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mike giles

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About Me

i don’t get those pencil beards that dudes sculpt into their face. i realize way too late that i have eaten too many cookies. my ringtones are the police, james brown, johnny cash, guns ’n roses, and outkast. gotta work on my vibrato. i keep blowing up light sockets around my house by trying to replace them without any clue as to what i’m doing. i love the smell of aveda. the power on my tv remote doesn’t work, which is kind of the whole point i thought. i listen to sports talk radio religiously. i live by lowes. i have a difficult time putting on wiper blades. my pops needs to retire. the last christmas letter i wrote was multiple choice. i thoroughly enjoy the sense of accomplishment i get from doing dishes. my garbage goes on mondays. we won the world series in ’06. i cut my own hair. i can’t seem to keep up with those peel-a-day calendars. my mom is a lunchlady. i can’t really draw. i floss with some regularity, but don’t do it as hard as my dentist. it’s probably time for me to buy some new sweatpants. i don’t drink soda pop, unless there’s some liquor involved. i like buying magazines but don’t really get around to reading them. not a huge fan of spiders. man, dolphy sounds great. i’m getting tired of ironing. i’ve owned a new thermostat for about 18 months now and have no idea how to hook it up. i don’t like sandwiches. my boys broke our yellow couch. the guy who delivered me was named Dr. Cool (still is, i’m assuming). my dad is a trucker. simon estes knows my kids. i think espn is too loud. i’m totally into those break-n-bake cookies that you throw in the oven. i can’t believe they traded A.I. and K.G. i end up driving a lot. i ride bikes with my kids, but let them beat me to the intersection. i DO like playing changes, i just DON’T like playing the same old shit out of the book. i can’t seem to make chinese food at home taste anything like the stuff at the small chinese joints. dairy gives me gas.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/30/2006
Band Website: creativemusicstuff.com
Band Members: the new tunes are all peformed with my trio: seth hedquist (electric guitar) and joel t. gettys (drums). this band covers soundgarden, a-ha, aphex twin, halloween alaska, django bates, robert schumann, and george michael. a bunch of originals too ... trying to keep it fresh. and YES, those are my kids on that bush tune.
Influences: dave douglas, john zorn, django bates, the books, the bad plus, happy apple, halloween alaska, bjork, miles davis, eric dolphy, ornette coleman, dave binney, chris potter, mark turner, tim berne, brad mehldau, craig taborn, brian blade fellowship, kurt rosenwinkel, evan parker, vijay iyer,human feel, tom waits, ikue morie, derek bailey, ellery eskelin, jim black, joe lovano, charles lloyd, mike patton, steve lehman, radiohead, sigur ros, slick rick the ruler, neptunes, mos def, johnny cash, willie nelson, tribe called quest, michael jackson, prince, the foreign exchange, mum, eric b and rakim, outkast
Sounds Like: i’m trying to keep up with the scattered thoughts in my brain....
Type of Label: None

My Blog

opening day

so here we are, another baseball season. my cardinals were killing the defending NL champ rockies 5-1 before getting rained out. in the meantime, the cubs choked it out once again with kerry wood an...
Posted by mike giles on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:19:00 PST

guilty pleasures

talk radio, orbitz bubble gum that whitens your teeth, target, breaking out the michael jackson dance moves (or at least those that my body will allow, which takes out the ’remember the time&rsq...
Posted by mike giles on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:42:00 PST

TBP

so, i just saw the bad plus on conan friday (and am impressed i stayed up that late.... too much beer). not sure what to make of the whole thing. thriftstore jewelry is a great tune, and it features...
Posted by mike giles on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:02:00 PST

the latest vol. 1

well, here's the gratuitous "here's what i've been checking out lately" list, not that anyone cares1) derek trucks band "songlines" saw these guys live in IC this summer and was planning to skip out...
Posted by mike giles on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:05:00 PST

singers

so, i remember a couple years ago a conversation i had with a classical vocalist. he asked me who my favorite singers were. classic me--i racked my brain to think of some bizarre singer that he had ...
Posted by mike giles on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:26:00 PST