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Michael

This too shall pass

About Me

I am in full effect in the following areas: Animation, Theater, Capoeira, Music...I am making a tv show. You can see a segment right here on this page. I love literacy. I can't quite keep my house clean. I can walk on my hands pretty well. I play drums in The Dirty Words.

My Interests

Well...I already sort of covered this but...I like to paint. I paint with pixels mostly now. I love film and filmmakers, cinematography, special effects. I dig Takeshi Kitano and Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa's Autobiography is one of the best views of japanese culture I have seen...oh his time at least.I am not, however, otaku. I like my anime really good. Miyazaki is the best.I love Tom Waits. He can be the most tender, or the most destroyed. When he paints a picture, it is pure. Of course I can't leave out Nick Cave, Stephen Merritt, Peter Gabriel, Diamanda Galas, Steve Reich, Jennifer Newsom, Bjork, Michel Gondry, Gustav Klimt, Giacometti, Matthew Barney, The Now Time Delegation, Jeff Buckley, The Latin Playboys, Tchad Blake more specifically, and of course Stevie Wonder. He is a badass.

Music:

The Magnetic Fields, Tom Waits, Peter Gabriel, Sandman, MC Paul Barman, Soul Coughing, The Decemberists, Guided By Voices, Yo La Tengo, Stephen Jesse Bernstein, Shotstakovich, Stravinsky, Berlioz, Cage, Arnold Schönberg, Alien Birthing Sonnets, Mike Doughty, Diamonda Galas...

Movies:

Anything by Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa, Matthew Barney, Sidney Lumet, Michel Gondry,Jeunet, Gilliam,

Television:

6 feet under, Dexter, Venture Bros. ..

Books:

A book about screenwriting.

Heroes:

Tom Waits Sidney Lumet Alastair Jaques

My Blog

That one thing

I wish I could cut it all out and look at the one thing I should look at. Just that one thing and nothing else. see this...see that...look over here... Can I come over? Can I stay the night? Wan...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Thoughts on life as I know it part 1

A pile of delicate things sits atop a degradation. A sensitive issue is hanging from a branch near my second floor window. I have been a shepard to a storm of specks all diamond sharp. A thousan...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

blindness is rough

What sort of difference is there between blindness and abstract words like love? In blindness you stick your arms out in front of your body beckoning for something to wander along and fall in ...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Accessible Void

accessible void. I waited in line with everyone else. I had done it many times. Sometimes people would stop me and ask, "What does your bumper sticker mean?" I have since stopped putting those...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A reply...

The sun goes down and I'm still looking at the ground. I hear the whistling of your tumble When I look back at you I steal a glance at your feet. Soles, stripes, laces and all flying through n...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I need you

I found my ears today.Thats good, because I need them.The memory of where I had put them walked away a few weeks ago in the chaos of moving.I lost my eyes a few days ago while I was hugging when I sho...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

There once was

There once was a young boyThe boy had a catThe cat stole his moneyThe cat was bad.There once was a young womanwho snorted cocaine.They brought it up to her roomto impress she and her naïve friend.Ther...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I had to go back for you

I had to go back for youthe vertical rise of the trees made me.Still in my coatin the hot white box,streaming down 126 just past the Mckenzie.I saw you right by the road.I could feel it sitting in the...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The end of the world

I went to sleep.scientists...leaders...everyone...said a fissure had opened up in the earththey said that in four days the surface of the world would crack aparteveryone would die.swimming in a sea of...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Everything is disassembled

  Everything is disassembled.I wish I could just build a big cardboard houseand cut the walls out and decoratejust tear it down when I feel like itwhich will be tomorrow.1000 o...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST