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Michael

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About Me

Need I say more? How about this canned survey for those of you who MUST know...
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Michael
Birthday: 10-04-1980
Birthplace: Las Vegas, NV
Current Location: Unincorporated West Los Angeles, CA
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Height: 6'0"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Swedish / Norwegian / German / Spanish
The Shoes You Wore Today: either Black or Brown shoes
Your Weakness: I am too honest, nice, sensitive, and respectful
Your Fears: getting taken over by the aliens from the War of the Worlds TV series
Your Perfect Pizza: Sausage
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: to work on a 35mm feature
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: I don't know because IM is the worst timewaster in the world
Thoughts First Waking Up: "I'm not ready yet."
Your Best Physical Feature: perfect teeth, but still not quite to Matthew McConaughey level
Your Bedtime: 2:00 AM
Your Most Missed Memory: Being a naive, optimistic little brat
Pepsi or Coke: eh, whatever is cheaper and Vanilla
MacDonalds or Burger King: Since when did McDonald's have two "A"s in it?
Single or Group Dates: Single, I don't like to compete
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: I am all about the 'Iced' Tea
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Fucking Ulcers...
Do you Smoke: no
Do you Swear: sure, all the god damn time... though not in the presence of a lady. What? You call YOURSELF a lady? Ha!
Do you Sing: matters how good I'm feeling
Do you Shower Daily: yup
Have you Been in Love: I think the question is "have I ever NOT been in love?"
Do you want to go to College: Been there, done that... maybe if I needed a career change
Do you want to get Married: could I just skip dating and go direct to marriage?
Do you belive in yourself: No, I am a figment of my own imagination... and I think it's spelled 'Believe'
Do you get Motion Sickness: Only if I read in the car
Do you think you are Attractive: probably more-so than other people think I am
Are you a Health Freak: yeah sure
Do you get along with your Parents: Very much so
Do you like Thunderstorms: yep
Do you play an Instrument: No, not really.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Let's see... I'm 27, single, my friends are a bunch of drunkards, and I lived until recently in Fairbanks Alaska... no, never
In the past month have you Smoked: a filthy habit... oh and 'no'
In the past month have you been on Drugs: I've been high on life.
In the past month have you gone on a Date: A few, but I don't think she likes me 'in that way'... :(
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: No... the Bentley Bloze... and I do all my shopping at Fred Meyer anyway
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Why would I do that?
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Nah
In the past month have you been on Stage: does being on TV count?
In the past month have you been Dumped: no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Never :(
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: not really
Ever been Drunk: yes
Ever been called a Tease: never
Ever been Beaten up: yep
Ever Shoplifted: not since I was... seven (?)
How do you want to Die: Three words: "Struck" "By" "Lightning" ... or "Parachute Failure", one of the two
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: An older version of myself
What country would you most like to Visit: East Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Doesnt matter
Favourite Hair Color: I dont care
Short or Long Hair: depends on the girl
Height: I can deal with short or tall
Weight: preferably above 100 but under.... let's go 220. Is she just big boned?
Best Clothing Style: A clothing what-now?
Number of Drugs I have taken: Are we still talking about the chick? Doesn't matter to me. She can be Courtney Love for all I care as long as she puts out. Also, are we including legal AND illegal drugs here or what?
Number of CDs I own: OK this is confusing, personally I own about 40, mostly movie soundtracks
Number of Piercings: None
Number of Tattoos: None, yuck
Number of things in my Past I Regret: luckily quitting Effexor killed my memory, so I'm sure there were lots of those... but fuck em, they're gone! HAHAHA, what?
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My Interests

Movies, outdoor stuff, cute animals, history, philosophy, law, film production, music, classic rock, cars, classic rock cars, computer games, martial arts, martial arts games, games with 80s music and martial arts, cyptozoology, dancing, attempting to dance but actually just failing, singing, meditation, stand-up comedy

I'd like to meet:

An attractive woman with Relational Dependence Disorder... the more intense and unhealthily obsessed-with-me, the better.

