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About Me

Whether you know me or not, my name is Brian Weidemann; and, depending on the folks around me at any given time, I will be called Vitaminn B, Brimaxian, BriMiWei, or --and this is the shameless plug--
Brian M. Weidemann, The Band .
"You're never alone with a schizophrenic!"
--Ian Hunter
Currently reading: Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge Gerald M. Edelman
Currently listening to: ONCE Sountrack featuring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Currently drinking: Stone Smoked Porter, North County San Diego
I'm a musician who focuses primarily on writing and recording, not so much gigging or putting myself in the proverbial "out there". I have produced eight albums on my own, in my own home studio, on my own time, with my own efforts, for free. Album nine is in production and will be complete before 2008 hits the calendar, and that's a promise! Check out some of my tunes if you're interested in seeing what independent music can sound like.
I'm an ironically unabashed introvert, yet I can hold my own in serious intellectual discourse or Napoleon Dynamite quotes. I can channel Ayn Rand just as easily as Beavis & Butthead. I play guitar and piano with years of music theory behind me, I wield a mean pen, pencil, and brush, I haven't used a standard mouse in years because of my Wacom tablet, and I will beat your Minesweeper score into the ground if you challenge me. I love chess, cheese, wit, backrubs, and vocal harmonies. Mostly the harmonies. I have a girlfriend, too. I suppose I have to love her, as well.
Stay tuned for information on how to obtain your own legal copy of my new music! If you're sharp or flat, you won't get the info. (The current new music is the 2007 album Scantily Clad Singularity; all the others are already more or less available for your obtainage ... Just look at this Snocap store!)
I've written more serenades for females than should legally be allowed before a restraining order is filed. But that's all in my past. They're not serenades anymore, technically, but females indeed tend to be the "inspiration", one way or another.
This is my webcam feed. This is my webcam feed displaying whatever-the-heck was in front of the webcam at whichever time is displayed. Any questions? On occasion, however, I use the camera's capabilities productively .

My Interests

Music that's noteworthy and clever and crafty regardless of lyrics, Books that are thick and deep and provoke the mind, Drawing and lettering and penmanship, Graphics and the design thereof, Guitars that are acoustic and/or electric, Keyboarding of both the QWERTY and MIDI persuasion, Girls who are proficient at either and/or both (guitars and keyboards), Nested Boolean operations, The Korg Triton LE-88, Chess, Beer (dark and heavy, stouts and porters), Coffee (light and sweet, like my men), Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Physics, Mathematics, Non-Euclidean Geometries, The TI-82 Graphing Calculator, Typography, Typefaces with lots of character, Wit, Intelligence, Craft, Ingenuity, Film handling & projection, IMAX 15/70mm Large Format film, Cats and kittens, Tinker Bell (yes, the fairy), Uni-Ball Vision Elite Pens (in bold, dark blue), Prismacolor Art Pencils, Lego building bricks and mini-figures, Dining out with good company and conversation, Ice-Cream, A&W Root Beer ("Since 1919"), Bacon & Cheddar Potato Wedges from Jack-In-The-Box, Giving and receiving back rubs (my hands can last for hours, girls!), Driving aimlessly, Conversing, Lollygagging, Writing, Thinking, Relaxing, and many other forms of Gerunding

I'd like to meet:

I very much like whom I've met and I don't need to collect any more associates or acquaintances. I'm content just chillaxin' with the people already in my life. And they know who they are.

Music:

Glen Hansard, Guster, Barenaked Ladies, They Might Be Giants, Eve 6, Eric Johnson, Ben Folds, Nirvana, Boston, Collective Soul, Elliott Smith, Tenacious D, Fountains of Wayne, Tori Amos, Mannheim Steamroller, Oingo Boingo and Danny Elfman, Van Halen, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Spinal Tap, Kristin Hersh, Guns N' Roses, Green Day, John Mellencamp, Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler, Talking Heads, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Ludwig van Beethoven, Tom Petty, The Jayhawks, Rush, The Who, The Turtles, The Beatles and John Lennon, Live, 10,000 Maniacs and Natalie Merchant, Mott The Hoople and Ian Hunter, Lisa Loeb, Fisher, Ani DiFranco, Joe Satriani, Chris Isaak, Paul Simon, Sarah McLachlan, Blues Traveler, Triangleman, Mad At Gravity, Alien Ant Farm, Libbie Schrader, and many more! ( See my collection! ) ... but, if you act now, we'll throw in, as our bonus gift to you, a commemorative " Brian M. Weidemann The Band "

