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My self-summary Propose an edit

First things first, introductions, I'm Brendan, pleased to meet you. Now on with it.

Well I suppose I'll start here.

I'm something of a music enthusiast, although addict might be a more accurate description. I spend hours upon countless hours listening to music, collecting music (lately in the form of vinyl), looking for new music, and deciphering it's many mysteries. So I suppose it comes as little shock I've made it my chosen area of study. I'm a guitarist, and I take my craft rather seriously. I'm currently studying music at college (I'm considering the possibility of switching to a University and taking a split major of Music/English). I also study classical guitar privately, and I have the nails to prove it. Music is my passion, love, muse and ultimately my savior. The life of the musician is what I've chosen, and as such I've solemnly accepted the fact that I shall remain utterly destitute for the remainder of my life.

Second among my passions is that of art. I draw, sketch and paint incessantly. I keep a sketchpad with me nearly everywhere, and have filled innumerable sketchpads with hundreds of drawings. My bookshelf is littered with dozens of books on anatomy, perspective, technique and art history. I visit galleries whenever I get the chance, whether the art is famous or not.

Third and fourth among my passions are those of literature and learning. I often have my head stuck in a book, forgoing sleep to finish "one more chapter". I've read something about nearly every topic making me a veritable walking encyclopedia of absolutely useless information (although one frequently called upon by friends). I actually work at a used bookstore; so I usually bring a few (ten or more) books home a week for dirt cheap (or often for free). I believe at last count I owned something in the area of five hundred books. I also write a fair deal. Finally, I love museums & historical sites, being around antiquities and history makes me giddy with the thought of the many hands these objects passed through, and the events they witnessed (as much as an object can witness), but then again I'm strange like that.

I'm a pretty quiet person, I enjoy my personal time and my privacy. I tend to spend many hours cloistered in my room, pursuing singular activity; whether it be: writing, reading, drawing, practicing or composing. Conversely I also revel in social interaction. I have what many describe as a very odd, absurd and rather dark sense of humor. I'm utterly self depreciating. I'm rather prone to fits of existential angst and despair. Schadenfreude amuses me to no end (granted as long as the subject is deserving of their fate). I tend to err on the side pessimism, and find myself delving deeper into cynicism as the years pass. I've been known to rant and lecture on esoteric subjects for hours on end to anyone unfortunate enough to be within range. I'm fairly slow to trust people, as I've seen more than my fair share of betrayal. I'm an obsessive tea drinker, I'm probably drinking it as you read this. I have an unhealthy love of the rain and fog. I'm deathly afraid of telephones, and rarely use them except in occasions of dire need. I've been known to be an insufferable geek. I suffer intense and frequent, chronic migraines. I have nothing left to say.

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

Wasting my life, and trying to get laid...no scrap that.

Traveling the long and arduous path of the musician, gaining the proficiency and knowledge to excel in my chosen discipline. Expanding my horizons and honing my craft as an artist and poet. Feverishly and futilely attempting to learn all in this world...While wasting my life and trying to get laid.

I'm really good at Propose an edit

Playing Guitar, Writing, Making tea, Drawing/painting/sculpting, Self Loathing, Brooding, Ranting, Baking, Muttering incoherently, Reading books at an incredible pace.

Finally: Crushing and scattering my enemies, driving them before me, seeing their cities reduced to ashes, watching those who love them shrouded in tears, and gathering into my bosom their wives and daughters.

Aww Genghis Khan, such a fluffy and bubbly guy.

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

Most likely my height (6'4), my copious vocabulary, or the long hair. People have actually come up to me, with the explicit purpose of telling me how great my hair is. One girl came up and asked to touch it, and then proceeded to touch it before I was able to respond...which was more than a little weird.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

Literature:
Everything from ancient myth and Classical works (The Iliad & The Odyssey, Plato's Republic, Virgil's Aeneid, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, The Satyricon, Tacitus' Annals and Histories, Livy's Histories of Rome, The Art Of War, Irish mythology (Táin Bó Cúailnge), Norse Mythology, The Epic of Gilgamesh, I'm rather partial to Greek tragedy, comedy and drama as well, think Euripides, Aeschylus and Aristophanes ), Medieval works (Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Canterbury Tales, La Morte D'Arthur, The Divine Comedy), Renaissance works (Shakespeare, Marlowe, Machiavelli's The Prince, Paradise Lost), Romanticism (William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Edgar A. Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne) Irish Literature (James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats etc.), Russian Literature (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn), Early Science Fiction/Fantasy (Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.G Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle), 20th Century Literature, especially the Beat authors and those involved in the Counter-Culture movement (Franz Kafka, C.S Forester, E.M Forster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Robert Graves, Anthony Burgess, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Abbie Hoffman etc.), New wave and literary Science Fiction/Fantasy (Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Aldous Huxley, Carl Sagan, Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock), and some of the classic geek fodder (J.R.R Tolkien (I actually own a first edition copy of The Silmarillion), Douglas Adams, The Principia Discordia). I also read a lot of non-fiction pertaining to Philosophy (especially Stoicism and Existentialism), Political Science and History. I've amassed a rather large library, something in the area of five hundred books, and it grows weekly.

