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Sean A. Garrison (Rat)

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Greg Maddux is the most awesome human being ever born on the planet Earth. You peons are not worth the lint in his navel.

My Interests

My wife, The 14th century, western martial arts, my wife's family, "outsider" art, the early christian church/ "jesus movement", medieval military matters, chivalric culture, medieval literature, the 100 Years War, ethics and it's relation to Social Darwinism, cosmology, film noir, musical recordings from the acoustic era, making paintings, selling paintings, kittens & puppies, chocolate milk, torturing my friends, annoying strangers, charity work, flowers of all types, trying to think like an adult...

I'd like to meet:

Richard Nixon, Bob Fosse, The Emperors Constantine, Augustus & Julius Ceasar, Edward III, Richard III, Edward of Woodstock- Prince of Wales, Froissart, The Carter Family, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Judas Iscariot, Saul of Tarsus, Attila the Hun, Hermann Goering, Saint Francis of Assisi, FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Johnson, Henry Miller, J.K. Toole, John Fante, Picasso, Matt Sesow, Henry Darger, Charlie Manson, John Chandos, Orson Welles, Jackie Onassis, Liza Minneli (during the "Caberet" period), Marlene Dietrich, Lana Turner, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, John Lydon, Henry VIII and all his wives, Chaucer, Toulouse-Latrec, an Aztec priest, Jack the Ripper, Mother Theresa, Billy Murray, Saint Sebastian, Yukio Mishima, Kato Kiyomasa, Fiore, Talhoffer, Jaques Derrida, Ayn Rand, Gertrude Stein (I would punch her right in the mouth), Descartes, Homer Simpson...

Music:

Daniel Johnston, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, Judy Garland, Cheap Trick, The Birthday Party, pre-1920's pop music, the Antique Phonograph Music Show, ELO, The Mississippi Shieks, The Velvet Underground, Thin Lizzy, Minor Threat, Thomas Edison's Attic, Bad Brains, Slayer, Bille Holiday, Saccharine Trust, Fading Out, George Jones, Poison Idea, Tom Waits

Movies:

Miller's Crossing, Citizen Kane, the Seven Samurai, Richard III (Olivier), almost anything by Bergman, Cinema Paradiso, The Lion in Winter, Stardust Memories, Raging Bull, Godfather I & II, The Thin Man, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Maltese Falcon, Portrait of Jennie, Chinatown, Unforgiven, The Third Man, Anchorman, Anything by Errol Morris, Crumb, Brother's Keeper, Grey Gardens, Lawrence of Arabia, Apocolypse Now, Sunset Boulevard, Patton, All About Eve, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Glory, The Big Sleep, Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove, Horse Feathers, His Girl Friday, anything with Lana Turner or Marlene Dietrich, Anything by Herzog

Television:

HBO, Discovery Times, Frontline via PBS Website, Adult Swim

Books:

I can't seem to tolerate fiction anymore. I was finished off by Proust, which I can never finish. Chivalry by Maurice Keen, Chivalry and Violence by Richard Kaeuper, Tournaments by Richard Barber, Deeds of Arms by Steven Muhlberger, the Gnostic Gospels

Heroes:

Bertrand du Guesclin

My Blog

I draw blank.

I'm seriously off-line.
Posted by Sean A. Garrison (Rat) on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:13:00 PST

No way, dude.

I will not do it. I must choose reality.
Posted by Sean A. Garrison (Rat) on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:39:00 PST

New Profile Song

I've added Time, Water and the Way Things Are as my profile song. Listen to it- contact GMx and The Anonymous Cowards (check my top friends list) for the lyrics- you must have them to get the full eff...
Posted by Sean A. Garrison (Rat) on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:22:00 PST

People never learn.

Hitting a thick patch of bad luck...it will be over soon. It reminds you to enjoy the times when stuff is not going badly. Don't worry- all will be cool in about a week. When will people realize ...
Posted by Sean A. Garrison (Rat) on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:06:00 PST

What is currently up.

Hello everyone- Things have been pretty great lately, however with the steady work I have very little time to paint. Still, I finished a new coffee table recently and a pic of it is posted on my pics ...
Posted by Sean A. Garrison (Rat) on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:03:00 PST

Endpoint

I have recieved numerous msgs lately asking what I thought of Endpoint. The only problem I had with them was that they were associated with a "movement." I hate Movements- even good ones. http:/...
Posted by Sean A. Garrison (Rat) on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:23:00 PST

The Five-Finger Discount

I don't really see the point in putting out another FFD CD because there was really very little interest in that band...who would buy it? How much money could I raise for the Home of the Inn...
Posted by Sean A. Garrison (Rat) on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:38:00 PST

Post-Kinghorse music and the Unwinnable War cont.

The songs I wrote are good- I know that. Some of them may be great, and few may be brilliant. You must understand that Saved by the Great Yellow Bird is hard for me because it represents Failure. My r...
Posted by Sean A. Garrison (Rat) on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:11:00 PST

May The Horse be with you...always.

Hello people. I hope all is well with all of you. I don't have much to say- I have had wayyy too much going on these last few weeks. All I do is work and make art. Louisville Lip Records will release ...
Posted by Sean A. Garrison (Rat) on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:56:00 PST

Overwhelmed

I am seriously overwhelmed. My plate is too full of work. So, considering all of this, I have taken the last two days off and done nothing but eat and read Michio Kaku books. Theoretical physics is ge...
Posted by Sean A. Garrison (Rat) on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:33:00 PST