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Michael

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

"Don't compare me now to how I was back then-
looking back on it, I would've done the same thing.
yeah, everyone was doing crazy shit back then..."
I enjoy the getting awesome.
I am up much later than you.
I like to "take it to the max."
Buying paint from the 'oops' bin for $1.00. yes.
I like cake.

My Interests

I make stuff:
tell.tale.heart studio
and take some photos:
t.t.h Photoblog
sold our souls for the rock:
teh indie rock
visual / fine art,
tattoos,
painting and drawing,
illustration,
stencils / street art,
photoshop,
Chicago,
red wines,
bourbon/whiskey.

I'd like to meet:

-People who will commit to performing random acts of awesomeness.
-People that understand why the Bronx destroys... Bats!
-People with hearts of oak.
People I wouldn't care to meet:
-people who are not awesome
-people concerned with status / 'climbing a ladder' in life

Music:

Crikey- this is the space where I list alot of hip Indie bands with a balance of older punk bands to show I have cred in an effort to gain magical scene points from those reading this profile. ...meh...
shelf one:

oh and Journey.

Movies:

Swingers,
Casino,
Fight Club,
The Crow,
A Bronx Tale,
High Fidelity
Office Space
Legend of Sleepy Hollow (most Tim Burton films),
Snatch,
Warriors,
Gangs of New York,
Fear and Loathing...

Television:

-no thanks.
dmg!

Books:

me @ GoodReads
[^books I've read or I'm currently reading]

Heroes:

FLW Sr.

My Blog

Alternate tuning

There's a guy that I see often downtown playing his acoustic guitar. There are a lot of musicians that play for change downtown or in the BART stations. Buskers- there are a lot in SF. This guy, I fir...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:54:00 PST

Pre-Internet

re: blind discovery. Can that happen these days? Kids can just google shit. We all grew up skating and made up tricks, then found other kids that skated and learned tricks from them. We grew from this...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:15:00 PST

Saw

No, for real. Saw: Yeah. The constructoring will begin. Laser siting. oooo.
Posted by Michael on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:34:00 PST

the solution

"...[we] know the difference between first rate, mediocre and piss poor... but seem bored with such distinctions. How was the movie? okay. How is your pasta? okay. How's your sprained ankle doing? oka...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:43:00 PST

Dirty Birds

Some pics from the opening of Dirty Birds - art on skate decks show at Lower Haters. ...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:25:00 PST

More sketchiness mofo...

Some pics from the last month's Sketch Tuesday. sketchering.... [pic by DMG] flashcard ladies the other two  ...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:33:00 PST

That side, this side- cant side me!

"You might just have pushed too far - you are superior to nothingThe Ungovernable Force is gonna drag you out of hidingYou think you have got us beaten, but you make one slip and you'll know itWe are ...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:25:00 PST

in the cheap seats

I forgot to take the camera to Sketch Tuesday. But I found a pic [courtesy of jealous kids on flickr] online. ha. I sold two drawings, but no pics. oh well....
Posted by Michael on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:15:00 PST

man of leisure

I miss vacationing already and I just got back. Dawn and I have a travel fund. It's like saving, but saving specifically for vacations. It rules. This time around we rented a house in Elk, CA [just so...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:55:00 PST

what skills you say you got?

on the topic of new / recent art school grads' drawing abilities: "They are just adrift with no direction, or imitating conceptual work with no real understanding of what they are doing." -AJ Fo...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:48:00 PST