Munsonville Power and Light

About Me

I am tall, dark, and dorky. Very sweet, very odd, very fun, very passionate, and very much me. What ya see is what you get. Don't be too disappointed. I am a community arts activist, a guerilla artist, a movie reviewer, and am also a writer living in Mid-Michigan and haunt the night for new victims and stories. Hooray for me! My book - BACK FROM NOTHING - is a collection of dark short stories and has been out since 1999 and is available through me or Amazon.com. The stories are a dark and give a twisty mirror view of reality. The stories seem to live on the borderlands between horror and fiction, and they will bite. They like it there 'cause of the heat.If you are interested in more info, check my websites. I sell it for $7 bucks plus two dollars shipping. I accept Pay Pal so if you'd like a book, shoot me an email and I can hook you up for seven bucks and postage!I have recently finished work on a novel and am shopping it to publishers. It's a fun tale of a man with a punkin on his head leading a war in heaven against the enemies of Man. Fun stuff.I have prose-poems in BARE BONE - 6, 7, and 9. Both have been well received and the piece in issue 7 has been called 'gorgeous', which is neat. I also received Honorable Mention in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror -19 and I will have a story called THE THIRD HORSEMAN in Bare Bone 9 in the fall of '06.I have a story that is in the November, 2005 issue of CTHULHU SEX Magazine called MurderLove and that can be gotten online online. My story The Third Horseman is set to be published in Bare Bone #9 this Fall. Check out the podcast of my story The Place Things Go To Die here - http://tothnews.libsyn.com/ Honors Honorable Mention - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #19 for With Me Honorable Mention - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #20 for The Third Horseman,My story site http://www.geocities.com/backfromnothing My Story My Space - www.myspace.com/grimringlerI am a huge movie nerd with a love for horror and review films for Jackasscritcs.com. http://www.jackasscritics.com - grim ringlerI am involved in the Flint Creative Alliance, a group of musicians, artists, writers, actors, and other like-minded people working together to create a better, stronger community via the arts. (for more info on what we do, and who we are, go to www.flintca.org) I am weird, silly, fun, moderately mad, and am looking to make new friends and such.Curious?(and feel free to write me to say hi, i am always looking to meet new peoples)

My Interests

movies, writing, reading, chatting, taking walks, going out, video games, building invisible robot penguins, reviewing, moping, bowling, playing pool, music, collecting weird toys, horror, being silly, having fun, talking, going out to eat, museums, ghost stories, zombies, penguin porn, Halloween, weirdos, sports, politics, religion, Flint, Machine Shop, writers, nerds, dorks, monsters, Messy Stench, horror movies, City Club, stuff and such, Peter Jackson, Flint Creative Alliance, love, blogs, toys, comics, technology, Kenyan Tigers

I'd like to meet:

Hey there I am a dorky writer and movie nerd always looking for friends. I love art, music, writing, walking, hanging out, toys, and, really I am interested in half a billion things and would love to meet people from email and chat buddies to real, live friends.I am looking for - Like-minded weirdos. Muses. Losers. Loners. Freaks. Nerds. Dorks. Geeks. Friends Artists Writers Thinkers Doers Dreamers And those who peer deeply into the darkest places of the heart. And secretly, I'd like to meet a friend who will make me want more from myself, and the world, and will have the patience to help me find that. Life's a long journey, and we need all the companions we can get for it. Basically, I am looking for YOU.

Music:

Ani DiFranco, Slayer, Slipknot, Simon and Garfunkel, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Aimee Mann, Pink Floyd, Nothingface, Nirvana, Shadows Fall, Of Montreal, Godflesh, oldies, Fiona Apple, Scissor Sisters, Chimaira, Big Chief, Thought Industry, The Police, The Misfits, Fear Factory, Pearl Jam, Clutch, Nellie McKay, Alison Krauss, Public Enemy, Mushroomhead, System Of A Down, TaTu, Foo Fighters, Ashley Peacock, Alexandra Scotti, Led Zepplin, Machine Head, Goblin, Rust, Muzza Chunka, Quicksand, Helmet, GWAR, PAW, Muzza Chunka, Of Montreal, Flop...

