Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Catcher In The Rye, Slaughterhouse Five, Notes From Underground, Crying of Lot 49, The Great Gatsby, various novels by Don DeLillo, I'm currently rereading the short fiction of Flannery O'Connor.
Heroes
Hero is a strong word. It should not be used to describe some pop movie or music star you really like. If you do that you're probably misusing the word or you're simply misguided. Of course I would consider my parents heroes (and I understand not everybody can say that about their folks). Now, in a casual sense I have musical "heroes," "heroes" of literature, and other various less than heroic idols, but in reality, I respect those in my real life who deserve respect, and in general I guess those are my heroes.
"Born in a barrelfull of butcher knives
and raised on knuckle sandwiches."
- Dan Springer
There has been a lot of rumor and conjecture as to the origin
and personage of Brendan Jordan.
I, being Brendan Jordan himself, feel I should use this opportunity
to set the record straight as best I can:
I suppose, if you're to fully understand who I am, I should tell you that I
come from a large, Irish Catholic family. My parents had six children, out of
these I am the penultimate. I was introduced into the world on the day after
Christmas in 1976. Ever since that crisply cold and fateful afternoon I've been
doing my best to find out what exactly it is I'm supposed to accomplish while
I am here among you. So far, I'm an uncle to 6 nieces and 5 nephews; this is a charge I am particularly fond of.
I've been assured by a few, possibly
tone deaf, people that my singing voice would melt the coldest of the cold and
bitterly frozen hearts. Some have even suggested that I might start a musical
group, though I've been down that road before and I don't think
it is meant for the likes of me. I've also occasionally taken to creating posters for some
bands of the Rock and Roll genre. You
can click here to see these posters.
One of my works is included in the juggernaut poster anthology, Art of Modern Rock, which was published in December 2004. I also have an illustration published in the Frank Kozik organized source book,
Panda Meat, which was released in June 2005. You should all purchase at least two of each.
In short: I don't care what you think of me. Why would I? Though perhaps you
could find it within yourself to accept me for who I am, and I promise I'll
do the same when it comes to you.
i would strongly suggest education. you get the summers off. what is better than that?
yeah living in the city is expenise, why is why im leaving at home for as long as i can. what about craig's list? my sister found her roommate from there.
the masters is going well. only another year of classes and ill be ready to student teach next fall. which means i have to quit work next summer.
will you have time to go for you masters? what would you get it in?
