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Brandon, Allegedly

About Me

“Let’s not forget how vital it is to make a good first impression. The best “you” probably isn’t good enough, so let’s just go with the best version we can create.” – Janeane Garofalo, Feel This Book
“a [person] of great but confused vitality, clinging frantically to another time and place... Having failed to establish contact with reality, continues to live vitally in [his] illusions... [His] separation increases until [he] is like a piece of glass from [his] own glass collection, too exquisitely fragile to move from the shelf.” – Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you?” – Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs
“I've been sleeping so strange at night. Side effects they don't advertise.” – Bright Eyes, “We Are Nowhere And It's Now”
“And there's no prize / Just a smaller size / So I'm wearing the shoe 'till it fits / Then I'm calling it quits” – Aimee Mann, “Calling It Quits”
“They've got a wall in china / that's a thousand miles long.
To keep out the foreigners / they made it strong.
And I've got a wall around me / That you can't even see.” – Paul Simon, “Something So Right”
“...anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.” – Fox Mulder, The X-Files: Fight The Future
“My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.” – Lester Burnham, American Beauty
“You can burn the motherf---er down for all I care, ‘cause t-shirts and khakis are all I wear.” – Eazy-E, “N---az My Height Don’t Fight”
“I'd start a revolution if I could get up in the morning.” – Aimee Allen, “Revolution”
“I wanna be a hippie, but I forgot how to love.” – The Moldy Peaches, “Who's Got The Crack?”
“What now? Let me tell you what now. I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' n-----s, who'll go to work on the holmes here with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass.” – Marsellus Wallace, Pulp Fiction
“We’re not gonna make it, people I mean.”
“It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.” – John Connor and the T-800, Terminator 2
“Just when I get attached, it ends.” – Macy Gray, “Relating to a Psychopath”
“All the time you spend tryin' to get back what's been took from you there's more goin' out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it. – Ellis Bell, No Country For Old Men
“Or whether mankind is in a perpetual cycle of rebirth and destruction, always on the cusp of grand discoveries that go hand in glove with horrible threats, both promising beginnings and ends that never quite arrive.” – Daniel M. Conley, reviewing Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
“You can drive out nature with a pitchfork, but it always comes roaring back again.” – Tom Waits, “Misery Is The River Of The World”
“As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was again.” – Albert Camus, The Stranger
“I had a little metaphor to state my case. It encompassed the condition of the human race.” – Aimee Mann, “Jacob Marley's Chain”
“[The United States] is an open wound stitched together by ghettos.” – Henry Rollins
“Cherries. I like cherries in my ice cream. I like the name of cherries: Cherries.” – Gummo
“And once upon a time / I believed it was a / victimless crime.” – Aimee Mann, “I Was Thinking I Could Clean Up For Christmas”
“Radios
TV Shows
Fill my holes
With your goodies.” – Bree Sharp, “America”
“It's Britney, bitch.” – Britney Spears, “Gimme More”
“So many things we never will undo. I know you're sorry but I'm sorry too.” – Bob Dylan, “Mississsippi”
“If I could take / the world in my arms / I'd take all the wrongs / and I'd fly / fly / fly.” – Bree Sharp, “Fallen”
“But the trail of crumbs you've left / just won't help you / find your way back.” – Aimme Mann, “It's Not Safe”
“Say you were split, you were split in fragments, and none of the pieces would talk to you. Wouldn't you want to be who you had been? Well, baby I want that too. So better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to put baby back together.” – Aimee Mann, “Humpty Dumpty”
“I'll pick up the pieces / I'll carry on somehow / Tape the broken parts together / Limp this love around.” – PJ Harvey, “The Darker Days of Me and Him”
“We were heading into uncharted territory now, making up history as we went along.” – Sarah Connor, Terminator 2
“Give me a reason to love you.” – Portishead, “Glory Box”
“‘Cause the love that you gave that we made wasn't able to make it enough for you to be open wide, no.” – Alanis Morissette, “You Oughta Know”
“Y'all gon' make me lose my mind, up in here, up in here.” – DMX, “Party Up”
“But I can't keep holding on / to what you've got / when all you've got is hurt.” – U2, “One”
“Or the ranks / of the freaks / who suspect / they could never love anyone.” – Aimee Mann, “Save Me”
“Why should you want any other / when you're a world within a world?” – Elliott Smith, “Can't Make a Sound”
“Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.” – Douglas Coupland, Generation X
“I used to be indecisive but now I’m not sure.”
“I tried to change but I changed my mind.” – Fountains of Wayne, “Mexican Wine”
“She didn’t really care. She no longer maintained any illusions about her ability to affect the outcome of events. She realized she was in the grip of an inexorable process involving many people and past decisions. What would happen would happen.” – Michael Crichton, The Terminal Man
“The truth is a bully we all pretend to like.” – Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.” – Lily Tomlin
“All we have to do now / is take these lies / and make them true / somehow.” – George Michael, “Freedom ‘90”
“First of all, let's get one thing straight. Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack, let's get that straight. Okay? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack.” Whitney Houston, to Diane Sawyer
Your Dominant Intelligence is Intrapersonal Intelligence
Reflective and thoughtful, you enjoy spending time alone.
You are good at analyzing yourself - and knowing your true feelings.
Totally self aware, you are in tune with your dreams and desires.
A spiritual and philopsophical person, your inner calmness inspires and helps others.
You would make a great philosopher, researcher, or theorist. What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?
Your Theme Song is Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd
"There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves."
You haven't been feeling a lot lately, and you think that's a good thing.
The comfortable part is nice... but you should really work on numb. What's Your Theme Song?
You May Be a Bit Histrionic...
Dramatic and over the top, you crave attention.
And you'll do anything it takes to get noticed.
You love to be seductive, even when it's inappropriate.
If you're ignored, you're easily hurt ... and act out even more! What Personality Disorder Are You?
Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Artistic |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Physical security |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Change averse |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Interdependence |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Histrionic |||||||||||||||| 70%
Materialism |||||||||||||||| 70%
Avoidant |||||||||||||||| 63%
Extraversion |||||||||||||||| 63%
Intellectual |||||||||||||||| 63%
Need to dominate |||||||||||||||| 63%
Paranoia |||||||||||||||| 63%
Self absorbed |||||||||||||| 56%
Vanity |||||||||||||| 56%
Orderliness |||||||||||||| 53%
Conflict seeking |||||||||||| 50%
Dependency |||||||||||| 50%
Hedonism |||||||||||| 50%
Individuality |||||||||||| 50%
Work ethic |||||||||||| 50%
Anti-authority |||||||||||| 43%
Cautiousness |||||||||||| 43%
Narcissism |||||||||||| 43%
Accommodation |||||||||| 36%
Mystical |||||||||| 36%
Female cliche |||||| 30%
Peter pan complex |||||| 30%
Religious |||||| 23%
Stability |||| 20%
Sexuality |||| 16%
Adventurousness || 10%
Wealth || 10%
Physical Fitness || 10%
Romantic || 10% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
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My Blog

