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| User: | gary_the_great (3007810)
Notes From Desolation Row
Make Believe
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| Name: | Garret |
| Website: | Official Myspace Page |
| Location: | Alpena, Michigan, United States |
| Birthdate: | 1987-06-08 |
| E-mail: | Gary_The_Great@hotmail.com
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| gary_the_great | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| Bio: | Writer, poet, and student journalist currently trying to live *some kind of* life in Alpena, MI. Currently attending Alpena Community College and hoping to go study at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.
I am really, REALLY hoping to keep this journal updated as much as possible (I have tried in the past, but have been unable to for various reasons). Please forgive me if I don't!
I have many influences, so here are the people that have not only influenced my writing, but my life as well (in no specific order):
1)Mark Twain
2)Ernest Hemingway
3)Jack London
4)Hunter S. Thompson
5)Jack Kerouac
6)Charles Bukowski
7)Kurt Vonnegut
8)Bob Dylan
9)Woody Guthrie
10)Raegan Butcher
11)K.J. Stevens
12)Poppy Z Brite
13)Allen Ginsberg
14)William S. Burroughs
15)Donald Goines
16)George Orwell
17)Walt Whitman
18)Carlton Mellick
19)D. Harlan Wilson
20)Aleister Crowley
21)Sarah Vowell
22)Osamu Dazai
23)Fyodor Dostoyevsky
24)Alan Moore
25)H.L. Mencken
26)Donald Goines
27)Jules Verne
28)Ray Bradbury
29)P.J. O'Rourke
30)Norma Howe
31)Chuck Palahniuk
32)Arthur Rimbaud |
| Interests: | 143: acoustic guitar, adult swim, agnosticism, aleister crowley, alexander berkman, alpena, american history, anarchism, anime, anti-communism, anti-facism, anti-nazi, anti-neoconservative, anti-racism, anti-state, anti-war, beat generation, being yourself, believing in yourself, benjamin tucker, biking, bizarro fiction, blues music, bob dylan, bouncing souls, charles bukowski, clubbing, crimethinc, dashboard confessional, descendents, detroit, dj sammy, driving, dropkick murphys, dumpster diving, email, emma goldman, emo, ernest hemingway, essays, fall out boy, flogging molly, folk music, folk punk, frank miller, free online manga, freeballing, freedom, freedom of press, gay rights, george orwell, german heritage, get up kids, gonzo journalism, gore vidal, goth subculture, grateful dead, green day, grinding, guttermouth, hank williams, harmonica, hippies, hunter s. thompson, individualism, individualist anarchism, indymedia, insane clown posse, irish heritage, jack london, jimmy eat world, johnny cash, journalism, kmfdm, kurt vonnegut, lead belly, less than jake, libertarianism, liberty, linkin park, loners, lost generation, manga, marilyn manson, mark twain, matthew good, michigan, mighty mighty bosstones, mikhail bakunin, mixed irish/german heritage, modernism, movies, my chemical romance, myspace, naruto, nightowls, noam chomsky, nofx, occultism, operation ivy, outlaw country, outlaws, panic! at the disco, partying, petoskey, plain white t's, poetry, politics, poppy z. brite, postmodernism, privacy, punk music, punk subculture, raegan butcher, rancid, reel big fish, robert johnson, sarah vowell, satire, ska, squatting, street subculture, streetlight manifesto, taking back sunday, the ataris, the carter family, the clancy brothers, the clash, the daily show, the offspring, the specials, thelema, traveling, traverse city, underground hip-hop, videogames, voltaire, weezer, white stripes, willie nelson, woody guthrie, world history, writing |
| Schools: | None listed |
| Friends: |  | 29: | art4life, blkeyelinerlust, burglepig, crowdrevolt, cutupartist18, doctor_sin_nema, erozar, flintultrasparc, furiousweebee, ghoststrider, hilliebilly, isachi, kaiaroo, ken_doll, lapidus_93, makeup_my_mind, mckymouseisdead, michaeleen, muted_screams, paperdoll_fiend, pinkparisian, rebldomakr, rebrose, starswillshoot, sunlit_window, sydpenguinbunny, tinceiri, tintizzy, weise |  | 72: | _garagesale, _indemusic_, _longletterpals, _zine_writers, _zineworld, a_versus_l, add_a_writer, aliveinbagdad, americandissent, anarchists, anti_righty, beatspirit, bobandjoan, bobdylan, buyselldiy, chicago_punk, claim_a_comic, class_war_music, comic_claims, cyberpunk, ferrisstate, fictionwriters, folkfans, freeformwriters, goblinmarkets, gonzo_writers, gothic_curves, handmadebooks, hstfans, iluvindie, indiehipsters, irish_bastards, journalists, liberal, libertarianism, mi_ljfriends, mi_punks_unite, michigan, michiganpeople, musicfood, musiclovers, musicobsession, nintendo_gamers, nonconformism, not_like_them, onthebus, penpals, penpalsover20, poetrykingdom, poetssociety, poor_skills, pretty_music, punk_emo_ska, punkinfestation, punkrockpenpals, punksnotdead, ramendays, rebandvodka, religion_free, saveourscene, the_good_doc, thelema, thelemites, worldpals, writers_haven, xbb_beautiesx, xcraftcorex, zine_scene, zine_world, zinestar, zinester, zinesters |
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| Mutual Friends: | 12: erozar, ghoststrider, hilliebilly, kaiaroo, ken_doll, paperdoll_fiend, pinkparisian, rebrose, starswillshoot, sunlit_window, tinceiri, tintizzy |
| Also Friend of: | 10: baristapro, clintwhitman, cloudwatcher, fall_for_nothin, gawthicpunkz, neoplasm, omnamahshivaya, pijun, rdsp, sub_zero_owns |
| Member of: | 67: _garagesale, _indemusic_, _longletterpals, _zine_writers, _zineworld, a_versus_l, add_a_writer, aliveinbagdad, americandissent, anarchists, anti_righty, beatspirit, bobandjoan, bobdylan, buyselldiy, chicago_punk, claim_a_comic, class_war_music, comic_claims, cyberpunk, ferrisstate, fictionwriters, folkfans, goblinmarkets, gonzo_writers, handmadebooks, hstfans, iluvindie, indiehipsters, irish_bastards, journalists, libertarianism, ljbizarro, mi_ljfriends, mi_punks_unite, michiganpeople, musicfood, musiclovers, musicobsession, nonconformism, onthebus, penpals, penpalsover20, poetrykingdom, poetssociety, poor_skills, pretty_music, punk_emo_ska, punkinfestation, punkrockpenpals, punksnotdead, ramendays, rebandvodka, saveourscene, the_beast_666, the_good_doc, thelema, thelemites, wobblies, worldpals, writers_haven, xcraftcorex, zine_scene, zine_world, zinestar, zinester, zinesters |
| Account type: | Basic Account |
