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Mike

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People in the area, as I'd like some new homeys. Those who have the courage to be themselves. Anyone who can be silly and stupid and fun. Anyone who is smart, funny, witty. Someone kind and even-tempered. Cellists. Writers, musicians, artists, filmmakers, photographers, or just anyone who has an appreciation for art. The unabashedly dweeby. People whose idea of fun is something other than smoking weed and getting shitfaced every night. Anyone that cares about the world and is committed to facilitating positive change. Bleeding-heart liberals. Grammarians. Anyone who doesn't groan at the thought of going to a museum. People who'll go batshit crazy over my cat. Someone I can talk to about everything and nothing. Lovers of Chinese food. Board game aficionados. Dreamers. Smartypantses. Stargazers.

I do NOT wish to deal with friend whores, anyone ignorant or intolerant, anyone whose favorite musician is Avril Lavigne, conservatives and Bush-fellaters, fucking maniacs, misanthropes, religious zealots (see: fucking maniacs), lameoids, garden variety assholes and douchebags, and complainers.

Drop me a message and, um. Yeah. Let's get some awesome on.

Music:

Sparklehorse, Mary Timony, My Brightest Diamond, Joanna Newsom, Arcade Fire, P J Harvey, Cat Power, Spoon, Frida Hyvönen, Eels, Emily Haines, Jens Lekman, The Magnetic Fields, Beirut, Iron & Wine, Tori Amos, The Decemberists, Jeff Buckley, The Knife, Julie Doiron, Patrick Wolf, Björk, Beck, Goldfrapp, Ani DiFranco, Blonde Redhead, CocoRosie, Regina Spektor, Radiohead, Elliott Smith, Scout Niblett, Dorian Hatchet, Laura Veirs, Winterpills, Max Richter, Stars, Tom Waits, Ted Leo, St. Vincent, Lisa Germano, Helios, Stephen Malkmus, Kate Bush, José González, Red House Painters, Laika, Andrew Bird, Efterklang.

Movies:

The Opposite of Sex, Buffalo '66, High Art, Heavenly Creatures, Sybil, Dancer in the Dark, But I'm a Cheerleader, Evil Dead II, Slums of Beverly Hills, Sylvia, 13 Conversations About One Thing, What Lies Beneath, Little Miss Sunshine, The Thing, Requiem for a Dream, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Labyrinth, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pumpkin, Mulholland Dr., Wet Hot American Summer, Shaun of the Dead, Lars and the Real Girl, Junebug, Pan's Labyrinth, Sleepy Hollow, Persepolis, The Band's Visit, Sorority Babes at the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama, every horror movie created since the dawn of existence

Television:

Harvey Birdman, Futurama, Family Guy, Judge Judy, Forensic Files, The L Word, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Project Runway, Surface, ANTM, The Boondocks, My So-Called Life, Six Feet Under, The Office, everything on Court TV and Adult Swim

Books:

Too many to list.

My Blog

The circle of life.

Birth Yesterday afternoon, I walked in to my parents' house, expecting to have a quiet birthday dinner with my parents and partner, and, lo and behold, I round the corner and all the people I love mos...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 19 May 2008 09:26:00 PST

Quarter of a century.

Yes, my birthday approaches!  Next Saturday, I will have existed for a quarter of a century.  Or 25 years, for those who are fractionally-impaired.  It will also be the day my final sem...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 08 May 2008 09:35:00 PST

Live through this.

I don't know how my mom does it. She is currently down in Florida taking care of my grandmother, who is returning home from a physical rehabilitation center for the first time since January following ...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 08 May 2008 09:21:00 PST

Capital punishment, shmapital punishment!

In a monumental (and monumentally awesome) decision today, the New Jersey state legislature voted to ban the death penalty.  It is the first state to do so since capital punishment was reins...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:49:00 PST

Go west, young man.

The time has come again for me to be bicoastal.  Much to Miss Kitty's chagrin (although Miss Kitty is pretty much always exacting her chagrin on something).  I'm departing for Los Angel...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:39:00 PST

"Theses" rhymes with "feces."

It's 5:00 AM, I haven't slept yet, and I'm running on next to nothing, so bear with me, BlogLand. I am ecstatic that I am finally, finally, finally done with my Master's thesis.  Cutting it ...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:09:00 PST

Strange bedfellows.

I wonder how Susan Brownmiller feels sharing space in my bibliography with a porn site called Sleeping Bitches.
Posted by Mike on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:04:00 PST

Beck vs. The Fortune Cookie.

Yin: It's a treacherous roadwith a desolate view.There are distant lights,but here they're far and few.And the sun don't shine,even when it's day.You gotta drive all nightjust to feel okay.These days ...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:26:00 PST

Deux Lunes

One, a white wraith that haunts the sky;the other, a clenched fist hung from my sternum.
Posted by Mike on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:51:00 PST

Friends dont let friends enroll in MFA programs. And work.

I have so much to accomplish, I don't even know where to start.  And I'm already so far behind. In addition to my regular, enormous batch of schoolwork (reading 192941 books, writing 1024019274 a...
Posted by Mike on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:56:00 PST