Movies:
The Star Wars Trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, The Indiana Jones Trilogy, Bladerunner, Lawrence of Arabia, David Cronenberg films, Eraserhead (or any of David Lynch's films), I'm Not There, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Kenneth Brannagh versions of Henry The Fifth and Hamlet, Bloody Sunday, Dune (On purely aesthetic merits), Akira Kurosawa films, pretty much everything Ingmar Bergman did, Help!, Yellow Submarine, A Hard Day's Night, This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, Time Bandits, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Syriana, The Power of Nightmares, Young Frankenstein, Duck Soup (and the rest of the Marx brothers), Children of Men, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Meaning of Life, The U.S vs. John Lennon, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, If...., Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Batman, In Cold Blood, Little Miss Sunshine, Lolita, The Party, Dr. Strangelove, The Iron Giant, Princess Bride, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Also pretty much whatever is on TVO's Saturday Night at the Movies, I've been introduced to some of my favourite films through there.

Music:
AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Amon Düül II, Andromeda, Andy Summers & Robert Fripp, Armageddon, Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, The Band, Barenaked Ladies, The Beatles, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Bill Evans Trio, Billy Cobham, Black Sabbath, Black Widow, Blind Faith, Blue Cheer, Blue Öyster Cult, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Budgie, Buffalo Springfield, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart, Captain Beyond, Caravan, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Chick Corea, Comus, Cream, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Curtis Mayfield, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Derek and The Dominos, Devo, Django Reinhardt, Dizzy Gillespie, Don McLean, Donovan, The Doors, Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis Costello, Fairport Convention, Fleetwood Mac (well the Peter Green fronted version anyway), Focus, Frank Zappa, Free, Fripp & Eno, Funkadelic, Gary Numan, Genesis (Peter Gabriel lineup), Gentle Giant, George Benson, George Harrison, Giles, Giles & Fripp, Grant Green, Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Herbie Hancock, Humble Pie, H.P. Lovecraft, Iggy Pop, Iron Butterfly, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Jeff Beck, Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull, Jim Hall, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, John Lennon, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, John McLaughlin, Johnny Winter, Joni Mitchell, Judas Priest, King Crimson, The Kinks, Kraftwerk, Led Zeppelin, Lenny Breau, Leonard Cohen, Love, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Marvin Gaye, MC5, Miles Davis, Moby Grape, Motörhead, Mott the Hoople, Mountain, The Move, Neil Young, Nine Inch Nails, Ornette Coleman, Paul McCartney, Pentangle, Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill, Pharoah Sanders, Pink Fairies, Pink Floyd, The Police, Procol Harum, Queen, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rainbow, The Ramones, Ravi Shankar, Renaissance, Return to Forever, Robert Fripp, Robert Johnson, The Rolling Stones, Rory Gallagher, Roxy Music, Roy Harper, Santana, Sir Lord Baltimore, Sly & The Family Stone, Soft Machine, Soundgarden, Spooky Tooth, Steely Dan, Steppenwolf, Stevie Wonder, The Stooges, Strawbs, Sun Ra, Syd Barrett, Talking Heads, Taste, Television, Thelonious Monk, Tom Waits, Tommy Bolin, Tomorrow, The Tony Williams Lifetime, Traveling Wilburys, T. Rex, Van der Graaf Generator, The Velvet Underground, Wes Montgomery, Wishbone Ash, The White Stripes, The Who, XTC, The Yardbirds, Yes, The Zombies, 13th Floor Elevators

My musical interests include everything and anything. I do however gravitate toward jazz, rock, blues, psychedelia, progressive/experimental rock, and old R&B/Soul & Funk. My record collection borders on the obscenely decadent really.

Food: Tea (seriously I drink like two pots of the stuff a day), Coffee, Middle Eastern and Indian food, Sushi, and The Souls of Dead Children.

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

1. My Guitars
2. A sketch pad and drawing implements.
3. A notebook
4. Computer with an active internet connection
5. My Room & bed
6. Books (and by extension, public libraries/used bookstores.)
7. iPod/Music Collection (and by extension used record stores)
8. Tea
9. My dearest friends.
10. This Space intentionally left blank.

It's more than six but.......well I suppose I'm terribly materialistic then.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

Art, music, literature, politics, science, philosophy...and this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DEtwU6fzZiQ

I'm not sure if it's a brilliant post-modern deconstruction of the frantic pace of modern life...or a guy running on a treadmill painting pictures of a fat man.

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

A. Sleeping
B. Drinking by myself.
C. Hanging out with friends, when they're not busy, or they tell me that they're doing something.....I really need to get out more.
D. Having my weekly existential crisis.
E. Drawing.
F. Practicing guitar.
G. Conquering small Eastern European nations.
H. Reading.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

I have a notorious weakness for redheads...

You should message me if Propose an edit

You feel the urge...

OR if you share similar musical tastes are local to semi-local and want to jam.

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