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Bryan F. Irrera is voting for OBAMA on 11/04/08

I'm not even supposed to BE here today...

About Me

I'm in my late thirties.
Also See: my livejournal and the extensive list of interests to the left.

My Interests

I enjoy:

    Board and Card Games: Apples to Apples Battle of the Bands Canasta Trivial Pursuit Clue Kill Dr. Lucky 1000 Blank White Cards Monopoly Life
Comic Books (see favorite books below) Dining out: especially with my fellow foodies - Paul (duh!), Kim, Dawn, Shawn, Tracy, Chris and Andi (and sometimes Jenn and/or Vanessa). Disney World - Epcot is my favorite park (we call it "Food World"), but my favorite place .. is the Adventurer's Club. Karaoke - ran "Big Al Karaoke" for two years and still enjoy singing at "Bounce" in Westville, NJ (when the price of gas ever goes down) Movies: worked at a ma and pa video store for years (Four-Star Video in Vineland, NJ) and my partner currently owns a second-run movie house, DeMarco Cinemas, in Vineland, NJ (see below for some favorites) Nudism: I love skinny dipping and am looking forward to a few trips this summer to Sandy Hook. Old Time Radio:
    Adventures by Morse Adventures of Archie Andrews Adventures of Babe Ruth Blondie Box 13 Broadway Is My Beat Calling All Cars Casebook of Gregory Hood Challenge of the Yukon Cinnamon Bear A Date With Judy Dimension X Doctor Kildare Duffy's Tavern Escape Father Knows Best Fibber McGee and Molly The Great Gildersleeve Gunsmoke Have Gun Will Travel I Was a Communist For the FBI Life With Luigi The Lone Ranger Luke Slaughter of Tombstone Lux Radio Theatre Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons My Favorite Husband My Friend Irma Our Miss Brooks The Shadow The Six Shooter Smiths of Hollywood Superman Suspense X-Minus One
Old Time (like) Radio (from the BBC , CBC and ZBS :):From BBC:
    1834 Brief History of Timewasting Dial M For Pizza Falco Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Married Millport Museum of Everything Rigor Mortis Sofa of Time
From Big Finish:
    New Adventures of Doctor Who New Adventures of Sarah Jane SmithFrom CBC:Midnight Cab
From ZBS:
    Jack Flanders Ruby, The Galactic Gumshoe Saratoga Springs
Podcasts -
    I regularly listen to: ABC News: Cybershake Advice With Dawn Alt-NPR: B-Side Radio Alt-NPR:Brini Maxwell's Hints For Gracious Living The Anti-Hit List Boggiamusic The Dawn and Drew Show Decoder Ring Theatre Disney: Inside the Magic Earth and Sky Eat Feed Gay Pimpin' With Jonny McGovern Hall of Mirrors by Mike Bennett Meatball's Meatballs Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day Mostly Trivial with Johnee Bee Nerd Moment NPR: Story of the Day NPR:Sunday Puzzle NPR: This American Life NPR: Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me One Among the Sleepless by Mike Bennett Talk It Over Radio TWiT Network: The Daily Giz Wiz TWiT Network: Jumping Monkeys TWiT Network: Net @ Nite TWiT Network: This Week in Tech TWiT Network: Windows Weekly A Way With Words WDW Today
I regularly watch:
    Abigail's X-Rated Teen Diary Boing Boing TV Brini Maxwell's Hints and Tips For a Gracious Life The Cockpit CommandN Cook's Illustrated Cranky Geeks Ctrl+Alt Chicken Cult of UHF Dawn and Drew TV The Digg Reel Diggnation DL.TV Goodnight Burbank Mr. Deity National Geographic Video Shorts PopSiren Rocketboom Simply Ming Tekzilla Tiki Bar TV Totally Rad Show Vintage Tooncast We Need Girlfriends WebbAlert
the Rocky Horror Picture Show: performed with "The Transducer Players" for two years at the Harwan in Mt. Ephraim, NJ and for a year with "Seven Hours Old" in Vineland, Nj at the DeMarco The Sims: currently playing characters in "Strangetown" in "Sims 2/University/Nightlife/Open For Business" Theatre: performed in various plays at most of the organizations in Cumberland County...taking a particular joy in performing in the plays of William Shakespeare
So Far, I've done:
    Twelfth Night Taming of the Shrew Othello Much Ado About Nothing

I'd like to meet:

Cool people with open minds who like to have fun, but NOT those asshole spammers who friend people just to get people to go to their whore/porn websites. I can find porn on my own, thank you very much.I'd most like to meet people like these guys and gals:

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Screw That Whole "Top Eight" Shit. How about a Top Forty?

