Eugene Gant:
CLASS OF 1983
Indian Hills High SchoolClass of 1983
Oakland, NJ
Eugene's Story
Eugene is from Fredonia, New York. Eugene's schools include Indian Hills High School.
Music Eugene likes includes Gone, Fans of John Coltrane, Skinny Lister. Books Eugene likes include Candide, Dr. Pangloss. Movies Eugene likes include Beware of Images, Valley Girl, Saturday Morning. TV shows Eugene likes include Fawlty Towers, Fawlty Towers, The Colbert Report.
One of Eugene's favorite quotes is:"By Woody Guthrie - I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. ... I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
And the songs that I sing are made up for ...Expand for more
the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you've not any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.".
More about Eugene:"It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. - Robert Frost
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, and in the middle, you see the blue center-light pop, and everybody goes ahh..." - JK".
Register for Free to view all details!
Yearbooks
Register for Free to view all yearbooks!
Reunions
Photos