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Brian

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

About Me

I'm at NYU, majoring in Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute. I like to act, sing, and play the trumpet, and I hope to pursue some form of acting or directing professionally. I'm also into movies, jazz, and classic rock.
N.B.: I almost never use MySpace, as evidenced by the fact that this is the first time I've changed my profile in about a year. I don't check bulletins, read profiles, or post on anyone's wall. I only check my own page when I get an e-mail that someone sent me a message or left a comment. If you really want to get in touch with me, hit up my Facebook, AIM, or e-mail me.
You Are Sam From "Benny & Joon."
You are very talented at physical comedy. People are in awe of your abilities. However, you have many quirks which can either win people over or completely annoy them. But you're a sweetheart through and through, and it's hard not to love you.
Take The Johnny Depp Quiz!
Which Family Guy Character Are you?
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Winston Wolf You are cool, calm, and collected making you a born
leader. You take care of business when all hell
is breaking loose.
Which Pulp Fiction Character Are You?
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You are Ferris Beuller. You bastard! Everyone
want's to be Ferris. Now go back and answer the
questions properly.
Which 80's Movie Character Are you?
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You are Gonzo the Great. You love everyone,
and still you get shot out of a cannon on a regular
basis. Oh, and you are completely insane and have
a strange fascination for chickens.
ALSO KNOWN AS:
The Great Gonzo, Gonzo the Great, Just Plain Weird
SPECIES:
Whatever
HOBBIES:
Tapdancing blindfolded on tapioca while balancing a
piano on his nose, backwards, five times fast.
FAVORITE MOVIE:
"From Here to Eternity...with no brakes."
FAVORITE TV SHOW:
"Touched By An Anvil"
QUOTE:
"No parachute? Wow! This is so cool!"
What Muppet are you?
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Just about anyone, but especially people with a healthy love of theatre and film. IM me @: BriGuy7783

Music:

The Beatles, Billy Joel, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Phish, Blind Melon, Bob Marley, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Doors, The Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Jimmy Buffet, U2, Brian Setzer, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Jefferson Airplane, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, John Murelle, Ella Fitzgerald, Tom Lehrer, Wynton Marsalis, Nat King Cole

Movies:

Casablanca, The Godfather (Parts One and Two), and Pulp Fiction. Need I say more?

Television:

Family Guy, The Office (US and UK), Seinfeld, The Daily Show, Whose Line is it Anyway.

Books:

I'll choose to interpret this as plays, seeing as that's mostly all I read now. Long Day's Journey Into Night, Death of a Salesman, Angels in America, The Misanthrope, The Father, The Homecoming, The Pillowman, Thom Pain: based on nothing, everything Shakespeare wrote (except perhaps Romeo and Juliet), and anything by Tom Stoppard.

Heroes:

Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Kevin Kline, Kevin Spacey, Humphrey Bogart, Dustin Hoffman, John Cusack, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Anthony Rapp, Clive Owen, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Michael Cerveris, Eric Cartman, Quentin Tarantino, Charlie Kaufman, Billy Crudup...and it goes on and on and on...

My Blog

Woody Allenisms: On Life, Death, and Films

"Human Beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun." "I don't want to achieve immortality through m...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

America By the Numbers

America No. 1? by Michael Ventura No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, con...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Great Actor on the Good Doctor: Depp Writes About Experiences with Thompson

A Pair of Deviant Bookends Hunter S. Thompson, 1937-2005 By JOHNNY DEPP "Buy the ticket, take the ride." These are the words that echo in my skull. The words that our Good Doctor lived by and, by G...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Just to put life in perspective...

Everyone's a little bit unsatisfied. Everyone goes 'round a little empty inside. Take a breath, look around, swallow your pride, For now... Nothing lasts, life goes on, full of surprises. You'l...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST