Biography
Born: July 25, 1969 in Weimar, Germany.
1974: Emmanuel Wilhelm Brahmstein, E.B.'s father, moves the family to Pittsburgh, PA in the United States.
1975: E.B. starts kindergarten. He displayed signs of "slowness" because he didn't like to play with toys.
1976: E.B. enters first grade, but is placed in a special class because he cannot read English.
1987: E.B. graduates high school.
1987: E.B. starts college at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA. He opted for a dual major in philosophy and literature.
1991: E:B. graduates UGA and teaches for the home school community.
1993: E.B. gets married to Samantha
1995: E.B. suffers nervous breakdown and begins psychological treatment
1974: Emmanuel Wilhelm Brahmstein, E.B.'s father, moves the family to Pittsburgh, PA in the United States.
1975: E.B. starts kindergarten. He displayed signs of "slowness" because he didn't like to play with toys.
1976: E.B. enters first grade, but is placed in a special class because he cannot read English.
1987: E.B. graduates high school.
1987: E.B. starts college at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA. He opted for a dual major in philosophy and literature.
1991: E:B. graduates UGA and teaches for the home school community.
1993: E.B. gets married to Samantha
1995: E.B. suffers nervous breakdown and begins psychological treatment
Philosophical influences
S. Freud Lacan Zizek Fromm E. Cioran Machiavelli Deleuze Marx
Wittgenstein Arendt Guevara Marcuse W. James Hobbes Derrida Kropotkin
Heidegger Schopenhauer Jung W. Benjamin Rousseau G. Debord Ranciere Foucault
Sartre Nietzsche Hegel Kierkegaard M. Horkheimer J. Baudrillard J.S. Mill
Camus Voltaire B. Russell T. Adorno Althusser E. Balibar Sloterdijk
Wittgenstein Arendt Guevara Marcuse W. James Hobbes Derrida Kropotkin
Heidegger Schopenhauer Jung W. Benjamin Rousseau G. Debord Ranciere Foucault
Sartre Nietzsche Hegel Kierkegaard M. Horkheimer J. Baudrillard J.S. Mill
Camus Voltaire B. Russell T. Adorno Althusser E. Balibar Sloterdijk
Literary influences
Anais Nin Augusten Burroughs E.A. Poe Bertolt Brecht W.B. Yeats Kafka A. Huxley
William Burroughs Charles Bukowski C. Bronte Isaac Asimov Garcia Lorca Goethe Eco
Jack Kerouac Hunter S. Thompson Nabokov Shel Silverstein Pablo Neruda Saramago
Allen Ginsberg Chuck Palahniuck Henry Rollins Oscar Wilde Dostoevsky Rousseau
William Burroughs Charles Bukowski C. Bronte Isaac Asimov Garcia Lorca Goethe Eco
Jack Kerouac Hunter S. Thompson Nabokov Shel Silverstein Pablo Neruda Saramago
Allen Ginsberg Chuck Palahniuck Henry Rollins Oscar Wilde Dostoevsky Rousseau
Celluloid influences
Requiem for a Dream Fight Club Eraserhead A Clockwork Orange Night of the Living Dead PI Brazil (Gilliam) Memento
Twilight Zone Lost Highway Rules of Attraction Apocalypse Now Full Metal Jacket The Shining Uncle Buck Metropolis
Labyrinth (w/Bowie) Dead Poets Society Dune Mad Max series Weekend at Bernie's Escape from NY The Running Man Bladerunner
The Unbearable Lightness of Being One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Inception Shutter Island The Hudsucker Proxy
Amelie La Haine The Motorcycle Diaries The Science of Sleep Donnie Darko What If
Twilight Zone Lost Highway Rules of Attraction Apocalypse Now Full Metal Jacket The Shining Uncle Buck Metropolis
Labyrinth (w/Bowie) Dead Poets Society Dune Mad Max series Weekend at Bernie's Escape from NY The Running Man Bladerunner
The Unbearable Lightness of Being One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Inception Shutter Island The Hudsucker Proxy
Amelie La Haine The Motorcycle Diaries The Science of Sleep Donnie Darko What If
Musical influences
The Beatles Billy Holiday Kraftwork Bjork Radiohead Neil Young Nirvana Bon Iver Ray Lamontagne
Janis Joplin Joy Division Tori Amos Vast Queen Massive Attack Interpol NIN Chopin Outkast Thievery Corp
David Bowie Depeche Mode Tool Pink Floyd Credence Clearwater Revival Elliott Smith Rage Against the Machine
The Cure Mazzy Star Deftones New Order Rammstein Al Green Marvin Gaye Broken Bells Damien Rice Underworld
Janis Joplin Joy Division Tori Amos Vast Queen Massive Attack Interpol NIN Chopin Outkast Thievery Corp
David Bowie Depeche Mode Tool Pink Floyd Credence Clearwater Revival Elliott Smith Rage Against the Machine
The Cure Mazzy Star Deftones New Order Rammstein Al Green Marvin Gaye Broken Bells Damien Rice Underworld
Art influences
Lucien Freud Dadaism
Marcel Duchamp Basquait
Jackson Pollock
Diego Rivera
Frida kahlo
Marcel Duchamp Basquait
Jackson Pollock
Diego Rivera
Frida kahlo