Name

evan “evbo” brodie

born

march ’74, nyc

HAIR

salt & pepper

eyes

brown

spirituality

bordering on agnostic and transcendental

music

bryan adams, freddie aguilar, alice, ricardo arjona, aterciopelados, beatles, beyond, boney m, bread, buena vista social club, the byrds, priscilla chan, jeff chang, phil chang, sylvia chang, wakin chau, chayanne, bobby chen, sarah chen, nana chiang, chyi chin, steve chow, zhao chuan, chuanzi, coldplay, creedance clearwater revival, jim croce, culture club, franco de vita, lana del rey, song dongye, rocia durcal, duran duran, bob dylan, foreigner, frou frou, juan luis guerra, woo gwa, procol harum, herman’s hermits, sam hui, human league, michael jackson, norah jones, kaze, elle king, kiroro, masahika kondo, zhao lei, lowell lo, luo da you, don mclean, mamas & papas, lata mangeshkar, victor manuelle, seiko matsuda, miyuki nakajima, police, otis redding, noriko sakai, shins, simon & garfunkel, she & him, jagjit & chitra singh, rod stewart, sting, taylor swift, tears for fears, teresa teng, thievery corporation, three dog night, tình chí dep, paula tsui, u2, ukulele, xu wei, faye wong, paul young, charlie zaa, zero 7, zheng zhihua

writers

fyodor dostoevsky, gustave flaubert, allen ginsberg, nathaniel hawthorne, walter isaacson, jack kerouac, harper lee, herman melville, j.d. salinger, william shakespeare, henry david thoreau, leo tolstoy, edith wharton, walt whitman

movies

3 idiots, 50 first dates, american pie, bao, before sunrise, before sunset, big, borat, breakfast club, cast away, dead poets society, dragon: bruce lee story, clockwork orange, devil’s advocate, electric dreams, elf, elvis, few good men, forgetting sarah marshall, frankie and johnny, garden state, get out, good morning vietnam, goonies, graduate, grave of the fireflies, groundhog day, grown ups, harold & kumar go to white castle, harry potter, internship, jack and jill, jobs, joe versus the volcano, karate kid, kuch kuch hota hai, life of pi, like stars on earth, lunchbox, marathon man, meet joe black, meet the parents, midnight in paris, midsommar, money pit, my neighbor totoro, new york stories, nope, one fine day, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest, outsourced, peter and the wolf, poltergeist, princess bride, rainy day in new york, ratatouille, shanghai calling, sleepless in seattle, social network, sound of music, spirited away, steve jobs, superbad, veronica, wargames, when harry met sally, you don’t mess with the zohan, you’ve got mail

shows

cheers, cobra kai, comedians in cars getting coffee, family ties, friends, home before dark, how i met your mother, how to build a sex room, jack whitehall: travels with my father, kominsky method, lost, louie, man vs. bee, martin yan, my next guest needs no introduction, nine perfect strangers, seinfeld, severance, sex and the city, south park, stanley tucci: searching for italy, stranger things, succession, ugly delicious, uncoupled, white lotus, wonder years

geekery

calculus, character encoding, chinese, coding, cooking, devops, gardening, holistic health, languages, linux, networking, physics, romanization

isms

always keep punctuation inside quotes; cannot walk down stairs without skipping steps; cannot write lists without alphabetization; completely paperless, (mostly cursed with) photographic memory, much more expressive through writing than speaking; obsessed with grammar

likes

autumn; b&b escapes; bicycling; blizzards; camping; chinese karaoke; dry humor; empty streets; epsom salt; essential oils; forbidden rice; fresh smell of city streets after a thunderstorm; hiking; jelly bellies; kayaking; kimbap; laing; nespresso pods; nori; overcast skies; retro computing; road trips; skating; skinny jeans; stinky tofu; thanksgiving; toto bidets; unsweetened almond milk; weed; xian dou jiang

dislikes

big pharma; cake; crowds; deforestation; dog shit; food waste; fossil fuels; golf; groomed lawns; human nature; overbuilding; overfishing; overpopulation; plastic packaging; political correctness; public education (the shit show it has become); shopping malls; social media; traffic; wealthy politicians; western doctors

bloodline

my family tree