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Grantos

jesus is not fashion

About Me

I'm what Forrest Whitaker's lazy eye is looking at.

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

true eccentrics. social deviants with big hearts. accidental revolutionaries. any man, woman or child that can ask why and the have the patience to wait for an answer.

Music:

..morphine, jeff buckley, primus, any les claypool side project, pavement, frank zappa, the mothers of invention, flo and eddie, captain beefheart, sekou sundiata, saul williams, guru, a tribe called quest, robert randolph, dave douglas, stefon harris, beck, p-funk, curtis mayfield, earth wind and fire, jeff beck, joni mitchell, the temptations, marvin gaye, smokey robinson and the miracles, stevie wonder, any mowtown really, johnny cash, willie nelson, merle haggard, david alan coe, tim buckley, woody guthrie, harry nillson, pete seger, aimee mann, the pretenders, bob dylan, the kinks, the ramones, kiss, the mc5, the damned, the new york dolls, patti smith, the cramps, nofx, the descendants, operation ivy, the dead milkmen, the high strung, the grande nationals, fishbone, the english beat, the talking heads, dinosaur jr., sebadoh, the folk implosion, genesis(w/peter gabriel), eliot smith, beth orton, miles davis, john coletrane, thelonious monk, bela flek, herbie hancock, los lobos, g love, the jon spencer blues explosion, elvis, david bowie, iggy pop, jimmy cliff, burning spear, mr. marley, peter tosh, tom waits, the clash, plus so much more. . . ..

Movies:

"Now that I've met you, would you object to never seeing me again?" - "I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers." - "In telling the story of my father's life, it's impossible to separate fact from fiction, the man from the myth. The best I can do is to tell it the way he told me. It doesn't always make sense and most of it never happened... but that's what kind of story this is." - "We're gonna need a bigger boat" - "I wanted to travel to exotic Vietnam, the jewel of southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting people from an old and distinguished culture... and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block with a confirmed kill." - "So what are you saying? When you get divorced you turn in your library card? You get a new license? You stop being Jewish?" - "Do you like to gamble, Eddie? Gamble money on pool games? " - "Bill Groundhog-Day, Ghostbustin'-ass Murray!" -

Television:

"Hi. I’m Troy McClure. You may remember me from such self-help tapes as 'Smoke Yourself Thin” and “Get Some Confidence, Stupid!'" - "Oh my god, Brian, there's a message in my Alphabits. It says, 'Oooooo.' Peter, those are Cheerios." - "You're not gonna believe this. The guy killed 16 Czechoslovakians. He was an interior decorator." -

Books:

"As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy." - "He [Monte Cristo] realized that he had gone beyond the limits of rightful vengeance and that he could no longer say 'God is for and with me.'" - "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." - "Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: 'Make me young, make me young, make me young!'" - "Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective." - "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." - ". . .I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty, I think of Dean Moriarty." -

Heroes:

Lenny Bruce, Frank Zappa, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hunter S. Thompson, Andy Kaufman, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Miguel Pinero, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Bob Marley, Palden Gyatso, Martin Scorsese, really any artist, thinker, empathy dealer, what have you that has the capacity to overwhelm.

My Blog

3 paragraphs in search of an aspirin

she speaks with fire and spouts like absorbtion personified.  whispering is impossible when you burn your own tounge.  everbody listens to that insidious crackle crackle but they laugh. ...
Posted by Grantos on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:42:00 PST

midnight ramblings from a midnight rambler

if you asked the right person you'll hear the story of the time my alter ego spent three nights in an antwerp prison for a crime that i committed.  if you asked the wrong person the right questio...
Posted by Grantos on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:25:00 PST

George Duensing. . .the story thus far

The Amazing, Fantastical, all Together True Except Where Made up Tale of One Mr. George Duensing       About three years ago in a mid-sized town that had in its day aspirations of b...
Posted by Grantos on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:54:00 PST

one more hippie fallacy down the drain

a few days back, i went to the so-called free clinic to have a much over due physical.  i got the results back yesterday and they confirmed some of my suspicions.i am not healthy.i'm not dial 9-1...
Posted by Grantos on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:38:00 PST

Kodachrome

    her name was Kodachrome.  she would have turned 9 next month.  i've had her since she was just a few weeks old.  she was a sweetie pie that developed some pretty bad ...
Posted by Grantos on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:45:00 PST

HA!

i know a lot of wonderful people. you just kinda wasted your time reading this.  its true though.there is this. . .out of the fifty largest school districts in the country, detroit is 50th i...
Posted by Grantos on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:13:00 PST

i'm a higher learner

   one of  my favorite things to do is write stories and poetry.  today i spent a couple of hours teaching some one how to do that himself.  it was one of the most rewarding t...
Posted by Grantos on Wed, 23 May 2007 03:05:00 PST

The Amazing, Fantastical, all Together True Except Where Made up Tale. . .partII

The Amazing, Fantastical, all Together True Except Where Made up Tale of One Mr. George Duensingcontinued. . .  About three and a half years ago, George Duensing imagined he was a broken dish ...
Posted by Grantos on Fri, 04 May 2007 08:25:00 PST

participants in history

some thoughts from Howard Zinn, with a mock forward by Donald Rumsfeld"Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists, doesn't mean you do have evidence that it doesn't exist."  - ...
Posted by Grantos on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:44:00 PST

the devil's haiku

one hand on the beerthe other draping the wheelmy friends are rock stars!i've never lost what i loved, but i have loved a lot that i have lost.many thanks to all that just stay cool....
Posted by Grantos on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:34:00 PST