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grant

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Born in Chicago, live in downtown Dallas now. I went in the Marines after graduating from Lamar high school. I have 2 art degrees from UNT, trying to get my MFA in drawing and painting with the final goal of teaching art in college. I like low key things like dive bars live music, and animals- esp cats! I have a website w/ my art .."http://www,grant9smith.com/www.grant9smith.com

My Interests

Learning about art, music, literature. I like to meet ppl who can teach me new things in those subjects.

I'd like to meet:

Any cool ppl esp into art, music.

Music:

Wide range- blues, jazz, rock , rap. Bob Dylan,Daniel Johnston, Led Zepplin, Our Lady Peace, Wolf Parade, Beck, The Beatles, Arkells, Cake, Soundgarden, Robert Johnson, Billie Holliday, The White Stripes, Wilco, Cowboy Junkies, The Clash, Miles Davis, The Flaming Lips, Interpol, etc

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, The Natural, The Blues Brothers, Jesus is Magic, Animal House, Blazing Saddles, The Wedding Crashers,American Movie, Run Lola Run, Pollock, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Long Way Round, I killed Andy Warhol,Basquiat, Amalie, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,A Clockwork Orange, Bill Maher stand up, Mystic River,Capote, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind.

Television:

Anything funny, Reno 911, southpark, The Office -BBC

Books:

Beat authors are great, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg,Hunter S. Thompson, Michael Mclure, Charles Bukowski. Franz Kafka is cool, Hemingway, George Orwell, Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut

Heroes:

The 14th Dalai Lama, My Grandfather

My Blog

Our Lady Peace- Angels/Losing/Sleep acoustic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfEQRAG6jlU Brilliant...
Posted by grant on Sun, 04 May 2008 02:43:00 PST