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Mike C.

Life is full of ups and downs. All you can do is act accordingly.

About Me

I'm a Columbia College Chicago graduate with a BA in Fiction Writing. I've been writing ever since I was little and am always working on ways to improve my craft. It's a way for me to create and express myself. It is my true passion in life.
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My Interests

writing, reading, movies, Poker (Hold 'Em), Opie & Anthony, Ron & Fez (both shows now on XM!)

I'd like to meet:

Honest and down-to-earth people who don't play head-games. I'm always up for meeting new people, so feel free to send me a myspace message if you feel like talking sometime. I don't pretend to be somebody else. I am always me. I may not be perfect and I may be flawed, but a good thing about me is that I never pretend to be otherwise, and I never will.

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Music:

Pennywise, Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, Lamb of God, The Black Dahlia Murder, Bad Religion, As I Lay Dying, Suicide Silence, Slipknot, NothingFace, Pink Floyd

Movies:

(Too many to name, but some of my top favorites) Memento, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Brick, A Scanner Darkly, Pan's Labyrinth, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Prestige, Shattered Glass, Manhattan, Rounders, Punch-Drunk Love, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Die Hard, Insomnia, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Where the Buffalo Roam

Television:

Carnivale, The Twilight Zone, The Wire, Deadwood, House, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Office (the original,not the US version), Monk, The Shield, South Park, Invader Zim, Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares (both versions)

Books:

Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut), Survivor (Palahniuk), The Collected Stories of Richard Yates, Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), Short Cuts (Carver), Fight Club (Palahniuk), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon), Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), Hairstyles of the Damned (Meno), The Book of Ralph (McNally), American Skin (DeGrazia), Less Than Zero (Ellis), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Thompson), The Stranger (Camus), High Fidelity (Hornby), Animal Farm (Orwell), Drown (Diaz), Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), JTHM: Director's Cut (Vasquez), Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors (Vasquez)

Heroes:

Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver, Richard Yates and Elmore Leonard who were, and are brilliant writers.

My Blog

Character Journal

I'll be honest, your buddy Mike has run into a bit of a slump with not being able to come up with any solid stories.  For a while, the only writing that I was doing was in my personal journal--th...
Posted by Mike C. on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:17:00 PST

A Great Scene from HBO’s "The Wire"

This is a great moment from the second season of "The Wire" where Methodman is forced to realize he's playing way out of his league.No worries if you haven't seen the series.  This real...
Posted by Mike C. on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:05:00 PST

One more season to go...

Jeez, I didn't expect to finish the fourth season of "The Wire" so quickly.  I think I finished it in less than a week!  I watched 7 episodes while I was away at WI, and we're going again th...
Posted by Mike C. on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:38:00 PST

I blame "The Wire"

Dear HBO,I want to thank you for making me a slacker.  That's right.  I am blaming you for making me become lazy and putting off things that I shouldn't.  It is because of you that I ha...
Posted by Mike C. on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:05:00 PST

George Carlin

Okay, here's the deal.  This whole week I've been trying to write what I think would be a "thoughtful" blog dedicated to the one and only George Carlin, and I was having a really rough time tryin...
Posted by Mike C. on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:28:00 PST

Journaling: A Writers Most Powerful Tool

"There is nothing more useless in this world than a writer who isn't writing."-Me, 5/17/08Me and journaling have always had a strained relationship.  It was always a chore to journal about things...
Posted by Mike C. on Sat, 17 May 2008 02:38:00 PST

My Top 10 Films of 2007

2007 actually ended up being a great year for films.  Normally, I have a hard time even coming up with a Top 5 movies list, let alone a Top 10.  This year, it wasn't hard at all for me, and ...
Posted by Mike C. on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:14:00 PST

Why I Write

I was checking out some writing prompts from Writer's Digest today and they had some pretty interesting ones.  One of them says you should start with the line, "I write because..." and then go fr...
Posted by Mike C. on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:30:00 PST

Will somebody please explain to me...

All I keep hearing is, "You have to read The Road.  It's such a great book!"  Everywhere I go, I see that book and I hear nothing but rave reviews for it.  Well, I decided to pick it up...
Posted by Mike C. on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:15:00 PST

2008

I still can't believe that '07 has come and gone, and now we're in '08... so far, I haven't made the mistake of writing last year as the current date, but I'm sure it'll happen sooner or later.Well, a...
Posted by Mike C. on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:06:00 PST