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watson

graveguy56

About Me

Born in new jersey. Raised in the rural community of warren township.Got my first horse when I was nine. Not very popular in school or high school untill 1964. Was one of the first guys to grow his hair long. It got me thrown out of school on a weekly basis. and I got beat up a lot and tossed out of my house. fortunatly a lot of the girls liked it. Hung around the town of Plainfield with frequent trips into new york where i hung around the in the west village. Had a rock group, never signed but had lots of fun Drafted in 66 discharged in 68. Prefer not to talk about it. Traveled around the country for a while. Worked as a horse wrangler in Wyoming. surfed in hawaii. Lived out a lot of my fantasies. I've been in 49 states. (still need to see Alaska. Hung around the town of Scotch plains Lived in new york went to drama school did a few plays. Moved to los angeles, attended Santa Monica College. did some acting and directing of plays. Worked as an entertainment photographer for many years. click on pics to see some of my work. Hung out at the Palomoino club. Had a daughter in 88. Moved to New mexico in 2002. movoved to Dallas, texas in 2008 Life hasn't always been easy, but it's never been dull.

My Interests

Movies, horses, all kinds of books, camping, all kinds of music,

I'd like to meet:

Old friends from any period in my life. and any new friends out there.

Music:

rock, country , jazz, mor, folk, soul, rap, et al some faves; AFI, the statler brothers, Eminem, acadamy is, Pam tillis, elvis, dave brubeck, jerry vale, fall out boy, beatles, dean martin, my chemical romance, KISS, dylan, stones, mitchell trio, prokofiev, REM, ramones, joan baez, carolyn hester, duke ellington, henry burr, the ventures

Movies:

king kong(1933 version), the wild bunch, tombstone, hud, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, duck soup, casablanca, dawn of the dead, them, beauty and the beast, harry potter films, the star wars films, the re-animater, terms of endearment, braveheart, rings trilogy, raiders of lost ark

Television:

lost, the 4400, the fuse network, frasier, the apprentice, the simpsons, south park, the twilight zone, dark shadows, thriller, have gun will travel, columbo, as time goes by, two and a half men,desperate housewives, monk, columbo, snapped

Books:

a tale of two cities, anne of green gables, it, the nancy drew/ hardy boys books original versions, most things by steven king and Elmore leonard, Ann rule, and Debbie macomber. Robert louis stevensons ' books have always been favorites. this may not be very macho but i've enjoyed some romance novels. Patrica Cornwell and sue henry spin a good mystery. Raymond chandler always cool.

Heroes:

lou gehrig, woody guthrie, Irving thalberg, jack kerouac, bob dylan, rudyard kipling, rod serling and the passengers on flight 99.

My Blog

when worlds collide

Peter pan flew in my window, cause he's lost his wayI wanted to help him out, but I had nothing to sayWe once sailed a ship of clouds over a full moonbut daylight took it all away so much to soonI wis...
Posted by watson on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:03:00 PST

back seat driver

  i was raised in a small jersey townshipwhere there wasn't a whole lot to dobut I dreamed like a prince in a fairy tale landand almost believed they'd come true. but I 've always been a back se...
Posted by watson on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:26:00 PST

lonely on th 25th

It can be sad on christmas eve when you aren't sure what you believe As something special slips away It's just like any other day exceprt that when you cry at night you cry into a colored light and t...
Posted by watson on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:24:00 PST

I'll bet you think this song is about you

It was long long agoyou were younger than you had to beso many things we didn't knowso many things that we had yet to seeOur time together didn't lastsomething useless just tore us apartso you slipped...
Posted by watson on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:36:00 PST

25 little things that make life worth living

1 hershey bars 2 the songs of bob dylan sung by someone other than bob dylan. 3 the art of Vincent VanGogh 4 the voice of Selena 5 Vanilla coke 6 the music of rachmanninoff 7 twilight zone reruns 8 Ca...
Posted by watson on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:35:00 PST

for some of my myspace friends

delicate wings against the autumn night with only stars to watch their flight hidden from eyes that wont understand the magic beyond the common land they fly  to those who still believe that fant...
Posted by watson on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:26:00 PST

another one from the vaults

Theres a song in the moonlight, i'd like to sing but I always have to wait for what the morning brings and the mornings cold, babe, when you're locked outside stripped of your protections, with no pla...
Posted by watson on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:49:00 PST

one from the vaults

when your driving by, with your latest newest guy waving from the shotgun seat at me well I'm not feeling bad, cause it dosen't make me sad to know that you are where you want to be   misty, you ...
Posted by watson on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:54:00 PST

whatever

a silence louder than the dark still searching for the smallest spark to light a dream or pray a prayer but once again, there's no one there
Posted by watson on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:32:00 PST

whatever

  a dream of something lost, then found when silence is the loudest sound when moonlight flees before the dawn catch your dream before it's gone.  ...
Posted by watson on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:03:00 PST