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brian

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About Me

My business

Gone

My Interests

Creating good environments. Biking. Drinking. Drinking and biking. Finding lost wild ponds in downtown. La Tolteca.

I'd like to meet:

Register to vote immediately.

Music:

Brian Eno, Lil Wayne, Beastie Boys, Sinatra, the whole Madlib Madvillain MF Doom Quasimoto thing, all hip-hop from the 80s. Prince if I'm feelin' like a sexy motherfucker.

Movies:

Anything from the Criterion Collection, anything from the freak at the public library who's choosing their great movies — preferably both.

Television:

No tv in the house. Not even a furnace, now that I think about it. When's winter here?

Books:

Christopher Alexander, O'Reilly, The Atlantic, New Yorker.

Heroes:

My folks. MN homies: Prince, Bob Dylan, Garrison Keillor, Alan Page.

My Blog

My nephew

My nephew Nate is on tour in London.He sends a brief dispatch:"Today we're crashing in some swank london pad and in a bit we're going to go guitar hunting because I smashed mine at last night's set.Th...
Posted by brian on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:45:00 PST

Vesti la giubba

Original Italian [1] Recitar! Mentre preso dal delirio, non so più quel che dico, e quel che faccio! Eppur è d'uopo, sforzati! Bah! sei tu forse un uom? Tu se' Pagliaccio! Vesti l...
Posted by brian on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:54:00 PST

wait til i get my money right

So naturally actually had to face things factuallyHad to be a catastrophe with the fridgest starin' back at meCuz nothing's there, nothing's fairI don't wanna ever go back thereSo I won't be takin' no...
Posted by brian on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:33:00 PST

Eno ideas

Stuck?Refresh!
Posted by brian on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:04:00 PST

"Trees" by W. S. Merwin

I am looking at treesthey may be one of the things I will missmost from the earththough many of the ones I have seenalready I cannot rememberand though I seldom embrace the ones I seeand have never be...
Posted by brian on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:15:00 PST

Sinatra

And now, apparently because of his tortured relationship with Gardner, Sinatra burned off all remaining affectations and sentimentality and sang his ballads with bitterness, directness, and masculine ...
Posted by brian on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:11:00 PST

Free John Vanderslice analog remixes

It's 4 am and I'm working to trippy remixes of John Vanderslice's "Pixel Revolt." No vocals, as if Vanderslice and Brian Eno spawned an ambient child.Scott Solter did the deed with "machines, razors, ...
Posted by brian on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:58:00 PST

The Tree Cutters, by Henri Cole

You can't see them and then you can,like beark cubs in the treetops working for man,hoisting one another with ropes and pulleysthat seem the clearest possible metaphorfor bright feelings vs. dark feel...
Posted by brian on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:35:00 PST