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About Me

The older I get, the more I realize how little has changed since high school - I'm still good at math and spelling, but I'm terrible at meeting people.
I'm about to be laid off from corporate America, and I'm currently trying to figure out how to pay the bills without returning to corporate America. I'm hoping the new Radiohead album will provide me with some inspiration.
I have fallen in love with a wonderful guy who makes me a better person and makes me think realistically about a future together. I don't think I've ever been able to say that about a guy I dated.
I am always in search of the next Life-Changing Movie/Book/Album, but I am learning these are few and far between.
I know how to use a semicolon, and I will almost always argue in favor of the Oxford comma.
My musical taste has been described as "muscular" - I think that's a pretty good description.
I believe my greatest challenge in life is to learn how to overcome my self-doubt, assert myself, and own my awesomeness.
I can be really sarcastic and bitter and jaded when I want to be, and I will profess to despise romantic comedies, but ultimately I kind of want my life to be like the movie Amelie.
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My Interests

music, film, theatre, photography, television (good and bad), pop culture in general, Thai food, cookies, the Olympics, IKEA, astrology, the Enneagram, the Muppets, James Dean, the new Radiohead album and its yet-to-be-acquired B-sides, roller coasters, Chicago, London, asking too many questions, not thinking too much, regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week), getting on better with my associate employee contemporaries, wishing i could play guitar, broadening my horizons

I'd like to meet:

a playwright whom I can collaborate with on a regular basis

Music:

Fiona Apple, The Arcade Fire, The Beatles, The Black Keys, Jeff Buckley, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Darkness, Doves, The Faint, The Futureheads, Gomez, Jimi Hendrix, Interpol, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson (pre-pedophilia), Led Zeppelin, Muse, nine inch nails, Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, The Rapture, The Rolling Stones, Sleater-Kinney, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, Stone Temple Pilots, The Strokes, Tapes 'n Tapes, Justin Timberlake, The White Stripes, The Who, Wilco, Wolf Parade, Stevie Wonder, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zero 7

Movies:

Amelie, Angels in America, Big Fish, Boogie Nights, Dancer in the Dark, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Good Night and Good Luck, The Great Muppet Caper, A League of Their Own, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Rebel Without a Cause, Requiem for a Dream, Spellbound (the documentary, not the other one), The Virgin Suicides, Waiting for Guffman

Television:

Arrested Development, Big Love, The Boondocks, Desperate Housewives, Family Guy, Home Movies, Law & Order: SVU, Lost, The Office (UK & US), South Park, Twin Peaks

Books:

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, bash: latterday plays, Blindness, Closer, The Corrections, Cry the Beloved Country, Far Away, Hamlet, House of Leaves, In the Blood, Lord of the Flies, The Pain and the Itch, A Prayer for Owen Meany

Heroes:

Corin Tucker

My Blog

In Rainbows

it's been over a week, and i've probably listened to the new Radiohead album at least 30 or 40 times by now, so i think i'm finally prepared to give my review. you have to understand that i've been wa...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:54:00 PST

an open letter to Radiohead

Dear Radiohead, You guys are pretty sneaky. I checked up on all your coded blog posts, and I read all the other people's interpretations of them, and I was certain that a new album wasn't d...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:07:00 PST

math is hard

every year i have one day where i get angry at everyone else in my theatre company for agreeing that i should be the Managing Director and i seriously consider leaving Flashpoint. it usuall...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:31:00 PST

5 months and counting...

i've found that i only post on this thing when i have to vent about something. i rarely take the time to say "things are pretty okay." so i thought i'd do that now. things are pretty okay....
Posted by Michael on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:37:00 PST

my girls are gone

about 14 months ago, i discovered that Sleater-Kinney was going to be playing a show at the Starlight Ballroom in Philadelphia at the end of July 2006. the gig was announced with very little fan...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:37:00 PST

wrong numbers

my outgoing voicemail message makes it very clear to the caller that he or she has, in fact, dialed the number for Michael Osinski and no one else. so why do wrong numbers still leave messages on...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:44:00 PST

my own personal holiday

i would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that today is an official holiday in my world - the final rounds of the National Spelling Bee. the bee is being broadcast live tonight at 8pm o...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 31 May 2007 09:29:00 PST

another existential crisis

it's been a long time since i've had an "existential crisis," so i suppose i shouldn't be so surprised to find myself in the middle of one right now. it all started last week when the HR director at m...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 07 May 2007 06:14:00 PST

the art of corporate telepathy

i got yelled at today for not assuming that one of my bosses wanted something shipped to him via UPS Next Day Air Early AM (which guarantees delivery by 8:00am) instead of via UPS Next Day Air (which ...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:42:00 PST

Captain Influenza

i am sick. with the flu. i haven't had the flu in YEARS. usually i get about 2 colds a year, as well as the occasional intestinal bug, but i haven't had such an energy-zapping illnes...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:06:00 PST