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I'm 26 and a nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit in Knoxville, TN, which is a fancy way for saying I work with sick babies. But don't let the nursing thing fool you...I'm really a totally non-work-oriented person who has a serious addiction to music of all kinds but particularly bluegrass/americana and who would rather be on the lake drinking beer than just about anywhere! I've just spent the last three years of my life in Denver, Colorado learning who I am, but also how to do several things I had never done, like snowboarding and snowshoeing and backpacking, and if you like music festivals you've gotta go to CO! I play guitar and a little dobro and sing/write, and all my friends know that I'm a total music geek and proud of it! I also love to be outdoors-hiking and fishing and wakeboarding or just cruising around with the windows down. I have a totally kick-ass family and am so glad to be back in the Knoxville area where I get to be around them regularly. I really appreciate people who like to get past all the BS and get to know each other by talking on deeper levels than the everyday stuff. I'm really lucky that I have great family and friends that can do that. Makes you saner, I think. Anyway, that's me for the most part. Thanks for reading!

My Interests

playing and singing music-I'm in 2 lovely bands, Cherohala with my beauteous and talented sister Milly (video below), and the Naughty Knots, with my girls Sarah Pirkle and Trisha Gene Brady. Other hobbies include but are not limited to going to concert/shows/festivals in massive amounts, camping, hiking, saltwater fishing with my family in the gulf, wakeboarding on Norris lake, snowboarding in the Rockies, road trips, reading, film, art, traveling, friends, family, genuine people.
You Are Rain
You can be warm and sexy. Or cold and unwelcoming.
Either way, you slowly bring out the beauty around you.

You are best known for: your touch

Your dominant state: changing What Type of Weather Are You? The Naughty Knots

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I'd like to meet:

Ghandi, Robert Plant, J.R.R. Tolkien, Salvador Dali, Bob Marley, Kate Winslet, Charlie Kaufman, Tim O'Brien, J.K. Rowling, Zach Braff

Music:

God, where do I start? I looove me some Led Zeppelin. Tony Rice, Tim O'Brien, Ray Charles, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, DMB, Gillian Welch, John Doyle, Bob Marley, the String Cheese Incident, Darrell Scott, Jerry Douglas, the Red Stick Ramlers, Billie Holiday, Paul Simon, U2, Phish, the Greatful Dead, Nick Drake, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Bob Dylan, Patty Griffin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Widespread, the Counting Crows. Should I keep going? Did I mention Tony Rice? P.S.-Some girlfriends of mine are teaching me to like old time music, and doing a damn good job!

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pulp Fiction, Garden State, Almost Famous, Lonesome Dove (I grew up watching this with the fam), Napoleon Dynamite, Amelie, Walk the Line, Rent, the Motorcycle Diaries.

Television:

Don't watch much, really, but I love That 70s Show, and I just got sucked into watching the first season of Lost on DVD, which is totally addictive but great.

Books:

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy(I freakin' love these books), Life of Pi, Harry Potter, The Secret Life of Bees, The Color Puple. It's hard to pick because I read a lot. I love biographies of musicians/bands.

Heroes:

My parents, my friends, people who help each other, kids

My Blog

BOBBY

So the other day I went into Blockbuster intending to rent a movie, and instead I came out of there the owner of several movies that I had never seen (I mean, seriously, some of those deals make it ch...
Posted by Griffin on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:18:00 PST

Tim O'Brien is my friend

So just in case you didn't know, which you probably didn't, Tim O'Brien is my MySpace friend.  Yeah, that's right.  Not that he actually knows who the hell I am, but it's pretty freakin' coo...
Posted by Griffin on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:36:00 PST

V-day

Yesterday was the dreaded V-day, and I'm totally happy to say that my love day present to myself was Bela Fleck and the Flecktones new cd, which definitely will be keeping me company in my stereo for ...
Posted by Griffin on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:56:00 PST