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mike

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About Me

i like to engage as fully into the culture i inhabit as possible. i also make films and stuff but those can be found here: www.myspace.com/monkeywithacamera (though it's in a severe need of an update). I also just started riding a bike, and I'm proud of it. You should ride a bike too.

My Interests

lately i've been thinking about why people do things they then regret instantly. sometimes i'll be walking down the street, and i'll see some woman with a baby, and i'll think, it'd be really bad if i punched that baby in the face. and so i don't do that. but i think of the reality where that instinct to NOT punch the baby had somehow gone away, and i'm sitting there on the sidewalk in front of Borders, feeling really bad about punching that baby. why'd I do that?!? that's what i've been interested in lately.

I'd like to meet:

i'd like to learn how to have a conversation with a dolphin. they're lucky b/c they're born with smiling faces. i bet when a dolphin gets pissed off, nobody knows, cuz they're always smiling. i bet if we spoke to them, we'd learn of their true depression. i mean, geez, they don't have any hands. that's got to be frustrating.

Music:

albums you don't have but need to get immediately:

Division Day: Beartrap Island

Motionless: Motionless

The One AM Radio: This Too Will Pass

The Mae-Shi: Hlllyh

Movies:

upcoming: sweet mud, box elder

recent: eagle vs. shark, fido, noi albinoi, 101 rekjavik, nico and dani, the great world of sound, rocket science

past: the conversation, red/white/blue, breathless, die hard, midnight cowboy

good/bad: torque, the apple, troll 2, dreamcatcher

Television:

late night public access, sifl and olly, red state update, the joy of painting with Bob Ross

Books:

anything by jeffrey brown, i also just read this awesome non-fiction book called "Better Off", about a guy who lives for 18 months without technology.

Heroes:

defensive drivers. seriously. when you drive, use your head. keep it in the game. and watch out for bicyclists.

My Blog

l.a. guide for dorks

This is a constantly work in progress list of events that are going on in LA that I may find myself at.  Midnight movies/concerts/etc.   Friday, January 4th - FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF plays ...
Posted by mike on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:37:00 PST

l.a. guide for dorks (hip cooks edition)

if you've ever wanted to take a cooking class, but are either intimidated by making that committment, or think it might be staunchy or weird, there's a great program in downtown la called HIP COOKS.&n...
Posted by mike on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:03:00 PST

new

new is exciting. can something be perpetually new? because it seems to me that after something is new, it becomes boring. stale. or like, let's say the new thing, it's old to you-- but you find it...
Posted by mike on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 09:39:00 PST

days

mondays sundays tuesdays mondays wednesdays sundays saturdays fridays! mondays mondays thursdays saturdays saturdays fridays mondays fridays mondays thursdays tuesdays mondays tuesdays fridays sundays...
Posted by mike on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:29:00 PST

fuck you

why did you click on that and now reading this? if it were me, i'd be offended. i think this generation might be the first in which sarcasm can be thought to be replaced by love. like, when i say...
Posted by mike on Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:07:00 PST

bitter baby butter battle

one of the most influential books i ever read as a kid was this dr. seuss book that i have never seen anywhere nowadays. it was amazing actually, cuz it was all nonsense... there was this part about ...
Posted by mike on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the old man is snoring

snowing outside. home for xmas. bored. stayed up until 4am doing internet nonsense yesterday. leaving tomorrow. i'm already homesick.
Posted by mike on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

stubble

wow. at the grocery store, guys, you can now buy a razor that has 4 blades on it. FOUR. Fuck the mach 3 man, this new one has one extra. Imagine, 4 blades now, Four of them! I wonder...
Posted by mike on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

what I am thankful for

I am thankful for belts. I am thankful for cotton, and all it's applications. I am thankful for staples (the actual ones, not the store, FUCK the store, but not literally, you'd hurt yourself,...
Posted by mike on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

don't eat babies

seriously, my space people. do not eat babies. i will tell you why. first off, they're not as nutritious as say, carrots. i've heard you burn more calories eating carrots, than there are in carr...
Posted by mike on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST