirs,   As requested, here is my link to the profile I just created on your site:   http://nitewalk.yelp.com/   Thank you for letting me slowly expand my global domination of the w...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:18:00 PST

All Hail Discordia! and thanks for visiting, dear father o mine.

Ok, so the last laptop is gone. This one is borrowed from the angel in my life I call my housemate. Truly, one rarely finds people of such integrity, patience and balanced nature. I am blessed that so...
Posted by Brian on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:19:00 PST

I Hate Mondays.

Since this is my last hour with the laptop, I figured I should write, rather than just piss it away. For some reason, I just feel awful today. Call it nagging despair. Call it scared, call it nervous,...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:32:00 PST

My angels have names, and so does the devil.

I can't sleep, so I'm going to write. Today was quite possibly one of the worst days of my life. That I'm even here at this late hour to write about it is a miracle in itself, and testament to the fac...
Posted by Brian on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:25:00 PST