Marvin Ghey
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catching signals that sound in the dark
Male
27 years old
Louisville, KENTUCKY
United States
Last Login: 7/8/2009
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| General | I read a lot. I write a lot. Poetry, short fiction. That kind of thing. Play some guitar here and there, but I don't play enough. So it really doesn't count. | | Music | Indie/punk, mostly. Been listening to a lot of Shiner, I Farm, and Hum, lately, and falling asleep with Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. Picked up the new LP from Channels, today. It's pretty good stuff. Not Jawbox or Burning Airlines, but not bad. Guess the jury's still out on it, a bit. Silver Jews, Hank III, Caribou and Hot Snakes have been in the mix. Arcwelder, Slint, and June of 44 have been heavy in the rotation. Fugazi. Q And Not U. I love ALL and the Descendents. The Pavers are (well, were) awesome. Someday I, Wretch Like Me. I've actually been listening to NOFX's Wolves in Wolves' Clothing a lot, lately. Chavez, The Toadies and Oxes. Hell, I could list a couple hundred bands. I'll spare you and me both the hassle, though, and end it here. | | Movies | I watched Tango and Cash last night. I wouldn't exactly say I was proud of it. | | Television | Party. Tonight. When January rolls around, I'll start watching 24, again. | | Books | Raymond Carver's Cathedral and Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son are my two favorite collections of short stories, and probably my all-round favorite books.
As for longer fiction... Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn is one hell of a book. Read Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus, last week.
James Wright's The Branch Will Not Break and Denis Johnson's The Incognito Lounge are two of my favorite books of poetry. Federico Garcia Lorca kicks my ass all over the place. Read Nick Flynn's Some Ether and Rodeny Jones' selected works, recently. | | Heroes | Meh. I'm not sure I have one. The Corcodile Hunter is dead. Jesus is in Heaven. We're not sure Robin Hood even existed. |
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Marvin Ghey's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Orientation: | Straight | | Religion: | Christian - other | | Zodiac Sign: | Pisces | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / Yes | | Education: | In college | | Occupation: | Slacker |
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About me:
My brain and my body are kind of melted down to the same thing, right now. It leads to a lot of head-nodding to the sounds of math rock. It's a lot like boredom, but the pulse is exciting. It's a jerking in the knee that has no real space/time coordination but makes a sort of perfect sense. The cat sits by the door and listens to the neighbor cross the hallway from his main apartment to his split-off bathroom, and then he passes to our own bathroom when the sound goes dry. He doesn't fear water, and he's more like a bird, and he climbs into the tub, even though it's still damp from my turning the faucet on earlier to wash a tiny bug down the drain. And it's the cat's own fascination, and I think he's of a Turkish breed that supposedly travels well. He has traveled well for me, and I can see him swimming down a river, hunting the ghosts of Arab mice who changed the name of the city to something foreign and without European influence. I can see him painting a cross to his chest and riding in an airplane, squalling and pissed off and raging with his mouth barely open, because he knows that if I saw that, I'd be scared he was dehydrated or hyperventilating, though I know he's only mad. He's the saxophone in something that isn't jazz. He's the harmonica in punk rock that grows out of the woods of Kentucky. And it all makes sense. His steps out of the bathroom are over the sink, for a time, and they are without rhythm. But only he can make that motion. And his chest is swelling up, and I am bobbing with him. Or he is bobbing with me.
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Who I'd like to meet:
James Wright and Raymond Carver. If they weren't dead.
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