Discovery
Subject Name: Brandon Waite
Scientific Name: Nerd dum Mortum
Group: Mammals
Status/Date Listed as Endangered: Sep. 8th, 1983
Areas of Habitation: Conventions, Concerts, Music Festivals, Film Festivals, Coffee Shops, Art Galleries, Movie Sets, Theaters, LAN Parties
No one is completely sure how his existence came to be. Some say that he is the ghost of a long dead artist or musician, from a time less dark and dreary. Full of daisy chains, cloud gazing, long hair and peace and love. A ghost now forever trapped in the body of an awkward nerd from Idaho. Others believe he is the result of a strange hiccup in time, a black hole created by some terrible disaster never meant to happen. A being not of this era, but made for that great revolution over forty years ago, and is now propelled to the here, the now, for some unforeseeable purpose.
But my mother always said this, Brandon is in the here and now and is meant to be in the here and now for one simple purpose: to tell you a great story.
Actor, Director, Author, Poet, Cartoonist, Minstrel, Painter, Sculptor, Trend Setter, Pot Stirrer, Visionary, Villain, Deviant, Liar, Hero, Saint, Sinner, Darkest Enemy, Greatest Friend. All of these things, and many others, can be used to describe him. There is no art form he wont touch it seems and he will use each and every one of them to get his stories out, to make sure they are told.
These stories, of life and death, of magic, mystery and mirth, of love and tragedy and pain and passion. These stories, filled his head like taunting demons all his life. Night and day, they plagued him and changed him. Somehow, someway, he had to get them out, lest they destroy him.
From an early age, he learned that he was not the only one with such stories following him. In the form of video games, comic books, novels, music and movies, he found kindred stories to his own and this small measure of hope kept him strong. Kept him alive. And so it was, through training and studying, Brandon learned how to expel these demons on paper, on the stage, through the camera and upon the canvas.
Today it seems, his stories are just about to be unleashed upon us. Rumor has it, that this awkward sixties bard is travelling up North to release these demons into the world and change it forever. No one knows for sure if these spinning tales will be for better or for worse. But one thing is for certain, Earth will never be the same again.
