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About Me

Well, lets see...I am Gregory. I live in a house in OKC. I really like it, it is just the right combination of regal and ghetto. The house is pretty great, the neighborhood is kind of spotty. I think that is half the reason I like it. It is comforting on some level to see people of varying hues walking my street. Well, except the dude that is always casing cars on my street and probably broke into my roomates car - If I catch you again, asshole, I will hurt you. I rarely see a "W" sticker in my neighborhood, which, again, comforts me. I have a job that I dislike. I am working out how to go back to grad school. I can be charming. I can also be an ass. Sorry about that, folks. I scare the shit out of some people when I drive. I have a pile of guitars and amps. I make very loud noises with them, often in the middle of the night. The neighbors are my biggest fans. I had a weird, uptight religious upbringing - but a truly loving and wonderful family. Now I am basically agnostic or some such thing. I really like going to see bands play. uh, I think I mentioned women and whiskey elsewhere, so that pretty much covers it for now. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

I like music. I like books. I like art. I have a deep, abiding affection for whiskey. I am rather fond of women, well - most of them, anyway. I live with thousands of cd's and records. I am currently putting all that shit on my computer. Thousands of books also inhabit my house. Most of them aren't mine. I like old machines. I think paper smells good. BoBo's Chicken at 3 am.

I'd like to meet:

Hank Chinaski

Music:

This is tough, I like many things. arcwelder, freakwater, mono, godspeed you black emporer, download, mastodon, stereolab, yo la tengo, elvis costello, slowdive, swervedriver, magnetic fields, nick drake, the verve, sonic youth, calla, arab strap, firewater, autolux, sebadoh, johnny cash, merle haggard, willie nelson, jerry jeff walker, buck owens, lefty frizzell, george jones, george clinton, fugazi, foetus, melvins, earth, kyuss, queens of the stone age, material issue, belle and sebastian (shut up), jesus and mary chain, charlatans, echo & the bunnymen, black rebel motorcycle club, the roots, common, laibach, yo la tengo, radiohead, south, built to spill, rl burnside, sonic youth, mogwai, red house painters, air, swans, sun kil moon, my bloody valentine, neurosis, nas, uncle tupelo, paper chase, black angels, neko case, happy mondays, phoenix, catpower, drive-by truckers, magnolia electric company, placebo, REM before they sucked, teenage fanclub, the czars, turin brakes, black lipstick, mooney suzuki, coil, trashcan sinatras, beulah, felt, isis, james, St Nick with and without the bad seeds, severed heads, new order, antony and the johnsons, the the, pulp, tortoise, tindersticks, camera obscura, jenny lewis and the watson twins, gillian welch, sea and cake, superchunk, dambuilders, sloan, this is impossible, I have to stop now, I could go on forever...

Movies:

I am sure there are good ones.

Television:

I like it when the TV is off.

Books:

Charles Bukowski (I am totally in a phase right now), Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Borges, Donna Tartt (the secret history is one of my all time favorite books), John Updike, William Maxwell. Many others - I also read a lot of non fiction, history books - no revisionist bullshit, thank you.

Heroes:

All those with broken spirits. and hearts.

My Blog

Spunks from Tokyo!

All I have to say today is that Japanese rock bands get it. They get Rock n' Roll better than the vast majority of American bands I have ever seen. These little tiny deferential dudes at t...
Posted by Gregory on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:30:00 PST

Weekend

It is Monday, and I am back in the gray expanse of my office trying not to fall asleep. I had a really good weekend. I feel normal for the first time in a long time. It has been a to...
Posted by Gregory on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:21:00 PST

Moving

I am moving. I am glad that I am going to be living in a new place, but moving itself is fucking bunk. I got caught up the in mass shake up of ought-six and had to get out of my current di...
Posted by Gregory on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 04:01:00 PST

Bukowski

I really love Charles Bukowski because: I awakened to dryness and the ferns were dead, the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled corpses surrounded me wi...
Posted by Gregory on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:14:00 PST

Road Trip

I went on a road trip this weekend, which seems innocuous enough, but as is usually the case the trip was something of a controlled disaster - also known as a clusterfuck. We decided to go to the Wood...
Posted by Gregory on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:25:00 PST