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Hard Working Middle Class American Plumber?
or a figment of imagination in John McCain plumbing?
Who is Joe the Plumber?

Brad Reason - DJ Doubledown - Doubledown Tandino Blog
CURRENT ENDEAVORS:
Full Time Second Life professional in the event, music and, marketing fields.
Professional DJ (2000-current)
"Dress Casual" - A Deep-n-Funky House Mix (Feb 2006)
"Deep In The House" - A Deep House Mix (Sept 2004)
Music:
Brad Reason a.k.a. DJ Doubledown on Myspace.com
Production/Mixing/Editing/Sample Arrangement (1997-current)
Second Life:
Doubledown Tandino
Listed in the LindenLab Develper Directory
Live DJ, DJ & Stream Training, Event Consultation, Graphic Design, Promotion Consultation, Approved Instructor
Avid Movie & DVD Watcher. (I love special features and commentaries)
PAST ENDEAVORS:
Baltimore Stormin' Brainz
Owner/Operator
Entertainment & Event/Production & Promotion (2000-2007)
Events (Baltimore Stormin' Brainz presents):
Living in XS @ XS - Saturday Nights
Lucid Sessions @ XS - Friday Nights Jay's Restaurant Group
Marketing Director & Entertainment Director
XS | Neo Viccino Bar & Grille | Jay's Deli
Lucidstep @ The Depot (2004-2005)
The Entertainment Nexus - Owner/Events Producer (2002-2004)
Absolute Entertainment - Events Producer/Music Director/DJ (2000-2004)
Court Jester for Caesars Atlantic City (1998-2000)
Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey's - Circus Clown (1997-1998)
Eckerd College - Concentration in Theatre, Art, & Music (1998-1999)
Wrote/Directed the play "Insane" (1996)
Graduate of Baltimore School for the Arts (Theatre) (1993-1997)

My Interests

Entertainment, DJing, Producing Events, Second Life

I'd like to meet:

People into the Baltimore DJ/Club/Electronica Nightlife

Music:

70s Funk, Motown, Old School HipHop, Modern Jazz, Deep House, Funky House, NuJazz, Broken Beat, Garage, IDM, Drum-n-Bass, Trip-Hop, DownTempo

Movies:

This is a list of MY FAVORITE Movies. I'm a HUGE movie fan, and take alot of pride in the movies I love. This list is always updated. (Please don't steal my list and call it your own, because if you do you are no longer an individual, and you're now trying to emulate me... which is sad.)
Best Comedy Partying and/or Drug Movies:
1) The Big Lebowski
2) Swingers
3) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
4) Fast Times at Ridgemont High
5) Human Traffic
6) Half Baked
7) Dazed and Confused
8) Up in Smoke (Cheech and Chong)
9) Friday
Best Action/Drama Partying and/or Drug Movies:
1) Blow
2) Boogie Nights
3) Requiem for a Dream
4) Goodfellas
5) Go
6) The Doors
7) 24 Hour Party People
8) Trainspotting
9) Scarface
10) Blue Velvet
11) New Jack City
12) Groove
13) Kids
14) Robocop 2
15) Prayer of the Rollerboys
Best Gangster Movies:
1) Goodfellas
2) Casino
3) Pulp Fiction
4) Donny Brasco
5) Resevoir Dogs
6) The Usual Suspects
7) The Untouchables
8) A Bronx Tale
9) Scarface
10) Godfather pt 1
11) Godfather pt 2
12) Boyz in the Hood
13) Hoodlum
14) Carlito's Way
15) Dick Tracy
16) Sucker Free City
Best Trippy Family Movies:
1) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
2) Tron
3) Who Framed Roger Rabbit
4) Monsters Inc.
5) What Dreams May Come
6) Alice in Wonderland
7) The Beatles - Yellow Submarine
Best Movies my Generation Grew Up With:
1) Stand By Me
2) Goonies
3) Big
4) Radio Flyer
5) Drop Dead Fred
6) Beetlejuice
7) Tron
8) PeeWee's Big Adventure
9) The Neverending Story
10) Labrynth
11) Willow
12) Explorers
13) The Last Starfighter
14) D.a.r.y.l.
15) A Princess Bride
16) Flight of the Navigator
17) The Dark Crystal
18) Ghostbusters
19) Howard The Duck
20) Karate Kid pt 1
21) The Last Dragon
22) The Secret of NIMH
23) The Wizard
24) Cloak & Dagger
Best Cult Classics:
1) The Graduate
2) A Clockwork Orange
3) Harold and Maude
4) The Breakfast Club
5) Blade Runner Directors Cut
6) The Lost Boys
7) Repo Man
Best Movies with Nuts:
1) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
2) The Shining
3) What's Eating Gilbert Grape
4) Blue Velvet
5) Misery
6) American Psycho
Best Ultra-Violence Movies:
1) A Clockwork Orange
2) Natural Born Killers Directors Cut
3) Fight Club
4) Kill Bill Vol 1
Best Zombie Movies:
1) Shaun of the Dead
2) 28 Days Later
3) Resident Evil 1
4) Dawn of the Dead (new vers)
5) Dawn of the Dead (old vers)
Best Horror, Thriller, or Suspense Movies:
1) The Shining
2) Rear Window
3) Silence of the Lambs
4) Seven
5) The Devil's Advocate
6) IT
7) The Ring
8) 28 Days Later
9) Final Destination
10) Fargo
Best Stupid Humor Movies:
1) Kung Fu Hustle
2) Airplane
3) Wet Hot American Summer
4) The Naked Gun
5) Ace Ventura Pet ..ective
6) A Dirty Shame
7) Caddyshack
8) Kingpin
Best All-Around Great Movies:
1) The Shawshank Redemption
2) American Beauty
3) Almost Famous
4) Field of Dreams
5) Big
6) Forrest Gump
7) Rain Man
8) Defending Your Life
Best 80s Movies:
1) Raiders of the Lost Ark
2) The Breakfast Club
3) Big
4) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
5) Fast Times at Ridgemont High
6) The Golden Child
7) Back to the Future 1
8) Die Hard
9) Weird Science
10) Ghostbusters
11) The Last Dragon
12) Heathers
(NO Pretty in Pink! NO Sixteen Candles! NO Say Anything)
Best Cyberpunk Movie:
1) The Matrix 1
2) Hackers
3) Johnny Mnemonic
Best SNL Character(s) Movies:
1) Blues Brothers
2) Wayne's World 1
3) Little Nicky (Sandler did the character in a weekend update)
4) Wayne's World 2
5) A Night at the Roxbury
Best War Movies:
1) Full Metal Jacket
2) A Thin Red Line
3) Platoon
4) Braveheart
5) Apocalypse Now
6) Glory
7) Black Hawk Down
8) Born on the 4th of July
9) Saving Private Ryan
10) Andersonville
11) Starship Troopers
Best Arnold Movies:
1) Total Recall
2) Running Man
3) Terminator 2
4) Predator
5) Kindergarden Cop
6) Commando
Best Quentin Movies:
1) Pulp Fiction
2) Resevoir Dogs
3) True Romance
4) Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2
5) From Dusk Till Dawn
6) Four Rooms
Best Spike Lee Joints:
1) Crooklyn
2) Get On the Bus
3) Do the Right Thing
4) Malcolm X
5) Bamboozled
6) Summer of Sam
7) Sucker Free City
8) Original Kings of Comedy
9) He Got Game
10) Clockers
Best Audio Commentaries on a DVD:
1) Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events
2) Boogie Nights
3) Swingers
4) Natural Born Killers
5) Anchorman
Uncategorized (for now):
Memento
24 Hour Party People
Stripes
Private Parts
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Best Movies I love but some people would consider bad movies:
Cube
Hairspray
Serial Mom
Pecker
Cecil B Demented
A Dirty Shame
The Dentist
Midnight Madness
The People under the Stairs

