It's a weird phenomenon. It is really easy for me to talk about myself to someone in person. However, as I sit here, staring at this ominous blank text box, I have nothing to say. I'm totally blanking.
This isn't to say that I'm not a particularly interesting person. I have opinions. I have emotions. I'm deep, man.
I guess I should start out by saying that my name is Brian. I was born and raised in the suburban sprawl of Kenmore/Tonawanda, New York. Quite honestly, I'm not exactly sure which township I have actually spent my entire life in. It doesn't help that my school district was dubbed KenTon, combining the two names into one, mildly clever, super-name. The fact that I have put "Buffalo" on every return address I have ever written doesn't assist in this situation either. Either way, life has been good here so far. I've made friends, burned bridges (not literally), had some good times... the most normal life a charming young boy could want.
Somehow, in my early teenage years, I became utterly obsessed with two things. One of which is Jeopardy. I love it. Alex Trebek is a man amongst slightly less manly men. He deserves a holiday in Canada marked by mustachioed men shaving their faces, and responding to every statement with a question. I've been campaigning this for many years, with mixed reviews from my peers and the Canadian government.
My other area of unhealthy interest is music. I've played piano since second grade, drums since fourth grade, and I've taught myself how to play guitar for the past five or six years. I'm in a band called Bear Market Rally, where I sing and play guitar, and it serves as a nice place to put my creative energy.
I guess I could say that music has always been apart of my life, but the flood gates broke early in ninth grade. My friend put on an album called London Calling by The Clash, and my life was changed on the spot. It still reigns as my favorite album of all time, and The Clash sit on the mighty throne atop my favorite band list. I listen to all kinds of music and I try, as much as possible, not to limit my tastes and absorb everything I can. Needless to say, my iPod is an eclectic mess of music genres from punk rock to folk to hip hop.
I'm majoring in Communication at UB, and I'm starting to take classes at a local recording studio. I plan on pursuing audio engineering, which is just a fancy way of saying that I want to work in a recording studio for the rest of my life.
I really like reading too. I'm into poetry by Charles Bukowski and I'm reading this great book right now called The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. It's totally bitchin' and I highly recommend it.
Movies are fun. Burt Reynolds is my favorite actor/hero. Watch Smokey and the Bandit and try and tell me that he is not awesome. I dare you. The fact that they parodied him and Trebek on SNL all those years ago is a crime.
I hope to learn a lot from Com 125 this semester. It already seems like a really cool class that will teach me much more than I already know about the internet, which is surprisingly little.
That's about it. Have a wonderful day.
