Wednesday, September 17, 2014

My Dream


Brendon Small is a TV writer, comedian, voice actor, animator, and musician. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1997 while taking comedy courses at Emerson. Brendon at some point decided to focus on comedy when music wasn’t working out in the beginning. While at a comedy club performing he met a man named Loren Bouchard who was working on a show which later became Home Movies. Home Movies lasted four seasons then in 2006 Brendon began creating a new show for the late night block on Cartoon Network, Adult Swim. The show, Metalocalypse, featured death metal band “Dethklok” and there misadventures as an international phenomenon. The show went on to release music, all written by Brendon, and then later four whole albums. Brendon even tours with a live act version of the band as front man and lead guitarist. Brendon had a brief web series on youtube where he gave lessons on technical guitar techniques because of the popularity of the guitar parts in the music for Metalocalpyse. I have been a follower of Brendon since the premiere of Metalocalypse. His skill at playing guitar has influenced my way of playing, and his script writing for the show itself has influenced my style of comedy in many ways. In music I’d like to accomplish something similar to Brendon, although my interests do not equate in terms of animation and television, I do wish to pursue comedy, stand up comedy. His dry humor is something I find funny and would like to utilize in my act. In the music aspect, the differences start to break down because I play the same style of music. Brendon has also released a concept album, Galaktikon, which is something I wish to accomplish someday as a side project and eventually perform it live.

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