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Massima Grayshun

Vonnegut he is up in heaven smiling at us

About Me

I like to polish up on my Byron

My Interests

I have no interests im not interesting

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet all the dead people I admire and the dead people I know. I would like to meet all those people I used to know as a kid like Duncan who used to live on my road or Sawisawe that kid at my school or that kid called Ivan who lived in Navan and had ginger hair. I would like to meet people who have animal spirit guides and people who like to look at the sky so they realise how small they are. I want to meet people who "were there" when things went down I want to meet people who can tell me things I wouldnt find out anywhere else. In short you the reader of this dont meet any of these criteria. Leave now! you are not welcome, I will never invite you to a dinner party
Which Oz character are YOU?

Music:

Frank Zappa is some sort of musical god sent down to show us who we really are. Others of his ilk are Aphex Twin, Morrisey, Beastie Boys, Wu Tang Clan,Elvis Costello,Captn Beefheart, psychic possesor, cibo matto, don sugarcane harris, sultans of ping fc, slaughterhouse, squarepusher, futureheads, lionel hampton, moving hearts, ben folds, posies, Jelly roll Morton, Miles Davis, Bjork, Add N to X, Soundgarden, Beatles, Byrds, Dylan, Shangrilahs, Peter Gabriel, Morricone, Booker T and the MG's, Otis Reading, Smokey Robinson, James Brown, Kraftwerk, Gangstar, Public Enemy,Beach Boys, Madness, The Specials, Jon Spencer blues explosion, The Zappatistas, Pink Floyd, Spinal Tap, Pantera, Dead Kennedys, Colin Blunstone, BOC, BDP, ELO, OMD, MC5, AFX, KRS1, JB's, EYC, FoS, GNT, GHB, PIL, NWA, Ice cube, Money Mark, Portishead, Ludacris, Pogues, Saul Williams, Rollins Band, The Liks, Sugar Creek Trio, Gainsbourg, Rory Galagher, Desmond Dekker, Junior Murvin, Marvin Gaye, Weezer, Beanie man, Buju Banton, Deftones, Dandy Livingstone,Kate Bush, Missy Eliot, Orb, Orbital, Queen, Prince, Prodigy, Beck, Goldie, The Posies, Van Morrison, Timbaland, Little Richard, The temptations, Fats Waller

Movies:

I love the Marx Brothers and Steven Seagal. Love classic kung fu (prodigal son, the victim, buddhist fist, Iron monkey), babycart series, zaotoichi, le bossu, freeway, lawndogs, horror on partybeach, kind hearts and coronets, napoleon dynamite, life aquatic, election, happiness, freddie got fingered, a self made hero, brain dead, dawn of the dead, city of god, cannibal the musical, the independent, Spinal Tap (how did I not put that already), Unforgiven, Dead mans shoes, North by Northwest, Jump tommorow, Leon, Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, When Harry became a tree, Holes, Tadpole, Southpark the movie, Anchorman, Casino, Treasure of the Siera Madre, The Lady from Shanghai, Confessions of a trickbaby, Young poisoners handbook, adaption,

Television:

simpsons,newsradio (one of the best ever sitcoms), Bruiser(sadly forgotten british sketch show), Duckman, The Critic, Southpark, Larry Sanders, The 3 best shows ever The Wire, OZ, I Claudius (or Clavdivs if you prefer), King of the Hill, Bit of Fry and Laurie, Brass eye, Alan Partridge,Quincy ME, Diagmosis Murder, The Kingdom (proper Danish version that is)Lucky Louie,Sopranos, Shameless, TV Burp, Screenwipe,

Books:

Books well Vonnegut I do tink is proper well good been steered towards Paluhniuk recently aswell. Will self, Ulick O'connor, Willard Price is great and hilarious, Kafka, Machiavelli, Spike Milligan, Wilde, Roddy Doyle. Enjoy a good biography and a bit o history but far more important are the works of Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, John Wagner et al.

Heroes:

I would not say I have heroes but people I admire such asGroucho Marx, Kurt Vonneguit, Gaudi, Tony Benn, Crom Dubh, Jesus(of Nazereth), Karl Marx, Frank Zappa, Alexander the Great, Dali, Bil Hicks. I did not mean for my list to be entirely men but like most men I have a hard time appreciating the achievments of women apart from Emily Winterburn aww bless. Becoming more of a fan of Madame Blavatsky these days aswell.

My Blog

dumb all over a little ugly on the side

If I had to describe my relationship with the Guardian with one word I would have to use the word unappreciated. I used to buy their paper every single day, I have sent them many an e mail with usuall...
Posted by Massima Grayshun on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:18:00 PST

the ghost of tsar Nicholas II

So a year has passed in the time since my last writing. The highlight of the year for me was either finding a house after 2 weeks of sleeping on couches with my stuff in a cellar or pissing on a wasp....
Posted by Massima Grayshun on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:20:00 PST

I have a hat it has balls on it

Ah life, what a beautiful and splendid thang it is.I am sitting typing this while smoking, I am too poor to buy cigarettes at the mo so i am smoking a cuban cigar I had hanging around. What a world we...
Posted by Massima Grayshun on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:36:00 PST

Stood on high

So last night I thought I would be sensible. After cooking my great chickpea curry and lolling about I decided  to get a (relatively) early night so I went to bed at 4 am. Before I went to bed I ...
Posted by Massima Grayshun on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:26:00 PST

Romanian fantasy No1

So I go into the kitchen this morning (by which I mean evening) and it smells strangely of salmon, uncooked salmon. I then walk into the living room to see Rob awake on the sofa, and this room smells ...
Posted by Massima Grayshun on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:09:00 PST

Just a quickie

I was reading the guardian today while drinking coffee, smoking copiously, listening to Ballkan gypsy music and watching the people walk past my window. After laughing at stories of multiple limbed In...
Posted by Massima Grayshun on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:18:00 PST

*-beep bip bip bip beep-*

Well it would happen wouldnt it. The first time I write a blog in ages and pu no real news in it then while watching the news at 4 in the morning I start to realise that there is much going on in the ...
Posted by Massima Grayshun on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:47:00 PST

Und ist nein nicht nie

Greeting and good tidings people of the future! Sorry practicing for the impeniding arrival of Call-me-Kenneth leader of the robot invasion.I havent got much to say really it has just been a fair whil...
Posted by Massima Grayshun on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:27:00 PST

Ein mal, zwei mal, drei mal die madchen

Ah life in my new  house, I am enjoying it. The best thing  is it comes with free entertainment. Living next to a club and 2 pubs means I get to look at all the idiots flittering about. I no...
Posted by Massima Grayshun on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:15:00 PST

Once again residing

So I am once again comfortably within the flabby folds of the internet. FOr those of you that didnt know since I returned to uni (21 Sep) I have not had a house till Fri just past. This was an interes...
Posted by Massima Grayshun on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:59:00 PST