Dawn is a Diva with a Heart of Gold

Kim wants to think she's !!Hardcore!!, but she's really a softie

Shawn is "So Money"

Jim Dunn is a Superhero

Candie found her True Love

Martin has always been HOT...literally.

Melissa is our Beautiful Flower

Pat Is Everyone's Favorite Cripple

Terri is the Karen to my Jack

Michael is my dark half

Darryl is probably the biggest geek I know

Hey, Mickey, She's So Fine!

Master Thespian, Brett

K.O. is our most sarcastic friend

Chris is a Proud Papa

Andi is a Hot Mama

RJ is our favorite resident "fag stag"

Jarvis is my favorite partner in naked crime

Heather is one of my favorite playmates

Kris is a great Scrabble challenger

Marni can ALWAYS make me laugh

Shelley will always tell it like it is

Nate is the guy you want at your back in a bar fight

Steph, the WASbian

John is our personal tech support

I offered to sleep with Macho, but he put me in his movie ANYWAY ;)

Everyone needs a little Pixie in their life

The only thing better than one Jenn Walker in your life...

...Is TWO Jenn Walkers!

Have I name dropped about singing with Jill Sobule lately?

Margaret Cho is my personal Goddess!

The Feeling is my favorite new band of 2007

Shojo Beat is THE best manga anthology!

The Adventurer's Club is my favorite place in the world

I'm Dawn and Drew Minion #248

All you shitty faggots should listen to Gay Pimp's podcast!

Add some adventure to your life with Decoder Ring Theatre

Goodnight Burbank is the best news show on the 'net

We Need Girlfriends - Best Sitcom (Not) On Television

If It Weren't For Threadless.Com, I'd Be Naked More Often

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Music:

ABBA, Tori Amos, Tasmin Archer, Nicole Atkins, The Bangles, Barenaked Ladies, The Beatles, Pat Benatar, Berlin, The B-52's, Jim Boggia, Bon Jovi, Kate Botello, Boy George, Laura Branigan, Tracy Chapman, Cher, Patsy Cline, Concrete Blonde, Crowded House, Culture Club, Cutie and the Catfish, Def Leppard, FeFe Dobson, Duran Duran, Yvonne Elliman, Mama Cass Elliott, Melissa Etheridge, Eurythmics, Evanescence, Judy Garland, the Go-Go's, Lesley Gore, the Hint, Human League, Indigo Girls, Journey, The Kaiser Chiefs, the Kids From Fame, K.D. Lang, Cyndi Lauper, Peggy Lee, John Lennon, Annie Lennox, Toby Lightman, Little Nell, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Meatloaf, John Cougar Mellencamp, Bette Midler, The Monkees, the Motels, Megan Mullally, Johnette Napolitano, Stevie Nicks, Off Kilter, Pansy Division, Dolly Parton, The Partridge Family, The Pretenders, Prince, Red Delicious, Emily Richards, RuPaul, Sade, Scissor Sisters, Shakespear's Sister, Frank Sinatra, Jill Sobule, Sonny & Cher, Dusty Springfield, Donna Summer, 10,000 Maniacs, Too Much Joy, Tracy Ullman, Paul Williams, "Avenue Q", "Carrie: The Musical", "Dreamgirls", "Eddie and the Cruisers", "Gypsy", "Into the Woods", "Jesus Christ Superstar", Les Miserables", "Little Shop of Horrors", "Miss Saigon", "Once On This Island", "Phantom of the Paradise", "Reefer Madness", "Rent", "Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Shock Treatment", "Sideshow", "Sunday In the Park With George", "Wicked", "Xanadu"My recent tracks:

Movies:

LIKES:Airplane!, Alien, All About Eve, Amelie, American Pop, American Splendor, Bagdad Cafe, Bear Cub, Beetlejuice, Being John Malkovich, Best In Show, Big Eden, Boogie Nights, Bound, Breakfast Club, Bride of Frankenstein, Cannibal! The Musical, Carrie, Cecil B. Demented, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Clockwatchers, The Color Purple, Donnie Darko, Eddie and the Cruisers, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Eve's Bayou, Fag Hag, Female Trouble, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, Fight Club, Finding Nemo, Gattaca, Ghost World, Gidget, Girl Interrupted, Gone With the Wind, Grey Gardens, Hairspray, Heathers, High Fidelity, I Heart Huckabees, I Shot Andy Warhol, I Think I Do, Jeffrey, Kamikaze Girls, Lady and the Tramp, the Lost Boys, Matilda, Mildred Pierce, Mommie Dearest, Mulan, Mystery Men, Nightmare on Elm Street (especially one, three and seven), Nine to Five, The Opposite of Sex, Pecker, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Phantom of the Paradise, Planet of the Apes (the old ones), Poseidon Adventure, Psycho Beach Party, Pump Up The Volume, Reality Bites, Reefer Madness, Reefer Madness: The Musical, Reservoir Dogs, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Rosalie Goes Shopping, Royal Tenenbaums, Saved!, Shock Treatment, Showgirls, Shrek, St. Elmo's Fire, Stand By Me, A Star Is Born (the Judy Garland one, of course), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Wars (but only the ones with Luke, Leia and Han), Student Bodies, Swingers, This Is Spinal Tap, Torch Song Trilogy, Valley of the Dolls, Vertigo, Very Bad Things, Wag The Dog, Waiting, Waiting For Guffman, Waking Life, Welcome to the Dollhouse, What's Up Doc?, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Wizard of Oz, Xanadu, Young FrankensteinDISLIKES:An Affair To Remember, Aladdin, As Good As It Gets, Birdcage, Brokeback Mountain, Broken Flowers, Clockwork Orange, Coyote Ugly, Daredevil, Dead Poet Society, Dick Tracy, Dragonheart, Dumb and Dumber, Edward Scissorhands, Ernest series, Andy Warhol's Flesh, Forbidden Zone, Forrest Gump, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Friday the 13th (any of them 'cept four), From Hell (read the book), Good Will Hunting, Harry Potter films (read the books), Home Alone, In & Out, Interview With the Vampire (read the book), Isn't She Lovely, League of Their Own, Liar Liar, Lost in Translation, Men in Black, Moulin Rouge, Never Been Kissed, Nightmare Before Christmas, Notting Hill, Office Space, the Outsiders, Philadelphia, Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton), Pocahontas, Police Academy (any), Predator, Pretty Woman, Princess Bride, Raising Arizona, Say Uncle, Shark Tale, Sleepless in Seattle, Star Wars (the ones with Amidala and Jar-Jar), There's Something About Mary, Throw Mama From the Train, Top Gun, Unbreakable, Usual Suspects, Van Wilder, Wedding Crashers, When Harry Met Sally, While You Were Sleeping, Witches of Eastwick (read the book)

Television:

LIKES:Absolutely Fabulous, Arrested Development, Bewitched, Big Love, Bionic Woman, Boondocks, Brady Brides, Brady Bunch, Brady Kids, The Brini Maxwell Show, The Bugaloos, Butterflies, Call For Help, Coupling, Crossing Jordan, Dead Like Me, Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Doctor Who, French & Saunders, Friends, Gilligan's Island, Good Eats, H.R. PufNStuf, How I Met Your Mother, Huff, I Love Lucy, Iron Chef, Jem, Justice League Unlimited, The L Word, Land of the Lost, Laugh-In, Laverne and Shirley, Lidsville, Life on Mars, Magic Garden, Match Game, Medium, Metrosexuality, Miami Ink, Moonlighting, Partridge Family, Password, PBS' _____ House series, Queer As Folk, Ranma 1/2, Reno 911, Roseanne, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Seinfeld, So NoTORIous, Sophie, South Park, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The State, Strangers With Candy, Teen Titans, Twin Peaks, Unfabulous, V, Vicar of Dibley, Weeds, Whose Line Is It Anyway (UK)?DISLIKES:A-Team, America's Funniest Home Videos, American Idol, ANY show about ANY sports, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Beavis and Butthead, Big Brother, Blind Date, Chappelle Show, Cheaters, Deal or No Deal, Dukes of Hazzard, ER, Everybody Hates Chris, Everybody Loves Raymond, Extreme Makeover (ANY), Family Guy, Family Matters, The Flash, Full House, Greatest American Hero (don't watch the DVDs if you liked it as a kid), He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Home Improvement, Honey We're Killing the Kids, Jerry Springer, Judge ____, King of the Hill, King of Queens, Magnum P.I., Mind of Mencia, Minoriteam, Montel Williams, Morey Povich, Nick and Jessica, Night Rider, The Oblongs, The Osbournes, People's Court, Punky Brewster, Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, Sanford and Son, Sex and The City, Simple Life, Simpsons, Smurfs, Star Trek: Voyager, Surreal Life, Transformers, Whose Line Is It Anyway (US)?