3.9.09 - Urbania

So last night (or I guess this morning) I'm flipping through channels on TV, and I come across a movie from 2000 called Urbania. I'm watching it (it was on from 2:25 am to 4:15 am), and one of the min...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:40:00 GMT

9.21.08 - Brandon Does The Dominican Republic (Part 3)

PART 3Day Four  Saturday, February 23, 2008 (Continued)The Resort.  Postcards.  I go to one of the gift shops and buy a few.  I see they're selling stamps.  I ask if my American s...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:00:00 GMT

9.8.08 - Brandon Does The Dominican Republic (Part 2)

PART 2Day One  Wednesday, February 20, 2008 (Continued)The Resort.  Everybody who's there meets up at one of the other hotels.  As I get closer, I think I see my cousin hugging someone.&nbs...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:17:00 GMT

9.3.08 - Brandon Does The Dominican Republic (Part 1)

PART IDay Negative One  Monday, February 18, 2008Mesa, Arizona.  Remember the pregnant bride (one of my former roommates) dancing to "My Humps" in her wedding dress in Vegas last October?  ...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:41:00 GMT

8.24.08 - Tug-of-War

One.  Every time I plug my bPod into the computer, bTunes tallies up the number of times I've listened to each song.  Recently, when I plugged it in, two songs were tied for number one most ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:16:00 GMT

8.23.08 - Volleying Back and Forth

Tonight (Saturday) I waited on a Gold-Medal-Winning Olympic athelete.  I hadn't really followed the olympics, and at first I didn't know who Misty-May Treanor was, then I texted a friend who imme...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:47:00 GMT

5.30.08 - Misheard. Misremembered. Misunderstood?

Misheard.  One of my favorite songs is "It's Not Safe" by Aimee Mann.  There was part of the song I wasn't sure what she said, so I looked it up.  As I did that, I saw there was ANOTHER...
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 04:17:00 GMT

2.4.08 - Bowled Over

I've always wanted to be in the epicenter of an apocalypse, and I finally got one.  I work at Morton's, which is a pretty classy place, and is right next to the Ritz-Carlton.  The Ritz is wh...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:48:00 GMT

12.31.07 - 2007 Year in Review

Preface: A Note on Pattern RecognitionSometimes I wonder if try too hard to see patterns in things.  (When I was younger, I used to be better at math, and I remember back then that my dad told m...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:50:00 GMT

12.30.07 - 40 oz. of Christmas

My original plan for Christmas: It's about noon, Christmas day, the house is empty, I'm sitting in a rocking chair facing the window by the front door.  My hands either to my side or holding me, ...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:26:00 GMT