Many people have been wondering who the man is behind the name
djbrian is, but keep in mind while you read this that Brian is
a very different person depending on how well you know him. Enough of this
third person crap, my name is Brian. I'm 21 years old, 5'8" (shorty)
128 lbs (skinny), Brown hair and brown eyes, blah blah blah...
I am originally from
Suffern,
New York. When I was a kid, I seemed to be into just about the same stuff
I'm into today! Might explain why I am who I am. In 6th grade my teacher
Mr. Hoffman gave me the nickname "Mr. Wizard", not because I looked like Don
Herbert, but because I knew how to get the VCR to play a tape. The name
didn't stick unfortunately.
benefited it's customers with a one cent interest payment weekly!), miniature
golf courses, a small scale arcade (Fantasy Island Fair), among others, and
all before the age of twelve. When I was twelve, in 1989, my family decided
that Rockland County was getting too dangerous, so they relocated the family
to beautiful (in some ways)
Queensbury,
New York at the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. Surprisingly, I was
not upset about it, as you'd expect a 12 year old to be. My phone bills were
high for a while after moving, that's for sure. I look back on it now and
ponder how different things might have been had I not moved... it's funny how
the mind subconsciously tries to keep you back in your childhood - my
favorite movies of all time still are "Flight Of The Navigator", "Explorers",
"Electric Dreams", "War Games", "Short Circuit", "UHF", "Amazon Women On The
Moon", and lots more movies that I first saw when I was a kid. And, my
favorite music stems from the 80s as well. I love 80s Music!! but I'll get
into that later...
of my many influencing decisions to go to college downstate closer to where
I had lived before, at Marist
College in Poughkeepsie,
NY. I picked up the nickname djbrian during my first year there.
My mother bought me this hat for my job deejaying parties.
It's a big BRIGHT RED hat that says in big bright
yellow letters DJ BRIAN. Days I didn't
have time to shower or whatever I'd grab one of my two hats, one a Giants hat
and one the "DJ Brian" hat. When I'd wear the hat people I didn't know would
walk by me screaming "Hey! DJ Brian! Hey DJ!" The name
stuck, and since it's become my online persona. Only recently have I seen
other djbrian's popping up. I went to Marist College for a year
and a half studying Computer Information Systems, which basically means
the jobs stuck in between Computer Science (programming and hardware) and
business. During my college career, I picked up the computer skills of
MS-DOS, HTML, networks, LANS, Windows, and the understanding of IBM
compatible computers, their hardware and functionality. Before
college I knew absolutely nothing about computers, only AmigaBasic!
Like I said, I am really good with computers and HTML
now, and if you'd like me to write you a great web page you can email me at
BriaNet Internet Designs! So, in college, the problem was that was all I
was doing, along with my 80's radio show on the college station, was sitting
in front of the computer.
So, I neglected my college responsibilities in favor of staying up all
night surfing the web, writing web pages, running BriaNet (my own
web, ftp, and mail servers), listening to music, and NOT going
to class. That's the primary reason I decided not to go back the last
semester -- why waste more money just for a T-1 Internet connection and
friends? (I get paid for that now.. but anyway)
... well, it seemed like a good idea, and if I didn't have any guilty
feelings about spending all of my parent's money, I'd say it's great...
College introduced me to the reality that there DO EXIST people who are like
myself. I met lots of new cool people, people similar to me, a type of
person that seldom exists in Queensbury. My friends and me made up our own
fraternity in honor of our existence,
Sigma Phi Nothing
(Sigmah Pheye Nothing), a spoof on the nationally well
known jock frat. The actual frat contacted me and made me change the name!
They didn't want me to "slander" them! What dorks! Back to the DJ thing,
I've basically been a disc jockey (or DJ wannabe) since I was 10, collecting
music (especially 80s) and running my own radio station
WBTN that now
ceases to exist, but proved very time-occupying for me. It's just something
about me; when I get my mind set on something I dedicate my life to it (if
only college were that way). From May 1992 until almost summer 1995 I tried
to make the station my priority, it was fun! I've always loved
music, started listening to the radio when I was 5 and have tapes to prove
it! When I was ten or eleven, I'd spin records and play tapes into a Mr.
Microphone that broadcast maybe a hundred feet from my room, so I guess you
could kind of figure what I'd be doing ten years from then! I started
deejaying parties when I was 14 and learned quickly how profitable it could
be. The big bucks didn't come until later, though... With my knowledge of
music and immensity of my music collection, I thought I'd try to sell some
of it as well, and
MusiQuest was born.
funny he actually is, kind of like me... The Howard Stern Show is my
favorite radio show, you can say I'm a loyal fan
listening every day that I can. When I ran my own radio station
WBTN was when I got my friend Andy into
Howard. Based on Howard's style, Andy and I decided to start
our own show, The Brian And Andy Show.
