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Brad

Home Of Pizza-Sized Hamburgers!

About Me

I rock so good. I rock so well.
I’ll ring-ding-ding a-dang-ding-a-dingy-dingy,
I’ll ring your bell (ding dong)!

My Interests



I like dogs, writing songs, playing guitar, bike riding, the color blue, thriftscoring, rock skipping, board games, spending time with friends (who for some reason tend to be smart, funny, liberal types who play music - yea!), writing really long MySpace profiles, Going to sleep every night listening to radio programs from the 1940's, organization, cleanliness, being keen, sometimes waffles, buying records, watching old movies and basketball games, making loverly velvet paintings, "beating" spellcheck, having fun, not complaining, strong opinions (yours and mine!), good design in anything, unusual design in some things, rocking, crooning, going out to see bands play, bad swing dancing (want to improve), trying new restaurants, shooting hoops, playing tennis (even though I never do), road trips, trying to figure out how to use semicolons, history, museums, going to hot rod and custom car shows and sleeping ... and also lollygagging. Especially lollygagging. I love lollygagging! If you want to do something that involves lollygagging, I AM THERE. You don't even have to ask. My personal website is lollygag.com (currently "under construction"). Yep. Lollygagging. It's what I do. It's "Who I Am."
"Dreams are like feathers - if you have enough, you can fly!"

You Are a Powdered Devil's Food Donut
A total sweetheart on the outside, you love to fool people with your innocent image.
On the inside you're a little darker, richer, and more complex.
You're a hedonist who demands more than one pleasure at a time.
Decadent and daring, you test the limits of human indulgence. What Donut Are You?

I'd like to meet:


Someone who will do a karaoke duet of “Islands In The Stream” with me.

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Music:

Too much! I have a huge vinyl record collection. Occasionally DJ. The radio is always ON; usually classical or jazz or uh...C-89.5 (don't judge me)! I tend to get lost in older styles, but try to keep my ears open to new things. I can't spell iPod. Some of my ALL-TIME favorites are Luna, The Stooges, The Velvet Underground, Ramones, Beat Happening, Wipers, Misfits, Fugazi, The Smiths, The Orchids, Jonathan Richman, Lee Hazlewood, James Brown, The Cramps, Bing Crosby, Nat "King" Cole, The Merry Macs, KISS and the German band, Trio. Also authentic fifties ROCKABILLY (Was a serious rockabilly geek for years; played upright bass in a band...I still love the music!): Elvis Presley (Of course!), Carl Perkins, Charlie Feathers, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, Johnny Horton, Johnny Carroll, Bob Luman, The Collins Kids, Wanda Jackson, Brenda Lee, pretty much anything on Sun Records, Sin Alley obscurities, some neo, a little psychobilly. Love JAZZ. Mostly HARD BOP era stuff (anything on Blue Note!): John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Bobby Hutcherson, Cal Tjader, Red Norvo (any vibraphone player!), Anita O' Day, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet...Pretty much any 70's and 80's PUNK ROCK. 60's SURF MUSIC: All that Del-Fi stuff, The Rumblers, Eddie And The Showmen... Also love Duane Eddy, Davie Allan And The Arrows ... Traditional COUNTRY music: Hank Williams (the original and the third), Lefty Frizzell, The Maddox Brothers and Rose, Elton Britt (love western yodeling!), Bob Wills (WESTERN SWING in general!)... and newer stuff like Dwight Yoakam, George Strait, Randy Travis, Alison Krauss. LATIN MUSIC (CHA CHA CHA. MAMBO. SAMBA , etc). DISCO. NEW WAVE. JUMP BLUES (Louis Jordan!). EXOTICA . LOUNGE. CLASSICAL. TECHNO (I like most dance music even though I'm a terrible dancer, so there!). Some GARAGE ROCK (Think Sonics/Wailers). ANY catchy POP music... 80's HIP HOP. The Boogie Boys. And all those sappy 70's songs that remind me of Skateland, school clothes shopping and going to Little League practice.

