| Birthplace: San Dimas, California Birthday: August 31, 1970 Current Residence: Pasadena, CA Current Employment: Department of Justice/Federal Prosecutor's Office Song: 'What a Wonderful World' by Louis Armstrong. Brian says, "I think it's a beautiful statement of what life is about - the beauty around us, and friends and children and family." Also, anything disco. Movie: "I usually like break-through types - 'Jurassic Park', etc. I also like movies that end uncomfortably, that make the viewer more uneasy than satisfied. I guess it's the dark irony in me or something. If I had to pick a movie that was just well-made all the way around, however, I'd probably pick 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'." Worst Car: A tie. #1. 1979 Gold Toyota Corolla Station Wagon with fake sheepskin seat covers. "The Golden Nugget". Home of the world's first license plate frame to read "Have a Non-lugubrious Day." #2. 1981 White Toyota Celica Supreme with no power, no CD player, and no ability to pick up women. "The Love Removal Machine." Nickname for Martin: Big M is the main nickname. Also used to call me "Martin Rowland Sydney Thomas" because he thought it was witty. Brian has the singular distinction of being the only one out of the six members of the Groom's Party who didn't realize that I was going to ask him to be in the wedding. He is the "B" of the famous "BMT". I've known Brian since my Junior year at Bonita High School in La Verne. He and I rode the same bus together (no, not the short bus) until everyone but me got their driver's licenses and I could bum rides off of them. Brian grew up in La Verne for the first 22 years of his life, and his parents still live there in the house where Brian lived as a young lad. Brian and I had a lot of classes together during our Junior and Senior years, including AP HIstory, AP Government, and AP English. I wasn't very talented in the math arena, and yet somehow I convinced Brian's trigonometry teacher to let me hang out in her class during my open period. I sat in the back and worked on projects for my commercial art class, shoving desks together to make a huge table to paint or airbrush while the rest of the class tried to work through regression analysis equations or whatever they called it. I don't think the instructor liked me very much, but Brian was kind enough to whisper the answers to me when the teacher tried to catch me off-guard with a math problem. Brian and I became friends slowly over time, and ended up going to college at Cal Poly together as well. Brian also put me on the path to marketing. When I transferred to Cal Poly from UC Riverside, I was an undeclared major. Brian was in Management and Human Resources, and as part of his core business classes he needed to take "Introduction to Marketing." He convinced me to take it with him, and we did a project on Lucky Charms cereal. We turned in our report by putting it in a box of Lucky Charms. I decided that I liked marketing and switched my major to marketing with a focus in advertising. So, in a way, Brian is directly responsible for me being in advertising. I'll never forgive him. He's also responsible for my initial move to Pasadena, where he and I were roommates the first time I met Jody. For a great story, ask Brian why I owe him five bucks. [Back to Groomsmen Page] [Back to the Home Page] |
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