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ronan

thegrungegorman

About Me


goddamn there's always such a big temptation to be good
there's always free cheddar in the mousetrap baby it's a deal

AIM Screen name = thegrungegorman

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My Interests

art. music. writing.

Music:

arch enemy, aphex twin, at the drive in, beatles, blood brothers, bjork, beck, bob dylan, children of bodom, coldplay, cream, cursive, the cure, the darkness, daft punk, david bowie, david donofrio, deftones, depeche mode, dream theater, edguy, elliott smith, evergrey, the faint, freezepop, hot hot heat, iced earth, in flames, interpol, iris, led zeppelin, M83, matisyahu, the mars volta, metric, mia, michael romeo, michael jackson, miles davis, modest mouse, muse, nine inch nails, otep, opeth, pink floyd, radiohead, rhapsody, richard Cheese, RJD2, smashing pumpkins, sister machine gun, squarepusher, team sleep, the shins, the streets, the smiths, vomitxskull, wesley willis, mos def, kanye west, jay-z, talib queli, blackalicious, gnarls barkley, busta rhymes, fear factory, tool, a perfect circle, nirvana, the strokes, puscifer, the dresden dolls, the yeah yeah yeah's, fig mutentz, to box with man, infinite number of sounds, fiona apple, concrete blonde, the gin blossoms, brian wilson, bright eyes, lady sovereign, the red hot chili peppers, DJ D8A, dieselboy, DJ pasty, telepopmusik, cell dweller, lords of acid, msi, tom waits, the pixies, sonic youth, the clash, the sex pistols...many more

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, American Beauty, Fight Club, American History X, Memento, Edward Scissorhands, Pulp Fiction, Blow, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Wordplay, Wedding Crashers, Batman Begins, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Amelie, Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, Munich, Sin City, Where the Buffalo Roam, One Flew Over the Cukoo's nest, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Clerks, Steal This movie...etc etc etc

Television:

boston legal, the daily show, the colbert report, it's always sunny in philadelphia, the office, scrubs, curb your enthusiasm

Books:

Tale of Two Cities, To Have and Have Not, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Junky, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Gesture Life, Trainspotting, Walk Through Darkness, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Naked Lunch, The Stranger, A Clockwork Orange, The History of Danish Dreams, Art of War, The Rum Diaries, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, House of Leaves, We are Hungry, John Stewart's America, Fight Club, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, many many more

My Blog

Four Fingers of Whiskey and a Lost Coin

We sat on your father's porch in the rain,Watching the still horses, immobilized by thunder and cold.The life on a farm had become a part of me,Though it seems so long since I left."Give me something ...
Posted by ronan on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:54:00 PST

first post since october '06

An old man's broken guitar smells like hot steel in the station Where a hundred wishes are uttered in the slow click of the train doors locks.   I found god as Cheshire cat in the desert, Cau...
Posted by ronan on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:15:00 PST

Rehab

    So everyone, looks like i'm going off to rehab out west for 90 days.if you knew, and we didn't see eachother, sorry, but this has been kind of fastand if you didn't, now you doi'll ...
Posted by ronan on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:52:00 PST

Angel Buried In Snow

The black tattoo on my arm wraps around her baby While I bounce her on the knee of my tight faded blue jeans I look into her eyes Her moms in the other room Trying to sleep She never sleeps The baby...
Posted by ronan on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:28:00 PST

I'm coming over

My fingers like tap water run cold over the keypad. Splashing off the keys and falling back to the table. Ring Ring. "I havent held you in so long," I say "Isnt that weird? Dont we need eachother?...
Posted by ronan on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:42:00 PST

22nd street

the corner girls are restlessthere's whiskey in the streettrickling out of a broken bottle at a dead man's feetthere's money to be had hereif you've got tricks up your sleeveand no reason to feel guil...
Posted by ronan on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:47:00 PST

comment, help me title this!

I come from a place that's all pleasantries and hash Spilt over dinner tables like too much gravy My home sits on the corner of two No-Way streets in a tired town in Ohio I'm lost in this sort of self...
Posted by ronan on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:37:00 PST

Hurricane parties

The sun seemed like it was moving across the sky too fast. The TVs and radios had gone out a long time ago and all we could do was wait. Wait for the inevitable. Wait for the Nothing. She looked into ...
Posted by ronan on Mon, 22 May 2006 07:14:00 PST