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Name: Grant
Country: United States
State: Missouri
Metro: Joplin
Gender: Male


Interests: My Friends Bryan, Adam, Evan, Tyler, Crystal, Sam, and Fred Rogers (Music) Wilco,Bright Eyes,Jack Johnson,the Unicorns,TV on the Radio,Sigur Ros, (Books)Kurt Voneggut,Jack Kerouac,Allen Ginsburg,Chuck Palanuk,Hunter S. Thomson,Jeffrey Eugenides, and (Movies)Anything by Wes Anderson,and Paul Thomas Anderson,Garden State,Donnie Darko,American Splender
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Member Since: 2/1/2005

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Saturday, December 02, 2006

Currently Watching
Love Actually
By Rowan Atkinson|Colin Firth|Laura Linney
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It just makes me feel good inside?

Are there any other guys that feel they lose a little too much of their masculinity when they watch this movie too? Sorry, but I also have to say in my defence that this isn't completely a chick flick. They are shooting a british porno in part of it for goodness sake. Whatever I have to tell myself I guess.

"-...we could be having sex right now.
 -ummm yes, but lets not."
-Family Guy (some episode I don't remember the title of)


Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Currently Watching
Jeff Tweedy - Sunken Treasure - Live in the Pacific Northwest
By Jeff Tweedy
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Sights and Sounds Bring Me Back

I was just talking with my friend Marla the other night about how weirdly amazing it is that the smallest smells, sights, and sounds can bring up the most random and aesthetic of memories. My mom told me of this one time she was riding on a school bus back from a basketball game, and everyone on the bus was singing Black Water by the Doobie Brothers. Now that song always takes her back to that bus ride. I have one memory of this time I was driving to...somewhere I cant remember, but it was snowing. I was listening to Beta Band, it was snowing, and I was driving. The three random things connected in my head. A memory was born. I now recall this memory now when I hear Beta Band's Hot Shots II. I can make it snow in the summer time.


Saturday, November 25, 2006

Currently Listening
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
By Wilco
Radio Cure
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"There is something wrong with me"

"I know I would die if I could come back new"


Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Currently Reading
Something Wicked This Way Comes
By Ray Bradbury
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Weirdness in those sleepless nights.

I have been  up later but I though I would do a post now just for the yell I get.  I have started to read a book I return to annually.  That  book is "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury.  Who else would it have been.  I am Die Hard for his writing. That is why I urge anyone with the capability to read  to read this book. Or not . It's your journey man, take it. This book just makes the time pass more pleasurably. I have written some more insane words that mean nothing to anyone else, but feel free to comment on their organization or their stupidity of being next to one another as you please. Again its your journey.

Distance: 1463.61 Miles

 

Skip me when you count it out

Count me out when you want to skip

My feet hit too hard and my arms hang dead

Worried thoughts exit out my ears

And fossil shells are just hear lies

Face first into this gapping hole

Eyes wide in the darkest light possible

I go blind, three times I go blind

Popping this neck-bone braced

Scabby, waxed and leaving

 

Tri-herent are the ghosts in my voice

Smoke masks me in this alleyway

My face unseen is a censored blur

My arms used are rusty guns

My legs un-walked are wheels unturned

My eyes closed is a vain light cast.

Air not breathed is smoke still in my lungs

Three voices fall on audiences dispersed

Three ghosts remain and read their books

My hand is raised and I see it pointing

Pointing to a window closed

No pebbles to throw

No ear to hear them

1436.61 miles is too long to hear them

1436.61 fingers I have counted out

Fingers that protrude from the side of the road

Stop stopping. I have stopped.




Thursday, September 28, 2006

Currently Reading
Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions)
By Ray Bradbury
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Fall is Coming! (or a better title might be "me likey this and me likey that.")

    It is upon us.  Fall is here. I love the fall. I like everything about it. I love the cold dry smell of snow in the air, and seeing my breath in the air, and the having to wear sweaters.  I love the feel of a heavy coat like a lead apron on my shoulders, and wearing the new black knit hat that my friend made me on the way to a Sufjan Stevens' concert(props Megan). I love feeling like a little kid when I carve a pumpkin into a Jack -O -Lantern, and the sound of crunching dead leaves against a sidewalk under my feet.  I love watching a parade on a cold October day, and see all my old friends up and down Grand street. Can't you feel it? Oh you will.
    Recently I have been feeling a little down but then I think of all these fall things and I start to feel better. I also like to read Ray Bradbury when I get down. His favorite month is October and you can see it in his writing. I have been reading his book "Dandelion Wine" and it always make me feel good afterward. It is more about summer, but it still makes me feel good. I have been thinking about where I am headed and why I am doing the things I am now in my life. I was thinking about the stars tonight and I wondered, "How many shooting stars am I missing when I cant see the stars because they are covered by light pollution or clouds?"  I then applied that to my location and status. How many people, places, and ideals am I missing by staying in once place for so long? I want to travel. I have friends that are abroad right now and have been recently as well, and I am envious. There is a line in Dandelion Wine that I just read 20 minutes ago and it made me feel like jumping in my car and finding myself somewhere new. There was this character that is having tea with this elderly woman and he is asked by her, "Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life?" and he answers...

    "See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff, but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Moroccan midnight. Love a beautiful woman."

    I completely related to this character and found myself wishing for all the same things. I want all of that and more. Ray seems to have things spelled out for me. All the things that I think about but never put to words are usually in his books.
    Now normally I look down on people that put questions at the end of a blog or whatever because I usually think that they are milking for comments, but I am doing this because I am genuinely curious for the benefit of finding new things to read. I am running out of Ray Bradbury to read so...What are some books or movies or songs or whatever that express the way you feel when you feel like you need to be doing something other than what you are currently doing? If you can decipher that question you deserve to answer. But seriously, Any help would be appreciated.



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