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The Muse Hick

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this is what i do
I edit this forum: Poetry Forum @ Writer's Voice

I post on these sites:

Film Hick

light throughout the tunnel

haikubed

flashbangwhallop

mice hi-fi

missives from a misanthrope

Paul Grimsley @ Spoiled Ink

poet throat

Paul Grimsley @ Plugged Out Writers

Paul Grimsley @ writing.com
what i am

a philosophy student ever after; a writer of poetry, literary fiction, science fiction, opinion pieces, whatever comes to mind.

i am also possibly one of the most laid back people in existence


Your Aura is Blue
Your Personality: Your natural warmth and intuition nurtures those around you. You are accepting and always follow your heart.
You in Love: Relationships are your top priority, and this includes love. You are most happy when you are serious with someone.
Your Career: You need to help others in your job to feel satistifed. You would be a great nurse, psychologist, or counselor. What Color Is Your Aura?

My Interests

Read My Writing at WritersCafe.org
Read My Writing.. Writing poetry and fiction; reading good literature and pulp literature; listening to great music; watching films. And of course socialising with my lovely friends.

I'd like to meet:

People with brains that open out to encompass the world and don't narrow down to a point. Their hearts should do the same. -----------------------------------------------------------

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Music:



Ocean Rain
Amnesiac
Bachelor No. 2
American Water
Scary Monsters

The Velvet Underground
Pigeonhole
Dulcinea
Rid of Me
Universal Mother

Dusk
XTRMNTR
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Dig Your Own Hole
Deserter's Songs

Appetite for Destruction
Public Image
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
How I Learned to Love the Bootboys
Mali Music

Maxinquaye
Powerage
Grace
Doolittle
Incesticide

Monster
Combat Rock
Unknown Pleasures
House Tornado/The Fat Skier
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- AC/DC
- Ryan Adams
- Add N To X
- Aerosmith
- Air
- Alabama 3
- Altered Images
- Tori Amos
- And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Our Dead
- Anthony And The Johnsons
- Fiona Apple
- Apples In Stereo
- Arab Strap
- Arrested Development
- Ash
- At The Drive In
- Audiobullys
- Audioslave
- Auteurs
- Avalanches
- Baby Bird
- Burt Bacharach
- Erykah Badu
- Beastie Boys
- The Beatles
- The Beautiful South
- Beck
- Belle And Sebastian
- The Bellrays
- Belly
- Ben And Jason
- The Beta Band
- B52s
- The Birthday Party
- Bis
- Bjork
- Black Crowes
- Black Grape
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- Mary J Blige
- Black Sabbath
- Blind Melon
- Blondie
- Blur
- David Bowie
- Bow Wow Wow
- The Bravery
- British Sea Power
- Broadcast
- Jeff Buckley
- The Buzzcocks
- John Cale
- Campag Velocet
- Captain Beefheart
- The Cardigans
- Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds
- The Charlatans
- The Chemical Brothers
- Neneh Cherry
- Vic Chesnutt
- Chicks On Speed
- The Clash
- Leonard Cohen
- Coldplay
- Cornershop
- Elvis Costello
- Sheryl Crow
- Crowded House; - Cypress Hill
- John Coltrane
- Ornette Coleman
- Miles Davis
- Depeche Mode
- Destiny's Child
- Dexy's Midnight Runners
- DJ Shadow
- The Doors
- Ian Dury And The Blockheads
- Bob Dylan
- Echo And the Bunnymen
- The Eels
- Elastica
- Eurythmics
- Everlast
- Eminem
- Everything But The Girl
- Faith No More
- The Fall
- Fischerspooner
- Flaming Lips
- Fatboy Slim
- Fridge
- Freakpower
- Fun Lovin'Criminals
- Nelly Furtado
- Futureheads
- Garbage
- Gangstarr
- Garbage
- Marvin Gaye
- Godspeed You Black Emperor
- Goldfrapp
- Gomez
- Gorillaz
- Grant Lee Buffalo
- Groove Armada
- The Handsome Family
- Happy Mondays
- P J Harvey
- Isaac Hayes
- Hot Hot Heat
- Idlewild
- INXS
- Jane's Addiction
- Joy Division
- The Jayhawks
- The Jam
- Jesus And The Marychain
- JJ72
- June And The Exit Wounds; Kasabian
- The Kills
- The Killers
- Kinobe
- Kraftwerk
- Led Zepplin
- Lemonheads
- Lightning Seeds
- Shelby Lynne
- Madonna
- Magazine
- Aimee Mann
- Manic Street Preachers
- Metallica
- Bob Marley
- Massive Attack
- Natasha Bedingfield
- Curtis Mayfield
- Lo-Fidelity All Stars
- MC5
- Mercury Rev
- Mink Lungs
- Meat Puppets
- Moby
- Mogwai
- The Mission
- Moldy Peaches
- Moloko
- Charles Mingus
- Thelonius Monk
- Morcheeba
- Mos Def
- Morrissey
- Van Morrison
- Muse
- NERD
- New Fast Automatic Daffodils
- New Order
- Nirvana
- No Doubt
- Jim O'Rourke
- The Pixies
- Primus
- Public Image Ltd
- Sinead O'Connor
- Joan Osborne
- Olivia Tremor Control
- Outkast
- Finley Quaye
- Red House Painters
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Rem
- Prefab Sprout
- Pogues
- Iggy Pop
- The Ramones
- Raveonettes
- Suede
- Supergrass
- Super Furry Animals
- Silver Jews
- Sonic Youth
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Stereolab
- Specials
- Stereo Total
- Throwing Muses
- The The
- Throbbing Gristle
- Talking Heads
- Tricky
- Tindersticks
- Ultrasound
- Velvet Underground
- Wilco
- Whiskeytown
- 16 Horsepower
- Wonderstuff
- Jim White
- White Stripes
- XTC
- X Ray Spex
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Neil Young
- Warron Zevon
- ZZ Top
- Zutons ----------------------------------------------------------Clash, The - The Guns Of Brixton

