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Gorgeous Griff

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About Me


Which fucked-up genius composer are you?

Shane MacGowan... unconsciously brilliant. You can intelligently debate any topic from theology, history, literature and philosphy... though only while you're out of your skull on booze.
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My Interests

Ultimate food roadtrips, crossword puzzles, Sunderland AFC, Hockey, inappropriate humor, being a happy-go-lucky scamp, cooking and baking, irish republican literature, searching for the holy grail. World-fucking-travel.

Music:

Stiff Little Fingers, The Pogues, The Tossers, Alkaline Trio, Gogol Bordello, The Go Set, Radiohead....you know, stuff.

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Planet of the Apes, V for Vendetta, Everything Is Illuminated, Green St. Hooligans, Any Indiana Jones, Any Zombie movie, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Braveheart, Old School, Super Troopers, The Commitments, Trainspotting, Sexy Beast, Lock Stock, Snatch, The Mean Machine, Slapshot, Spaceballs, Monty Python, Caddyshack, Willow, Office Space, Swingers, Eurotrip, Anchorman, Napoleon Dynamite, Intermission

Television:

Coupling, Black Books, FIREFLY, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Conan, Mr. Show, Rome, Mythbusters, Braniac, Good Eats, Stranded with Cash Peters, Globe Trekker, No Reservations.

Books:

TC BOYLE- Water Music, World's End, Virtually anything by Ernest Hemingway, Time Must Have a Stop, Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, Anything at all - Irvine Welsh, Trinity and Redemption - Leon Uris, The Dubliners - James Joyce, The Idiot and Notes From The Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fever Pitch and How to Be Good - Nick Hornby, Emerald Germs of Ireland - Patrick McCabe, Kitchen Confidential, A Cook's Tour - Anthony Bourdain.

Heroes:

My Moms...and Wayne Gretzky. And I don't mean 'moms' like I was raised by lesbians...I was just trying to sound urban and with it.

My Blog

it's insane, that guys taint.

I bought a bike and plan to ride it a lot! My knee is still exceptionally shitty so i can't play hockey...sooooo biking! wooo! i rode about 8 miles with hank the other day and let me just tell you...m...
Posted by Gorgeous Griff on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:39:00 PST

sweet criminy.

I would just like to say that my sandals smell so bad it is making it hard to breath in my sleeping quarters.  Seriously, they smell like wet dog.
Posted by Gorgeous Griff on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:29:00 PST

day of days.

Today is a wonderful day.  I'm about to go buy beer and chicken and watch the first World Cup match.  When that is done...oh snap...ANOTHER World Cup match.  Hey Evan, what's after that...
Posted by Gorgeous Griff on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:00:00 PST

I am what I am.

Is it wrong to profess my epic love of pornography right here and right now online in front of everyone in the world?It is? Oh shit...nevermind.I'm going to bake me a shitload of bread tomorrow and th...
Posted by Gorgeous Griff on Tue, 02 May 2006 12:05:00 PST

suss suss suss suss suss out suss suspect device!

Stiff Little Fingers and The Tossers are playing up in Towson on June 9th.  This is a HUGE deal for me.  My all time favorite band playing with another amazing band.  This is nearly the...
Posted by Gorgeous Griff on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:39:00 PST

Buckcherry

Me? Yeah I'm going to two Buckcherry shows. How do you feel about that, bitches? In your face. In your fucking face.You're a crazy bitch but you fuck so good I'm on top of it.
Posted by Gorgeous Griff on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:01:00 PST

Is this the HALL OF FAME-AH?!

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/9385165/sex_pistols_f lip_off_hall_of_fame?rnd=1142144868848&has-player=true&versi on=6.0.12.857And this is exactly why I love Johnny Rotten (Lydon).A right bastar...
Posted by Gorgeous Griff on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:38:00 PST

Godspeed, Mick...

Me? Oh..you want to know how I feel about the McCarthy sacking?  Eh..it sure as shit wasn't his fault.  I think he's tops.  For a club that is so in the hole financially as we are...I'm...
Posted by Gorgeous Griff on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:00:00 PST

A Cook's Tour.

A wonderful passage from Anthony Bourdain's A Cook's Tour."Go to Wisconsin. Spend an hour in an airport or a food court in the Midwest; watch the pale, doughy masses of pasty-faced, Pringle-fattened, ...
Posted by Gorgeous Griff on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:55:00 PST

I think I can die happy

I....am seeing THE POGUES in NYC one day before St. Paddy's day. Who fucking rules? yeah...I fucking do. In your face everyone...and thank you deep down from the bowels of my bowels Stuart and Meghan!...
Posted by Gorgeous Griff on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:18:00 PST