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Mike XP-80

Ohh, do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya, oh, do you think you can love me Mary Jane?

About Me

Damnit! Can't I just copy all of this stuff from my Friendster profile?
P.S. I'm doing my part to spread the gospel of Dolly Mixture ,

one of the most criminally underrated bands of all time.

Wanna see something hilarious my bro Matt got me hip to:

(If you're not familiar with the music-nerdiness of 'GEMM', this won't be so funny...)

My Interests

Going to the Chapel of Love, being your duchess of earl, not minding other guys dancing with my girl (after all, I know them all pretty well), lazing on a sunny afternoon, AND....shining up my old brown shoes...putting on a brand new shirt...coming home early from work...if you say - that you love me.
Also, I love the part in the fade-out when the singer starts getting hysterical and the drummer brings on the chaotic madness.

I'd like to meet:

A well-to-do, older me from the future - who would loan the current, strapped-for-cash me some money.

Music:

THE NEW AND IMPROVED LIST Sexual Chocolate, Zack Attack, Wyld Stallyns (as always)....the Beatles, R. Stones, Kinks, Who, the Hollies, Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las, Sandie Shaw, Jackie DeShannon, the Raindrops, the Beach Boys, ABBA, the Move, Lesley Gore, (Joe Meek productions): the Honeycombs, Glenda Collins, the Tornados...Joy D., Wire, Gang of Four, New Order, the Birthday Party, Liliput/Kleenex, the Slits, the Raincoats,
DOLLY MIXTURE
the Adverts, Advertising, the Go-Betweens, Nick Lowe, the Undertones, Brinsley Schwarz, the dBs, the Freshies (I'm tired), VU, Stooges...you get the idea.
Sparks, Love, Buffalo Springfield, the United States of America (the band, not the country, HA ;) SY, the AVENGERS, L.A. punk (y'know...), N.Y. punk (shout-outs to Television, Blondie, Ramones and Talking Heads, esp.), Ohio punk, the Wipers, Skinny Puppy, Ministry...
Let's see...Black Tambourine, the Aislers Set, Talulah Gosh/Heavenly/Marine Research, Young Marble Giants, the Siddeleys, the Smiths, Prefab Sprout, the Flatmates, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Magnetic Fields, the Clean, the Bats, the Chills, Look Blue Go Purple, David Bowie, East River Pipe, GIRLS AT OUR BEST, St. Etienne, STEREO TOTAL, the Vaselines, the Pixies, Broadcast...
Some rap flava' in my mix...
Justin Hinds and the Dominoes, the Ethiopians, the Congos, the Gaylads, Lee "Scratch" Perry productions, Duke Reid productions, 'Coxsone' Dodd productions (R.I.P.), CARLTON & THE SHOES (incredible), Desmond Dekker......Slade, the British Girl-Group sound (and the American), Os Mutantes, Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy, France Gall, Brigitte Bardot...
Judee Sill, the Cowsills, the Boswell Sisters, Simon & Garfunkel, Skeeter Davis, Loretta Lynn, Dvorak, the Andrews Sisters, Henry Mancini, Berlioz' "Fantastic Symphony", Teenage Symphony, Wanda Jackson, Heinz, Belaire.
Stuff that is lush and organized.
Stuff that makes me sway back and forth, and/or tap my foot.
GUILT: Bobby Brown, Aerosmith's "What It Takes", Madd Cobra's "Flex to Have Sex", the Doobie Bros' "What A Fool Believes", New Jack Swing....yeah...

