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About Me

Full-time principal percussionist and drum captain for Cirque Du Soleil's "Dralion" tour. Currently on Australian tour. The next year includes Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne. Formerly performed on Cirque's "Alegria" show on South American tour. Check out: www.cirquedusoleil.com and Personal website: www.brentroman.com Endorsed artist by LP Percussion. Chicago native. Chicago projects include: Mucca Pazza (www.mucca-pazza.org & www.myspace.com/muccapazza) Trinity Irish Dance Company (www.trinitydancers.com) Lookingglass Theatre (www.lookingglasstheatre.org) Silverguy Entertainment (www.silverguy.com) Huang He (www.yellowriverperformingarts.com) Cheng Da Taiwanese Percussion Drum Team (www.ncku.edu.tw)Check out my Travel Blogs & Travel Reviews

My Interests

Music: any kind. Movies: all, especially foriegn/indies. Ultimate, pool, ping-pong, discgolf, juggling, fire manipulation, Aikido, Rei-ki, travel, cooking, world cultures, manifestation, theoretical physics. iTunes and iPod!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Having an enthralling conversation for hours in a cafe. (w/ boba tea!) Hanging out with the Mucca Pazza Peeps.Go K-12 !!!!!

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Too much to mention. A Few names: Bollywood soundtracks, Cirque Du Soleil, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Kodo, Solas, Nomad, Dj Shadow, Postal Service, Geggy Tah, Kenna, Cornelius, Mucca Pazza, Tchaikovsky, Paul Simon, Zero 7, Bartok, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams, Lou Harrison, Bjork, Bach, Talvin Singh, Colin McPhee, Bebel Gilberto, Zhao Jiping, Gloria Estephan, Zhang Zi Mei, Gotan Project, Aimee Mann, Caroline Glass, Babba Maal, Bob Marley, Frou Frou, Tujiko Noriko, Yoshida Brothers....

Movies:

foreign and indies!!! *Favorite Movie: Baraka *Favorite Comedy: Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail *Favorite Bollywood Movie: Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam *Favorite Dance Movie: Tango /&/ Amelia (lalala Human Steps)Favorite Chinese Movie: Farwell My Concubine /&/ Together *Favorite French Film: Amelie /&/ Un Couer en Hiver *Favorite Japanese Film: Happiness of the Katakuris /&/ Zatoichi *Favorite Action Movie: Kill Bill 1&2 /&/ The Professional *Favorite Indie Movie: Gengis Blues /&/ Powaquatsi *Favorite Music Movie: Bjork's video compilations *Favorite Performance Art Movie: Cirque Du Soleil *

Television:

I don't watch TV. Movies are my vice. ....and YouTube

Books:

Favourite books: River Town, and The Field. Favourite magazine: Time Out Chicago

Heroes:

Whomever invented iTunes and the iPod is my hero.

My Blog

Cirque Blog 1: Belo Horizante

CIRQUE BLOG 1 (1/15/08) : Belo HorizanteHello Everyone! Welcome to my first travel blog. I know it is long over due,&but hopefully I can get in the habit now and it will become more of a regular thing...
Posted by Brent on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:40:00 PST

Lost Poem

So, as I was cleaning out my massive file cabinet of random papers ( going back to Highschool days no less....), I came across a poem I wrote while in Highschool.I thought it was pretty good at the ti...
Posted by Brent on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:04:00 PST