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MD

Raise the Bar!

About Me

Just a guy, in a storied lineage of guys.

My Interests

losing weight, feeling great. the art of subtlety. ping pong.

I'd like to meet:

there's tons: Dead or Alive- Nick Cave, Gustav Klimt, Stephen Merritt, Angelina Jolie (circa 1994), Harry Nilsson, Werner Herzog, Michael Haneke, Justine Frischmann, Damon Albarn, Ewan McGregor, Rick Ross, Daft Punk, Johhny Thunders, Joey Ramone, Henry Miller, Tennessee Williams, Darby Crash, Iggy Pop, Seymour Stein, those people from Heaven's Gate, Jason Lee, David Lynch, Julie Christie,David Byrne,Lee Scratch Perry, King Tubby,Kim Deal, Kim Gordon, Colleen, Legs McNeil

Music:

I'm liking Bon Iver, Breeders, Atlas Sound, Deerhunter and White Williams a lot right now. The Triangle's local music is pretty decent too.... www.myspace.com/grasswidow www.myspace.com/grasswidowsongs

Movies:

Velvet Goldmine, Doom Generation, Mysterious Skin, Return to Oz, Amateur, Ghostbusters 1 & 2, Kids, Storytelling, Freeway, Say Anything, Parenthood, The Jerk, Trainspotting, Point Break,Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin, Weird Science, Mystery Train (lots of trains and mystery movies, I guess)

Television:

MIKE TV :I WISH I'D WRITTEN THIS SONG.. YOU DONT NEED TO WATCH THE WHOLE THING, GO FOR THE 2:10 MARK R.I.P. THIS LIVE WAS INCREDIBLE ATLAS SOUND IS MY FAVE

Books:

Wake Up Sir! by Jonathan Ames was really good. An excellent read. Still Life w/ Woodpecker by Tom Robbins is next. reread The Homecoming by Harold Pinter...pretty risque stuff. He's a dirty old man. I love the dirty old man writers.

Heroes:

Anyone who ever had an "old" name. They are dying off like crazy. Where's the Agnes, Ethels, Idas, Almas, Edith's and Bertha's of today?

My Blog

Warm Up for McDonalds Poetry Slam

Joyous chains had bound us, then recoiled.  Snake sheds his skin all over your glistening face.  Poisoned by an old friend's mother, whose idle ghosts still grip her hands.  I just fell...
Posted by MD on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:16:00 PST

5 little things to love and hate

top 5 list of things I hate (in no particular order):1) Being on a cellphone and it dies spontaneously.....esp. if you’re talking to a loved one about how unreliable you are.  2) Cat Power&...
Posted by MD on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:31:00 PST

I Love....

Atlas Sound.......the music this guy is making is just shooting arrows into my heart.  So sincere, droney, sad, noisey, melodic, mysterious and personal.  If you like Beat Happening and My B...
Posted by MD on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:21:00 PST

GRASS WIDOW RALEIGH/GBORO TRIP

GRASS WIDOW, my knighted brethren in the quest for truly loud fun rock and roll, had a blast this past weekend. We played Camel's Rock N Roll Fantasy show w/ THE T'S and BIRDS OF AVALON.  Ou...
Posted by MD on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:46:00 PST

Follically Racist?

I'm bald.  I have been threatening to do it for ages, but it's finally a reality.  I'm not necessarily balding (yet), just shaven. Why I did it in the middle of winter, I'll leave to la...
Posted by MD on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:33:00 PST

SOME NEWS IS GOOD NEWS

I am writing for an online webzine now.  This makes me happy, because I talk a lot and typing is kind of like talking with your fingers.  So when my mouth won't shut up, I can just get the p...
Posted by MD on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:32:00 PST

I had a dream last night....

that Biz Markie was in Deerhunter.  He was playing a party that my friend Brittany was dj'ing and the cops got called and when I heard Biz Markie talk about Brittany, I tried to weasel in and get...
Posted by MD on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:11:00 PST

BANSHEE BEAT LYRICS AND THEN SOME.....

There'll be time to get by to get dry after the swimming poolThere'll be time to just cry i wonder why it didnt work outTherell be time to fish fry for letters by yours trulyYours trulySomeone in my d...
Posted by MD on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:55:00 PST

RANDOMS

Where to start?  Moved into a new house, which is pretty significant, cos it's the first house I've ever lived in that wasn't a complete shithole AND it has character.  It's in the ghetto an...
Posted by MD on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:28:00 PST

THANKS TO THE INDEPENDENT aka Nitpicky Bastard

I got a little write up for my booking endeavors at Downtown Event Center aka THE HALL.  Grayson hooked it up, but one thing nags.....they misspelled my name in bold, but the only reason that bum...
Posted by MD on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:15:00 PST