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Michael S. Burns

Loryn and Michael Do Vegas...

About Me

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Matt navigating the terrain...BMW Powered!

Work

My Interests

BAZOOKAGFX REEL
MAN, This is old!

An Odd Fascination With Those Who Have A Seemingly Bright Future And Opportunities Presented To Them...Yet, Flush It All Away, American Psycho,Gia, "Gator" Rogoski, Michael Alig. Oh! And World War Two Reenacting...Duh!!!(Kinda, The Same But, Different In A Way...Just Squint) www.12hj.com

I'd like to meet:

Taking a cue from Angela's "Get Acquainted" Project, I'm goin' to mix up the top eight every week or so with a focus on the many varied interests, scenes and careers my friends pursue. This Week: Friends I made as a teenager in Montebello/Whittier. The formative years. Lots of "firsts" and shared experiances growing up. Or in my case, not growing up. Part One

Music:

The Only Music I'll Listn To Is From 1966. And Some From 1973 But, Mostly 1981...and Richie Wagner!

Movies:

The dialog-driven rhythm's of Whitt Stillman movies. Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Death of Disco, Any Carey Grant/Katharine Hepburn union, Breaking Away, The Professional, Dead Calm, Busby Berkeley flixs, The Girl Can't Help It, Breaking Away, American Psycho, Stalingrad, My Life, Radio City Revels, yeah! Princess Bride, Less Than Zero (Very 80s), Wells Fargo, Rhythm on the Range, So Proudly We Hail, All Marx Brothers cells well, not all, W.C. Field movies, Buster Keaton is good but, especially Harold Lloyd fare. He's Thee BEST!...La, La, La...

Television:

Blind Date...Because The Little Animations Are So Outstanding And Make Me Laugh. A Real Genius Is At Work Here. I Pray Someday To Meet This Person And Tell Him...."You Suck! Grow-Up And Ride Your Lambretta Or Something...GEESH!"

Books:

Technical manuals, History Books, Scratch and Sniff and books on...

Heroes:

Jonathan Winters and Annette Funicello

My Blog

THE BATTLE FOR THE BALTIC STATES, circa JULY-AUGUST 1944

THE BATTLE FOR THE BALTIC STATES,CIRCA JULY-AUGUST 1944Camp Jubilee, August 10-12, 2007 A clash of adversaries. A battle for survival.Russian and German units fought for every inch of god forsaken gro...
Posted by Michael S. Burns on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:47:00 PST

Wrestling is REAL...

"Good F@kin' Times"That was the jest of this saturday. Primal rock 'n roll, 60s meets 50s trash...throw in wrestin', the likes of a show that hasn't been seen in almost 10 years...YEAH!A mixture that...
Posted by Michael S. Burns on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:15:00 PST

Old Scenesters and the people who...

Well, they said it would never happen...On July 21st a glorious reunion of sorts by some of the band members, cute gals, scooter scum, D.J.'s and sharp dressers that molded the fast and exciting Sout...
Posted by Michael S. Burns on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:41:00 PST

FULLERTON VINTAGE July15 2007

It's July 15...What time is it?Yeah, It's BBq time. Faces from far and near decided to ride behind the Orange Curtain and partake in a feast of scooter delights and Jagermeister (How old are we?) M...
Posted by Michael S. Burns on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:24:00 PST

Stateside Saints and Sidewalk Society in Long Beach

Yeah, that's right...Long Beach dive, The Bull Bar played host to a reunion of sorts of thee old and older movers and shakers of the 80s southern California Mod scene. Long ago defunct but not forgott...
Posted by Michael S. Burns on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:39:00 PST

The Lords Of Altamont, Motorcycles Gangs and Thursday night...

A recipe for disaster? No you idiot, just another night in the SGV,Spikes Bar & Billiards was thee place to be if you were in the know. Dirty Rock and Roll was our soundtrack and cheap beer our fuel. ...
Posted by Michael S. Burns on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:05:00 PST

$800 Soul singles, WWII reenactor recruiting and classic scooters...

I've decided to meld this blog of various events of recent note.The bluring of my various interest and endeavors is near complete. Whilst I'm often blamed for this marrying of seemingly different "s...
Posted by Michael S. Burns on Tue, 29 May 2007 02:02:00 PST

DEUTSCHE AFRIKA KORPS

DEUTSCHE AFRIKA KORPS Tunisia Desert Battle circa 1943Outstanding participants, freezing wind chill, unfriendly friendly fire, an incredible Saturday night meal and jagged rocks... A recipe for anothe...
Posted by Michael S. Burns on Mon, 07 May 2007 12:30:00 PST

THE BULLET April 28th 2007-Safari Sams

Well, another fantastic night of music and friends at THE BULLET has come and gone.Thanks Rich.That is until... In chronicling the night in pictures, a certain security guard confronted me saying phot...
Posted by Michael S. Burns on Wed, 02 May 2007 10:12:00 PST

Reenacting and the blurring of two scenes.

Camp Roberts April 20-22.German forces, outnumbered three to one successfully repelled Allied armies for the majority of the day.Faced with overwhelming odds Axis troop positions eventually were overt...
Posted by Michael S. Burns on Tue, 01 May 2007 11:22:00 PST