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FRED GEAR

Thanks for coming to the show at Triumph

About Me

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. ~William Osler
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My Interests

Communication.Beauty, fun, friends and family, getting up, creating, rock and roll, aikido, vaporizing, hotrods, motorcycles, drawing, drumming, Old #7, jump-offs, bashs, shin-digs, suares, and hootinannies at my place. The South. Snowboarding, longboarding, jibber-jabbin, poking-fun, watching movies, walking, climbing, riding, skateboarding, and hurting less when I fall. We're all just here to have a good time.Making the world a better place through logical planning and imagination. Keeping drama-free. Turning to the positive.Taoism, philosophy, and tea. Festivals of any sort - preferrably ones with fresh lemonade, sour mash, corndogs, and grilled corn. Eating everything I paid someone to kill.

I'd like to meet:

Your mom : ) Funny people. People whom I don't have to convince to have fun. Confidantes. Honorable folks. People who help others on a regular basis. Givers. Thinkers. Artist. We all are, if we just make something. : )

Music:



In my list now...Clutch, Zepplin, GnR, The Commodors, WolfMother, Chopin, Rachmanninof, RJD2, The Flaming Lips, Primus, Smashing Pumpkins, Tenacious D, The Bananas, Danzig, ZZ Top, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Sergio Mendes, Ministry, Lightning Hopkins, Amon Tobin, White Zombie, Black Sabbath, Black Label Society, Jethro Tull, Johnny Cash, John Denver, Hank III, Dick Dale, Beastie Boys, KRS One, NWA, Big Pun, TI, Henri Mancini and the Marleys.

Movies:

I like most that are not formulaic. French and Japanese, especially. Akira Kurosawa, Both Coppolas, Wes Anderson, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick.

Television:

I don't watch television more than a couple of hours a week, because I don't have one, by choice. Too invasive. I like The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, C-Span2, The Dukes of Hazzard, Cowboy Bebop, Mr. Show, Ali G, Discovery.

Books:

Rudyard Kipling, Mike Mignola, Michael Chabon, Brett Easton Ellis, Hawthorne, Poe, Miyamoto Musashi, Scott McCloud, Ayn Rand, Douglas Adams, Mark Twain. Who Moved My Cheese? Candide Owly The Modern Gentleman

Heroes:

George Bailey, The Incredible Hulk, Chaung Tzu, Lao Tsu, Buddah, Jesus, Fat Albert and the Junkyard Gang, MacGuiver, Braveheart, Tyler Durden, Baloo, Ghandi, Che, Douglas Adams, James Bond, Stanley Kubrick, that guy in Ong Bak, Arthur Fonzerelli, Wes Anderson, Hank Williams, Elvis, Howard Roark, Liono, Rage Against The Machine, Uncle Jessie, everyone at Dragoncon

My Blog

Art Show - Friday - Inhabit Act

I will have new work on display at this exhibition on Friday! The grand opening of recently completed Triumph Lofts, right on the beltline on Memorial Drive. 15 local artists. Sample food from loca...
Posted by FRED GEAR on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:41:00 PST

My New Painting


Posted by FRED GEAR on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:03:00 PST

Great Covered Dish Quote

I was whoring about this morning on facebook, and I found a funny little app called Covered Dishes from Fellowship Hall. I was impressed with the idea, since I myself am a lover of covered dish events...
Posted by FRED GEAR on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:31:00 PST

Cry Baby

My friend Laurel and I had a great conversation the other night. Quantum Physics, Metaphysics, living in the hood, health, nature, freedom, and escape. We decided that one could either go where the pe...
Posted by FRED GEAR on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:54:00 PST

The Melvins

Just saw The Melvins Sunday night. It was the first time I'd seen them since I saw them with Primus at my first concert in 1993. I liked them more this time. Josh saw them 3 times last week! Once in N...
Posted by FRED GEAR on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:24:00 PST

ATL BombSquad

Hit the streets again, last night and today, for the first time in too long! ...
Posted by FRED GEAR on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:42:00 PST

Media Silence During Olympics - China

Free Tibet Urgent Campaigns: Click hereFollowing the uprising in Tibet earlier this year, an estimated 4000 Tibetans are missing. Whilst Tibet has been sealed off from the outside world, arrests and p...
Posted by FRED GEAR on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:35:00 PST

R.I.P. Bernie Mac

Truly, one of the finest performers ever to take the stage, and one of the funniest actors to make it! We, unfortunately lost him in the prime of his career. ...
Posted by FRED GEAR on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:09:00 PST

I’m Pressin Charges!

...And now, for all of you who know... The Remix! I love you, ATL!...
Posted by FRED GEAR on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:30:00 PST

Crazy Train

I think this is what Ozzy was talking about... Ayyyy Ayyyy Ayyyy!!!...
Posted by FRED GEAR on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:16:00 PST