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mike.pretzel

I am here for Friends and Networking

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anybody that likes to talk, have fun and enjoy life. Don't let life's "big" issues bother you. Take it with a grain of salt and enjoy what you have and when you have it.

Music:

Downtempo, Kruder & Dorfmeister,Tribe, Air, Alex Reece, Aphrodelics, Aphrodite, Arkestra One, Artemis, Atmosphere, Azure Ray, Beach House, The Beatles, The Beastie Boys, Bebel Gilberto, Beck, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Darren Jessee, Ben Harper, Black Eyed Peas, Blackalicious, Blind Melon, Blood Hound Gang, Blues Traveler, Boards of Canada, Bob Marley, Bomb The Base, Bonobo, Boogie Down Productions, Buck 65, Bush, Cake, The Cars, Coldplay, Count Basic, The Cranberries, Death Cab, Denali, Depeche Mode, Dilated Peoples, DJ QBert, DJ Spinna, Compost Records, The Doors, Dre, Elbow, Elliot Smith, Eric Clapton, Federico Aubele, Flogging Molly, G. Love, Gary jules, George Clinton, Goldie, Gorillaz, Grandaddy, Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, Greeen Day, Groove Armada, Jack Johnson, James Bong, DJ Danger Mouse, Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Jurassic 5, Kid Digital, Kama, Kid Cut Up, Kings of Convenience, Kyoto Jazz Massive, LTJ Bukem, Louis Armstrong, Mama Digdowns's Brass Junction, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, Metallica, Michael Reinboth, Miles Davis, The Mylkman, Miss Dynamite, Moby, Modest Mouse, Morcheeba, Mr. Big(I'm sorry... I love that song), Mr. Scruff, Muggs Nelly Furtado, New Radicals, Nina Simone, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Outkast, Paul Oakenfold, Portishead, The Postal Service, Prefuse 73, Prince, Propellerheads, Radiohead, Chili Peppers, Rocker's Hi Fi, The Roots, Roy Ayers, Royksopp, Rusted Root, Sage Francis, Serge Gainsbourg, The Shins, Sigur Ros, (), Smashing Pumpkins, Smoking Popes, Sofa Surfers, Soundgarden, St. Germain, Statik Sound System, Stereophonics, Steve Miller, Tenacious D, Themselves, Thievery Corporation, Tosca, u2, Ultra Jazz, Violent Femmes, Snoop, Warren G, Weezer, Zero 7

Movies:

Waking Life, Super Troopers,Dead Poets Society, O Brother where art Thou, The Whole Nine Yards, Thomas Crown Affair(remake), Oceans Eleven, Snatch, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Bourne Identity, and Supremacy, The Royal Tenenbaums, Office Space,Napoleon Dynamite,Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Garden State, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days later, Your Mom!, Team America: World Police

Television:

24, Sopranos, Family Guy, Chapelle Show, Entourage

Books:

I should read more....

Heroes:

My family, MacGyver, and last but not least my friend Nic for showing me all the music I now love!

My Blog

Festivus Party

Festivus party on Saturday!
Posted by mike.pretzel on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:53:00 PST

fine

Ill post one for you mystalker
Posted by mike.pretzel on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:55:00 PST

66 and Sunny, after THanksgiving?

I was pleasantly suprised with the nice weather today.  Had some friends in town and we just kinda rolled around town, with our windows down and our sunroof open.......     In...
Posted by mike.pretzel on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:56:00 PST

truckin' to the Redwood Forest

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Posted by mike.pretzel on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:26:00 PST

this is going to be ridiculous

this is going to be kind of ridiculousI am amazed at how long I gaze at my computer screen when I get home from work. People sometimes say ."You must get so tired of looking at computers all day long...
Posted by mike.pretzel on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:24:00 PST

moving out of my parents basement

yes I am!web.mac.com/mike.betzelI would definitely consider that a multimedia blog, I used video, sound, text and a few images. I hope y'all enjoy!...
Posted by mike.pretzel on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:33:00 PST

happening so fast!

wow, so fast I don't know if I have really taken it all in yet. I am going to be gone from Chicagoland for almost a month. Conveniently through the later half of march and early April. Why you ask ...
Posted by mike.pretzel on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:45:00 PST

Christ

I live in Chicago but it sure feels like LA this week! Looks like I am going to be able to get a few more bike rides in before it gets chilly. Not to mention the bike meet this next weekend, should ...
Posted by mike.pretzel on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:34:00 PST

I feel naked

I feel naked here on myspace, I feel like to many people read this blog for me to let it all go like a journal. I think all my friends would think I am crazy if i were to "dear diary" this stuff. Bu...
Posted by mike.pretzel on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:06:00 PST

The kick off the week pep talk

I think the first thing I should do tomorrow is make my passwords case sensitive. As I have justed changed all my passwords. I decided to do this after many years of using the same password for ever...
Posted by mike.pretzel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST