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Real Name: Jeff Brandt
Nickname: Jeff Brandt
Joined: 2007-12-01 19:11:54
Occupation: student/writer/intern/RSO treasurer
Hometown: Alton, Illinois
Personal Website:
Favorite Bars: Murphy's, Fast Eddie's Bon Air in Alton, IL
Favorite Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Flaming Lips, Yes, the Presidents of the United States of America, Beastie Boys
Favorite Movies: Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Apocalypse Now, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Reservoir Dogs, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Forrest Gump.
Guilty pleasures: Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Favorite TV Shows: Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Basically, Larry David is television.
Favorite Books: The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), In Our Time (Hemingway)
Works of modernism, postmodernism, and creative nonfiction, especially short stories.
Love About C-U: The movie theaters usually have all the films I want to see. When I'm home in Southern Illinois, I always have to drive 30 minutes to see anything interesting because the closest movie theater only shows PG-13 garbage comedies.
Lots of bars where there aren't many middle-aged rednecks.
The lack of rednecks in general, on campus at least.
Lots of options for late night food.
Hate About C-U: No one cares to shovel the sidewalks or plow the streets until it's all ice.
Hobbies: Buzz staff writer, Montage Literary Arts Journal Treasurer, Dalkey Archive Press paid web editing intern
About Me:
Articles by Jeff Brandt
Stiller's un-PC comedy is a little too unfunny - Aug. 16, 2008
The Dark Knight premiers at Goodrich Savoy 16 - Jul. 23, 2008
Worth the hype - Jul. 21, 2008
No need to rewind - Jul. 01, 2008
Visually astounding - Jun. 29, 2008
A professor makes some new friends - May. 31, 2008
Absurd politics and tomfoolery in the youtube reptile community - May. 20, 2008
Spiting death and stayin' alive - May. 12, 2008
Saying Yes in a Post-9/11 World - Apr. 25, 2008
Miss Pettigrew, plain and tall - Apr. 06, 2008
The good kind of awkward - Mar. 30, 2008
The French Connection (1971) - Mar. 25, 2008
From the makers of Superbad comes a supergeneric high school comedy - Mar. 23, 2008
Jason Statham’s latest is much less crunk than Crank - Mar. 08, 2008
Coming-of-age in a supressive animated world - Feb. 23, 2008
Slightly better than you’d think - Feb. 11, 2008
A Great Film . . . for fans of Stomp the Yard, Step Up, and Save the Last Dance - Jan. 26, 2008
Watch the trailer and you’ve seen the movie - Jan. 13, 2008
Debate as a form of civil disobedience - Dec. 31, 2007
The Virtues of Objectifying Women and Demonizing Commies - Dec. 23, 2007
ER meets Oedipus Rex - Dec. 01, 2007
Modern Times (1936) - Nov. 28, 2007
When Third-Person Shooters Go Hollywood - Nov. 28, 2007
When Third-Person Shooters Go Hollywood - Nov. 25, 2007
Wristcutters: A Love Story - Nov. 11, 2007
Michael Clayton - Oct. 21, 2007