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Mike

I will cook you in the skillet with the bells and honeysuckle

About Me



Go here for John Stamos on meth
Where the clowns go to drown

Go visit NOO Journal and feel your heart muscles twist.

My Interests

Satellite photography of other people's homes, loose ends, mutual appreciation, dismantling antique stores, drinking gourmet coffee your mother left in your house after she stormed away that one Christmas when everyone strived and fell short, elaborate lies, smothering the gun beneath the teddy bear, comparing racism to facial lesions, ornamental lighters, sewing stylish and pointless bits into American tapestries.

I'd like to meet:

This girl I once knew in fourth grade whose name escapes me.Visit my antics, add me on MSN: mrgoldsoft at hotmail dot com

Music:

Happybag music for sadsack people:

oh! map records

NEW MUSIC LIST! (BUT YOU SHOULD STILL LISTEN TO Herman Düne and Langhorne Slim)

Soda Fountain Rag, Lily Allen, Solomon Burke, Howard Tate, Truckstop Honeymoon, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Blitzen Trapper, Pelle Carlberg, The High Llamas, Paleo, Slaid Cleaves, Tex Williams, Andrew Jackson Jihad, and James Rabbit

And more, and more, always more. Most of it involving me trying to convince my mother that Neutral Milk Hotel is better for you than James Taylor. Like avocados versus toast.

Movies:

I never remember their names. I like solid acting. Movies where people scrunch their faces and convey a lot of meaning.

Television:

Spanish jokes. Span this, Joe!

Books:

Current favorite authors that tickle and fizz and visit salt upon my eyes:
Prose:
Thomas Pynchon
Martin Amis
Denis Johnson
Raymond Carver
J.G. Ballard
Lorrie Moore
Thom Jones
D'J Pancake
Barry Hannah
Ron Carlson
Robert Coover
Robert Musil
Poetry:
Ange Mlinko
Frank Stanford
Jim Gustafson
Frank O'Friggin Hara
Lisa Jarnot
Jen Tynes
Clark Coolidge
Robert Creeley
James Tate
David Berman
Dorianne Laux
Jack Gilbert
Terrance Hayes
Sean Thomas Dougherty
Ron Padgett
Will Bennet
Jennifer Knox
Conrad Aiken
Tony Tost
Julia Story
Litmags: Opium Magazine, Pindeldyboz, Monkeybicycle, Ballyhoo Stories, Zyzzyva, Small Spiral Notebook, The Southern Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, 2River View, scads of them!
Also my friends, in alphabetical order: Chuck Adams, Alex Burford, Dave Clapper, Bryan Coffelt, Ricky Garni, Sean Kilpatrick, Tao Lin, Jordaan Mason, Timber Masterson, Davy Rothbart, Jessica Rowan, Joseph Young, + you, you doeeyed but reluctant savior, you.

My Blog

Who calls herself the human trampoline (TOP 2006 ALBUMS)

I posted this elsewhere, but I figured what with everything I should be doing, the more avenues for procrastination the snazzier.FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2006!Bryan asked me about this back in October or so...
Posted by Mike on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:48:00 PST

kamikaze rain, kamikaze rain

from Sea Lyrics--Lisa JarnotI am the waterfront and I cover the waterfront and all the boats all know me, I am the foreignest of birds and the shadows of sails upon martinis, I am underwater buying ja...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:24:00 PST

oh my love it was a FUNNY LITTLE THING

So I finally "got" Joanna Newsom. And that's pretty swell.
Posted by Mike on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:03:00 PST

For Alex

This is what I'm talking about. There are better examples, but this is one I have on hand. I Watched--Frank O'Hara I watched an armory combing its bronze bricksand in the sky there were glistening rai...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:01:00 PST

Faces rock. Pandas rock. Revolution? Yea, dat rocks da zizzle.

(Want)--Jim GustafsonMen want women they can wrap in velvetand drag to Europe, women that scream like birds,and look lovely in tears. Men want womento poke at, to jab at, to lunge at, to abuse.Men wan...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:56:00 PST

But a Cyclone In a Swamp Is a Bad Idea

Some people have suggested I post blogs that deal with my life. My life is like a cap on a drained soda bottle. My life is a man that enters into the bathroom with his shirt untucked and comes back ou...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:43:00 PST

(Young) Women Gathering Fuel in Vacant Lots

By request! Oh golly! Stop-- Steve Almond Or maybe you're here, in Sturbridge, Mass.,off the pike, punching the register, Roy Rogers,a girl in a brown smock. America comes at you on buses,in caps and ...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 03:06:00 PST

I've Never Seen a Man From Arkansas Actually Dance

Peach Farm--Dean Young I felt pretty stupid in brown pants,brown jacket, shirt, shoes and tie at the peach farm. I cast them off!The young peaches clung to the limbslike sag-resistent muscles.It's a g...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:37:00 PST

My Tiger, My Friend, My Eastern European.

Wherein Obscurely--Charles Simic On the road with billowing poplars,In a country flat and desolateTo the far-off gray horizon, wherein obscurely,A man and a woman went on foot, Each carrying a small s...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:09:00 PST

Friday Night's Alright For Fighting. Not Great. Just Alright.

Backwards--John Poch The dog eats our couch when were gone over an hour. I think of the homes around Chernobyl, their furniture,the mouth-size holes from household scissorsthe locals use to cut the h...
Posted by Mike on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:21:00 PST