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Also known as: B-Rabbit, Brentasaurus.

Age: 24.

Bands: Jerkagram (myspace.com/jerkagram) and a new, unnamed performance-based duo with Rotten Orifice.

Next gig: A Manic Productions show July 16 at Cafe Nine with Pattern is Movement and The Mega Mega.

Music style: Indie brah.

Armed with: I play the drums and my main man Derek plays the gee-tah! All sortsa technological mumbo-jumbo to go with it, like loops and pedals!

Wishes he had: A giant rhinoceros, painted yellow.

First concerts: Tool during their Lateralus tour. The first avant-garde show was Yamatsuka Eye and John Zorn during Zorn's 50th birthday at Tonic. Fred Frith joined for the second set. Blew my skull off and changed my perception of music.

Listening to: Cave, Psychic Psummer; Wadada Leo Smith and Jack DeJohnette, America; Melon, Never Eat On An Empty Stomach; Talibam!, Boogie in the Breeze Blocks.

Music that changed his life: Fantomas' self-titled and The Melvins, Hostile Ambient Takeover got me into "weird" music, or as I call it, "music."

First notes: I started playing drums when I was around 5 or 6; it seemed like a cool fun thing to do.

Buy him a drink: Coffee, dude!

Last thing he chugged: The only thing I get drunk on is Franken Berry cereal!

Reading: Roger Zelazny, Great Book of Amber; Laszlo Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance.

On TV: "Lost," "Mr. Show," "Arrested Development." "12 Oz. Mouse" was the greatest show of all time.

Films: Charlie Kaufman, Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Thomas Anderson and Ingmar Bergman affect me most. My favorite ever is Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York.

Under his bed: Tommy Davidson's career.

Fun fact about Brent: I really like feet.

If he were a pizza, the topping would be: Pineapple, always.

Question he wished we asked: What are you doing tonight?

 kcei@newhavenadvocate.com