Echoes: A Brian Moment
All Responses Posted On 01/19/07
[I pimped the hell out of the font. I don't know how it'll look. It's almost 2:30 am, and I'm tired. If it's really bad I'll get around to reforming it early tomorrow afternoon.]
Questions Submitted by Amy:
I have three questions for both you and Marie...
1) So how did you guys spend your vacation?
2) You mentioned how Marie helped you out on the blogsite, but how did you guys actually meet?
3) I checked out the link to Brian's MySpace and I saw a "Marie" in Brian's top friends, is that this Marie?
Responses From Brian and Marie:
(Comments in brackets are those that I threw in after reading Brian's responses. Hope it's not too confusing. ~Marie)
1) So how did you guys spend your vacation?
Marie: Sleeping. Then I got sick, so I slept even more. I hung out with some of my peeps from San Jo, including Brian, and met his friend Emile. (I'm still confused as to why the three of us were discussing whores during lunch...)
Brian: We were saying that I needed to get laid and were discussing my options.
Marie: I celebrated Christmas with my folks, and spent a week or so at my boyfriend's house hanging out with his godmother who was visiting. Watched some good movies, read some good books... it was nice and relaxing.
Brian: I was going to meet up with my Brother but he got delayed almost a week so when he finally showed up, we had little time to actually hang out. I still made the best of it though and seeing Marie again was great. The funniest moment was without question when Marie, Emile and I went to the Apple store, we were looking around and Marie saw one of the laptops open and someone had logged on and was streaming a video of guy on guy porn. We couldn't believe that it was playing in the store, and that the picture was very clear, and there it was right in front of everyone, so we busted out laughing and booked, and for the record I had nothing to do with that....
Marie: So you keep insisting. But I don't recall either Emile or I insinuating that you were responsible.
Brian: I also caught a cold on NYE and spent half the day in bed begging to die and the other half of the day doing my laundry... still begging to die. And that was the routine for the better part of my vacation after New Years: Laundry and begging to die... Overall a good vacation.
2) You mentioned how Marie helped you out on the blogsite, but how did you guys actually meet?
Marie: He's been stalking me for years. I figured that nagging him about his spelling and grammar would get him off my uppercase. (Booya! A grammar joke!)
Brian: .....Booya???
[Marie: .....Shut up.]
Marie: Just kidding. We met in high school. I was a loner who hung out with people but didn't give a shit about their petty drama, and Brian was a loner who just didn't hang out with anyone.
Brian: We were a match made in heaven.
Marie: Actually, Brian would just wander around the school at lunch talking with various people from various cliques and frame imaginary movie shots with his hands. (Andres' influence, I'm sure, Bri.)
Brian: Damn straight!! God Bless that man, He was my mentor back in the day... I even learned how to do the Jedi Mind trick through him.
[Marie: Mr. Andres was the coolest teacher I've ever had. (Except for Jim Hooper. But that's a story for another day.) I still laugh when I remember Andres' obsession with Marlon Brando. And when he encouraged my class to write award-winning screenplays "...so you can make money! So you can give me money! Go, my soldiers of literature!" He's so awesome.]
Marie: We really got to talking when he'd come to my first period chem class before school started to chat up the teacher. He started chatting up me and next thing I knew, was proposing on my 18th birthday when I got my drivers license. "Vegas!" he said. "I don't have a car," I replied. He answered, "I can get us a car. We'll have to live under different names for awhile..."
Brian: And what was wrong with that idea, you would have been "Jenny Wong"? I was gonna be "Muhammed Abdul- Jabbar". It could've worked.
[Marie: You may be able to pass yourself as Middle Eastern; but I'd get double takes with the last name of Wong. I'm too damn white.]
Marie: Seriously, how can I not like a guy who has a sense of humor like that?
Brian: i dunno
Marie: (There still is that mystery of why, during my senior year, I would refer to Brian as "The Duck Guy." When Brian and I got back in touch back in '05 via MySpace, I mentioned it to my sister. "The Duck Guy?" She asked. The nickname sounds somewhat familiar, though I can't remember what on Earth Brian did to deserve it....)
Brian: "Duck Guy"? What did I do involving a duck??
3) I checked out the link to Brian's MySpace and I saw a "Marie" in Brian's top friends, is that this Marie?
Marie: Yup. That's me. Brian really likes the odd picture of me in the maroon shirt. *ahem* I wonder why?
Brian: Oh don't be all shy about it, I think she looks great in that picture, Marie has always had a "down to earth" vibe around her, and maybe the stars were aligned or something but every time I see that pic of her in her t-shirt and jeans, I think she looks absolutely beautiful...
[Marie: I really don't like that picture. Mainly because you can see the friggin' veins in my forehead. Have I mentioned how pale I am? You'd expect my Native American genes to show up somewhere!]
Plus she has a great rack... but don't tell her boyfriend I said that, cause then it would be all awkward between us and how could I forget how he offered me pancakes when we first met. You still don't get that kind of generosity these days.
