About Me

Birthday:
April 6, 1983

Birth Place:
 Rochester, NY

Hometown:
Batavia, NY

Current Residence:
Buffalo, NY

Pets:
Chi-Chi - Cat
Pogo - Dog

Favorite Color:
Blue

Favorite Food:
Chips and Salsa

Favorite Music Groups/Artists:
Madonna
Matthew Good
No Doubt
DJ Tiesto

Favorite Movie:
None Specifically

Favorite TV Show:
Family Guy

Favorite Book:
God is a Bullet

Current Occupation:
Banking

What Book I'm Reading Now:
Aztec by Gary Jennings

Brad likes..

  • -music
  • -random comedy
  • -MarioKart 64
  • -kicking Matt's ass at MarioKart 64
  • -kicking Joe's ass at MarioKart 64
  • -soft batch cookies
  • -regular batch cookies
  • -hell, any cookie
  • -writing
  • -reading
  • -drawing
  • -sunlight
  • -moonlight
  • -Vanilla Coke
  • -spring and fall
  • -Halloween
  • -his car
    -Providence, RI
  • -Red Lobster
  • -drive-thu ATM's (lazy)
  • -Phoenix, Arizona
  • -money in general
  • -the Skyway
  • -cucumber scented lotion
  • -OfficeMax (in theory)
  • -photography
  • -hot chocolate
  • -cold chcolate
  • -salty food
  • -brightly lit suburbs & cities
  • -the China Buffet in Batavia
  • -the kooky Korean woman who works at the China Buffet
  • -I-90
  • -fuzzy navels
  • -city skylines
  • -driving with no destinaton
  • -Jell-O shots
  • -Long Island accents

Brad dislikes...

  • -actual Jell-O
  • -actual Long Islanders
  • -rap music
  • -country music
  • -people who listen to rap
  • -people who listen to country
  • -rednecks
  • -anyone driving a beat up truck
  • -conservative christians
  • -peas
  • -pork
  • -"recreational" drug users
  • -his dog
  • -his sister's dog
  • -the New York State police
  • -drunk people who shout
  • -sober people who shout
  • -route 33
  • -Toyota Echoes
  • -drivers of Toyota Echoes
  • -Trent Lott
  • -snow
  • -the 290
  • -intense heat
  • -Star 102.5's playlists
  • -deer
  • -the NRA
  • -dialup Internet connections
  • -half-finished bottles of juice
  • -semi tractor-trailers
  • -Sum 41
  • -Texas and its inhabitants
  • -being ignored
  • -excessive political correctness
  • -excessive political insensitivity
  • -procrastinating
  • -nacho cheese EasyMac
  • -route 5 construction crews
  • -regular Mountain Dew
  • -being poor

The story so far...

I was born in a happy family to two loving parents in Batavia, New York. I consider my childhood somewhat blessed because I was not subject to traumas like divorce, domestic violence, abuse or other such things that can plague families the world over. My parents' unending love for my sister and I verymuch have shaped how I am today and what my hopes and dreams are in life. I made my way through school the best way I could, making friends along the way who I still hold close to me to this day, even if I can't be physically near them since my move out of town.

I took up playing the saxophone in fourth grade and continued playing through my senior year of high school. Music has been very important to me, either performing it or listening to it, it tends to dominate my life - I don't watch TV, I tend to listen to music instead. Lately I've been listening to primarily electronica, but my tastes include rock, pop, and some R&B. A list of my favorite songs and why they are my favorites can be found here and a list of the albums I currently own can be found here, with reviews accompanying some of them.

Art has also been an important factor in my life. There are strong artists on both sides of my family - my father and late paternal grandfather both had strong artistic streaks and my maternal grandmother still paints and draws her own greeting cards on her computer to this day. While I enjoy drawing, as well as writing (both poetry and fictional stories), photography and design seems to be the knack for me. This site as a whole is devoted primarily to photography, but in time I plan to open up galleries of traditional artwork as well. I never studied art that much, if only because I never felt the need to. I always have been and likely always will be the person who wants to seperate forced work from a hobby that I enjoy immensely. There are days when I've found a muse and my creativity dominates me and I go out on lengthy photographing expeditions, or create and entire, detailed drawing in a matter of hours, or write dozens, even hundreds of pages in one of the many half-finished novels and novellas that I've started.

