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I took the Red Pill

An Eye for an Eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - Mohatma Gandhi

About Me

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Father, Husband, Massage Therapist, and Musical Artist.
Please check out my web site, ArchAngel Massage !
My band, Dead Sea Souls , has been playing live in the Dallas/Ft.Worth/Denton area for over a year now, and we are now in the process of recording our first release, a 6-song EP, due out in early... uh, make that LATE 2007. We're still looking for a keyboardist to add another layer. If you know someone with similar taste, who plays keys and lives in the DFW area, please send them my way.
You want to know me? Listen to my music, and read my lyrics and blogs. Then again, I'm not always that serious. I'm actually a very friendly guy who likes to laugh a lot, especially at myself!

My Interests

Music, politics, philosophy, movies, books, art, self-improvement.
Lately I'm getting more seriously interested in spirituality, especially Eastern religions/philosophies, like Taoism, Budhism, Khundalini, etc.
I love this video:
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I'd like to meet:

Other cool people with a good sense of humor, especially other musicians, artists, and natural healers.
The people who were actually responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

Music:

Tori Amos, Angelo Badalamenti, Bauhaus and Peter Murphy, Beatles, Bjork, Bowie, b-tribe, Cake, Nick Cave, Chant, Leonard Cohen, Concrete Blonde, Counting Crows, The Cure, Miles Davis, Dead Can Dance, Dead Sea Souls , Depeche Mode, The Doors, Nick Drake, Cesaria Evora, Far Star , Ben Folds, Peter Gabriel, Garbage, Gypsy Kings, Jimi Hendrix, Janes Addiction, Joy Division, Live, Cheikh Lo, Marilyn Manson, Ministry, Morphine, Ennio Morricone, Bob Mould and Sugar, Oliver Mtukudzi, NIN, Gary Numan, Sinead OConnor, Roy Orbison, Pink Floyd, Pixies, The Police and Sting, Pop Poppins, Portishead, Radiohead, REM, Reverand Horton Heat, Sigur Ros, Sisters of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths and Morrissey, Social Distortion, Solice, Soul Caughing, The Sound and the Fury, Soundgarden, Stone Roses, 10,000 Maniancs and Natlie Merchant, The The, Thievery Corporation, Tool, Tripping Daisy, U2, The Uncontrollable Urge Stevie Ray Vaughn, Suzanne Vega, Violent Femmes, Tom Waits.

Movies:

Crash (This may well be the best film I've ever seen! If you haven't seen it, rent it IMEDIATELY!), What The Bleep Do We Know?, Quest For The Holy Grail, Princess Bride, Evil Dead 2, Army Of Darkness, Office Space, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Dogma, My Cousin Vinny, Matrix, Lord Of The Rings, Moulin Rouge, Mullholland Dr., Blue Velvet, Donny Darko, Powder, 12 Monkeys, Vanilla Sky, Butterfly Effect, Stir Of Echoes, Jacob's Ladder, The Last Temptation Of Christ, Taxi Driver, The Godfather, Scarface, Tombstone, Snatch, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Braveheart, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan.

Television:

Not much anymore.

Books:

Douglas Adams , Anne Rice , Clive Barker's "Imagica" , Dean Koontz, Steven King, Shakespeare, Bukowski . Buddhism Plain and Simple - by Steve Hagen . The Power of Intention - by Dr. Wayne Dyer.

Heroes:

Any and all Pediatric Heart Surgeons, but especially Hisashi Nikaidoh, M.D., and Steven R. Leonard, M.D., who performed 3 heart surgeries on our son Donovan, all before the age of 3. You want to talk about guys with brains, guts, & incredible skills? These guys are the best of the best.

My Father, who has the patience of a saint.

My Blog

Go Fish!

For those of you who don't already know, my oldest son, Dante is 9 years old and has mild autism.  It mostly affects his ability to understand language and abstract concepts.  However, like ...
Posted by I took the Red Pill on Mon, 21 May 2007 09:15:00 PST

Massage May Help You Loose Weight

Check the latest article on my web site: http://www.archangelmassage.com/1562853.html Blessed be, :) Michael
Posted by I took the Red Pill on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:32:00 PST

Another Year - another opportunity to get it right

2006 has been a rather tumultuous year, filled with ups and downs  a year of change.  While I appreciate change as opportunity, I'm looking forward to the increasing stability that I hope 2007 w...
Posted by I took the Red Pill on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:22:00 PST

ArchAngel Massage is Open for Business!

As of 9/27/06, I am a Licensed Massage Therapist in the state of Texas!   Since I've been unable to find a job that offers both decent pay and steady work (all the places I've int...
Posted by I took the Red Pill on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:01:00 PST

Bawlin' like a little kid

I love films.  No other art form is more powerful... more emotionally evocative.  Music is a close second, but since they can put music in films and combine it with images, it really isn't a...
Posted by I took the Red Pill on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:31:00 PST

The joys of being unemployed

After dodging the bullet about a dozen times during my 5 years with MCI-->WorldCom-->MCI-->Verizon and their seemingly endless layoffs, I finally won the lottery.  I had been with the Special Ser...
Posted by I took the Red Pill on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:31:00 PST

The Interconnectedness of All Things

I've had these words written for years. Our drummer, Rob (who also plays bass & guitar), and I finally put them to music on X-mas Eve. I also edited it a bit and finally came up w/ the last line f...
Posted by I took the Red Pill on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

New Years Eve 2005/2006

This was one of the worst New Year's Eve's I've had in a while.  Roxy was vacationing w/ friends in Costa Rica.  I would have gone too but it would have cost too much.  Roxy's Mom came ...
Posted by I took the Red Pill on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 01:45:00 PST

Stream of Consciousness

(a poem or lyrics that I just wrote)   Ive gone over the edge into the black abyss Flying through the darkness like a magical kiss& goodnight On whose cheek Ill land I do not know But I dont g...
Posted by I took the Red Pill on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Stay the course?

Should we stay the course in Iraq?Kerry says that since the current course is failing we need to change course. But what does he mean? What would he do differently? One of the problems in his campaign...
Posted by I took the Red Pill on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST