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Bryan

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Read my blog.Here's a live clip of my band playing in LA:
click here for more videos like this

My Interests

Playing music, listening to music, listening to people play music, playing music for listening people. Oh yeah, and just music.

I'd like to meet:

Tom Waits

Music:

Do I have to do this? It'll take all night. Randomly: The Beach Boys/Brian Wilson, Ben Folds, Less Than Jake, Ramones, Danny Elfman, Bernard Hermann, Mike Doughty, Soul Coughing, Tom Waits, Foo Fighters, Brian Setzer, Reverend Horton Heat, Ween, NOFX, Weezer (except the last album, which sucks), Tenacious D, Beastie Boys, Cake, The Who, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Wilco, Old 97s, Slaid Cleaves, Ozzy, Weakerthans, Fountains of Wayne, Beatles, All, Henry Rollins (sometimes), Grandaddy, FrontRowCenter, Going Nowhere, Scotland Barr and the Slow Drags, Big Sandy, Lucky Stars, Nick Drake, Spoon, Daniel Lanois, The Jealous Sound, Life is Bonkers, Decemberists, Shins, Loretta Lynn, Golden Shoulders, Tom Waits, The Be Good Tanyas, Drunken Prayer, The Lonesomes, Skeletor Mojo, Emma Hill, Jacob Golden, Fats Domino, Rilo Kiley, Roger Miller, whatever band KV Smith is in...

Movies:

Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Fight Club, Incredibles, Josie and the Pussycats, The Life Aquatic, Napoleon Dynamite, most Hitchcock movies, most Tim Burton movies, A Clockwork Orange, Comedian, In America, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear of a Black Hat, Breakfast Club, Rushmore, Big Lebowski

Television:

The Office, Spongebob, Sopranos, Home Movies, 24, Space Ghost, Brak Show, Simpsons, Family Guy...what can I say, I like cartoons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Conan O'Brien, Ali G, Mr. Bean, Ren & Stimpy, Chapelle's Show

Books:

The Road Less Traveled, Catcher in the Rye, most Tom Robbins, most Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Artist's Way, and beyond that it's mostly special interest, instructional, or music books.

Heroes:

Danny Elfman, Henry Rollins, Tom Waits, Ben Folds, Johnny Cash, Buddy Lee - Man of Action, Mr. Kerth, Balki Bartokamus

My Blog

OK, what? OK, awesome! (tour update)

    Hi everyone,I'm long overdue on a tour blog, since we've already been out for over 3 weeks.  For those of you in the dark, my band Scotland Barr & the Slow Drags is out on ...
Posted by Bryan on Sat, 17 May 2008 08:57:00 PST

Check out this video-studio goofiness

Question - what happens when you're the drummer of a band, in town to record your album over 7 days at the Magic Closet, but you've finished all your drums tracks by day 2 and have nothing left to do?...
Posted by Bryan on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:43:00 PST

Stars in the desert

Hi everyone, For those of you who don't know, I've been on tour for the last week and a half with my band, Scotland Barr and the Slow Drags.  We had such an interesting night last night - played ...
Posted by Bryan on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:12:00 PST

Fire, Part 2

Link to news story about the fire...there's a video too.  Unfortunately they got most of the details wrong...the power line (it may have actually been a phone line) came down during the fire...
Posted by Bryan on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:46:00 PST

How come fortune cookies never predict this stuff?

So around 12:45 this morning, Autumn has just gone to bed and I'm still up checking email.  The window in the next room is open. All of a sudden I hear someone scream outside, and the d...
Posted by Bryan on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:53:00 PST

I'm on a podcast!

Hi friends, I've been interviewed on a recording podcast! Check out http://www.projectstudionetwork.com I'm in show #70.  I also did a piece in show #67. Off to hobnob with Paris Hilton......
Posted by Bryan on Fri, 11 May 2007 12:52:00 PST

Tour tour

Hello folks,I'm in Davis, CA, right now, enjoying a much needed R'n'R day off. We've only been out since last Thursday, technically, but we did a three-day jaunt to Idaho the previous week, so it fee...
Posted by Bryan on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:18:00 PST

buh

Ever get a zit on the inside of your nose?  God, that's annoying. I haven't been blogging much; haven't been journaling at all, really.  I feel like it's almost time to start again.  W...
Posted by Bryan on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:37:00 PST

Podcasting

Friends,I have created a podcast from the songs of indie artists I found on garageband.com . Please check it out on my profile under 'About me.' It's about 14 minutes long. If you like it let me kn...
Posted by Bryan on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:56:00 PST

short but sweet

Hey, for those of you who don't kow, I'm getting married in 4 days.  We used the Men's Wearhouse for all the guys' clothes - please, listen to me - DO NOT GO TO THE MEN'S WEARHOUSE, EVER, EVER, E...
Posted by Bryan on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:54:00 PST