Television:

Current: Flight of the Conchords, Lost, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, The Office (American vers.)
The Past: Freaks and Geeks, The Simpsons, Undeclared, The Wonder Years, Seinfeld, The Office (British vers.), Cheers, The Sopranos, Lucky Louie, Roseanne, Looney Toons, In Living Color, The Twilight Zone (80s vers.), You Can't Do that on Television, Ducktails, Punky Brewster, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, The Apprentice

Books:

1984, Vurt

My Blog

Some Stupid Things I said in College that became Catch-Phrases (1999)

These are some things I said at some point during college that seemed to get stuck as catch-phrases amongst my dorm and friends. I seemed to remember having catch-phrases being important to me.&...
Posted by Brad on Wed, 31 May 2006 10:59:00 PST

A Poem I Wrote in College (1999)

I can feel that drug-filled eye bubble candy blacklight driving through my optic nerve and straight into my fucking brain.I can feel that hit kick like bisquik at 7 in the morning that short Puerto Ri...
Posted by Brad on Wed, 31 May 2006 10:45:00 PST

Some Art & Photography - (1998-2002)

Here's some art I did in the past. These were either photographs I digitally changed or something I drew, then photographed. Enjoy ...
Posted by Brad on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:37:00 PST

Questions Answered on my Clown College Application - 1997

In 1997 I attended Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey's Clown College. Thousands audition, 33 got into the class. Part of the entrance process was a essay style application. I...
Posted by Brad on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:03:00 PST

My Super Power Top-10 Wish-List - 1985

When I was a kid, I thought a lot about special abilities that I may discover when I got older. I used to think that I could pick one, focus and train, and by adulthood it would work. Recently I...
Posted by Brad on Sat, 03 Dec 2005 07:38:00 PST

My Very Descriptive LSD Experience - 2000

Personally, I think this is the best thing I've written. I think I captured what I was thinking and seeing very well, which is a VERY HARD thing to do when conveying an acid experience. -...
Posted by Brad on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:36:00 PST

The Last College Paper I Ever Wrote - 1998

I went to college for only one year taking mostly art, music, and theatre classes. By the end of the first year I was getting job opportunities I couldn't pass up, so I passed up college. ...
Posted by Brad on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:01:00 PST

"The Gumball Machine" - A Dialog Scene - 1995

This was written by me and then performed in 1995, Junior year of highschool. My best bud Tony Jones played the younger kid. Later, Tony and I worked together again when I wrote and direct...
Posted by Brad on Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:41:00 PST

Untitled Thought (a poem) - 2001

Untitled Thought On the verge of an ingenious paradigmNot articulative...No proof of full-fledged thought...At least it was almost thinking...Strain to remember... To write the fester down!Before the ...
Posted by Brad on Sat, 01 Oct 2005 11:00:00 PST

What I'm going to post in my blog...

I've decided to start my blogging... but I'm not going to write what's on my mind, or what I did today. I find it boring writing what I'm going through, and also boring reading some other people...
Posted by Brad on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:58:00 PST