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grant

and i return to walk these streets alone.

About Me

but home is nowhere...

My Interests

music, languages, concerts, Europe, getting lost, winter, grey skies, rainy days, vodka, & good photographs

I'd like to meet:

my past happiness.

Music:

AFI, Amon Amarth, Anorexia Nervosa, Arsonists Get All The Girls, As I Lay Dying, At The Drive In, At The Gates, Bathory, Between The Buried And Me, Björk, The Black Dahlia Murder, Bleeding Through, Bring Me The Horizon, Burst, Caliban, The Cardigans, Children Of Bodom, Comeback Kid, Converge, Cradle Of Filth, Cult Of Luna, Dark Tranquillity, Darkest Hour, Death By Stereo, The Devil Wears Prada, Dimmu Borgir, Enter Shikari, Enslaved, Evergreen Terrace, Every Time I Die, Explosions in the Sky, The Gathering, Genghis Tron, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Heaven Shall Burn, HIM, Himsa, I Killed The Prom Queen, Ignite, In Flames, Isis, Kenna, Kent, Khoma, Killswitch Engage, The Knife, Kreator, Maroon, Mastodon, Moonsorrow, Mortiis, My Dying Bride, Naglfar, Neurosis, Nightrage, Nightwish, Norma Jean, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Opeth, Pelican, Placebo, Poison The Well, The Postal Service, Raised Fist, Rammstein, Red Sparowes, Redemption 87, Refused, Scarling, Screw 32, Sentenced, Sigur Rós, The Sounds, Tephra, Wolves In The Throne Room
these are my top 5:

Movies:

Amélie, The Bourne Identity, Le Chignon d'Olga, Edward Scissorhands, L'Emploi du temps, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dazed and Confused, Igby Goes Down, The Life Aquatic, Lost in Translation, Run Lola Run, Wet Hot American Summer

Television:

i hate TV.

Books:

1984, All Quiet on the Western Front, Brave New World, The Catcher in the Rye & The Icelandic Sagas

Heroes:

Jason Bourne

My Blog

Cult Of Luna

Patronaat. Haarlem, NL. 21.04.2006...
Posted by grant on Tue, 06 May 2008 10:57:00 PST

the year in music.

Top 20 albums of 2007:1. Wolves In The Throne Room  Two Hunters (dark, epic, depressing black metal)2. Tephra  A Modicum of Truth (the best Cult Of Luna release by a band that has nothing to do with...
Posted by grant on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:26:00 PST

Our darkest days are well upon us.

Lately i have been awash in political thought. They said, "love it or leave it" and i left. I have a lot of problems with America. A lot. The rampant apathy, the rampant ignorance, the rampant unwilli...
Posted by grant on Thu, 17 May 2007 10:01:00 PST

you haven't killed me yet...

why do i always lose at everything in this life?  please, i would like to know what i've done to deserve this.  if you think you can forever keep me down, you have grossly underestimated my ...
Posted by grant on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:18:00 PST

what was 2006.

it's the end of another year and by all accounts 2006 was the best year of my adult life.  though i think 2007 may just give 2006 a run for its money. My top 17 albums of 2006: 1. Cult Of Luna ...
Posted by grant on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:15:00 PST

i tried to be excited about coming home, i truly did.

Europe is the only place that has ever held any promise for me.  being the third time i'm going to attempt this, with all sincerity i hope it's the charm.  come February, i'm gone... and wit...
Posted by grant on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:51:00 PST

these mountains that i call a tomb.

i knew that leaving Europe was a mistake.  i have tried constantly over the past four months to convince myself otherwise, but i'm now finding my momentum, my motivation, and my self-confidence...
Posted by grant on Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:08:00 PST

pretty much the end of all.

i'm setting myself up for one hell of a crash.  it'll be marvelous.
Posted by grant on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:01:00 PST

this is my last chance. after this there is no turning back.

i have been relying on what's comfortable for far too long. it's time for me to journey out into the world and make something of this life i've been given.   ...march 15......
Posted by grant on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:47:00 PST

because there is serenity in despair...

 ...and because longing is eternal... may hopeful hearts reunite in winter's endless night. ...
Posted by grant on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:10:00 PST