This consumed my time for about 4 months in early 1994, it was truly a
radio experience that actually sounded professional and almost real! -- a
true resumé addition. With the demise of the radio show in April, and
school finishing up, summer arrived and I started my first job at The Great
Escape. It was my first job, and during that summer of working I also began
talking with Mary, the girl who lived two-thirds across the country that
consumed my heart for the next 2 years. Needless to say, I spent a lot of
time, money, and energy on Mary, only to
be shut out of her life by her evil step-father who I'll ever-so conveniently
name "Dick". That happened last summer (1996) after he realized how serious
I was about her, when I did the most craziest thing I've ever done: drive my
1985 Chevrolet Caprice Classic
(I love my car!) 1800 miles each way to see her. The first craziest
thing I did (before that) was fly out to meet Mary for the first time in
November 1994. I like to do crazy and somewhat spontaneous things.
It's kind of ironic that now I live only 35 miles from her, and we don't
speak anymore... I still don't think she believes that I'm here.
I've never been a Casanova of love, Mary was my second girlfriend, Haley was
my first. Haley basically taught me everything about relationships in 2
seconds. It didn't take me 2 seconds to learn, just 2 seconds to start me
learning -- when she dumped me. That was in 9th grade, February 1992.
If you care, you can read about some of the
girls that have affected my life (or most likely I affected their's more) on
the Waves and Sounds Page.
I'm single now... Like any other 21 year old
guy, I'd like to have a girlfriend now (take that as an advertisement,
girls). Call it a personality flaw of mine,
when I try to relate with a girl I'm attracted to she, for some reason, ends
up hating me. All the girls I've dated approached me first. Anyway,
Summer 1995, after graduating from High School, feeling really great about
myself, I parlayed my hobby of deejaying into a lucritive summer job, as well
as doing cable-TV and telephone in-house wiring. I seem to have many talents...
And thanks to my talents, January 1998 brought new promise to my life as I
was offered a job working for
Scottsbluff Networx and
Inventive Media, an Internet Service Provider and computer repair
business in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The job, of course, I took immediately.
It was the opportunity I had been waiting for, and even if it didn't work
out, there was nothing for me to lose except the chance... I'm in
Scottsbluff, Nebraska now and am very happy.
so I started using it again! What else is there to say about me? I'm a
warm, sincere, honest person. People say I'm extremely congenial and
funny - of course, those are the people who really know me.
Like I said in the beginning of
this mind spooge, I'm a very different person depending on how well you know
me... and no matter how well you know me or think you know me, one thing is
always certain -- I am djbrian and there is no other like me!
If you have any questions or comments, please email me at [email protected].
| This is my 19 year old brother Paul (next to Sue, the girl that ended up being the prom queen that night -- he's a real ladies man unlike me! Of course, they weren't going out...). I can hardly believe how fast time has passed, he's a Freshman at Adirondack Community College. I think he is a pretty cool kid, and an awesome brother!! Paul enjoys too much stuff that if I list it in a month it will be obsolete. He also has a very well-developed sense of humor!! He's basically an all-around 19 year old. Damn, what happened to me? (curious look)... |
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| This is my mother. When we were little kids everyone would say she was the best mom out of anyone's. As we got older they would say she was okay. During the pre-teen years we were too busy goofing off to not think anything of her (unless she punished us). During high school, as our minds matured about as fast as our bodies, we started to realize something about our her that for years previous we wouldn't accept and denied, but now faced with the uncontrollable development of our minds and the ability to reason, couldn't disprove... the fact that our mother is crazy. Growing up around it doesn't help you notice it, but once we did we were so glad that out of all the crazy insane people in the world, she was the one that we called "Mom", because a truly insane mother is... well, never mind. What I meant to say is "We love you, Mom." (click here to hear her say "uh-huh"!) |
My parents are cool. They definitely are two-of-a-kind! Growing up,
they usually for the most part kind-of let us do what we want and be
ourselves (sense the hint of sarcasm?) helping us become good individuals!
I love my parents, even though I now know they weren't perfect, but who
wants perfect parents right? Sure, they may have been the contributing
factors of all their children's problems, but then again they may not have
been! What am I saying? I guess what I'm trying to say is
"HELLLP!", no!, that my parents are nuts and I guess as a
result so am I.
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| This is my sister Robyn. She's a cool sister. Robyn is a teacher in a school downstate. I think she teaches second grade, not sure. She has been happily married for 4 months now. Robyn, I guess, is an okay sister. She's definitely one of a kind! And now I'll have a new brother-in-law, he's cool too! Although she's 27 she still acts like she's 16, maybe that's why all the guys like her (sorry Robyn)! Actually since she got married she's become very mature, which is cool. |
| These are my cats Tigger and Sam. Tigger is really really fat and never fights back when crazy Sam attacks him. Sam is psychitsofranic (spelling?). Sam gets so jealous when he sees Tigger getting attention, he hisses and swats at Tigger. When they're not around us, they seem to get along great. The reason Tigger is so fat is because last year when our neighbors were covering their boat he happened to be in it. He wasn't released for a whole month! When he came screaming and meowing at our window he sounded terrible, and was so thin. He probably was down to about 5 pounds. No more of that, Tigger's now a hefty 17 pound lard-butt, but we love him! |
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