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About Me

Young Until I Die. Grain As Fuck.I live in Salt Lake City, Utah. That's right. Despite the stigma associated with the name, there is no other place I'd rather be. Although this city is a debacle, there is wildness swallowing it on all sides. Industry can only fend off the hungry desert for so long and the mighty Wasatch will still kiss the sky even after this diseased culture rots back into the soil it was born of.Just another being born into the chaotic mess of destruction, isolation, poverty, abuse, and hatred that is the current age. I refuse to be a victim. I seek to transcend the situation I was born into by challenging all I have been told is true. I seek to form lasting relationships with all other beings out there, relationships that are meaningful and constructive. I want to be a part of the creation of a haven of autonomy and familiarity, and to link with other communities, humyn and non humyn. I stay healthy and try to avoid anything that could distract me from living. I seek to live instead of be told how to live.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Ecopunk, posion free, vegan, hiking, bird watching, DiY, rewilding, jumping off shit, trespassing, loitering, riffs, the mighty 'buch, nuts and berries, trees, shitting in the woods, deep ecology, reading, writing sagas and manifestos, siestas, the Core, conversations, exploration, shows, my friends and family, and doing what I do with no fucking compromise (or working to that). Heckling and mocking bro's. Ze Grain Haus/Ze Grain Flat.

I'd like to meet:

Comrades and conspirators.

Books:

These books rock! Watership Down. 1984. His Dark Materials Trilogy. The Road. Heart of Darkness. The Jungle. A Language Older Than Words. Black Elk Speaks. Beyond Civilization. Walden. Desert Solitare. Collapse. Society of Spectacle. Death to the Iron Horse. Huckleberry Finn. Paradise Lost. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Moby Dick. The Day Philosphy Dies. Many more. If you live in Utah, Creatures of Place, Hiking the Wasatch Front, Plants of Northeastern Utah, and the Black Hawk War are crucial. Zines!

Heroes:

In these dark desperate days. Where control over our lives is fading away. There is no guarantee that an authentic life will ever be seen. We have nothing left to lose. But a vapid presence, a half existence. You held on. To a vision of a world. Of masters without slaves. Against all odds. Unrestrained. Despite despair. I stay inspired. You disrupted that deep apathy within me. Demanding the most out of each moment. You never lived for less. Then your desire. Nothing can stop this expression. Despite despair I stay inspired. What stops us from living? What keeps the gears grinding? As we merge our lives with what we hate. Nothing can lesson the impact. What holds back the authentic? Why do we continue thoughtlessly? What stops us from embracing? Letting nothing obstruct us. From ending what has kept us. From creating. I stay inspired. In this dark desperate moment. You are proof that hope can survive. I have every reason not to give in. Against all odds. Despite despair. I stay inspired.

My Blog

Wilderness

The Wilderness Preservation Act defines wilderness as roadless areas uninhabited by permanent human settlements. Generally these areas are deserts, mountain peaks, and other remote places isolat...
Posted by Sträy on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:01:00 PST

Maturation

Born kicking, screaming, crying into cold, uncaring plastic hands.The precedent is set for life, a life of alienation.At the age of five they transfer this life to the first of many programmers.To be ...
Posted by Sträy on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:09:00 PST

Statues (unfinished)

Statues fall while the podiums remain, regimes change and new chapters are written.Another leader takes the reigns and mistakes repeated and the past forgotten.History is doomed to repeat itself as lo...
Posted by Sträy on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:57:00 PST

Essay on Stewardship Ethics and Christianity

I agree with the assessment that a "stewardship ethic" is consistent with Christian ideas since that ethic is founded on the same presumption as Christian ideas. It is the idea of Exceptionalism, tha...
Posted by Sträy on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:56:00 PST

Breathe

Do you realize what you're doing to yourself and are you really okayAre you content with losing control and slipping out of realityWe all have to cope somehow its true but there are healthier waysThan...
Posted by Sträy on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:50:00 PST

Not sure on a name for this.

Some say "let the roundups begin" but I say they already startedFrom moment of our conception we are inducted into this firestormThey seek to purify us by addicting us to their definition of lifeConfi...
Posted by Sträy on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:46:00 PST

Dear White Race-Fuck You, I Quit.

I was taught to believe the (white) culture I was born into is superior to all others.That all non humyn beings are lesser and meant to be exploited.That some cultures of humyns are inferior to others...
Posted by Sträy on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:55:00 PST

Lyrics, Part 1

Here's the first one for all that care. Feedback welcomed!Your frail subculture's cracks are showingSure signs of weakness in a base that crumblesBurdened by layers of hypocrisy that cannot be heldTh...
Posted by Sträy on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:51:00 PST

Confessions of a bitter student majoring in environmental studies

I get called negative and a cynic, utopian and unpracticalAll because I see the situation differentlyI see ice caps in terms of bloated bear carcassesIn four yearsAnd all others see something foggy ye...
Posted by Sträy on Tue, 15 May 2007 09:33:00 PST