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Carmel Mike

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About Me

A truth-seeker, I truly believe the truth will set you free. However, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident," - Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher, 1788-1860. I love the outdoors. I believe that nature is tonic for a person's spirituality - the closer a person is to nature, the closer they are to God - whatever God is. Thus, I hike to become spiritually grounded and to connect to the purifying energy that nature offers.I love to travel, enjoy all types of sports, especially snow skiing, mountain biking, tennis, golf and martial arts.Still a rocker at heart, I dig crunchy guitar rhythms, screaming leads and killer riffs. My closest friends are all musicians, or artists of one kind or another, be it musical art, photography, poetry - whatever.Through art we express our discontent with society, politics, injustice, and other social ills. Yet, it's much more than that, it's also a way to celebrate humanity's triumphs and to chronicle the human condition like a snap shot in time.

My Interests

Film/video production, story-writing, hiking, spelunkering, snow skiing, mountain biking, guitar, tennis, golf, fishing, motorcycles, philosophy and politics, current events, gardening, and anthropology. These interests keep me pretty busy.

I'd like to meet:

Howard Zinn, Mel Gibson, Johnny Depp, David Lynch, Eddie Van Halen, the Dalai Lama, Harry Belafonte, Steve Martin.


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Music:

Rock and classical music. Favorites: Scorpions, Dokken, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, Queensryche, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, AFI, Pink Floyd, Journey, Foreigner, Tesla, AC/DC, Metallica, Triumph, U2, Beatles, Van Halen, Ozzy, Segovia, Santana, The Eagles, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, The Crue, Rush, Soft White Underbelly (BOC), Guns 'N' Roses, Nickelback, Puddle of Mudd, Seether . . . ************************************************************ *********** *********Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here)******** ******************Phantom Blue (Time to Run)*************** *******Lori Linstruth (Passion Solo G# major9 sweep)** ******************Matt Rach (Amadeus Rock)************* *********************Andy McKee************************* ************************Andy McKee******************** ***************Peter Seeger (Little Boxes)***************** **************Luke Kelly (Ballad of Joe Hill)*************

Movies:

Citizen Kane, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window, The Wizard of Oz, Conspiracy Theory, Braveheart, Apocalypto, The Passion of the Christ, V for Vendetta, The Matrix, Annie Hall, Fight Club, Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Kiss of the Dragon, North by Northwest, American Beauty, Amelie, Witness, Foreign Correspondent, spaghetti westerns - my favorite is Duck You Sucker, The Unforgiven, Tombstone (I'm your huckleberry), Stagecoach (1939), When Harry met Sally, Forrest Gump, Cool Hand Luke, Cast Away, The Terminator, The Red Balloon, Like Water for Chocolate, Pursuit of Happyness, To Kill a Mockingbird, and so many more. The list keeps growing.

Television:

Prison Break, 24, That 70's Show, Jeopardy, Arrested Development, Weeds, X Games, Link TV, IFC, Sundance Channel, The History Channel, TLC, National Geographic Channel, House, The Twilight Zone . . . ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ ******** ************************************************************ *********** See more funny videos at CollegeHumor ************************************************************ *********** .. ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ ***********

Books:

A People's History of the United States, Dark Alliance, Dean Koontz novels, Death Valley Men, Sun Tzu's Art of War, The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell .

Heroes:

Cyrus, Confucious, Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Jefferson, Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Jesse James, Doc Holiday, Wyatt Earp, Nikolai Tesla, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Aristotle, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Dr. Martin Luther King, Che Gueverra, Mother Theresa, Buddha, and Jesus.

My Blog

MTVU Best Film on Campus Awards

Hi family members, friends, artists, and musicians:My good friend and former room-mate, Tyler Timpe, has been selected as one of the top 25 candidates in MTV's Best Film on Campus Award.  Please ...
Posted by Carmel Mike on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:49:00 PST

My tarot card

http://www.flarn.com/~warlock/tarot/catpeople/6.jpg">>You are The LoversMotive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse.The Lovers represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a ch...
Posted by Carmel Mike on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:32:00 PST