About

hi. i’m brian.b and i welcome you to my blog.

first things first.

i know that whenever i visit someone else’s blog, i want to put a face to the writing. so here is my face last october:

and here is my face NOW (summer 2007):


a simple about me.
i’m 23. i’m an anglican. as far as what i do, well… i’m an english graduate pursuing a funded MA in literature starting fall 2007. i want to become a college professor and work in the field of literary criticism, specifically in psychoanalytic criticism and narratology. i’m an ENFJ, if you trust those sorts of things.

my interests
-friends
-reading
-literary criticism (what’s this?)
-narrative fiction
-short fiction
-poetry
-theology
-good op/ed pieces
-drawing

-pictures

-chess
-pool
-swimming pools
-music
-movies
-becoming a real boy!

books to read (authors asterisked)
100 years of solitude, a portrait of the artist as a young man, ar ammons*, before reading, elizabeth bishop*, the blithedale romance, bonaventure*, billie collins*, the curious incident of the dog in the night time, emily dickinson*, dubliners, dune, ts eliot*, ender’s game, everything is illuminated, hamlet, harry potter, gm hopkins*, the book of john, kavalier and clay, king lear, moby dick, the mysterious flame of queen loana, obasan, the odyssey, me talk pretty someday, paradise lost, perelandra, psalms, richard iii, rilke*, signs and difference, til we have faces, the winter’s tale, the wizard of earthsea

music to listen to
13 & god, american analog set, the appleseed cast, astrud gilberto, beck, bela fleck and the flecktones, ben folds, bob marley, the cardigans, the clash, coldplay, copeland, crooked fingers, damien rice, the dave brubeck quartet, david bowie, death cab for cutie, denison witmer, dntel, the doors, eric satie, feist, further seems forever, geggy tah, george winsten, hans zimmer, imogen heap, incubus, interpol, iron and wine, jamiroquai, jars of clay, johann pachelbel, johann sebastain bach, john mayer, johnny cash, jon brion, jose gonzalez, the killers, kings of convenience, the knife, lali puna, languis, lassie foundation, lemon jelly, manhattan transfer, mark mothersbaugh, matt pond PA, milosh, moby, modest mouse, muse, nick drake, nobuo uematsu, norah jones, outkast, phoenix, pink floyd, the postal service, radiohead, rush, sasha, seu jorge, the shins, sigur ros, simon and garfunkel, sondre lerche, stars, the strokes, sufjan stevens, switchfoot, thrice, tom conlon, u2, vangelis, vince guaraldi, weird al yankovic, wilco, william shatner, yppah, the zombies.

about my blog
just TRY and wrap your head around its brilliance, man…wo…woman…people.

[bye]
-brian.b