Brian
Brian Cogan
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Will Someone Please Take This Thing Away From Me?
Male
42 years old
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
United States
Last Login: 11/10/2009
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Brian's Interests
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| General | Punk,Power Pop, Irish history and New York Irish history, Comic Books,Prog Rock, Reggae (especially dub)teaching, writing especially for zines and academic journals (as if there is a difference?) drumming, Guinness, Yakuza and Triad films, Media Ecology, Media Studies, Media Literacy, conceptual art,WFMU, Mets, Cyclones, | | Music | Descendents, Bad Religion, All, Avail, Dag Nasty, Joe Jackson, Serious Pilgrim, Ergs, Blue Hearts, The Clash, Superchunk, 7 Seconds, Serpico, Serge Gainsbourg, Uriah Heep, Nerf Herder, Neu, Rev. Horton Heat, Smokewagon, Nick Cave, Dead Can Dance, Replacements, Mekons, Radiohead, My Morning Jacket, Ramones, Clancy Brothers,Bad Brains, Husker Du, Buzzcocks, Thor, Magnetic Fields, THE ALARM!!!! gogol Bordello | | Movies | The Killer, Hard Boiled, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Gunga Din, Bringing Up Baby, One Two Three (and almost anything by Billy Wilder), Touchez pas au Grisbi,Rififi Goodfellas, Run Lola Run, The Insider, The Bicycle Theif, Star Wars,Wild Bunch Casablanca, | | Television | Lost, Arrested Development, Simpsons, Family Guy, Deadwood, Sopranos, Entourage, Mets games, Monty Python, Little Britain, Chapelle Show, Buffy and Angel (RIP), Star Trek reruns, Babylon 5,south Park lord, I am such a geek. | | Books | Milan Kundera, James Joyce, Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan, Tim Hall, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Brendan Behan, Flann O'Brien, James Thurber, J.R.R. Tolkien, Will Eisner, Herbert Asbury, Marcus Aurelius, Herge, Roddy Doyle, Raymond Carver, Paul Auster Anon. | | Heroes | Neil Postman,my family, Nick Cave,the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem,Fionn MacCumhaill, The heros of the Uprising of 1916,too many others to mention. |
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Brian's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Education: | Post grad |
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Brian is clearly no longer even trying Posted at 6:47 PM Aug 2, 2008
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About me:
I am a badly aging punk rock type living in a mythical land called Brooklyn. For the last twenty years I've been in the punk band In Crowd (music and video to follow once I figure out the tech stuff).
I'm also an academic and teach Media Studies and Video Production. I have a Ph.D. (that and a metrocard gets you on the subway) in Media Ecology from New York University
My new-new book, The Encyclopedia of Punk just came out from Sterling Press and can be bought here at this link: MY BOOK
I write for newspapers, books, zines and magazines and on various walls, and I'm also in a "literary group" called Blacksmiths for Literary Progress. We do pranks and readings and should have some dates up here shortly. My musings can be seen regularly in the pages of and now in the online edition of the acclaimed
zine, Go Metric 
When in the mood to play Irish music, which is often, I sing with The Cogan Brothers and Mark Farley, a Clancy Brothers-esque Irish band.
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