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Mitch

Come all without, come all within

About Me

I love music... playing it, listening to it, talking about it... Whats the best Beatles Album? Sgt Pepper or Abbey Road (Depends on the day of the week). I've been playing guitar for about 8 years. I also play banjo, mandolin, lap steel guitar, and will give it my best with just about any stringed device. Seen any good shows lately?
In 2003, I worked for the Howard Dean Presidential Campaign. In 2004, on the Kerry Campaign as well as for Democratic Congressmen in New Jersey. I was the campaign Field Director for Jun Choi the Mayor of Edison Township. In 2006, I was the campaign manager for the Carol Gay for Congress campaign in New Jersey's 4th Congressional District. I am a elected Democratic Committee member for Middlesex County.
Since 2004 I have been involved with a voter registration project called Headcount . We went on tour with Phish, The Dead, Dave Matthews and a bunch of other bands. We've done some great work registering over 50,000 voters at concerts all over the country. I ran the voter registration operations for Gathering of the Vibes, moe.down and Phish's final show Coventry in 2004. Please register to vote.
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Brownstein giving me bunny ears at ALL GOOD 2006
Headcount Team & The Disco Biscuits @ Camp Bisco V
With Mike Gordon @ moe.down
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My Interests

Travel, Photography, Guitar, Reading, Thinking, Learning, Listening, Lovin', Web Publishing, Chomsky, Hiking, Philosophy, Politics, Writing, Quantum Mechanics, Theoretical Physics, Ancient History, Egyptology

I'd like to meet:

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity --Albert Einstein

Anyone who has been to GATHERING (or going again this year)

Perhaps I met you at Bonnaroo

I shot photos for Pitchfork

Or maybe we hung out at ALL GOOD

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I SEE A LOT OF LIVE MUSIC !

I felt this once... with a tree at Bonnaroo
I love to meet new people, so send me a message and say HI !!
Jamcruise JAMCRUISE

Langerado 2007

Music:

Steve Kimock Band, Keller Williams, Cake, Jamiraquoi, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Moby, Sublime, Phish, Pavement, Midlake, Victor Wooten, Bela Fleck, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Wyclef, Marillion, Jack Johnson, Band of Horses, Badly Drawn Boy, David Bowie, Blur, Syd Barrett, Lou Reed, Les Claypool, The Doors, MMW & John Scofield, Perpetual Groove, The Disco Biscuits, Conspirator, Benevento Russo Duo,Umphrey's McGee, Grace Potter, Galactic, JFJO, God Street Wine, Ominous Seapods, Tea Leaf Green, Radiohead, Elvis Costello, Spring Heeled Jack, Belle & Sebastian, Tapes N Tapes, The Arcade Fire, Paul Simon, The Decemberists, Folk Implosion, The Hold Steady, My Morning Jacket, Ween

Movies:

Anything Kevin Smith or Stanley Kubrick, Pulp Fiction, Big Lebowski, Adaptation, A Clockwork Orange, Waking Life, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, High Fidelity, I

Television:

Mr. Show, Simpsons, South Park, Daily Show, Adult Swim, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Home Movies, Arrested Development, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Family Guy, Weeds, The Colbert Report, American Dad, Extras, Spaced, Entorage, Penn & Teller's Bullshit, Dexter, Lost, Local Edison TV (Ch 22), C-Span, NOVA, Star Trek:TNG, Science Channel

Books:

Stupid White Men & Dude Where's my Country (Michael Moore), Dune (Frank Herbert), Red Dirt Marijuana, The Magic Christian, Candy (Terry Southern), The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess), Welcome to the Monkey House (Kurt Vonnegut), Still Life with Woodpecker (Tom Robbins)

Heroes:

Ben Franklin
Beethoven
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
Nikola Tesla
and the Woodpecker

My Blog

Dinner with Todd Solondz

What an amazing evening!  I went to the Metuchen Film Festival at the Forum Theater -- THE LAST PICTURE SHOW.  After watching a few funny shorts, Todd Solondz did a 30 minute Q&A about...
Posted by Mitch on Sat, 01 Oct 2005 01:00:00 PST

POTUS

My photos suck, but I met President Clinton Today !!!! He was at Kean University -- after his speech I got to say hi and shake his hand.  He made some great statements about a better future for ...
Posted by Mitch on Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:35:00 PST

So I ran out of gas while crossing over Rt. 1 today...

So I ran out of gas while crossing over Rt. 1 today... I don't recommend this activity to anyone. The 'low fuel' light had been on since I left Morristown last night and wound up in Trenton. I got ...
Posted by Mitch on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Jun Choi's visit with NJ 101.5 and "The Jersey Guys"

Jun Choi on NJ 101.5 FM with "The Jersey Guys" To listen to the show - CLICK HERE May 25, 2005 - Jun Choi appeared on NJ101.5's Carton & Rossi Show (The Jersey Guys) to receive an on air apo...
Posted by Mitch on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Trying to get a ticket to see VP Cheney in New Jersey on Friday

Late last night I learned that Vice President Dick Cheney is holding a Town Meeting on Social Security at Burlington County College on Friday.  Courier Post Article Last month, President Bush he...
Posted by Mitch on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Quotes to Ponder from Those Gone Yonder

Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005) I find myself interested in what I'm looking at. The only thing that I am reasonably sure of is that anybody who's got an ideology has stopped thinking. You have ...
Posted by Mitch on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Stand for the Pledge in Brick NJ

A high school teacher in Brick, NJ pulled a chair from under a student after the student refused to stand for the national anthem, while caught on tap via cell phone video. Listen to the audio...
Posted by Mitch on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sir Duke

Hunter S. Thompson (wikipedia) 1937-2005 If you haven't seen Terry Gilliam's movie of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, start with that. then read the book... then read some others. Maybe w...
Posted by Mitch on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Valentine's Day??

What the F_ck is Valentine's day all about!? oh... I love you Wikipedia. St. Valentine Peace...
Posted by Mitch on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My New Guitar

I couldn't wait til Christmas, not that anyone in my family would know what to buy me, so I bought myself this:
Posted by Mitch on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST