Monte
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"What I do is write, mainly"
Male
50 years old
CLINTON, South Carolina
United States
Last Login:7/19/2008
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Monte's Interests
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| General | Alt-country/Americana music, writing songs, playing guitar and, occasionally, golf. | | Music | Jerry Jeff Walker, Steve Earle, James McMurtry, Jack Ingram, Tom Russell, Chris Knight, Kelly Willis, Charlie Robison, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Todd Snider, Dixie Chicks, Iris Dement, John Prine, Willie Nelson, Peter Cooper, Those Guys, Dave Foley, Mike Reynolds Band, the Limitations, Austin Collins, Robbie Fulks and many others. | | Movies | Lawrence of Arabia, Patton, Pulp Fiction, Little Big Man, Dr. Strangelove, Giant, Blazing Saddles, The Last Picture Show, True Grit, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, North by Northwest, Fever Pitch. | | Television | Seinfeld, Friday Night Lights, American Experience, Austin City Limits, Letterman, Boston Red Sox baseball on NESN. | | Books | Practically everything written by Larry McMurtry, John Steinbeck, Elmore Leonard and Wallace Stegner.
Once Upon a Distant War, The Right Stuff, East of Eden, The Tender Bar, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove.
| | Heroes | John Unitas, Carl Yastrzemski, Bob Kerrey, Dick Riley, Jimmy Carter, Keith Richardson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, David Pearson, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris. |
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Monte's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Aries |
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Monte's Schools
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Furman University
Greenville, SC
Graduated: 1980
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Political Science/History
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1976 to 1980 |
Clinton High School
Clinton, SC
Graduated: 1976
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Football, editor of school paper, (Sentinel), high honors graduate
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1972 to 1976 |
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Monte is back home, thank God and American Eagle.
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About me:
My "day job" is writing about NASCAR for the Gaston Gazette in Gastonia, NC. The Gazette originates "NASCAR This Week," a page that appears in 300 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. I recently won the George Cunningham Award, presented by the National Motorsports Press Association for being writer of the year for 2007.
My first non-sports book, True to the Roots: Americana Music Revealed (Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press), has been out almost a year now. Before that, I wrote five books about NASCAR, edited another and contributed to several more. The most recent NASCAR book is Haul A** and Turn Left (Warner Books).
Even though I've followed auto racing all my life -- and it's enabled me to carve a niche for myself -- my favorite sport is really baseball (hence the Red Sox motif). I love baseball too much to cover it on a regular basis. I'd rather have my illusions left intact.
While writing True to the Roots, I taught myself to play guitar and eventually learned to be good enough (barely) to write songs. I also took up the mandolin recently.
I read a lot. I play guitar a lot. I travel a lot. I listen to a lot of music.
I graduated from Furman University with a double major in political science and history. I've been accepted to law school twice. By the time I completed by B.A., I had this little problem. I didn't like lawyers anymore. There are some I like. It's the profession I dislike. It took me a while to figure out that I should be a writer, but it shouldn't have been that hard. I've enjoyed writing since my earliest memory.
I live in South Carolina on the farm where I grew up. My house is about 200 yards away from my mother's house. Sometimes I wish it was 200 miles, but I'm here because I want to be here. It's not that I love Clinton; it's that I understand it. I've gradually come to the conclusion that it's about the only place I'm fit to live.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Tom Matte, Johnny Pesky, Larry McMurtry, Willie Mays, Carl Yastrzemski, Tom T. Hall, Robert Duvall, Al Franken, John Edwards, Chuck Klosterman, Matt Taibbi.
I'd like to have met Harry Truman, Abraham Lincoln, James Longstreet, Jack Kerouac, Hank Williams, Martin Luther King, Jesus, John Steinbeck, Thomas Jefferson, LBJ, RFK, Hunter S. Thompson, Ted Williams, John Unitas, Katharine Hepburn.
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