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Michael

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

Minimalist... but a really wordy one.There is an act of Congress banning my autobiography.I make noise. Have a listen...www.myspace.com/jonesscwww.myspace.com/shitparade

My Interests

Music. Movies. Books. Oil paints. SLR cameras. Local bands. Antique postcards. Columbia, South Carolina history. The 30s. The 70s. Ghosts. My backpack. Cassettes. Pot pies. New Orleans. Walking. Sweet tea. Moleskine notebooks. Felt-tip pens. Microphones. Designer water. Late 70s/early 80s comic books. Untuned pianos. Ruins. Bad puns. Mixing boards. Iced coffee with lots of sugar and milk. Kudzu. Fireflies. 2" analog tape. Cheap keyboards. PB and Js. Coca-Cola in green glass bottles. Utopianism. Dome homes. Tornados. Suits and ties. Red wine. Camel Lights. Highways. Surrealism. Nostalgia. VHS. Linguistics. Field Recordings. Expletives. ACID 4.0. Folklore. Tape hiss. Astronomy. Old typewriters. Earl Grey tea. Coke Floats. Bleed in every mic. Regionalism. My QY-100. Green olives.Angels and Demons by Dan BrownDrumtar!The Colossal Music CrawlA Density of Souls by Christopher RiceThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Order of the Poison Oak by Brent HartingerFree Kisses/Brave Horatius EPSLED at New Brookland TavernRooty SpookyGhosts of the South Carolina Midlands by Tally JohnsonThe Eight by Katherine NevillePhone calls from Optimus PrimeWhite Russians (The Dude abides...)The First Annual Columbia Hipster Yard SaleBelinda by Anne RamplingRobot HorsesMobius strip ringsFluke by Christopher MooreThe Way We Were: Charles Old's Panoramic Photographs of Columbia at the Columbia Museum of Art

I'd like to meet:

Natalie Portman. Tracy Bacon. Karen Elizabeth Gordon. Momo. Jojo. Dani. Moff. Plif. Adric. Labria. Nyssa. Romana Version 1. Lovida Alize Jenkins. Swordsman Farrah. The Monitor. Princess Astra. Mona Mayfair. Mary Jane Mayfair. Miette. Rogue taxidermists. The ghost girl in the m83 video (and her crippled puppy on wheels). Rod Serling. Marc Bolan. Salvador Dali. Brigitte Bardot. Harry Houdini. Simon LeBon. Owen Meany. Ezra Pound. Princess Grace. Barbarella. N. Bonaparte. Eartha Kitt. Job. Ian Curtis. Stephano DiMera. Heather Langenkamp. Vivian Leigh and Steve Perry. Indra.Charlot. Preston Applebaum. Allan Maca. Mei-Ling. Stephen Conlin. Jeff Haugh. Jordan Charbonnet. Web Bastian. Mireille and Valentine. Lily Rad. Omar. Alex Clementine. Belinda Blanchard.

Music:

81:03, (My all-time fav. If this album had a birth certificate, I'd marry it.)58:34+10:22. 23:03. Chronic Town. Mettle. Bloodletting. Appetite for Destruction. The Chronic. The Shape of Punk to Come. The Ugly Organ. Neon Golden. Grace. Arena. Garlands. A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular. Under the Table and Dreaming. Songs About Fucking. Maxinequaye. Closer. Disintigration. Around the Fur. Mezzanine. Dummy. Off the Wall. Drum. The Slider. Little. This Computer Kills. Blue Horse. Source Tags and Codes. Eye. Visions of Excess. Gish. Master of Puppets. Frontiers. Faith. The Ultimate Sin. Strangeways, Here We Come. OK Computer. Leaves Turn Inside You. Saturday Night Fever. Syncronicity. Listen Like Thieves. I Love Rock and Roll. Roots. Thriller. Gold and Platinum. In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up. TNT. Lovers Live. Crazy Rhythms. Celebrate the New Dark Age. Futureworld. Life's Too Good. Every Day and Every Night. Fables of the Reconstruction. Stateless. Chinese Democracy.And almost anything from Columbia, South Carolina, including Winged DNA and the Lesser Light, Spigot, Blightobody, One3Four, B.O.A., Lights for Nero, Grey Egg, Douglas Chay, No Way Jose!, Blinded by Underpants, From Safety to Where, Perfect Sleeper, Mandible, Speed Kitty, Shirley Temple of Doom, Starometska, Erector Set, Failures of the Modern Man, Cypress Knees, The Heist and the Accomplice, GO CARNIVORE!, Gargantuan Thrill Machine and on and on and on and on....

Movies:

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Gone With the Wind, The Empire Strikes Back, Clash of the Titans, The Sixth Sense, Friday, Donnie Darko, City of Lost Children, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Tron, Harry Potter movies, Blade Runner, Pulp Fiction, Superman and Superman II, Barbarella, Life of Brian, Time Bandits, Fire Walk with Me, Heathers, This is Spinal Tap, Raising Arizona, Gummo, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, The Fifth Element, Being John Malkovich, Wizard of Oz, Army of Darkness, Fear of a Black Hat, A Clockwork Orange, Amelie, About a Boy, High Fidelity, The Jerk, The Man with Two Brains, Velvet Goldmine, Brain Candy, The Opposite of Sex, Anchorman, The Girl Next Door, Kill Bill I & II, The Station Agent, A New Hope, Airplane!, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, An American Werewolf in London, Human Traffic, Garden State, The Golden Child, Hero, