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About Me

I play in a bunch of bands (Head Home, the Jons, Deep Sleep, Active Sac), run a label called Wallride with a friend of mine www.wallriderecords.com and work in a grocery store. I'm a recluse and rarely found anywhere other than at my home, job or a show. AIM- Sebastopol RoadCome and Visit
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My Interests

Rock and roll, power pop, alt country, old punk rock, stoner rock, jazz, soul, philosophy, history, horror movies, immature comedy movies

I'd like to meet:

the teenage FBI

Music:

Guided by Voices, Replacements, Beatles, Superdrag, Superchunk, Stooges, Television, James Brown, Rocket From The Crypt, Built to Spill, Spiritualized, New Bomb Turks, Dirtbombs, Dr. Dre, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Beastie Boys, Descendents/ALL, Big Boys, Neutral Milk Hotel, Baby Huey and the Babysitters, Dead Boys, Ramones, Madlib, Sloppy Seconds, Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil, Nirvana, Wu Tang Clan, Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Dinosaur Jr, Husker Du, Meat Puppets

Movies:

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Bloodfeast, Last House On the Left, Cannibal Holocaust, Dumb and Dumber, Suspiria, Dawn of the Dead, The Royal Tenenbaums, the Birds, Psycho, Ghostbusters, Rushmore, Clerks, Resevoir Dogs, Pump Up the Volume, Hellraiser, Devil's Rejects

Books:

Slaughterhouse Five/Cats Cradle-Kurt Vonnegut, Trainspotting-Irvine Welshe, Please Kill Me-Legs McNeil, Our Band Could Be Your Life-Michael Azzerad On The Road-Jack Kerouac, South of No North-Charles Bukowski

Heroes:

Paul Westerberg, Phil Lynott, Madlib, Robert Pollard, Bill Hicks

My Blog

No more shows at Wallride Manor

Every show we’ve done here has been worse and worse. From shit being stolen, broken, people fucking in the bathroom, getting drunk and standing in the road, dragging branches in the road so cars...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:52:00 PST

Important Spark News....

The Spark has decided to call it quits at the end of the summer. The three years we have been active have all been great, and there are no bad feelings between any of the members, but the time h...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:48:00 PST

If Only You Were Lonely

It infuriates me to abslutely no end to see that the new Hawthorne Heights record is called "If Only You Were Lonely", stolen from the B-side of the first single by the Replacements. Given how incredi...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 05:14:00 PST

Favorite Records of 2005

Nada Surf- The Weight Is A Gift Hands down my favorite record of 2005, this is a completely flawless power pop gem. Every note fits perfectly from the endlessly catchy chorus of "Always Love", the spa...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:46:00 PST