Finding my 'soulmate' wouldn't hurt either... online even. She'd better speak English (at least reasonably well) this time.

Music:

Alan Parsons Project, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Styx, Journey, Frontline Assembly, Devo, REO Speedwagon, Blue Oyster Cult, Van Halen, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Stelvio Cipriani, Pino Donaggio, Stefano Mainetti, Goblin, Francesco De Masi, Guido and Maurizio De Angelis

Movies:

My Favorites: War of the Worlds (1953), THEM!, The Bounty, Waterloo, Dune, Conan the Barbarian, Death Wish 3, Flash Gordon, The Black Hole, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, The Thing, Taxi Driver, Zulu Dawn, The Warriors, Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Hell up in Harlem, 2019: After the Fall of New York, Midnight Express, The Wild Bunch, High Crime, Keoma, and anything with Maurizio Merli and/or Tomas Milian. Check out my movie review website

Television:

Crime Story, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Futurama, SNL, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Star Trek TOS, Battlestar Galactica (78-79), War of the Worlds (88-89), TNT Monstervision, Real Time with Bill Maher

Books:

Besides Newsweek and reading the text on computer screens, I believe I am pretty much illiterate. A crying shame. *cries* I can type fast though. I totally typed this whole thing in under a minute... I swear. Would I lie to you?

Heroes:

Bruce Lee, Christopher Connelly, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Maurizio Merli, David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, David Cronenberg, Werner Herzog, and Roger Corman.

My Blog

I’m sequestered

Looks like I'll be up in the San Gabriel mountains for the next 4 days... out of cell range and without internet, so once again sorry if I take a while to get back to you.
Posted by Michael on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:13:00 PST

on the road to Los Angeles

Hey all,I'm moving to CA so I will have iffy internet over the next couple weeks as I travel and encounter various adventures.  So until mid-late-August, please understand if I take a while to re...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:56:00 PST

who else is disappointed by these all these new lame-ass planets?

Wow, I only recently found out (because the national news is too preoccupied with keeping us up-to-date with Branjelina's kids and the sex lives of Kevin Fedderline and Christie Brinkley to bother) th...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:43:00 PST

what is it about STAR TREK?

People do a lot of things to calm their nerves. Some people smoke, some drink, some philander or gamble or buy things. What's been my thing? Watching Star Trek.Yes I know I'm a hopeless dork and de...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:19:00 PST

GHIDRAH: THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER

Time for another massive blow-by-blow analysis of an awful film that I hate. I have uploaded it for your reading pleasure to:http://millionmonkeytheater.com/Ghidrah.htmlSo have a read, have a laugh, ...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:06:00 PST

my reel online for you to look at

it's a 3-minute reel of my cinematographic highlights... the sort of thing I'd be giving to would-be employers.  Any comments or feedback would be appreciated.  Kinda a fun watch anyway.http...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:27:00 PST

so yet another round o’ deletions...

So it occured to me the other day that myspace seems to be running out of steam... at least MY myspace anyway.  I figure it's time to clean house and dump a lot of the useless excess, or "trim th...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:39:00 PST

Why am I so popular???

okay so I have 8500 profile views and 5900 blog views... and that's over the course of 3 years.  So that means an average of 8 people a day have surfed onto my profile and 6 people a day ont...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:51:00 PST

funny "BLIND DATE: date with Iosef Stalin" spoof online

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2jwCqB0uoI Check it out - funny short I made for a sociological history class I took for fun a few years ago. It's pretty rough since I made it in about 6 ho...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 30 May 2008 03:34:00 PST

Mega-Karaoke Spectacular

Holy shit, a few days ago I went to do some majorly-needed cooling off via something constructive.  And what is more constructive than doing something you love AND are good at?  So yeah, I h...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 28 May 2008 11:19:00 PST