Brian Doherty
Brian Doherty I'd Give It All Up, For Just a Little More---Montgomery Burns

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40 years old
LOS ANGELES, California
United States



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GeneralWriting a book about something requires a fair amount of immersion and interest. Thus, my social life and general mindspace are occupied, unsurprisingly, by situations and people that arose from my (ongoing) Burning Man experience and the world of libertarian thought and activism. I spend almost all my time reading, writing, and listening to my records when not camping in strange places and helping my beautiful and fascinating friends build attractive and bizarre devices and artworks and making amusing noises. Showering and eating, a little bit of that in there as well.
MusicMy own bands include/have included Banned Rehearsal, Satellyte, Sawdust Caesars (single on In the Red), The Jeffersons (single on Cherry Smash), Turbo Satan, and Target Practice. I ran Cherry Smash Records in the 90s and put out 30 or so CDs, singles, LPs and cassettes by bands I liked with people I liked. They are mostly all still for sale, thanks for asking. Fanatical record collector, former record label magnate and record store clerk, over 4000 records and CDs amongst favorites acts include Beach Boys Bob Dylan The Fall Miles Davis Velvet Underground Meringue Neil Young The Chills the Ramones Jefferson Airplane Grateful Dead The Cowsills Led Zeppelin The Who The Kinks there are bands I have more than 10 albums by that I'm not even sure I like very much. The three musical acts taking up the most space in my mind lately have been Deep Purple, the Hold Steady, and Storytime with Roadkill, all of whom I've had the (not coincidental) pleasure of seeing perform live.
BooksFive (out of 20 or so) books I'm currently reading: THE REST IS NOISE by Alex Ross; BREAKING DOWN THE WALL OF SOUND by Mick Brown; THE OTHER 19TH CENTURY by Avram Davidson; REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST by Marcel Proust; G.K. CHESTERTON'S COLLECTED WORKS VOL XXXIII: THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS 1923-25

     Brian Doherty's Details
Status:Married
Orientation:Straight
Hometown:Los Angeles CA/Gainesville FLA
Religion:Catholic
Zodiac Sign:Gemini
Smoke / Drink:No / Yes
Education:College graduate



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About me:
Senior Editor, Reason magazine Author of the following books: This is Burning Man (Little, Brown, 2004; paperback from BenBella, 2006; Radicals for Capitalism (PublicAffairs, 2007; Gun Control on Trial (Cato Institute, 2008). Member of the following performance troupes: Art of Bleeding; Banned Rehearsal. I'm pretty sure I am the only author on earth to have three or more bylined pieces in all of the following five periodicals: Mother Jones, Weekly Standard, Chronicles, Spin, and Reason. I cover the waterfront.
Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone ready to throw down and help build fundypants mountain. Old friends I've lost through unforgiveable carelessness. Pel Torro. The holder of the anti-life equation. Ritchie Blackmore. Craig Finn. Castor Oyl. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. Gene Wolfe. Denny Colt. G.K. Chesterton. Richard Shaver. Lindsey Buckingham. Any ancient master who can teach me the power to cloud men's minds.

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We Come Again In 2010

Tyler Hanson



Oct 4 2009 12:06 AM

Get Your Tickets Now!


Art Outside 2009
Tickets are now available online!

hackamore brick

hackamore brick



Jun 12 2009 1:25 AM

Come visit - new music, new CD, new video.
The Y. L.s

The Y. L.s



May 11 2009 1:54 PM

Art of Bleeding

Art of Bleeding



Feb 9 2009 3:48 PM

Dominique

Dominique



Jan 24 2009 10:48 PM

Thank you for the well wishes. There's no way I could grow and change in any other way. Thank you Brian, you rock...
The Tulsa Skull Swingers

The Tulsa Skull Swingers



Jan 21 2009 12:32 AM

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JOE MATT

JOE MATT



Dec 28 2008 1:37 AM

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01101001



Dec 25 2008 4:38 AM

merry Christmas!

Lane

Lane Hartwell



Dec 25 2008 12:59 AM

merry xmas sweetie.

xoxo
Clyde

Clyde Bones



Dec 24 2008 6:42 PM

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Lucifers Friend

Lucifers Friend



Dec 12 2008 8:36 PM

thanks for being LUCIFER'S 'FRIEND' !
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new reissue of classic debut (1970) out now
Cløë

Cløë



Dec 11 2008 1:11 AM

i had the craziest dream with you in it last night...long story short your left leg was all mutated and deformed and covered in puss-balls...weird.
Don Bolles

Don Bolles



Nov 24 2008 7:59 PM

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See ya there...
01101001

01101001



Nov 6 2008 4:03 AM

so here in NC they didn't ask me for any ID to vote. guess buying beer is a far more serious act.

and barr was on the ballot in some counties while nader was not and vice versa. in some counties both were absent.
Snakelady

SnakeLady Rose



Oct 27 2008 8:21 AM


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Corbyn

Corbyn Hightower



Oct 1 2008 12:14 AM

Hey, Bri! Sooooo long no talky. I'm adrift in suburbia. I have lots of kids. I'm not so much smart. I miss you! Believe it or not, I think of you often. Brian equals big impact. How are things? I don't get out much . . . amuse me.
Liberty Belle [the profile formerly known as M]

Mariana Evica



Sep 24 2008 11:27 PM

Yay :) I'm honored for the add. RSS'd your blog too so I'll remember to keep up.
Can't wait to read the book! Well, both books, actually!
Lane

Lane Hartwell



Sep 22 2008 7:12 PM

*smooch*
Cløë

Cløë



Sep 21 2008 1:43 AM

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Sep 5 2008 6:31 PM

things are gonna get ugly if i find out no jeffersons this year.
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Angela Keaton

Angela Keaton



Aug 21 2008 1:18 AM

This is why I don't have any friends:

Dondero: Angela, you have gone off the friggin' deep end. Bill Redpath is simply the very best Chairman the Libertarian Party has had since Jim Turney in the 1980s. Bill understands ballot access. He's worked tirelessly to gain ballot status for the LP. And you have the audacity to endorse such an effort to remove him?

Are you friggin' nuts????

I swear to Christ Angela, if you pursue this, you are going to make one huge mother-fucking enemy in me ERIC DONDERO RITTBERG.

I can promise you that.

Keaton: Eric, Bill is a very good activist, charming, and by libertarian standards not bad looking. He's also an idiot.

Liberty,

Angela
Damon Packard

Damon Packard



Aug 18 2008 1:32 AM

ah, so YOUR Abram the safety ape?
Angela Keaton

Angela Keaton



Aug 8 2008 5:27 AM

I love Yuwie Radion on NowLive.
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Kerry Taylor



Jul 27 2008 4:35 PM

Brian Doherty!
Bushwick is an interesting place. We got the bed bugs. New York in general has been very kind to me. I miss California and everybody in it!

PS: Look under "My Photos" to find pictures of us from Stagecoach.
jungleface

jungleface



Jul 23 2008 5:47 AM

They sparkle with hope.
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