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look around you. if this is a dream, the whole world is inside it...

About Me


Thing is, it probably is the right thing. But sometimes the right thing is a luxury. And it can have profoundly dangerous consequences, and it's almost as if he doesn't want that to be true.
Laura Rosalin, from Battlestar: Galactica

Then, there are those who care not about extra-terrestrials, searching for meaning in other human beings. Rare or lucky are those who find it. For although we may not be alone in the universe--in our own, separate ways--on this planet, we are all alone.
-Charles Nelson Reilly, from The X-Files

He was a man who was destined to go through life, and not around it. A man who was sure the shortest path to heaven was straight through hell. But the truth of his handicap lay only in the mind both exalted and crippled by too many stories and the path he chose to become one. Bobby Long's tragic flaw was his romance with all that he saw.
-Lawson Pines, from A Love Song for Bobby Long


My name is Brandon.

I go to school occasionally. I work in IT a lot. I am the editor of a (the) campus literary magazine . Music is at the top of the list because it's the soundtrack that helps me feel the moment. I write songs, poems, and the makings of novels. I sketch out amazing ideas for movies that probably won't happen. I'm finding I'm more spiritual than I wanted to believe. And I'm still seeking the infinite.

I think it means the world to make just one other person smile. I think the world could be perfect if we could learn to stop being afraid. I think the world could be perfect if we realized that we're all the same.

I'd love to find a few words and phrases to really identify myself, but they don't exist. But that's not important. I'm here. Now.

...And that'll have to be enough.


My Interests

Look around...
notes on life
wish i could
shared memories

also:
music, concerts, poetry, movies, books, philosophy (call it religion if you wish), making a better tomorrow, direction (as in, where we're all going), life (the concept, not just the living it part), IT stuffage (can't run from the geekiness)

I'd like to meet:

Siddhartha . If you die before you ascend, do you have to start over? Also, what kind of flower was it?
Dostoyevsky . I get the feeling the trail I've maybe been following leads to someplace near where he was. I'd like to know how far he got. I'd like to know what he found.

Luther . When everything you've believed betrays you, and everything for which you've fought demonizes you... How do you go on?

Music:



Television:


Books:



My Blog

i [may or may not] want your sex

i find myself shamefully admitting the possibility that i have been grouping women into two groups. well, obviously not all women, but "girls" if you will.i guess group one is something like sex symbo...
Posted by - the heretic on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:38:00 PST

dem all deez beautiful girls (my issue with women)

i'm guessing it stems from all those years i spent being isolated, disinterested, and... oh yeah, bitter at all living things around me. that would be... i don't know, something like 6th through 11th ...
Posted by - the heretic on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:17:00 PST

whiney bitch

start here.Dear Delta,My lung collapsed before I was scheduled to take a trip on your airlines. I called to cancel and your policy was cool enough for me to get credit for a cancelled flight as long a...
Posted by - the heretic on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:50:00 PST

perfection

the short of it is (for those who know me well enough), i never imagined i'd meet two guys who could sing with their souls. i'm not even sure what that means, but to be there in person and see what it...
Posted by - the heretic on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:10:00 PST

NEED HELP WRITING BOOK GARFOXLOLORXL9/11

(basic rehash of the bulletin i posted)i've decided i'm not a writer. i'm a dreamer and an asshole, meaning i can come up with some ideas and i can critique the hell out of things, but that other 94% ...
Posted by - the heretic on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:06:00 PST

deus tempi (an observation of the infinite)

Passing through the city the other day, I saw an old lady sitting contentedly on a bench on the sidewalk. We can walk past everyday and never notice, but to her this is life. And today I read about an...
Posted by - the heretic on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:41:00 PST

nice try, but no

My uncle once told my pastor that I had a "weak heart." Not in the sense that I was physically about to crash, but in the spiritual manner.I'd like to take this opportunity aside to say "fuck him." I ...
Posted by - the heretic on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:23:00 PST

I Remember (Musical Roots)

Straight forward, this is my report on a few hours of YouTubing my past. I am very happy with the results.   "When I Come Around" - Green DayThis was THE song that got me off that oldie goldies s...
Posted by - the heretic on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:51:00 PST

Remember the Music

So when I explain how you should go to a Stars concert (with me, obviously), why can't you just drop your life and take my suggestion?! IT WOULD'VE BEEN WORTH IT, GODDAMN YOU! So, freaked out about fi...
Posted by - the heretic on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:46:00 PST

God Hates teh Fags

So I missed round one, but round two was great. We have a "free speech" desgnated area on campus (it's actually a small amphitheater beside the large amphitheater outside of our student center) that p...
Posted by - the heretic on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:23:00 PST