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Benihana

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About Me


the car's on fire , and there's no driver at the wheel.

and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides.

and a dark wind blows.

the government is corrupt,

and we're on so many drugs.

with the radio on and the curtains drawn.

we're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine.

and the machine is bleeding to death.

the sun has fallen down.

and the billboards are all leering.

and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles.

it went like this:

the buildings tumbled in on themselves.

mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble,

and pulled out their hair.

the skyline was beautiful on fire .

all twisted metal stretching upwards.

everything washed in a thin orange haze .

i said: "kiss me, you're beautiful--

these are truly the last days."

you grabbed my hand. and we fell into it.

like a daydream. or a fever.

we woke up one morning and fell a little further down --

for sure it's the valley of death.

i open up my wallet,

and it's full of blood.

My Interests

You know me. I'm Old Gregg.

I'd like to meet:

Among so many others:

Music:

You can catch me rocking these sweet jamz from time to time:Alexisonfire, Anberlin, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail Of Dead, Appleseed Cast, The Arcade Fire, Armor for Sleep, Art Blakey, As Tall as Lions, At The Drive In Ashes of Adrienne, The Audition, Azure Ray, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Folds (with or without his Five), The Beta Band, Billie Holiday, Bjork, The Bled, Blink 182, The Blood Brothers Blur, Brand New, Bright Eyes Buddy Rich Catherine Wheel, Chiodos, Chick Corea, Cibo Matto, Circa Survive, Circle Takes the Square, Cody Chestnutt, Coldcut, Coldplay, Copeland, The Cranberries, Cursive, Dashboard Confessional, Dave Matthews (with or without his Band), David Bowie, Death Cab For Cutie The Decemberists Desaparecidos, Deftones, DJ Food, The Eagles, The Early November, Ella Fitzgerald, Elliott Smith Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton/Cream, The Faint, Fall of Troy, Five Seconds of Goodwill, The Flaming Lips, Flyleaf, Foo Fighters, The Format Frank Sinatra, Further Seems Forever, Gene Krupa, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gorillaz, I Can Make a Mess like Nobody’s Business, Incubus, Iron & Wine Jack’s Mannequin, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Eat World, John Coltrane, John Mayer, John Williams/The Boston Pops Orchestra, Johnny Cash, Kid Koala, The Killers, Last Flight Home, Louie Bellman, Mae, The Mamas and The Papas, Maria Taylor, The Mars Volta Maynard Ferguson, Mew, Miles Davis, Minus The Bear, Modest Mouse, Muse, Norah Jones, Oasis, Panic! At The Disco, Pedro the Lion, Phantom Planet, Placebo, Plain White T’s, The Postal Service Radiohead/Thom Yorke Rammstein, Richard Cheese, Rufus Wainwright, Saosin, Saves the Day, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, The Shins Silverstein, Simon & Garfunkle, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Snow Patrol, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Sparta, Steve Miller Band, Story of the Year, The Strokes The Sundays, Sunny Day Real Estate, Taking Back Sunday, Tenacious D, Terminal, Thrice, Thursday, Tori Amos, Travis, Underoath Ween, Weezer, Weird Al Yankovic, The White Stripes,

Etc, etc, etc.

And so many more that I have probably omitted.

Movies:

American History X, A Scanner Darkly, Reservoir Dogs, Fight Club, Snatch, Lucky Number Slevin, et cetera.

Television:

Family Guy, Whose Line Is It Anyway, Robot Chicken, Futurama (most things on Adult Swim), Chapelle's Show, et cetera.

Books:

, Lullaby, House of Leaves, Watership Down, Animal Farm, Schindler's List, Of Mice And Men, To Kill A Mockingbird, Where the Wild Things Are, The Perks of Being A Wallflower, Fight Club, Fahrenheit 451, et cetera.

My Blog

The World Has Turned And Left Me Here

             In those golden days of grass-stains and make-believe, my family had one Christmas tradition in particular that I remember vividly. W...
Posted by Benihana on Wed, 14 May 2008 02:36:00 PST

he says, "help me out...hell is coming."

10:28pm Sunday, April 20, 2008    Way back, when all of this started, we were different people. Different creatures, even. I guess it truly started before we even knew each other. When we ...
Posted by Benihana on Wed, 07 May 2008 12:44:00 PST

Lost in Translation

3:14am Friday, April 18, 2008    I'm tired.             My body drags, my muscles burn at the end of the day for the stark soft of a be...
Posted by Benihana on Wed, 07 May 2008 12:39:00 PST

Go ahead, laugh at me...

...but I thought this was the coolest thing ever. "Jim" hanging out with Ben Gibbard and David Bazan? I didn't know celebrities actually liked each other, I just assumed it was all in the name of go...
Posted by Benihana on Wed, 07 May 2008 12:35:00 PST

Neverland

2:20am Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Just dust my heartAnd you will findThere are no fingersPrinted thereJust the untouched placeThat lies insideOf every lonely boyTonight     &n...
Posted by Benihana on Wed, 07 May 2008 12:30:00 PST

This Has Become a Weakness; The Golden State Wins Again

1:41am Wednesday, April 9, 2008   This is the closest thing I have to a journal. And maybe that's my problem. Maybe if I kept a pen and paper handy, jotting down any spontaneous thoughts that sl...
Posted by Benihana on Wed, 07 May 2008 12:28:00 PST

Save Your Scissors

4:18am Friday, April 4, 2008   Nineteen of these&these things, and counting. It's funny how man has to collect and classify to affirm his existence. It's almost apologetic. There aren't any othe...
Posted by Benihana on Wed, 07 May 2008 12:21:00 PST

now we say goodnight, from our own separate sides.

1:53am Friday, Feb 15   My dress shoes onThe well-kept cemetery lawnBoth of them weepingTheir one good son now was gone The ironyTo see my dad down on his kneesCrying out to Jesus"But Lord, I've...
Posted by Benihana on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:09:00 PST

Taking on seven years that Holy Ghost had left alone.

9:32pm Monday, Feb 11     All eyes on the calendarAnother year I claim of total indifferenceTo here, the days pile upWith decisions to be madeI'm sure all of them were wrong Into this song...
Posted by Benihana on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:06:00 PST

"tragic eyes i cant even recognize myself behind"

11:26pm Tuesday, Dec 4, 2007     "What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me, into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly, because I can't any l...
Posted by Benihana on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:34:00 PST