After Shiny Toy Gun's set we mulled around the TBS merch tent. Crystal Meth was going on next and in the meantime we were being entertained by the massive rave going on behind us. We began chatting it up with Brad, TBS's merch guy for that night. Brad and Jillian started getting into this conversation about poker when all of a sudden Brad excitedly leaps over and grabs two books from his backpack.
"Oh man, you gotta read this book! It is a poker must-read! There's so much great information in here." He hands his copy of "Professional No-Limit Hold 'Em" over to Jillian and continues with his passionate endorsement. In addition to brushing up on his skills Brad is working on pitching a movie about poker so it makes perfect sense to arm himself with as much information as possible.
Brad tells me that he always carries books around with him, especially in these types of situations. It helps keep him occupied during downtime.
He shows us the other book he had on him. This one is a novel. "A friend of mine gave me this book about 8 years ago. It took me a while to finally read it. Now I'm actually re-reading this one and it's awesome."
[from Amazon: The first half, a starkly realistic, powerful portrait of a troubled adolescent whose life has spiraled out of control, packs a visceral punch. Flunking out of school and already hooked on drugs, the 14-year-old narrator, secretly molested by his stepfather, emotionally abandoned by his weak mother, leaves his mobile home in the depressed upstate New York community of Au Sable and becomes a homeless mall rat. In a burst of bravado, he acquires a crossed bones tattoo, changes his name from Chappie to Bone, and attempts to find some focus in his dead-end existence. Convinced that he is destined for a criminal career, Bone vents his anger in acts of senseless destruction. His vulnerability and his need for love and direction are fused when he and a seven-year-old waif he has rescued from a pedophile take refuge in an abandoned schoolbus with an illegal alien from Jamaica called I-Man, whose Rastafarian wisdom and gentle demeanor are fed by liberal consumption of marijuana, which he deals.]
Brad reads a ton! "I go through phases. Sometimes I can go through 4 or 5 books a month. This will go on for a bit then I'll stop reading. After a while I'll pick up another book and go through so many." This is the phase where he is coming out of book hiding. Hibernation is over and he is back in the reading spirit. He can't remember the last book he read but he's sure it had something to do with poker.
"My friends and I started this book club. You remember that song, 'Read a book, Read a book, Read a m*th*rf*ck*n' book'? Well, we ended up naming our book club after that. Yeah, it's me, someone from SayAnything and another dude from Straylight..." Book clubbin' with band boys....
I told him about the Casa de Awesome's book club. (Not sure if Mike K and the crew are still doing that, though.) And I also told him about ours. Who knows, we could possible join forces.
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