Movies:

Disney's Robin Hood, Beatles First U.S. Visit, the T.A.M.I./TNT Show, the Ed Sullivan Video Collection, New Order's first U.S. show, The Kids Are Alright, The World At War, The Harder They Come, ABBA: The Movie (I remember that shit being rather surreal), Coming To America, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Follow That Bird, Singin' In the Rain, Krush Groove.
Baller Blockin', Black Spring Break (Rob knows about DJ Spanx!), Jack Frost, Cool As Ice ("ditch the zero, and get with the hero")

Television:

Early 90's Fox Channel sitcoms (Herman's Head, Get A Life, Married with Children, the Simpsons, etc.), Chapelle's Show, Law and Order original (holla' at Briscoe and Green) and L&W SVU (notice my lack of love for 'Criminal Intent', D'Onofrio is too ridiculous), VH1 Behind the Music (for good acts), Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, All In the Family, the Jeffersons, Good Times, Sunday morning Comic Strip (see below), Dance 360, some other nerdy shit.
Back in the day:
Karate Kat, Camp Mini-monsters, Thundercats, Street Frogs = the Comic Strip
Small Wonder, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Naked City (only saw it once, but it's the reason why I'm so nocturnal - as a kid, I pushed myself to stay up and watch it, because, despite coming on at 4 am, it's name was so ludicrous...NAKED CITY!? Needless to say, I was disappointed to discover it was a 50s, B&W crime series!),
...my parents watching '60 Minutes'.

Books:

Rand McNally's World Atlas, Compton's Encyclopedia 1985, the SPIN Guide to Alternative Music, Unknown Legends of Rock by Richie Unterberger, The Harmony of Watersports by Walter Piston-Mymouth, um, some other stuff.

Heroes:

My parents, my sis, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Gordon Delamont, Nelson Riddle, some other people.

My Blog

Barack Obama, please do one thing for me.

Kick this man's fuckin' ass!You know he wants Hilary to win, that way he can pull his whole "man of the people" bit and paint her as old Washington.  Then, when a Republican wins again, while som...
Posted by Mike XP-80 on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:01:00 PST

Awesomest class discussion post ever.

Posted below is a discussion board reply I typed for a Medical Ethics class I'm taking.  The topic was right-to-die.  I deserve some extra-fuckin-credit for this baby, and if you read it, yo...
Posted by Mike XP-80 on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:08:00 PST

Oh, and one more thing.

These weak-ass rampage killings need to just fucking stop.  I always felt gun control was a tough issue, but I was always more in favor for it (yet also felt like our country's history with gun c...
Posted by Mike XP-80 on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:30:00 PST

To Kill A Lazy Journalist.

O.K., obviously I in no way support adults having sex with minors, but I also can't stand lame-ass, one-trick pony TV personalities masquerading as "investigative journalists".  "To Catch A Preda...
Posted by Mike XP-80 on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:30:00 PST

Bush obviously bores kids in Benin.

These kids do not give a shit about this lame-duck president and his photo-op moment.  Far-left, top row; far-left, bottom row; and bottom row, second from left are especially amusing (especially...
Posted by Mike XP-80 on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:54:00 PST

Election 08...

Dude, I can say, in a completely bipartisian way, that I find this to be an exciting election.I'm sure a little bit of that has to do with the lack of involvement of one George W. Bush.  God, Dem...
Posted by Mike XP-80 on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:07:00 PST

D.C. ++. I’m back in full effect.

For those of you who want to share some of these newly acquired goodies, I'm on Soulseek as 'wyldstallyns'.And on another note, Mitt Romney strikes me as being a huge douchebag.  In fact, the def...
Posted by Mike XP-80 on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:05:00 PST

Doris Day is hot on Soulseek...

Dude, I've had my Soulseek up since Sunday morning, and over the last 48 hours, 5 different people have each downloaded shitloads of Doris Day from me.  And about 3 people have each downloaded th...
Posted by Mike XP-80 on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:18:00 PST

Acoustical revelation, harmonic series, formants...

I'm in the forest, and I think I see the trees.(Disclaimer: if you do ANYTHING involving sound, and you think you might not know the contents below, I encourage you to read on.  I wish I'd learne...
Posted by Mike XP-80 on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:56:00 PST

The new SukhoThai II!

Open until 9:30 p.m. SEVEN days a week.Order off the menu, and the food is cooked while you wait.  Thai and Chinese dishes.Nearly everything was $4.95 (including chicken, and I assume tofu/beef a...
Posted by Mike XP-80 on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:51:00 PST