Brad
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | the English thing |
| Location | Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | White male, usually bearded, should get into shape, brown eyes, nasally voice, mostly PA Dutch with some Scotch-Irish thrown in, born before 1975, lived in a trailer park outside Dover, Delaware, for five years when I was small, grew up in Coffeetown, can identify lyrics and melody for every Jethro Tull song written before 1992. |
| Interests | baseball, books, baseball books, whisky, whiskey, Yuengling, zydeco, y'allternative, jazz, polka, blues, diners, Pennsylvania, trees, thrift stores, apple dumplings, coffee, chamber music, a little poetry, trains, Jersey hatin', John Updike, Alistair MacLeod, John O'Hara, Jim Thompson, Henry Miller, H.D., Bukowski, canals, walking, PA Dutch, Irish, folks, lore, folklore, and suckin' face |
| Favorite movies | Schultze Gets the Blues, Baseball, Pennsylvania Diners and Other Roadside Restaurants, Jeremiah Johnson, Blues Brothers, Duck Soup, Rushmore, BaseketBall, South Park, Annie Hall |
| Favorite music | Frog Holler, Holmes Brothers, Richard Buckner, Matt Molloy, Bottle Rockets, John Coltrane, Gillian Welch, Crack Babies (R.I.P.), Brother JT, John Gorka, John Prine, Thelonious Monk, Junior Kimbrough, Wilco, Tull (of course) |
| Favorite books | A Confederacy of Dunces, Leaves of Grass (1855 of course), Homage to Catalonia, Ham on Rye, the Rabbit tetralogy, the Sherlock Holmes canon, Underworld, Look Homeward Angel, The Rosy Crucifixion, Ball Four |
If your whole body were a hot air balloon, would you stop eating spicy food?
Sometimes I drive to the store.