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Movies:

Once, That Thing You Do, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Mighty Wind, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Contact, Fight Club, Shawn of the Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, I (Heart) Huckabees, Good Will Hunting, The Truman Show, Groundhog Day, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Garden State, Twelve Monkeys, Better Off Dead, Office Space, UHF, The Princess Bride, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mighty Aphrodite, Airplane!, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Big Lebowski, Barenaked In America, Shopgirl

Television:

Scrubs, Family Guy, Flight of the Conchords, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, SCTV, Arrested Development, House MD, Mr. Show, Red Dwarf, Extras, The Office (BBC), Kids In The Hall, NewsRadio, The Simpsons, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien

Books:

Notable highlights include: Good Omens Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Douglas Adams, Godel Escher Bach Douglas R. Hofstadter, The Fountainhead Ayn Rand, The Elements of Typographic Style Robert Bringhurst; and I'll read pretty much anything & everything by Richard P. Feynman, Carl Sagan, David Sedaris, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Daniel C. Dennett ... I'm really into books that, right around chapter 10, start heavily discussing the Prisoner's Dilemma. If you don't know, don't ask! Other authors I've enjoyed: George R.R. Martin, Tad Williams, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins

Heroes:

Glen Hansard, Richard P. Feynman, Carl Sagan, Daniel C. Dennett, Ed Robertson, Tom Scholz, ... Howard Roark

My Blog

I didnt have to take a Wii in the first place.

There was a time in my life when I was destined to be a video game nut. But, so far as destiny is not deterministically certain, my fate changed, through really no will of my own.[The second paragrap...
Posted by Brimaxian on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:36:00 PST

The Day of Guinness

What is this thing? The glory days of blogging were cut shorter than they appeared, in the way that you never really know what you’ve lost until it’s gone. Only in retrospect can you sti...
Posted by Brimaxian on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:48:00 PST

The F Word.

All I hear about anymore is Facebook, Facebook, Facebook.I've had a profile account there for a while now--over a year, in fact. January 1, 2007 ... I was there. I often point out that I was an earl...
Posted by Brimaxian on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:38:00 PST

Served extra cold ... brilliant!

Bottles of Guinness Draught are normal 12 oz. bottles which contain only 11.2 oz. of beer, as the awesomely named "rocket widget" needs to take up a little space so it can do its job of exciting the b...
Posted by Brimaxian on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:11:00 PST

Pretty Good Year

My version of the hailed Year In Review blog will now take the form of the following:Never in a single year's span have I seen so many concerts! It's funny, though ... after so many General Admission...
Posted by Brimaxian on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:01:00 PST

Live via webcam, recorded earlier, from my bedroom

Finally, by popular demand, you can see me playing and singing at the same time. This will put to rest the rumor that I've been faking and it's really some professional singer, like Justin Timberlack...
Posted by Brimaxian on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:37:00 PST

Warm-up act

Atypical for a product of my usual late-night inspiration, this blog will not be based on any theme. But, as usual, I will start it out with no particular direction in mind. Here's, in other words, ...
Posted by Brimaxian on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:33:00 PST

Tempe-rary insanity

Audrey and I just took our vacation time together. We drove out of state to visit a friend and see a concert with him. Saturday through Tuesday, we accumulated an appreciable number of memories, and...
Posted by Brimaxian on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:49:00 PST

Ironically after my blog on change. (updated 09-13-07)

09-12-2007 About two hours ago, I got a call from my dad, who has never called me at 1:00 in the morning.My brother was pried out of a car wreck earlier, on the evening of 09-11, and the four broken ...
Posted by Brimaxian on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:04:00 PST

I know, Ill use the "may I help you?" riff.

There's a scene in the motion picture Wayne's World that has been quoted and otherwise referred to many times since the film's release in 1992, fifteen years ago. For the sake of perspective, however...
Posted by Brimaxian on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:57:00 PST