Leaving for college was my first real experience out on my own. I started at the State University of New York at Fredonia, where I had a blast my freshman year and was quite successful academically. My sophomore year was mired by a horrible roommate switch, post-surgical complications from an operation I underwent during winter recess and social issues that made me long to leave.  And leave I did; I transferred to the State University of New York at Buffalo and didn't look back.  (Okay I looked back a little).

I live in downtown Buffalo, NY, a city that I both love and hate.  It and the region as a whole have always felt like home to me and as much as I love it here I know that my future lies elsewhere. But until then I'm more than happy to live it up as any young professional would.  I work at a bank, a job which I enjoy quite a bit.  By night I hit the bars and clubs with a group of wonderful friends who mean the world to me. And someday a special someone will be added into that equation, but I'm young and in no hurry - love will find me when it's time. I write this page very happy with who I am and where I am right now as a person, and I invite anyone reading this page for the first time to get to know me as a person.

Interesting Facts About Me

  • Though I live in New York, I have not been to New York City since 1987. I much prefer the other, more managable cities like Toronto, Boston and Providence (Pittsburgh and Cleveland are on my to-do list).
  • I sing... sort of. If I'm at a karaoke bar I'll usually step up to the mic, provided there's at least one song available that I've sang to myself enough so I don't butcher it. Songs I'm known to sing include "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls, "Save Tonight" by Eagle Eye Cherry, "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias and a particularly embarassing drunken rendition of "Holding Out For A Hero" by Bonnie Tyler.
  • I'm also known to sing at work with much more abandon, a practice that often frightens coworkers not used to my personality.
  • I enjoy politics quite a bit.  I consider myself a very liberal but independently thinking person.  I do not blindly support the Democrats and generally feel that political parties should be banned and candidates forced to make their own opinions. I'm very socially liberal, strongly supporting a woman's right to choose, same-sex marriage, prison reform and a laundry list of other issues.
  • I drink iced tea like there's no tomorrow.  On an average day at work I'll consume at least four bottles of Lipton real brew iced tea with lemon (the kind in a glass bottle). I'm considering ordering a pallet to save money.
  • I love animals but do not have any of my own at my apartment. I prefer to keep my dark clothes free of hair.
  • Traveling is something I like to do but I get to do very little of it. I've never left the continent and the only foreign country I've been to is Canada.  The farthest north I've been is Maine, the farthest south is Florida, the farthest east is Boston and the farthest west is Phoenix.
  • I don't put lettuce or tomatoes or any vegetables on my sandwiches, much to the confusion of sub-shop employees.  If I wanted to eat that, I'd have a side salad.
  • Before chaning my hairstyle to something less fluffy, people constantly told me I look like John Mayer.  I don't see the resemblance.
  • A random streetwalker in Buffalo once said I look like George W. Bush.  I sure as heck didn't see that resemblance.
  • To varying degrees of severity, I've hit deer, snow banks, phone poles, shopping carts, highway reflector posts, small animals (accidentally), but I've never hit another car.
  • I hate SUV's and trucks with a passion, unless people have a massive family or need to haul large amounts of cargo. They waste fuel, they're harsher on the environment and pose a much larger road hazard to people in small compact cars such as myself.
  • I openly admit that I like *N Sync, Britney Spears and other assorted modern pop music icons. I know I'm not alone, because they wouldn't have sold all those albums if just dumb 8-16 year old girls were buying them.
  • I immensely dislike hip-hop music that glorifies drug usage, violence or demeans women (offenders include 50 Cent, Eminem, Ja Rule and more). I believe these artists don't contribute anything useful to society and serve as negative role models that drive "ghetto culture" farther our of the mainstream.
  • I don't believe promiscuous women should be labeled whores. Not unless we go around labeling every man who sticks it in anything that moves a slut.
  • I love theater, both being in it and watching it. My favorite production is The Phantom of the Opera, which I've seen twice now (though The Lion King was quite good). I would like to get down to New York City soon to see Avenue Q on Broadway. Oddly enough though, I've never seen Rent.