Movies:

Mainly things that deviate from the Hollywood treadmill (but pretty much any comedy - from Woody Allen to "Pooty Tang"). Foreign films ("Children Of Paradise", "Amelie"). Indy films ("Brick", Guy Maddin films). Psychotronic films (Biker movies, "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies"). Film Noir ("Touch Of Evil", "Dark Passage"). Documentaries (Anything!). Film School standards (Hitchcock, Godard, etc.). CLASSICS (most of my favorite movies were made from about the mid-thirties through the mid-sixties. Anything from Fred Astaire to Westerns.

Television:

Not much. NBA basketball. The World Cup. Sitcoms that have been canceled (Bring back The Bob Newhart Show!). Pretty much anything with a "before and after" premise. History shows. Things with funny animals and people running into walls and stuff. Sports Center...

Books:

Biographies (trashy or literary)! Richard Brautigan. Ernest Hemingway. Yukio Mishima. Raymond Carver. James Thurber. Mark Twain. Pablo Neruda. e.e. cummings. All the Russians (Gogol, Chekov, etc.) Sherlock Holmes. The Great Brain. "Ask The Dust". "Please Kill Me". The Encyclopedia Of Old-Time Radio. Sports Illustrated. The New Yorker. Architectural Digest. History books...music, sports, art anything! Recommend a book to me!

Heroes:

Andy Warhol. Emily Dickinson. Babe Ruth. Sonny Barger. Evel Knievel. Iggy Pop. Calvin Johnson. Ian MacKaye. Jack Benny. Jackie Chan. Orson Welles. Baudelaire. Katherine Hepburn. Dr. J. John Coltrane. Charles Lindbergh. Charles Mingus. Jack Parr. Dale Carnegie. Gale Sayers... Creative people with uncompromised vision, but without the arrogance of assuming that their way is the only way. Anyone who tries to abide by their own personal Cowboy Code. Decent human beings who are AWARE of life and fully appreciate that even writing and reading something as silly as this is a luxury that should never be taken for granted. Funny people. People who try ...

My Blog

Life And Death (not fun)

So I just filled out another random, fluffy MySpace survey (which everyone else is anxiously filling out right now, right?). I gots to admit, I like those things. Anyway, there was a question that ask...
Posted by Brad on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:51:00 PST

Wild For Kicks!

I didn't care about shoes at all until I saw the fish that saved Pittsburgh. I mean, "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh",  the 1979 movie starring Julius Erving as a superstar basketball player coac...
Posted by Brad on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:55:00 PST

Hot!

I just finished a bottle of El Yucateco habanero hot sauce (over split pea soup with brown rice and carrots). Damn, that was delicious! I love the sweet burn of that sauce. I'm sweating like a sheep i...
Posted by Brad on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:20:00 PST

Oh, Christmas Tree.

I put up my Christmas tree today. I've never put one up this early before. I found a nice Douglas Fir at Fred Meyer for only $19.99. How could I not get that? I love the Christmas season. I love the m...
Posted by Brad on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 06:50:00 PST

Guilty Admission

I love watching "Take Home Chef". Have you seen this show? It's a freaking cooking show! I don't even like to cook! Eating, yes. The premise is that this Australian chef ambushes women in upscale...
Posted by Brad on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:13:00 PST

I love toe socks!

I'd never wear toe socks myself. I just like 'em. On girls, I mean. If Johnny and Fred started wearing toe socks everywhere, I'd probably change my opinion on this (not sexy)! Toe socks. Will they be ...
Posted by Brad on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:27:00 PST

What I Really, Really Want.

I really want a Dancing Macarena Gorilla. I saw one in a mall about 10 years ago. I still think about it. Why didn't I buy it?! I am convinced that this Dancing Macarena Gorilla is the key to my futur...
Posted by Brad on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:34:00 PST

The Short-Wave Mystery

I just realized that my warped sense of Boy Scout morals and general life sensibilities probably came from reading 56 books about The Hardy Boys over and over from about age 8 to 12. Where else did t...
Posted by Brad on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:40:00 PST