"'What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature."-- Thoreau"
Male
34 years old
Covington, Georgia
United States
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Gruntled's Interests
General
Friends and what they are up to, family and what they are up to, philosophy : the big picture.
Work stuff -- Computers, Networks, Operating systems, Linux, Unix, Programming (C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, PHP)
General aviation, movies and filmmaking,
cultures -- European and oriental cultures Francophone culture and language has been a personal favorite for several years now
The literary lifestyle: writers, the pursuit of getting a certain experience, conversation, or feeling put into just the right words.
Music
Music serves the memory and evokes feelings. Music played with heart and written from the heart must be sought out. Especially these days.
Classic Rock, lots of Jazz, Blues, country, rockabilly and psychobilly. There really isn't a style I don't like. It all has to do with mood, composition, and heart.
Rodrigo Y Gabriela -- "Diablo Rojo"
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The Blood Arm -- "Do I Have Your Attention"
Movies
A lot of foreign movies, IFC, AMC, Indie films, mass market adventure, suspense, comedies...
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Television
Did you see that catch?
On my DVR: Saving Grace, Bionic Woman, Heroes, Dr. Who, Torchwood, The Dailies (from Reelz), House, My Name is Earl, etc.
Books
Beyond the technical, I'm an escapist. I go for good modern poetry, essayists, Tolkien, espionage and intrigue, John Grisham, cyberpunk (Rudy Rucker), The Harry Potter series, Raymond Khoury, Dan Brown, Terry Pratchett, philosophy & world religions, psycho thrillers, whatever catches me.
Heroes
"Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." --Plato
Christopher Marlowe, Jim Morrison, Galileo, Henri Matisse, Gautama Siddharta, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ben Jonson, Beethoven, Benjamin Franklin, the Dalai Llama, the list goes on.
88% Geek88%
These are actual headlines from the news that you can sing to the tune of "Camptown races". Just read the headline, and add "doo-dah, doo-dah" after.
My mom and dad weren't perfect, but still you don't hear no cryin ass bitchin from me
Like there seems to be on everybody's CD so just sit back and relax and let me have your head for a minute
I can show you something in it, that has yet to be presented, oh yeah!
I am a single dad of two amazingly adorable and brilliant little girls, who teach me things every day, as I teach them what I think they will need to know in their lives. I work on things that a lot of people don't have a lot of patience for. I'm a huge coffee fan. I have lived in GA all my life.
The Movie Of Your Life Is A Black Comedy
In your life, things are so twisted that you just have to laugh.
You may end up insane, but you'll have fun on the way to the asylum.
Your best movie matches: Being John Malkovich, The Royal Tenenbaums, American Psycho
You're not subtle, but you don't want to be. Fast, loud, and dramatic, you want people to notice you, and then get out of the way. In a world full of sheep, you're a raging bull.
("Midland" is not necessarily the same thing as "Midwest") The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland.
Hey! Our Atlanta summer show is this Friday. Hope you can try to swing out, it's going to be a great show and packed! Hit us up if you have any questions.