[Marie: You sure do seem to love pancakes.]
Question Submitted By Syn:
You've showcased music by Slipknot, Flyleaf, La Rocca, Killswitch Engage, NIN, Tool, Etc.and I think that the shake up of various types of music is really cool but how come you haven't put a focus on Panic at the Disco or My Chemical Romance or other bands that are burning up the airwaves???
Response From Brian:
.... I can't believe you would put My Chemical Romance in the same sentence as Slipknot. I feel dirty now (shudders) UNCLEAN!!! UNCLEAN!!!!
(An Hour Later....)
Now where was I? oh, as to your question... I don't use "Panic" and "MCR" because simply... I really don't like them... They make me very ill. in fact if I even put either of their albums into my collection, my collection would most likely spit it out and piss on it.
Everybody likes their own thing now a days and alot of what's big isn't usually my cup of tea. a lot of my bands are the ones you don't hear on mainstream radio. actually correction HALF my collection you could find on any classic rock station:
Aerosmith, Kiss, Led Zepplin, Bowie, Hendrix, Skynard, Pink Floyd, The Stones, Etc
As for the other half you'd probably find through the web or satellite radio:
All the aforementioned above (Slipknot, Flyleaf, La Rocca, Killswitch Engage, NIN, Tool) Eisbrecher, ILL Nino, Zeromancer, Massive Attack ( which is a personal favorite of both Marie and I), Lady Soverign, Paul Van Dyk, Kidney Thieves, Free Dominguez, Aphex Twin, Rammstein, Rob/ White Zombie, and a whole shit load more. In fact I could even fill an entire page with everyone I listen to.
You will find many artists spotlighted but I doubt you'll see either "Panic" or "MCR" or a lot of "Mainstream".
Question/ Comment Submitted by Jim:
I liked this week's TBF, it started off a little slow but if you were just coming back from vacation then it was understandable. I always enjoy your quips and I wonder if you ever feel like you're crossing a line?
Response From Brian:
I will always go as far as I can when I choose to, some days don't require a heavy handed remark or action...
"Even the lightest touch can create the biggest impact"
before I was "all about the issues" then I evolved into "piss and vinegar, fire in my eyes" and now I'm more "responsible yet true". We as individuals continually evolve until the very end, I'd like to think that through it all my heart has always stayed the same.
I sit here thinking about my words carefully because I'm really thinking about this as I'm writing this, re-evaluating the journey I've taken, and you ask if I feel like I've crossed a line here and there, well if you ask me I haven't done that enough.
Maybe it's time for me to evolve some more and start crossing the line.
[I pimped the hell out of the font. I don't know how it'll look. It's almost 2:30 am, and I'm tired. If it's really bad I'll get around to reforming it early tomorrow afternoon.]
Questions Submitted by Amy:
I have three questions for both you and Marie...
1) So how did you guys spend your vacation?
2) You mentioned how Marie helped you out on the blogsite, but how did you guys actually meet?
3) I checked out the link to Brian's MySpace and I saw a "Marie" in Brian's top friends, is that this Marie?
Responses From Brian and Marie:
(Comments in brackets are those that I threw in after reading Brian's responses. Hope it's not too confusing. ~Marie)
1) So how did you guys spend your vacation?
Marie: Sleeping. Then I got sick, so I slept even more. I hung out with some of my peeps from San Jo, including Brian, and met his friend Emile. (I'm still confused as to why the three of us were discussing whores during lunch...)
Brian: We were saying that I needed to get laid and were discussing my options.
Marie: I celebrated Christmas with my folks, and spent a week or so at my boyfriend's house hanging out with his godmother who was visiting. Watched some good movies, read some good books... it was nice and relaxing.
Brian: I was going to meet up with my Brother but he got delayed almost a week so when he finally showed up, we had little time to actually hang out. I still made the best of it though and seeing Marie again was great. The funniest moment was without question when Marie, Emile and I went to the Apple store, we were looking around and Marie saw one of the laptops open and someone had logged on and was streaming a video of guy on guy porn. We couldn't believe that it was playing in the store, and that the picture was very clear, and there it was right in front of everyone, so we busted out laughing and booked, and for the record I had nothing to do with that....
Marie: So you keep insisting. But I don't recall either Emile or I insinuating that you were responsible.
Brian: I also caught a cold on NYE and spent half the day in bed begging to die and the other half of the day doing my laundry... still begging to die. And that was the routine for the better part of my vacation after New Years: Laundry and begging to die... Overall a good vacation.
2) You mentioned how Marie helped you out on the blogsite, but how did you guys actually meet?
Marie: He's been stalking me for years. I figured that nagging him about his spelling and grammar would get him off my uppercase. (Booya! A grammar joke!)
Brian: .....Booya???
[Marie: .....Shut up.]
Marie: Just kidding. We met in high school. I was a loner who hung out with people but didn't give a shit about their petty drama, and Brian was a loner who just didn't hang out with anyone.
Brian: We were a match made in heaven.