Movies:

horror movies, The Blair Witch Project, Almost Famous, Donnie Darko, The Thing, Ghost World, Rushmore, Iron Giant, The Lord of the Rings...and too many to list. i am a movie nerd so i like a lot of movies. those are just particular faves. - Dawn of the Dead (old and new), Day of the Triffids, Star Wars, Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, Black Christmas, House of 1000 Corpses, zombies, cult movies, classics, science fiction, Scorsese, Carpenter, Tarantino, Romero, Wes Anderson, PT Anderson, Asian films, Old Boy, Audition, Open Water...

Television:

Carnivale, X-Files, Millenium, The Simpsons, The Venture Bros., Antiques Roadshow, Tales from the Darkside, Monsters, The Twilight Zone, Wonderfalls, Family Guy, Friday the 13th the series, The Night Stalker, The Muppet Show, MST3K. Robot Chicken...

Books:

His Dark Materials; Life of Pi; The Shining; Song of Solomon; At the Mountains of Madness; The Chronicles of Narnia; The Lord of the Rings; Silver Scream; Book of the Dead 1 + 2, King, Lovecraft, Koja, William Browning Spencer, Toni Morrison, John Skipp, Clive Barker, House of Leaves...

Heroes:

Brock Samson Dr. Orpheus

My Blog

artists needed!

hey there. there's a pretty rad festival going down here in Flint this weekend called Revolutions. it'll be 20+ bands, food vendors, DJs, solo performers, and best of all, crafters...
Posted by Munsonville Power and Light on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:08:00 PST

To Sybyl

if the discovery of DNA and its makeup have shown us anything, it's that in life, all things are connected. and knowing that, you can begin to see how every life is connected, every...
Posted by Munsonville Power and Light on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:48:00 PST

I Love you Mr. Thumb

So, this is going under the assumption that my thumb is indeed, male, but, I think that's fair. I think it will understand, if nothing else. I err on the side of physiology. Oh, Mr. Thumb...
Posted by Munsonville Power and Light on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:55:00 PST

the edge

There is an edge in all of us that we must always be wary of as we walk along it, holding tight to who we are, who we want to be, and resisting the things that would take us away fr...
Posted by Munsonville Power and Light on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:41:00 PST

Hollywood in Flint - the pictures

it took a while to get around to it - sorry - but here are some of the pics from when Semi-Pro was in townWill Ferrell doing the bicycle down our alley. in the dumpsterthe Capitol at night - where the...
Posted by Munsonville Power and Light on Tue, 22 May 2007 09:15:00 PST

When Hollywood Came to Flint...

The Making of Semi-Pro when the circus came to Flint(pictures to come)Well, they're gone the streets aren't as busy, the nights are not as noisy, the sidewalks not as crowded, the props are gone, ...
Posted by Munsonville Power and Light on Fri, 11 May 2007 10:54:00 PST

Tales of Hollywood in Flint 1- the parking snafu

...stupid is this guy thinking I can GO ANY-GODDAMN-WHERE without being in the movie. Seriously. So, they have the alley where I park blocked off so they can shoot. Ok, fine. Whatever. No big deal. Ah...
Posted by Munsonville Power and Light on Fri, 04 May 2007 10:57:00 PST

one day

it's easy to forget you matter to anyone. sure, we all know that there are people that care about us - our friends, lovers, and family - but sometimes you need to be reminded that you do change the wo...
Posted by Munsonville Power and Light on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:13:00 PST

being

everyone who needs to know or cares, knows - i am an atheist. and as far as i am concerned, that's all that has to be said. i don't think that anyone's belief or lack t...
Posted by Munsonville Power and Light on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:12:00 PST

we are the dreams that break our hearts

humanity has an interesting, shall we say funny, way of making great leaps forward in progress then taking oh, say three steps right the hell back. take My Space, for your best example of...
Posted by Munsonville Power and Light on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:06:00 PST