Brian Nee
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Springfield, WI, United States |
| Introduction | I was born and raised in northeast Illinois, spending the majority of my upbringing in the sizeable suburban sprawl of Libertyville. Upon moving to a less prosperous, rural Wisconsin community while still in high school, I experienced the differing values between the privileged and the poor, awakening to a different reality. I carried this experience away off to college, earning an associates degree from the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo before transferring to a four year institution. I am a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning a B.A. in English during the spring of 2005. During my residency, I was introduced to a wide variety of philosophies and developed a Humanistic outlook on life in the process. I studied the works of many great poets and novelists, seeing in their words the powers vested in writing. Looking to practice an active form of Humanism upon graduating, I began and completed my debut novel The Empirical Tales, which I am currently looking to publish. I continue to write and work towards establishing myself as a contributing voice in the modern Humanist movement, hopeful of revolution. |
| Favorite music | The Grateful Dead, Phish, Poi Dog Pondering, The Big Wu, Widespread Panic, String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band, Allison Krauss, Miles, Coltrane, Benny Carter, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Brubeck, Nat King Cole, Satchmo, Marley, Dylan, Lennon, Simon and Garfunkel, Jim Croce, Zeppelin, Floyd, E.L.O, The Band, Billy Joel, Leftover Salmon, Bela Fleck, Michael Hedges, |
| Favorite books | The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina, The Canterbury Tales, A modest Proposal (Not sure if that counts, but superb), Midnight's Children, The Hitchhiker's Guide series, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Sphere, Anything Calvin and Hobbes, |