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Murray

About Me

** Soju Tense is available now. It is a collection of poetry, and pictures from the Drunken Writers Guild. I have two poems in the collection. If you are in Korea and interested in a copy they are 5000 won. More info at the Drunken Writers Guild myspace page, which is on my top friends list. Click on the button below to order Soju Tense via paypal. **I grew up in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Bloomsburg University in 99. In college I started attending monthly poetry readings in town, put on by a group called the River Poets. After college I taught for two years on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. While there I met Native American Rap Artist Gabe Nightshield, and in Rapid City met several writers, artists, and musicians. In Rapid City we helped organize poetry readings, and I took third place in the first South Dakota poetry slam. For two years I lived in North Carolina where I hosted poetry readings at Escape the Daily Grind in Salisbury. In the summer of 05, I achieved my long time dream of publishing a comic book, a poetry comic no less. Yarrum Samej ..1, with art by North Carolina artist John Spillman. July of 06 I went to Seoul, South Korea, to teach English. I'm continuing to pursue different art projects in various media, and hope to devote full time to my art one day.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 01/04/2006
Band Website: www.murraystudios.net
Band Members: Just little old me :)
Influences: Comics Books: Alan Moore, period, Watchmen, LXG, Swamp Thing. Also Planetary, Ultimates, MAX Punisher, Hellboy. Movies: Rocky, American History X, Fight Club, Halloween, TCM and it's remake. Unbreakable. Donnie Darko. Pi. Music: Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, CCR, Newsboys, Skillet, Books: C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, AsimovOther influences/interests are Christianity, philosophy, history, independent artists like Gabe Nightshield. Small press artists/publishers.
Sounds Like: Poetry. I'm the sober member of the Drunken Writers Guild. (Found on my friends list.) We published a poetry collection called Soju Tense. Two of my poems appear in it. Also, check us out at www.drunkenwritersguild.net
Record Label: Murray Studios
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Website, starting again.

About 9 years ago, I was just about finished with my first year of teaching on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Wow, that's a whole story in of itself. Anyway at the end of the year I decided to start ...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:39:00 GMT

Friday the 13th

There's been a lot of debate in horror fandom over the last few years about the slew of horror film remakes, both major franchises and lesser known ones have been remade, and more are on the way. Each...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:16:00 GMT

Watchmen review 2.0

I changed my mind. If you just take it for what it is it's pretty good. I still somewhat stick to my previous statements, but yeah go see it it's decent.
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:50:00 GMT

Who Watches the Watcmen... I do!

It was ok.Yeah let me ruin it by starting off saying that. Basically in the decades this spent in development hell one of the questions was how to film what seems unfilmable, since it's such a dense s...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:41:00 GMT

Death of the Imagination: Not.

I'm a big fan of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the Alan Moore comic featuring adventures of characters from Victorian era fiction. This past year I read the latest addition, as well as Imposs...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:19:00 GMT

I'm Done With Star Wars

The new CGI Star Wars film Clone Wars came to Korea last week. I won't be seeing it though. I decided this year I'm done with Star Wars. I've been a fan my whole life, I saw Return of the Jedi in the ...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:48:00 GMT

Sexual Slavery in World War II

        "Comfort Women" is a term applied to sexual slaves of Japan during World War Two. This terminology is obviously one sided, ignoring the victims point of view...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:38:00 GMT

The God Delusion

       Richard Dawkins promises by the time you finish his best seller The God Delusion, you'll be an atheist. Always up for a challenge I gave it a read, and needless to...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:42:00 GMT

Indiana Jones and other notes.

Maybe 5 or 6 years ago now the news broke that both another Rocky and another Indiana Jones movie was in development. Although a fan of both franchises, my reaction to both was, ugh. As you may now I...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 22:49:00 GMT

Prince Caspian, Meh...

Prince Caspian is the second book of The Chronicles of Narnia, and the second film in the Disney produced film series. Here the 4 Pevensie children are brought back to Narnia to fight an army that has...
Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 23:04:00 GMT