User:Gruesome Pet
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Gruesome Pet (October 31, 1990-) is a 17 year old Swedish-American member of the wikipedia community. His major contributions are those made to classical music and literature.
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[edit] Me
I, Gruesome Pet, have been an addicted wikipedian for quite some time, but only registered relatively recently. Born and raised in Göteborg to a swedish father and american mother, I am currently attending my second year at Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet. My somewhat mixed background has given me a wide array of cultural interests in both Sweden and America, namely literature, music and art. I also have a close attachment to England where I spend most of my holidays.
Gruesome Pet likes:
- Belle and Sebastian, no indie record collection is complete without at least four B&S albums.
- Camera Obscura, another indie band also from Scotland whose music ought to be more well known.
- Jean Francaix, he really lived up to his credo "Pour faire plaisir"
- Serge Gainsbourg, sometimes brilliant, sometimes highly original and sometimes just plain weird.
- Gustav Holst, a truly individual composer and a great inspiration to me.
- Scissor Sisters, one of the best bands around.
- Dimitri Shostakovich, while some consider his music to be nothing more than pretentious bombast, I believe in its tremenduous value.
- Simon and Garfunkel, my life would be much less meaningful without their music.
- Simon Armitage, one of the most interesting modern poets.
- Charles Baudelaire, a poet who is both wonderfully talented and talentedly wonderful.
- John Keats, the most visionary poet of all times. Just try Endymion or Fancy.
- Edith Södergran, a most magical poetess.
- William Butler Yeats, you really don't have to be irish to love his evocative work.
- Daniel Handler (alias Lemony Snicket), Handler has certainly done literature a favour with ASOUE.
- Thomas Hardy, whose work and personal outlook have been very inspiring.
- Edgar Allan Poe, I wonder how modern literature would look like if E. A. Poe had never existed.
- Hjalmar Söderberg, sensitive and imaginative. Den Allvarsamma Leken is truly a masterpiece.
- P. G. Wodehouse, a master of humour and wit.
- Monty Python, surely they need no introduction.
[edit] Articles I've created
- Philip Bezanson
- Claude Delvincourt
- Julia Perry
- Cyril Rootham (I am most proud of this one)
- Maurice Samuel
- Robert Still
- Maurice Thiriet
- Lucette Finas
And the following works by Douglas Moore:
[edit] Awards
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The Original Barnstar | |
| I hereby award you for writing two excellent and informative articles – Cyril Rootham and Douglas Moore – that I came across purely by chance. Two men I hadn't heard of before, I now want to know more. –MDCollins (talk) 22:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC) |
