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Michael

Mike Grau is still alive and well .. ..

About Me

I am Mike Grau....I am a musician of some note..I have produced and engineered in my studio and others and am credited on over 15 releases...I have booked shows and played shows all over the place...I like to write my poems and draw my pictures...and I usually can be found playing a piano or a guitar or a bass...or singing..or just making something happen in my little corner of the world...I am currently booking fantastic shows at Buddies Tavern in Parlin NJ...so if you are good...or want to be...give me a holler and I'll book you into a show.

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My Interests

Art, science, math, music, film, video, poetry, music production, music performance, gig booking...and a bunch of other stuff

I'd like to meet:

Someone normal...or totally insane...Hey that's most musicians

Music:

Dead Pony Cats...The Marbles...anything by The Munchie Bunkers...Schnitzel....and of course Jack Stock...plus everything else out there

Movies:

There is only one true film...Bad Ronald

Television:

I own three

Books:

Go Dog Go

Heroes:

They're all dead or silenced

My Blog

Maximum Stoppage

It's just so thoughtful for you to say that people often think this way when they begin to shrink and fade and wander through the last cascade that holds them in their chair upright though they were h...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:59:00 PST

Frozen River song lyrics written for The Dead Pony Cats

Frozen River Frozen river, Her pain it flows like lava, Broken promise, Lies make the sky grow darker, Lies make the sky grow darker, Wish it invisible, Her smile can change the weather, Her sm...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:57:00 PST

Junk the Lover

I am left uncertain, Freeze-dried shadow curtain, Closing down around the sound, Of silence in this stupid town, She said she was leaving, Like a dented car I was grieving, Shaking through my steeri...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:04:00 PST

She

She plays guitar because she likes to tell people she's a guitarist. She plays piano in a hurried fit to make it go away. She bends the truth into pretzels that no one can read. She acts naïve but she...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:45:00 PST

Delerium lyrics from a song for The Marbles

All the bad things, Turn to something beautiful, And all my sadness, It makes me something unusable, Sometimes lately, I don't feel so curious, I can't pull it out this time, Open up my head, ...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:28:00 PST

Like you thought you should

Looking through the memory of points along the hemisphere when under bolted bagged desires whittle at the friendly fire place the needle in the groove or dance between those other two who seem so sudd...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:36:00 PST

Disaster

Sweet disaster in these eyes, Laughter made to hypnotize, Heavy , broken , sentence pause, Waiting for the crowds applause, I can see her eyes and hands, They were there upon demand, Without lus...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:32:00 PST

Saved by Canzano

It is the silence, The burden of this quiet moment, Hung from the fence between my day and night, Scratched into glass, Like a bad art exhibit, Like child stars whose lives have gone wrong, I walk to...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:11:00 PST

Madeline

Is it the feelings creeping ?, The dust along the road ?, Or the sad injustice of it all ?,   Madeline sits crosslegged, Waiting for a break , In the sterile overcast, Weekend drizzle, Repetiti...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:04:00 PST

50 cent Video Hearts (lyrics to a song I wrote for The Dead Pony Cats)

In a dejavu  mood , It occurred to me, Like a barstool martyr, His epiphany, He won't survive, Because he won't listen, She's a blond haired beauty, Near my aqueduct, Like a skinless chicken, On...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:44:00 PST