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mr. grant

hughgrantly

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

this guy is my new hero. he got a free ride around the world on his SWEET dance moves! i'll be fielding ideas from any of you as to how we can do the same thing.

Music:

"In music our deafened lives may regain a sense of inward motion and temperance of individual being, and our societies something of a lost vision of human accord."
--George Steiner

Movies:

1 Giant Leap
AND
Baraka

Books:

fightin through the following...
WORLDCHANGING: A USER'S GUIDE
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Ask the Dust (Fante)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Friedman)
Tropic of Capricorn (Miller)
Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut)
and Night Rider (Warren)

i change books instead of changing channels

The favorites:
Shantaram (Roberts), Tropic of Cancer (Miller), Fury (Rushdie),All the King's Men & A Place to Come to (R.P. Warren), Anything by Ayn Rand or Milan Kundera, Catch-22 (J. Heller), Jonathan Livingston Seagull (R. Bach), Living Loving and Learning (Buscaglia), Wind Sand and Stars (Exupery), Jitterbug Perfume (Robbins), The World Is Flat (Friedman), Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Geoff Dyer, Hemingway, etc. ad infinitum...never enough time to read all the books

My Blog

details

Details obstruct and obscure Those meaningful things Those things of passion And of purpose   We continue on Grinding out our days Filling them with noise So we can't hear anymore  ...
Posted by mr. grant on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:47:00 PST

two hours that can mean something

You can sit down for two hours and lose yourself in a movie. The movie may have a backbone, a real purpose; it may be one that tells a meaningful story in the world, attempting to make people aware an...
Posted by mr. grant on Fri, 25 May 2007 07:41:00 PST

upon return july 2006

I live to learn to love to experience. I traveled. For a time it was my life. I recently left the country for a year and a half for no other reason than I thought the world was too big and vast to neg...
Posted by mr. grant on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:33:00 PST