Marie: Actually, Brian would just wander around the school at lunch talking with various people from various cliques and frame imaginary movie shots with his hands. (Andres' influence, I'm sure, Bri.)
Brian: Damn straight!! God Bless that man, He was my mentor back in the day... I even learned how to do the Jedi Mind trick through him.
[Marie: Mr. Andres was the coolest teacher I've ever had. (Except for Jim Hooper. But that's a story for another day.) I still laugh when I remember Andres' obsession with Marlon Brando. And when he encouraged my class to write award-winning screenplays "...so you can make money! So you can give me money! Go, my soldiers of literature!" He's so awesome.]
Marie: We really got to talking when he'd come to my first period chem class before school started to chat up the teacher. He started chatting up me and next thing I knew, was proposing on my 18th birthday when I got my drivers license. "Vegas!" he said. "I don't have a car," I replied. He answered, "I can get us a car. We'll have to live under different names for awhile..."
Brian: And what was wrong with that idea, you would have been "Jenny Wong"? I was gonna be "Muhammed Abdul- Jabbar". It could've worked.
[Marie: You may be able to pass yourself as Middle Eastern; but I'd get double takes with the last name of Wong. I'm too damn white.]
Marie: Seriously, how can I not like a guy who has a sense of humor like that?
Brian: i dunno
Marie: (There still is that mystery of why, during my senior year, I would refer to Brian as "The Duck Guy." When Brian and I got back in touch back in '05 via MySpace, I mentioned it to my sister. "The Duck Guy?" She asked. The nickname sounds somewhat familiar, though I can't remember what on Earth Brian did to deserve it....)
Brian: "Duck Guy"? What did I do involving a duck??
3) I checked out the link to Brian's MySpace and I saw a "Marie" in Brian's top friends, is that this Marie?
Marie: Yup. That's me. Brian really likes the odd picture of me in the maroon shirt. *ahem* I wonder why?
Brian: Oh don't be all shy about it, I think she looks great in that picture, Marie has always had a "down to earth" vibe around her, and maybe the stars were aligned or something but every time I see that pic of her in her t-shirt and jeans, I think she looks absolutely beautiful...
[Marie: I really don't like that picture. Mainly because you can see the friggin' veins in my forehead. Have I mentioned how pale I am? You'd expect my Native American genes to show up somewhere!]
Plus she has a great rack... but don't tell her boyfriend I said that, cause then it would be all awkward between us and how could I forget how he offered me pancakes when we first met. You still don't get that kind of generosity these days.
[Marie: You sure do seem to love pancakes.]
Question Submitted By Syn:
You've showcased music by Slipknot, Flyleaf, La Rocca, Killswitch Engage, NIN, Tool, Etc.and I think that the shake up of various types of music is really cool but how come you haven't put a focus on Panic at the Disco or My Chemical Romance or other bands that are burning up the airwaves???
Response From Brian:
.... I can't believe you would put My Chemical Romance in the same sentence as Slipknot. I feel dirty now (shudders) UNCLEAN!!! UNCLEAN!!!!
(An Hour Later....)
Now where was I? oh, as to your question... I don't use "Panic" and "MCR" because simply... I really don't like them... They make me very ill. in fact if I even put either of their albums into my collection, my collection would most likely spit it out and piss on it.
Everybody likes their own thing now a days and alot of what's big isn't usually my cup of tea. a lot of my bands are the ones you don't hear on mainstream radio. actually correction HALF my collection you could find on any classic rock station:
Aerosmith, Kiss, Led Zepplin, Bowie, Hendrix, Skynard, Pink Floyd, The Stones, Etc
As for the other half you'd probably find through the web or satellite radio:
All the aforementioned above (Slipknot, Flyleaf, La Rocca, Killswitch Engage, NIN, Tool) Eisbrecher, ILL Nino, Zeromancer, Massive Attack ( which is a personal favorite of both Marie and I), Lady Soverign, Paul Van Dyk, Kidney Thieves, Free Dominguez, Aphex Twin, Rammstein, Rob/ White Zombie, and a whole shit load more. In fact I could even fill an entire page with everyone I listen to.
You will find many artists spotlighted but I doubt you'll see either "Panic" or "MCR" or a lot of "Mainstream".
Question/ Comment Submitted by Jim:
I liked this week's TBF, it started off a little slow but if you were just coming back from vacation then it was understandable. I always enjoy your quips and I wonder if you ever feel like you're crossing a line?
Response From Brian:
I will always go as far as I can when I choose to, some days don't require a heavy handed remark or action...
"Even the lightest touch can create the biggest impact"
before I was "all about the issues" then I evolved into "piss and vinegar, fire in my eyes" and now I'm more "responsible yet true". We as individuals continually evolve until the very end, I'd like to think that through it all my heart has always stayed the same.
I sit here thinking about my words carefully because I'm really thinking about this as I'm writing this, re-evaluating the journey I've taken, and you ask if I feel like I've crossed a line here and there, well if you ask me I haven't done that enough.
Maybe it's time for me to evolve some more and start crossing the line.
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