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Mike

I am here for Friends

About Me


Aw me? I'm just me..
FusionFest '08 is almost here! Check out the Cleveland Play House online at www.clevelandplayhouse.com .
The song on my profile is from my friend Rhys Miller's new CD. I had a LOT of fun recording the guitar tracks for the CD, which is now available on cdbaby.com . While you're waiting for your CD, enjoy "A Day in the Life of a Fool" (aka "Black Orpheus" with words..)

My Interests

guitar, piano, singing, percussion, bass, jam sessions, composing, decomposing, gardening, bicycling, live entertainment (theater, music, comedy, performance art, etc.), a good workout or bike ride, cinema, sushi, seafood, cooking, grilling, NY/NJ pizza, unitarian universalism, canoeing, crosswords, sudoku, wine tasting, taco tuesday, halloween, dining, trader joe's, coffeehouses, bookstores, pellegrino, oatmeal, crock pot, gallucci's, aladdin's, nature's bin, the barking spider.

I'd like to meet:

Lindsay Lohan, Lindsay Wagner, Lindsey Buckingham

Music:


Bach, The Band*, Beach Boys*, Beatles, Captain Beefheart (I need to get more of his stuff, but I LOVE "Trout Mask Replica"), Beethoven, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown*, Charlie Byrd*, Eric Clapton*, Cleveland Orchestra*, college radio, The Donnas, Bob Dylan*, Ella Fitzgerald, erie.effusion, Grateful Dead, Guided by Voices, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin & Big Brother and the Holding Company*, Kinks*, Lambert Hendricks* & Ross, Led Zeppelin, Robert "Junior" Lockwood*, Lutoslawski*, Mamas & the Papas (RIP Denny* 2007), Bob Marley, mix tapes, The Move, Randy Newman, Pretenders, Procol Harum*, Ravel, Roches*, semi-acoustic country space rock, Santana*, Sibelius, silence, U2*, unpretty sonorities with legs*, Muddy Waters, WCLV, Stevie Wonder, XTC, Frank Zappa.
* = have seen live

Movies:

Sure, why not? Pass the popcorn!

Television:

It's an RCA.

Books:

I'm just a terrible, slow reader, but I love to read and have been making more time for it lately. Recently finished - Clapton: The Autobiography; The Andromeda Strain. Now reading - Insomnia; Wonderful Tonight.

Heroes:

Martin Luther King. Dalai Lama. Jack Bauer.

My Blog

mother smucker!

Smucker's Uncrustables are something I picked up on only very recently. Used to always pass them by. I never, ever cut the crusts off my PB&J sammiches, and I usually choose wheat over white. I ha...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:46:00 PST