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Joshua George
 My
name is Joshua George. I was born in American Fork, Utah. Alpine,
tucked up in the corner of a big mountain is a very small place;
and it's where I spent my childhood years. Soon after the
childhood years I moved to Layton, still in Utah. I lived there
and did high school for 3-4 years. I'm now in Provo Utah.
Exciting. I moved away from where I initially started high school
and when I moved away I wasn't familiar with the environment, or
atmosphere of the other high school, so I took off and started
doing my own thing. I'm 20, almost 21 years old. I'm also a very
confused person.
I absolutely LOVE music; I'd die without it. Inspiration for
writing and poetry, if they can be separated, comes from various
musical bands/artists' I listen to. There's so many-Trent Reznor
of Nine Inch Nails has been a MAJOR role model for what I write. I
LOVE 80's music and have been currently listening to the Smiths
and Erasure, amongst others.
I LOVE movies and photography. David Fincher is a favorite
director of mine; as are Tim Burton, James Cameron and many
others.
I started writing about 2-3 years ago. It's my goal to write a
novel and have it published. I still don't know what it's going to
be about. What started me writing is a man by the name of Chuck
Palahniuk. I praise the man up and down everyday of my life. Well,
Chuck Palahniuk and little word magnets that I made poetry out of
and magnetized to the refrigerator was what REALLY got me started.
I did this (the magnet thing) when I had no job and was a bit too
bored. It was fun and gave me a first experience with poetry. I
like poetry because I LOVE words and how they can look and feel
beautiful (and SO many other things,and much more) together. If
placed in the right place, words can mean more than words; and
that's corny or cheesy or whatever; but I believe it.
My favorite writers are Shirley Jackson, JG Ballard, and the
awesome (love his short stories! My favorite is "The Cloud
Sculptors of Coral D.") Chuck Palahniuk. All of them have had
bigger-than-words effects on me and my life. Peter Murphy is a
fabulous poetry lyricist, as is Sting, and again, Trent Reznor.
Many others are not included, or mentioned, because I don't have
room to write them.
My work has been
seen only on Triple Hitter, which I'm proud of because it's an
amazing and graceful site, and my work can be found
here
and here.
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