Tag: Grendel

The Last Weekend

boy wearing a prince costume

(Attention email subscribers ... did you know that many of the images in your email are clickable as videos with sound? Give it a try!) Six Separate Planets https://videopress.com/v/4zhluJkC?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&posterUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fvideos.files.wordpress.com%2F4zhluJkC%2Fsix-separate-planets_mp4.scrubthumb-1.jpg&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Greg: That first semester at college seemed to last forever. Cassandra was bugging me to teach her the guitar, and she picked it up pretty quickly.... Continue Reading →

The Last Weekend

greek statue

Six Separate Planets https://videopress.com/v/4zhluJkC?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&posterUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fvideos.files.wordpress.com%2F4zhluJkC%2Fsix-separate-planets_mp4.scrubthumb-1.jpg&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Greg: That first semester at college seemed to last forever. Cassandra was bugging me to teach her the guitar, and she picked it up pretty quickly. Then she wanted me to teach her Six Separate Planets which was another Little Prince song I had written the previous summer, although we had... Continue Reading →

A World Turned Upside Down

buildings with lights at nighttime

A Sad Refrain Greg: And, poof! There he was ... gone ... Del ... my classmate ... my bandmate ... my best friend. I was devastated. The plan ... over. College starting next week. Leaving home. Moving into a dorm. No Del. Band over. Cassandra back to high school. What the fuck happened? I tried... Continue Reading →

Autobiograffiti

a man holding a mirror

Is it "graffiti" (two "f"and one "t) or "grafitti"? I can never remember ... The episodes to date have covered a highly-concentrated, but surprisingly broad, spectrum of experiences. Between them our young heroes have fallen in love, experience success on a statewide level, honed their musical craft, become sexually active, gone to the beach (a... Continue Reading →

A Man Goes on a Journey …

Del: They say ... don't ask me who the hell "they" are ... there are only two stories in life. 1. A man (I know, not appropriate language these days, but I'm not "they") goes on a journey, 2. A stranger comes to town. I know who I am. Maybe that was the case for... Continue Reading →

One Never Knows

a girl doing a shushing finger gesture

Del: Greg wasn't just into something good, he was into something fantastic. The three of us hung out every day. She must have read us The Little Prince a dozen times. I started dreaming in French, I mean en Francais. That set the theme of the summer. Greg and I were les petits princes. And... Continue Reading →

March 5 … Accept with the Left

newly graduated people wearing black academy gowns throwing hats up in the air

Accept with the Left Here's Grendel from the 1966 Obediah Brown yearbook (to see individual images click on slider in middle and move left or right: Greg: And we were rock stars, at least on our own little stage of garage bands in Rhode Island. We were getting gigs playing fraternity parties at Brown. Plus... Continue Reading →

March 3 … Grendel Makes their Debut

retro tv on river shore near forest

How to Experience Grendel Grendel is a combination of words, images, and motion. To experience it chronologically, just scroll down the page (as you would read a book.) When you view a video, you are "transported" to another website (YouTube.com). At the conclusion of the video, YouTube tries to keep you on their website by... Continue Reading →

March 2 … Greg, meet Del

How to Experience Grendel Grendel is a combination of words, images, and motion. To experience it chronologically, just scroll down the page (as you would read a book.) When you view a video, you are "transported" to another website (YouTube.com). At the conclusion of the video, YouTube tries to keep you on their website by... Continue Reading →

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