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From the desk of Garrett Kramer

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About Me

Ever spend an afternoon high on crank, listening to Human League while reruns of "Roseanne" play on the OH! Network on a television set on mute? Yeah, me neither.I drink a lot of coffee.- I watch a lot of movies in the vain hope that the life I lead will soon become more interesting than the fiction I bury myself with.I wake up freaking out about the things that never got done.I'm a recent graduate of the Mass. College of Art. I want to be a graphic designer when I grow up. That or a ninja. I dig illustration, a good steak, pretentious beer, frisbee, inane conversations in comicbook stores, dancing to overtly gayish brit-pop in underwhelming bars, and reading pop fiction in the Common, preferably around dusk.I split my time designing at a nifty little firm called Trinity and by bartending at the Paradise Rock Club cause it keeps me honest and anchored to how I was raised (my Pop works on forklifts and my Mom's a bank teller).My Dad had a mullet but we've come to forgive him. He is quite the dancer. I don't call him enough.. I'm really good at Tecmo Super Bowl, and saying mean / funny things that make people want to neck punch me. An essential survival skill in the big scary cityI worked at a coffeeshop when I was younger and pissed off a lot of white teenagers with cravings for milkshakes and cocoa. Pity no one told them that when you order soy chai tea in a COFFEE shop you instantly have no penis.Have you met my sister Katrina? She's fucking top shelf. No joke man. You don't even know.I'm the most loyal friend you will ever have and the worst fucking enemy you'd better not make. One day in my life would cripple most of you emotionally, spiritually, and physically.But more than anything else, I drink a lot of coffee.That, and the movies.
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My Interests

Film. Design. Coffee. Hyperbole. Late night Red Sox farm system chats with Jush. Bourbon with Becca. Fighting teenagers in bowling alley parking lots with Alex Drum. Tecmo Superbowl. Luc and I once had matching tambourine bruises on our hips. That was about as gay as it gets. We owned Allston for like, 20 minutes.

I'd like to meet:

Ted Dibiase. I got some student loans and shit...

Music:

D sends me songs through the internets. They are about humping computer girls, trick moves, and France respectively.

Movies:

Top 5 of '07: Persepolis, Gone Baby Gone, Margot At The Wedding, Rataouillie, The Lives of Others (honorable mention - Zodiak)

Television:

Dan Fielding. Cliff Huxtable. Tony Micelli....and oh! hold the phone! am I actually watching DVD episodes of Battlestar Galactica? Trust me kids. You only admit this kind of thing when you want to attract the top shelf tail.

Books:

I have no shame about reading "Scott Pilgrim" on the T. Sometimes there is a copy of US magazine left at my work toilet. That makes for some good times.

Heroes:

Crash Davis, Mike Eccher, Tony Leung's Mr.Chow. Kim Pine. Your Mom.

My Blog

The Day Before the Day Before Thanksgiving.

I wake up and it's cold. It's cold every morning now. But more so now. I've known this cold all my life. Since I was kid waiting for the school bus on the corner of Bidwell. We have a gentleman's agre...
Posted by From the desk of Garrett Kramer on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:22:00 PST

Never match Harpoon IPA vs. Saphire and tonic

Noreaster's got me camped in.She makes me a cup of coffee and my headache lightens up enough.There are paperbacks on the wall and drawn black curtains.Is there music playing? There may as well be.A de...
Posted by From the desk of Garrett Kramer on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:34:00 PST

Go Long, waaaayyy long. Past the Buick. Ya dig?

I wasn't ready for this.Not by a long shot.Living life on my own terms sure is nice,but sometimes? it's can get...choppy."Do you miss her?"Fuck you.Another hit.Another shot.Another cut.Deal with it.My...
Posted by From the desk of Garrett Kramer on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:33:00 PST

The Garrett Show - Season 2

Hello friends.Hello enemies.I've been a little hard to find and I apologize.The dust has finally settled and I'm startingto make sense of th absolute fuck-show that waslast Summer. I am settled in Low...
Posted by From the desk of Garrett Kramer on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:58:00 PST

Break up to Cake up.

So this is how it is.It's like the "You" show just got a bunch of new writers.Everyday I've got this valueless hole in me.Like someone dug it out of me with a rusty fork.The kind you always seemed to ...
Posted by From the desk of Garrett Kramer on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:09:00 PST

My First Attempt At Chemical Weaponry.

Yesterday I got into a shouting match with a "Bro-suff" in the parking lot across from my building.The parking lot belongs to a rich- guy- squash- court down the street a bit.Turns out that jill and ...
Posted by From the desk of Garrett Kramer on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:51:00 PST

Paradise.

Recap of my night with the Dise crew Sat. 3/31-4/01April Fools.I stumble into work half expecting to walk out an hour later due to crap buisness.The Ramones cover band makes it worth my while with a s...
Posted by From the desk of Garrett Kramer on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:44:00 PST

fucking nature!

Today while I was out, the strangest thing occured.I found myself on a deserted street and a man was walking towards me on the sidewalk. He seemed to have no intent or purpose. Just a guy walking. I t...
Posted by From the desk of Garrett Kramer on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:20:00 PST

Java Joe's

I survived my sophomore year of high school friendless and inconspicuously. I quietly pined for impossible redheads and the alluring fiction depicted in the books and films I worshipped when I was six...
Posted by From the desk of Garrett Kramer on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:05:00 PST

Is this what happy smells like?

That twangy headache of too much bourbon. I hate the sun the most in the morning. Things like coffee and clarity become essential. I'm at the comicbook store and Michelle is playing Nick Drak...
Posted by From the desk of Garrett Kramer on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 01:16:00 PST