(paul simonon)

When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of brixton

The money feels good
And your life you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in heaven, as in hell

You see, he feels like ivan
Born under the brixton sun
His game is called survivin'
At the end of the harder they come

You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
No need for the black maria
Goodbye to the brixton sun

You can crush us
You can bruise us
Yes, even shoot us
But oh-the guns of brixton

When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

You can crush us
You can bruise us
Yes, even shoot us
But oh-the guns of brixton

Shot down on the pavement
Waiting in death row
His game is called survivin'
As in heaven as in hell

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of brixton


Lyrics provided by uCompleteMyspace.comR.E.M. - Ignoreland
These bastards stole their power from the victims of the Us v. Them years,
Wrecking all things virtuous and true.
The undermining social democratic downhill slide into abysmal
Lost lamb off the precipice into the trickle down runoff pool.
They hypnotised the summer, Nineteen seventy-nine.
Marched into the capital brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,
Heartless, and labelled. Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,
Mega ultra power dosing. Relax.
Defense, defense, defense, defense. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland.

The information nation took their clues from all the sound-bite gluttons.
Nineteen eighty, eighty-four, eighty-eight, ninety-two too, too.
How to be what you can be, jump jam junking your energies.
How to walk in dignity with throw-up on your shoes
They amplified the autumn, Nineteen seventy-nine.
Calculate the capital, up the republic my skinny ass.
T.V. tells a million lies. The paper’s terrified to report
Anything that isn’t handed on a presidential spoon,
I’m just profoundly frustrated by all this. So, fuck you, man. (Fuck ‘m)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland.

If they weren’t there we would have created them. Maybe, it’s true,
But I’m resentful all the same. Someone’s got to take the blame.
I know that this is vitriol. No solution, spleen-venting,
But I feel better having screamed. Don’t you?
They desecrated winter, Nineteen seventy-nine.
Capital collateral. Brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,
Heartless, and labelled. Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,
Mega ultra power dosing. Relax.
Defense, defense, defense, defense. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lyrics provided by uCompleteMyspace.comManic Street Preachers - Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

Images of perfection, suntan and napalm
Grenada - haiti - poland - nicaragua
Who shall we choose for out morality
I'm thinking right now of hollywood tragedy
Big mac: smack: phoenix r: please smile y'all
Cuba, mexico can't cauterize our discipline
Your idols speak so much of the abyss
Yet your morals only run as deep as the surface
Cool - groovey - morning - fine
Tipper gore was a friend of mine
I love a free country
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
Conservative say there ain't no black in the union jack
Democrat say there ain't enough white in the stars and stripes
Compton - harlem - a pimp fucked a priest
The white man has just found a new moral saviour
Vital stats - how white was their skin
Unimportant - just another inner-city drive-by thing
Morning - fine - serve your first coffee of the day
Real privilege, it will take your problems all away
Number one - the best - no excuse from me
I am here to serve the moral majority
Cool - groovey - morning - fine
Tipper gore was a friend of mine
I love a free country
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
Zapruder the first to masturbate
The world's first taste of crucified grace
And we say there's not enough black in the union jack
And we say there's too much white in the stars and stripes
Fuck the brady bill
Fuck the brady bill
If god made man they say
Sam colt made him equal.


Lyrics provided by uCompleteMyspace.com

Movies:

Igby Goes Down; Romeo And Juliet; Old Boy; Audition; House Of Flying Daggers; Hero; Seven Samurai; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Ghost In The Shell; Save The Green Planet; Matrix Trilogy; Lord Of the Rings Trilogy; La Haine; Fight Club; Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind; Donnie Darko; Trainspotting; Big Lebowski; Memento

Television:

Sopranos; House; Lost; The Mighty Boosh; Deadwood; Black Books; The Office; ER; Northern Exposure; Aeon Flux

Books:

a suite of desolate elegance; Grapes Of Wrath; Fight Club; The Magus; Pattern Recognition; Altered Carbon; Herbert Huncke A Reader; Naked Lunch; On The Road; The Devil's Cup; Steppenwolf; The Glass Bead Game; The Famished Road; Bleak House; The English Patient; On The Road; Dharma Bums; Vanity Of Duluoz;

Heroes:

Herbert Huncke; Warren Zevon
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