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Cory

grammatron

About Me

I used to be a high school teacher, a music critic, and a technical writer and editor. Now I'm a dad. Read about my adventures at DadRock.

My Interests

grammar, music, coffee, tea, making things up, not talking to people

I'd like to meet:

Say hi some time.
aol: cdbyrom
yahoo: cdbyrom
msn: [email protected]

I'm also interested in getting a band going again sometime. I play rhythm guitar, and I'm interested in playing metal, punk, hardcore, or some sort of combination of the three. But really, I'll play anything.

Music:

Artists listened to this week:

Movies:

Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowksi, Friday the 13th parts 3-6, Goodfellas, Super Troopers, Revenge of the Nerds, The Longest Yard (the original), Bad News Bears (the original), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Television:

The Wire makes every other show look like regional theater.

Books:


but I'm also reading

and of course I just finished

My Blog

Stuff Im Listening To, 10-07-07

I haven't posted a myspace blog in some time, so I figured I'd let you guys know what I've been listening to lately. If you want to be cool, you'll probably want to check this stuff out. In no order:W...
Posted by Cory on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:41:00 PST

Movie review: American Hardcore (2006)

Here's basically a rundown of this entire film.DUDE FROM SOME BAND: Man, we were against all that mainstream crap.DUDE FROM SOME BAND 2: Fleetwood Mac made me vomit.*poorly edited footage of Black Fla...
Posted by Cory on Sun, 20 May 2007 09:02:00 PST

Movie review: The Illusionist (2006)

This movie would've been a hundred times better if Batman had been in it. But not even Ed Norton and Paul Giamatti, two of my favorite actors, could save this boring mess of a film. 1 bean....
Posted by Cory on Sun, 06 May 2007 09:28:00 PST

Movie review: The Machinist (2004)

Pretty awesome movie where Batman is suffering from severe insomnia and apparently has an eating disorder. This must be before Batman Begins or something though, cause there's no real mention of crime...
Posted by Cory on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:11:00 PST

Movie review: The Prestige (2006)

Pretty awesome movie where Batman and Alfred go back in time to battle Wolverine, who, unbeknownst to me, was a magician a hundred years ago or so. I guess this was before he had his claws and stuff t...
Posted by Cory on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:09:00 PST

Mark St. John, we hardly knew ye (1956-2007)

Former Kiss guitarist Mark St. John (born Mark Norton) died yesterday morning from a cerebral hemorrhage. St. John joined Kiss in 1984, after Ace Frehley's replacement Vinnie Vincent was fired. St. Jo...
Posted by Cory on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:56:00 PST

Movie review: Hard Candy (2005)

Yet another worthy addition to the older-man-meets-teenage-girl-on-the-internet-but-gets-tortur ed-by-her-before-he-can-molest-her canon. My only real gripe is that the male star reminds me way too muc...
Posted by Cory on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:14:00 PST

Movie review: We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005)

Imagine if you saw a documentary about Nirvana, and they did a pretty great job of following their career, and then they got to the part where Kurt Cobain died, and then all they did was show a hand-w...
Posted by Cory on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:16:00 PST

Movie review: Land of the Dead (2005)

Land of the Dead would've been better if they'd cast people who could act, the script and plot were decent, and the characters were all replaced with interesting ones. Other than those problems, thoug...
Posted by Cory on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:21:00 PST

Why you shouldn't drink bottled water

This story shows how much water it takes to produce one bottle of Fiji water. You'd think it would be one bottle, right? Think again. Clickie clickie "In summary, the manufacture and transport of t...
Posted by Cory on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:45:00 PST