THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, October 28, 1994 TAG: 9410280067
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E13 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: GROOVY SAPIEN
SOURCE: BY ALICIA LUMA, HIGH SCHOOL CORRESPONDENT
LENGTH: Medium: 81 lines
WHEN BRYAN GUTHRIE was 17, a play he wrote was one of 12 selected from a pool of 683 in the Dramatist Guild Young Playwrights Festival competition. His prize was a trip to New York City where he attended a reading of his play by professional actors and actresses.
Bryan is a dynamic person who never stops moving. At Virginia Tech, he has just completed performances of a play that he wrote and directed and is currently working on another.
In the future, Bryan wants to start a film company with his classmate Dave Kreutzer. For now, everywhere he goes, Bryan looks for ideas for his first film. In his eyes, all the world could be a stage.
Full name: Arlo Bryan Guthrie (yes, named after the folk singer)
Birthdate: Oct. 15, 1974
Birthplace: Norfolk
Occupation: Electrician's slave boy
Siblings: David, 17, and Ross, 9
Education: Kellam High graduate, now a junior Virginia Tech.
What is your idea of a perfect day off: Going to the firing range and shooting things with a gun.
Last smart thing you did: Renewed a friendship with an ex-girlfriend I hadn't spoken to in a year-and-a-half.
Last dumb thing you did: Went to see a terrible play at the Generic Theater
Favorite movies: ``Citizen Kane,'' ``Miller's Crossing,'' ``Sid and Nancy''
Favorite song: ``Wrong'' by Archers of Loaf and ``The Sinister Minister'' by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Favorite singer/band: Nirvana and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Last book read: ``Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' by Hunter S.Thompson
Hobbies: Writing, computers and bludgeoning small woodland creatures
Best date you've been on: Is there such a thing?
Worst date you've been on: The very first one. The girl professed her entire dysfunctional life to me over a pool table.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?: My procrastination.
If you could change one thing about your parents, what would it be?: The fact that I don't have the ability to tell them what I would change about them.
Secret vice: I bite my toenails.
Favorite TV shows: I despise TV and all it stands for, but if I must watch, then let it be ``Seinfield.''
Last vacation: A week-long road trip to New Jersey. It was pathetic.
Pets: A stuffed walrus.
Best job: Assistant manager at a pet store.
Worst job: Delivering pizza.
What achievements are you most proud of?: Surviving this long without permanent psychological damage.
What would you like to be in 10 years?: Alive, making enough money to feed myself.
If you could change one thing in America, what would it be and why?: Violence, guns are for practice on inanimate objects
Heroes and role models: David Manet, the Coen brothers and Frank Booth from ``Blue Velvet''
Your most unique trait: I have amazingly accurate opinions about movies I've never seen.
Best subject: Deviant Behavior, taken this summer
Worst subject: History of drama 1, 2 and 3
If a movie was filmed about your life, what would be the dramatic turning point?: Meeting my wonderful girlfriend
What makes you mad?: When people at checkout counters are too damn slow. ILLUSTRATION: PETER D. SUNDBERG
Bryan Guthrie wants to start a film company with a classmate at
Virginia Tech.
Alicia Luma is a home-schooled junior.
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