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Mike D

this is not a fairy tale

About Me



My Interests



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I've recently realized that despite all that is contrary to my idealism, I believe in beauty. Cliche's aside, beauty appears very different to each individual. Some find beauty in pin-up girls. some find beauty in autopsy photos. I like beautiful women, as well as beautiful men, beautiful tattoos, and beautiful scars. Sometimes there's even a kind of unsettling tragic beauty in things like war, car crashes, suicide. The hard part is to embrace all of it... to pull it inside of yourself, find the beauty in it, and create something to share it with the world.



I'd like to meet:

Anyone tired of the mundane. Anyone that's creating... artists, musicians... motivated dreamers... anyone that want to take control of their own destiny - pry it out of the hands of the forces that want to control and manipulate us - and make it something beautiful. Find me. Lets start something... a friendship, a band, an art show, a fucking party.

Music:



Au4
Freeze Pop
EDIT
Circa Survive
Telefon Tel Aviv
Esthero
M.I.A.
Jawbreaker
Lucero
Death Cab for Cutie
Postal Service
DJ Shadow
Nine Inch Nails
U.N.K.L.E.
Cut Chemist
Deftones
Sneaker Pimps
Scissor Sisters
A Wilhelm Scream
Massive Attack
Tricky
Amon Tobin
Strange Fruit Project
Bitter:Sweet
Deep Dish
Sublime
Radiohead
Nappy Roots
Goldfrapp
Imogen Heap
Rise Against
Lupe Fiasco
Trentmoller
King Britt
Atmosphere
Outcast
Andre 3000
Depeche Mode
The Faint
Fischerspooner
Tool
Imogene Heap
Kruder and Dorfmeister
Mindless Self Indulgence
Old Crow Medicine Show
PRINCE
She Wants Revenge
Theivery Corp.
Snake River Conspiracy

Movies:


adopt your own virtual pet!Pie
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
Fight Club
Fear and Loathing in LasVegas
Amelie
Fritz the Cat
Romeo and Juliet
Fifth Element
Clockwork Orange
Reservior Dogs
Resident Evil
Inside Annie Sprinkle
Repenetrator
The Gore Gore Girls
Something Weird Video Films
Return of the Living Dead
Dead Alive
Evil Dead
"Art films, horror films, b films, nearly anything with gratuitous nudity"

Television:

FUCK THE TV!

Books:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Please Kill Me Tropic of Cancer The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy 1984 Animal Farm Filth Everything You Know is Wrong Burlesque and the Art of the Tease Everything You Know is Wrong

My Blog

this wave tastes like salt...

There are moments that questions seem like answers and moments when answers are no good at all, and others where the best answer is the question you should have asked in the first place. I fucking hat...
Posted by Mike D on Wed, 21 May 2008 11:42:00 PST

wow... things change.

If you cut yourself, as long as you don't catch an artery, in time it will heal. Ten days sober is an interesting place to be. Synapses firing that i thought were long dead. It's a good feeling. Of em...
Posted by Mike D on Fri, 16 May 2008 01:11:00 PST

Sooo... there’s this thing called life.

I wonder if everyone feels it at some point in their life. I would guess that probably many of us do. Some probably don’t get the opportunity. It’s as if a wave has built itself underneath...
Posted by Mike D on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:47:00 PST

new site motherfuckers ;p

i just uploaded the new incarnation of mikediskophotography.comi'm fucking happy. i'm right on time. if you people don't know already. 2008 is my year.i'm taking it. check it out and spread the word.X...
Posted by Mike D on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:30:00 PST

FUCKING SMILE!!!

    I am. Smiling.have been alot lately. almost consistently.Call me. I don't have much time.but i'd love to hang out.xoxo!!!
Posted by Mike D on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:46:00 PST

i want to scream

i want to scream out to the world that I CAN SLEEP AGAIN. my insomnia is over. i'm getting back in control. slowly, but surely. the spiral is slowing. it's time to come back up....
Posted by Mike D on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:19:00 PST

september 27 2007

passion is amazing to me... uncomfortable, neurotic, enslaving, and free, creating, empowering. the truth is, all i really have is passion. it's all i really know, and it drives my life, in whatever d...
Posted by Mike D on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:04:00 PST

get the fuck up

So for those of you that haven't seen me out... my life has just gotten mad. I'm quitting both jobs because they are conflicting with the pursuit of my career. I've got bridal portraits, weddings, eve...
Posted by Mike D on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:20:00 PST

my first show

June 8. Speakeasy. Me and two other photographers. more info soon. also. i now have a wall at the hot house design studio near lakeview. i have 4 pieces there so far. more to follow. and i have subm...
Posted by Mike D on Sat, 12 May 2007 09:05:00 PST

depeche mode

WORDS LIKE VIOLENCE BREAK THE SILENCE COME CRASHING IN INTO MY LITTLE WORLD PAINFUL TO ME PIERCE RIGHT THROUGH ME CAN´T YOU UNDERSTAND OH MY LITTLE GIRL ALL I EVER WANTED ALL I EVER NEEDED IS HERE IN...
Posted by Mike D on Thu, 10 May 2007 10:24:00 PST