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John Patrick Greak

I am here for Friends

About Me

I just learned how to use the myspace profile editor, making me as technically savvy as the garden variety 8 year old.

My Interests

you, of course. tell me something about yourself...

I'd like to meet:

idealistic realists.

Music:

my heart belongs to paul westerberg, the replacements, alex chilton, big star, van halen, guided by voices, cheap trick, sam cooke, the old 97's, shudder to think, the ramones, the smiths, ted leo, juliana hatfield, the who, avail, stiff little fingers, uncle tupelo, gram parsons, the velvet underground, soul asylum, green day, dag nasty, social distortion and minor threat. i share it with john cale, sonic youth, the dance hall crashers, the faces, the carpenters, neko case, brian eno, the alkaline trio, art blakey/jazz messengers, kiss, the afghan whigs, swervedriver, aimee mann, al green, the minutemen, stereolab, funkadelic, pj harvey, void, the bad brains, john mellencamp, the misfits, and so many more it makes my head hurt.

Movies:

Herbie: Fully Loaded, That Thing You Do

Television:

studio 60, gilmore girls, real time, scrubs

Books:

hesse, fitzgerald, stan lee and jack kirby

Heroes:

robin zander, curtis martin, gorilla monsoon

My Blog

The Dark Ages

Over the past two days, I have had to deal with afternoon power and cable outages affecting my end  of Gardiner due to local repairs.  Since I have one of those two in one phone/answering ma...
Posted by John Patrick Greak on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:31:00 PST

Cindy Sheehan is just nuts.

News was "leaked" yesterday that unless Nancy Pelosi was willing to bring debate regarding articles of impeachment against President Bush and Vice Preseident Cheney to the floor of the House Of Repre...
Posted by John Patrick Greak on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:53:00 PST

Chuck Norris vs. Our Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ

Well, not really.But two of my favorite shows are on at 10:00 AM every morning and it's sometimes hard to choose whether to watch re-runs of "Walker: Texas Ranger" on USA or "The 700 Club" on ABC Fami...
Posted by John Patrick Greak on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:45:00 PST

I knew there was a reason I loved Mike Richter

Mike Richter, retired NHL goalie and hero of the 1994 Stanley Cup champion New York Rangers, is readying for a possible career advancement. According to the AP: NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- U.S. Rep. Chri...
Posted by John Patrick Greak on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:33:00 PST

Best of 2006

POOP MMVIOnce again I have waited until the last minute (actually, I have 240 minutes to go 'til the clock strikes midnight) to gather my thoughts and music purchases for the past year, spread them ou...
Posted by John Patrick Greak on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:37:00 PST