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I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I made my myspace layout using Pimp-My-Profile.com

I don't know what I'm doing.

My Interests



Playing guitar,bass, a smidge of banjo,a whiff of piano, music in general, wheat pennies,buffalo nickles, bicentennial quarters, the night sky, meteor showers,sleep,reading,lacrosse, Weimar Germany, UGA football, Braves baseball, elephant polo, donkey basketball, orangutan boxing, cat juggling, Miller High Life. Shooting video, editing video. Canon Scoopic 16mm. History, old houses, old people, children, dogs, windbreakers, ascots, pith helmets, army boots, mock turtle necks, chinese finger cuffs, Chuck Taylor low-tops, black coffee, hot tea,sweet tea, grilled cheese, Meat-and-Three, twin Fender Pro-Juniors, Big Apple Strat, Line6 Pod, Purple Mexican Jazz bass, boy-girl harmonies, the ocean, fishing(salt water only, please), firearms, bottle rocket wars, driving around at night, mischief, rocks, preying mantises, lightning bugs, the weather, mumblety-peg, sailing, voting, politricks, kleptocrats, dictionaries, books full of lists and facts,eating snow, neti pot, the English language,garlic, celestial navigation, slide projectors,...

I'd like to meet:



Music:

Beatles, Rolling Stones, the Who. Pharma Sutra, the Jam, XTC, Minutemen, the Vapors, Husker Du, Meat Puppets, Sex Pistols, Mercyland, Sugar, Buzzcocks,Pixies, the Clash, the Damned, the Cynics, Paul Weller,Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Graham Parker, Billy Bragg, You Am I,Exploding Truss, Dukes of Stratosphear, Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, the Feelies, the Muffs, Imperial Teen, New Pornographers, X, the Specials, the Selecter, English Beat, X-ray Spex,Neko Case and her Boyfriends, the Cars, Molly Hatchet, Caviar, Oasis, Supergrass, Blur, Morphine, ELO, Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsys, Von Bondies, Haircut 100, the Hollies, Sir Douglas Quintet, Doug Sahm, Herman's Hermits, Devo, Boomtown Rats, Cake, Camper van Beethoven, TMBG, Creation, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, CCR, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Stanley Bros., Flatt and Scruggs, Jim and Jesse, Bill Monroe, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Bros, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Traffic, the Byrds, Cheap Trick, Shonen Knife, Sonic Youth, Beck, Bjork, Fiona Apple, Kings of Leon,Mooney Suzuki,the Records, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Wilco, Whiskeytown, Old 97's, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Curtis Mayfield, James and Bobby Purify, James Brown, the Replacements, Paul Westerberg, the Fluid, Nirvana, Lester"Roadhog"Moran and his Cadillac Cowboys, the Kinks, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cannonball Adderley, Thelonius Monk(hey, it's the jazz section!), Dizzy Gilespie, Gonzalo Rubalcabo, Eubie Blake, Professor Longhair, Neville Bros, Paquito de Rivera, Louis Armstrong, Red Garland Trio, JS Bach: Werke fur Laute, Delibes:Lakme, Schubert:Trout Quintet...

Movies:

35,16,8mm

Books:

John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, Herman Hesse: The Glass Bead Game,Steppenwolf,Siddhartha. Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain, short stories. Heinrich Mann: Man of Straw. Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Sons. Nikolai Gogol: short stories, Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment. George Orwell: The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm, 1984. Flannery O'Connor: short stories. Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum, Dog Years. I need to go look at my bookcase...

Heroes:

Zero, illegal immigrants, d.Boon, Paul Weller, the first caveman who decided that oysters might be edible, Carl Brutananadilweski, Rudy Mancke, Larry Munson, Uga's I-VI...

My Blog

just tryin to join the paddy wagon

Go to the link below and click on the video that sayeth "Heat Breaks Nearly Century-Old Record" and see how I managed to mostly avoid being outside on the hottest day in 94 years. Ah, the Greenville ...
Posted by gray on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:48:00 PST

hail to the chimp

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Posted by gray on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:01:00 PST

that week i didnt sleep

This one is about the week when I got back from Portland. I pretty much volunteered before I left to work a whole week covering for one of the morning photogs when I got back. Piece of cake, I thoug...
Posted by gray on Wed, 14 May 2008 01:38:00 PST

if you have nearly 18 minutes to spare

Watch the replay of this morning's LIVE broadcast of me sitting in a live truck fighting a week's worth of sleep deprivation. I was in downtown Greer manning a camera for live bumper shots. You're inv...
Posted by gray on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:32:00 PST

sleepless with the fishes.

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Posted by gray on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:47:00 PST

chewin chocolat

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Posted by gray on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:37:00 PST

do they make a beard relaxer?

'cause I could really use one. The itch is what always defeats the beard. Is there some form form of leave-in conditioner? Could animal fat be the cure?...
Posted by gray on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:15:00 PST

john edwards cola. picture blow-out sale. every thing must go!

Sat Truck-palooza.The building next door.The view from my perch. Note my brand new P2 cam. I'm now tapeless. It's got that new cam smell.This is the pit behind the risers where all the print people an...
Posted by gray on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:51:00 PST

more from Cola.

While I have some time, here are some more pix from the John Edwards partyHere's me doing what I'm doing.Reporters doing their 6 o'clock hits.They even make the pregnant ones work.Super Furry Animal R...
Posted by gray on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:18:00 PST

i’m engaged...

... politically.In Columbia for the Democratic primaries. I'm at the site of the John Edwards party at a restaurant called Jillian's.It's another national media cluster.I just finished my package on t...
Posted by gray on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:48:00 PST