the strife of brian
36 years old
Detroit
Male
About
I am a freelance web designer and entrepreneur. I make my own hours and do what I want. Most days it is honest work and I don't have to take any crap from my boss.
In my spare time, I like to make things. Mostly woodworking related but also some electronic hacking and computer geekery. I have built furniture, a Centipede MAME arcade, A MythTV PVR and XBMC system. I also play guitar a bit. I spend way too much time reading and watching documentaries about the sad state of our democracy, corporate wrongdoings and the decline of western civilization.
Movies
Angel Heart, The Big Lebowski, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, The Corporation, The End, Fletch, Fahrenheit 9/11, Fargo, Glengary GlenRoss, The Godfather, GoodFellas, An Inconvenient Truth, Logans Run, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, The Mechanic, Miller's Crossing, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Omega Man, Pulp Fiction, Planet of the Apes, The Producers (1968), Raising Arizona, Reservior Dogs, Real Genius, Rebel Without A Cause, Roger and Me, Scarface, The Shining, Sixteen Candles, Soylent Green, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, The Third Man, The Usual Suspects, THX 1138, Vacation, Waiting for Guffman, WarGames, Westworld, Young Frankenstein,
Music
45441, Al Green, Albert King, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Big Bill Broonzy, Black Flag, Blind Willie McTell, Charles Mingus, Circle Jerks, Curtis Mayfield, Dead Kennedys, Devo, Elliott Smith, Elmore James, Ernest Tubb, Frank Black, Fred Wesley &; the JBs, Freddie King, The Gories, Grant Green, Hank Williams Sr, Herbie Hancock, Hound Dog Taylor, James Brown, Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Smith, Johnny Cash, Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, Lee Dorsey, Leonard Cohen, The Magnetic Fields, The Meters, Minor Threat, Moondog, Muddy Waters, The Pixies, The Ramones, Sam and Dave, Skip James, The Smiths, Sonny Rollins, Spotnicks, Stiff Little Fingers, They Might Be Giants, Thin Lizzy, Tom Waits, The Undertones, Velvet Underground, The Ventures
Television
The Awful Truth, Banacek, Barnie Miller, The Colbert Report, Columbo, Cowboy Bebop, The Daily Show, Democracy Now!, Dragnet, Family Guy, Freeform Furniture, Futurama, Harvey Birdman, The Henry Rollins Show, Homicide: Life on the Street, I'm Alan Partridge, The Kids in the Hall, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, New Yankee Workshop, The Office UK, Perfect Hair Forever, Police Squad, The Power of Nightmares, Reno 911!, Rockford Files, Sealab 2021, The Shield, Sanford & Son, Squidbillies, Star Trek, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Trailer Park Boys, The Twilight Zone, Wood Works, The Young Ones
Activities
Camping, Cooking, Furniture Making, Going to Estate Sales/Auctions/Garage Sailing, Guitar Playing, Hacking Electronics, Making Things, Opposing Neocons and Corporate Tyranny, Road Trips, Selling on Ebay, Taking things apart and putting them back together,
Interests
Computers, Custom Vans, Danish Modern, Design, DIY, Eichler and other modernist style homes, Electric Vehicles, Fitness, Free Speech, Furniture Making, Hybrid Vehicles, Linux, Making Things, Modern Architecture, Midcentury Modern, Modern Furnishings, MythTV, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles, PHEV, Progressive Politics, Retro Video Games, SVO/WVO/Bio-Diesel, Thrift Stores, Travel, Vintage Movie Posters, Web Design, Woodworking, XBMC