beastie boys. Siouxsie and the Banshees. Joy Division. Radiohead. The Smiths. The Cure. Interpol. The Gossip. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Yo La Tengo. TV on the Radio. Scissor Sisters. Pretty Girls make Graves. Nine Inch Nails. Dandy Warhols, The Hives, B.R.M.C., Editors, Beck, Blondie, Chromatics, Chromeo, Cicada, Deftones, Fleetwood Mac, Ladytron, New Order, Royksopp, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Weezer, Simian Mobile Disco, etc...for now.
Movies
Television
I don't have cable. I paint instead. or look at art. You should too.
Books
I am now a member of the Barnes and Noble Book Club. I live with Eric and his books plus my books means that we have almost completely bought out the art, mythology, mapping/maps, current events, design and bargain sections of the store. I like anything that is fiction. I read "Evolution of a Cro-Magnon" John Joseph. It's the life story of the lead singer of the Cro-Mags. Pretty good read. I like true stories. Right now I'm working on "Women in Mythology".
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MICHIGAN
Graduated: 2006
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Fine Arts/Painting, magna cum laude
2004 to 2006
Brandi Read has all the secrets that matter to no one.
About me: I'm 31. Restless. Outgoing. Talkative. I guess I interupt a lot. I use foul language and then cover up my mouth as if I'm suprised. Adventurous. Active. Open. Friendly. Controlling. I drive a manual transmission, because I can't even have the car shift for me because I'm THAT controlling. I'm obsessive about everything, even the way I eat. I find one thing I like...Olives for example and I eat a jar a day until they are out of my favor, then I move onto something else. Narcissistic, and yet still manage to second guess myself.
I'm a maker. I like to make things. Oil Painter. Watercolor Painter. Amateur metalsmith.
I began painting when I was 12. My first sale happened at that age when a neighbor commissioned a painting that would include five California Raisins, with the names of her family painted above the individual raisin characters.
When I was fifteen or sixteen my adopted father abandoned my little brothers with my twin sister and I for awhile and we ran out of food the first day. We waited (first thing in the morning) with our friend for the bread truck to make the delivery at the grocery store across the street. When the delivery driver took a load in we robbed the truck. We lived off of cream filled pastries for a week.
Things I'm good at: talking, learning anything at all, being fearless, or brave enough to try things anyway (I have actually jumped off of a bridge and when someone asks me "if .. asked you to jump off a bridge" my answer is honestly "maybe, I've done it before") putting others before myself, doing the things I say I will do...
Things I'm terrible at: letting others talk, being dependent on anyone for anything at all, cuddling, being idle, thinking before I say things,...
Things I love: Peyton and Anessa, painting, green olives, internet, traveling to places far away, summer and hot weather, dreaming,...
Things I hate: Waiting, food preparation, cold weather, responsibilities,...
ehh, not much goin on here. Lollapalooza in a few weeks though!! I like your website, by the way. p.s. I'm not sure if I can change my pic, working at the art institute has permanently warped my psyche. I'm now a crabby old man through and through. hows things?
