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Real Name: Jeff Brandt
Nickname: Jeff Brandt
Joined: 2007-12-01 19:11:54


Occupation: recent graduate/Americorps volunteer
Hometown: Alton, Illinois
Personal Website: www.JTBrandt.com
Favorite Bars: Murphy's, Cowboy Monkey, Fast Eddie's Bon Air in Alton, IL
Favorite Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Miles Davis, Flaming Lips, Yes, the Presidents of the United States of America, Beastie Boys, Led Zeppelin
Favorite Movies: Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Apocalypse Now, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Reservoir Dogs, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Mean Streets, There Will Be Blood, Sweet Sweetback's Badasss Song, 2001: A Space Odyssey Guilty pleasures: Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the Police Academy series
Favorite TV Shows: Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm Basically, Larry David is television.
Favorite Books: Currently reading the early works of Jean-Philippe Toussaint (Camera, The Bathroom, and Monsieur).
Love About C-U: Boardman's Art Theatre, Virginia Theatre, One World Pizza, La Bamba, CUMTD, Caffe Paradiso, Bar Giuliani, Espresso Royale, the Undergrad, Creative Writing and Cinema classes, Jon's Pipe Shop, 50 cent french bread from Jimmy John's
Hate About C-U: No one cares to shovel the sidewalks or plow the streets until it's all ice.
Hobbies: Buzz staff writer (mostly film reviews), Montage Literary Arts Journal Editor-in-Chief, Dalkey Archive Press paid web editing intern
About Me: I aspire to be a real arts & entertainment writer for a magazine or big newspaper, and I hope to publish at least one novel in my lifetime. I want to live outside the U.S. at some point -- or at least outside the Midwest.