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Grant

I am here for Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

My Interests

Music:

Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Eric Dolphy, Kayo Dot, Yusef Lateef, Portishead, Masafumi Takada, Talk Talk

Movies:

3 Women, Akira, Amarcord, Blade Runner, Brazil, Breaking the Waves, The Cable Guy, Contempt, Days of Heaven, Early Summer, Eastern Promises, Ed Wood, Election, eXistenZ, Eyes without a Face, Faces, King of Kong, Kurt and Courtney, Late Spring, Metropolis, Night of the Hunter, Paris Texas, The Player, Repulsion, Robocop, Seven Samurai, Shadows, Sleeper, Sweeney Todd, Taste of Tea, Taxi Driver, Through a Glass Darkly, Time of the Wolf, Truman Show, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Wild Strawberries, Winter Light

Television:

Batman: TAS, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Freaks and Geeks, Mr. Show, Seinfeld, Simpsons

Books:

A Scanner Darkly is on my list next, but we'll see if I actually get to it.

Heroes:

Philip K. Dick, Toby Driver, Goichi Suda, Mary Timony

My Blog

For sale

I am selling a few things. Please let me know if you're interested.Everything is in great shape, meaning there are no scuffs or scratches on the discs. I do not have a price in mind for Me and You a...
Posted by Grant on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:42:00 PST

Ladies and gentlemen, I now have...

an XBOX 360!  A month ago, I briefly discussed my adoration for BioShock, and that adoration led to this purchase.  It was also an opportune time, becuase Halo 3 is in stores this Tuesday.&n...
Posted by Grant on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:12:00 PST

BioShock

This game, BioShock, looks terrific... so terrific, in fact, Game Revolution gave it an "A." The last time they did that was with Okami around 11 months ago.So now the question arises: to buy or not ...
Posted by Grant on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:20:00 PST

The good, bad and ugly

So I visited GameFAQs today as I usually do.  They have a poll up for the new Harry Potter book.  I wanted to see what the results were and figured that there was a lot of interest from the ...
Posted by Grant on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:07:00 PST

Patton Oswalt on 80s metal

"I don't know if anyone watched Metal Mania Weekend where they're showing all these 80s metal videos.  Oh my god; I've discovered something when I watched these videos on VH1.  If you were i...
Posted by Grant on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:03:00 PST

Year in music so far, jobs?

2007 is just an bad year for indie rock in my opinion. The new Interpol and Smashing Pumpkins albums have recently been released. Along with Modest Mouse, Bloc Party, and Liars, both of these albums d...
Posted by Grant on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:30:00 PST

DVD Aficionado

Can anyone fill me in with DVD Aficionado? What exactly is going on over there?I visited yesterday night and found that the site didn't exist; I was redirected to Film-Talk. More troubling is the fac...
Posted by Grant on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:47:00 PST

If you have $2-3,000...

please do not use it to buy a PlayStation 3!  Are you fucking insane?  Have some patience.Why not donate some money to Sony (who is losing lots of money per console) or give to a charity (th...
Posted by Grant on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:03:00 PST

Converge - No Heroes review

With "No Heroes," Converge complete their trilogy of millennium albums (thus far, anyway). The album art and color scheme actually appear to be a combination of their prior two albums, "Jane Doe" and...
Posted by Grant on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:06:00 PST

Three movies to see.

1.  The Prestige 2.  Marie Antionette 3.  The Departed All should be great.  Anyone want to go?
Posted by Grant on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:43:00 PST