Books:

    Books (Prose): American Gods by Neil Gaiman Anne of Green Gables (series) by Lucy Maud Montgomery Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Carrie by Stephen King The Color Purple by Alice Walker Coyote Blues by Christopher Moore Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes Flowers In the Attic (series) by V.C. Andrews Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Griffin & Sabine (series) by Nick Bantock Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (series) by Douglas Adams I Robot (series) by Isaac Asimov Interview With the Vampire (series) by Anne Rice The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem The Museum Guard by Howard Norman Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Red As Blood: Tales By Sister Grimmer by Tanith Lee Set This House In Order by Matt Ruff She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee The Stand by Stephen King The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Tales of the City (series) by Armistead Maupin Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann Wild Cards (series) edited by George R.R. Martin

DISLIKES:
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCatcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Some Favorite Comics/Graphic Novels:
    American Splendor (series) Birds of Prey (series) Bone (series) Crisis on Infinite Earths The Dark Knight Returns Elfquest (series) Fables (series) Hikaru No Go (manga) Iron Wok Jan (manga) Maison Ikkoku (manga) Maus Nana (manga) Sandman (series) Strangers in Paradise (series) Watchmen X-Men - The Dark Phoenix Saga X-Men - Days of Future Past X-Men - God Loves, Man Kills Zot (series)

Some Favorite Characters (Comics):
    Barbara Gordon (Batgirl/Oracle) Dick Grayson (Robin/Nightwing) Donna Troy (Wonder Girl/Troia/Wonder Woman) Katchoo (Katina Marie Choovanski) Kitty Pryde (Ariel/Sprite/Shadowcat) Ororo Munroe (Storm) Princess Diana of Themyscira (Wonder Woman) Skywise (Fahr of the Wolfriders)

Heroes:

Margaret Cho, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Lily Tomlin,

My Blog

Because we ALL need a break from the elections!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPzNl6NKAG0 ...
Posted by Bryan F. Irrera is voting for OBAMA on 11/04/08 on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:02:00 PST

No on 8 PSA: FAMILY (Molly Ringwald)

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Posted by Bryan F. Irrera is voting for OBAMA on 11/04/08 on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:22:00 PST

No on 8 PSA: MARGARET CHO & SELENE LUNA

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Posted by Bryan F. Irrera is voting for OBAMA on 11/04/08 on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:21:00 PST

KTVA, Local CBS Affiliate, Reports On Palin Trooper-Gate Sca

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UojMnCgqVA ...
Posted by Bryan F. Irrera is voting for OBAMA on 11/04/08 on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:05:00 PST

The Idiot Box - Teaser promo #1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry_xXGYl5rY ...
Posted by Bryan F. Irrera is voting for OBAMA on 11/04/08 on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:39:00 PST

Pineappluman - Spore Creature Creator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ1AvD3AlEE This is my latest creature from the Spore Creature Creator. Imagine what humans would be like if they evolved from Pineapples!!!...
Posted by Bryan F. Irrera is voting for OBAMA on 11/04/08 on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:54:00 PST

Are You FUCKING Kidding Me? - an open letter to Rebecca Heiland-Leeds-Jackson

Look, Becky, some things we have to get clear:  The world does not revolve around you nor does it bend to your will simply because you stamp your feet and whine about it.  The world is not o...
Posted by Bryan F. Irrera is voting for OBAMA on 11/04/08 on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:09:00 PST

To the douchebag who dropped out of my wedding...

For the record, yeah, I did just delete you from my friends list.  You and your fuck buddy.  Go get married and hopefully he'll never find out that he's not the only one you cheated on your ...
Posted by Bryan F. Irrera is voting for OBAMA on 11/04/08 on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:23:00 PST