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Mike

when i see you tonight it's gonna be so cool, we could watch TV and maybe listen to some Husker Du.

About Me

I'm a skinny dude that spends most of my time playing/practicing in bands and hanging out with the most amazing girl ever. I play records some Thursday nights upstairs at the Ottobar with the other Kids of the Black Hole. I spend a lot of money buying records, CDs, and DVDs. I play indoor soccer with the Handsome Devils Football Club on most Sunday nights. I drink a lot of Coca-Cola. I listen to the Ergs a lot. I mean A LOT.
In fact, I could live a perfectly fulfilling life listening to nothing but the Marked Men, High Tension Wires, Riverboat Gamblers, Avail, Gorilla Biscuits, the Ergs, Minor Threat, and Black Flag.
I pack boxes at a printing company by day and I work the door at the Ottobar by night. I live in Hampden, it rules.
Check out my three bands, the Spark (thesparkhc.com), Pulling Teeth (headcold.net/uki/pt), and Paper Dragons (www.myspace.com/paperdragonspunx), and the labels I run, with some help from Rob Sullivan, Firestarter Records (firestarterrecords.com) and Toxic Pop Records (www.myspace.com/toxicpoprecords).
I gotta fix my brain.

My Interests

Julie B, punk/hardcore, records, straightedge, riding my bike, pizza, mac g4 dual 500, pulling teeth, paper dragons, the spark, the 82 crew, my cats: dio and lemmy, Pulling Teeth, creating the Broasis out of a warehouse, Firestarter Records, Toxic Pop Records, One World Cafe's Philly Cheesesteak-less, Handsome Devils Football Club

I'd like to meet:

people who aren't lame. you qualify for lameness if: you think there's better pizza in Baltimore than Little Italy's. you think that the Gin Blossoms aren't the best 90s pop band. you break edge and then begin to talk shit about it. you kickbox at shows. you blow fire on the roof at a house party and don't fall off. you forgot where you parked your car cuz you drove home drunk the previous night. you think that one political party is more noble or less hypocritical than the other (yes, as ridiculous as it is, in America, there are only two). you have Pepsi in your fridge. you start eating meat again after being vegetarian for years. you say things like, "maybe you'd win more games if you were called the Handsome Angels", and mean it.

Music:

All/Descendents, Iron Maiden, Dinosaur Jr, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Run DMC, Striking Distance, Life's Blood, Bruce Springsteen, Bane, Aesop Rock, Never Enough, Johnny Cash, Manowar, Circle Jerks, Crime Spree, the Aftermath, Atmosphere, Tear It Up, Embrace, Gin Blossoms, Drag the River, Turbonegro, Gorilla Biscuits, Medic, Angry Samoans, Bad Brains, Ink and Dagger, Count Me Out, DRI, the A-Team, Lemonheads, Moz/Smiths, Lifetime, Misfits, Poison Idea, Suicide File, Propagandhi, Lucero, Integrity, Slayer, Smiths, Sage Francis, Tragedy, Cut the Shit, Void, Pinhead Gunpowder, Mr. Lif, Kid Dynamite, Outbreak, Mental, The Break, Psychedelic Furs, High Tension Wires, the Marked Men, Carbonas, Beat Beat Beat, the Frantic, Riverboat Gamblers, New Model Army...

Movies:

The Goonies, Stand By Me, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Royal Tennenbaums, Zoolander, Another State of Mind, the Big Lebowski, A Nightmare Before Christmas, High Fidelity, Rushmore, Thrashin

Television:

Sopranos, the Daily Show, Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Simpsons, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Wire...

Books:

Still Life with Woodpecker, Lies My Teacher Told Me, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Heroes:

Gus Bowman

My Blog

Best night of my life.

I've been waiting 13 years for last night. I finally got to see the Gorilla Biscuits live, and it was totally worth the wait. I had a smile on my face from the minute the horn sample started until I f...
Posted by Mike on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 03:24:00 PST

the Spark record release weekend.

So we had a fucking blast this weekend and we want to thank all the bands we played with and all the kids that came out and had a good time with us.Saturday was the official record release show for ou...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:34:00 PST

the Spark LP, "Nobody's Laughing", out now...

...but for the time being you can only get them from us at our next two shows...Saturday, August 5that the Kay Spiritual Center, American University4400 Massachuessetts Ave, Washington, DC NWthe Spark...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:58:00 PST

the fucking Marked Men!

Sweet weekend. On Friday, Chris and I drove up to Philly for Paint It Black, the Loved Ones, and Cloak/Dagger. CD are easily one of my current favorite hardcore bands right now. Totally doing somethin...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:12:00 PST

Lucero - Rebels, Rogues, and Sworn Brothers

Wow, big improvement from "Nobody's Darlings". I gotta say that that record kinda disappointed me. There's a couple of good songs, but nothing that compares to the stuff that came before it. This new ...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:34:00 PST

Gut Instinct, Next Step Up, Just Cause...

I stepped into a time machine this evening. One that took me to 1991 and back. What the fuck? As most of you know, "tough guy" hardcore has never been my thing. I like Hatebreed cuz it doesn't come of...
Posted by Mike on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:55:00 PST

the Minds - Plastic Girls

I can not get enough of this record. Goddamn, it is so fucking good! Dirtnap did the CD and Alien Snatch did the vinyl, and lemme tell you, if you don't already own this album, do yourself a favor and...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:21:00 PST

This Is My Fist, Love Songs, the Ergs! in Philly

This is the first installment in what I hope to be a daily (or close to it) "shit that rocks" blog.David G, Joe Mitra, Miguel, and I went up to Philly tonight for this rad show. Fake Problems opened a...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:08:00 PST

Pulling Teeth's first weekend away

I got home at 4:30am this morning from Pulling Teeth's first weekend trip out of town. What a fucking blast! Lemme re-cap some of the highlights for you.- Reigning Sound record store in Hamilton, Onta...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:26:00 PST

white boy rap

atmosphere is good. that is all. ok, i'll add a bit more. he gave a shout out to straightedge kids and to Husker Du, so i asked him if he was an ex-hardcore kid and he said he wasn't. i think Dibbs is...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST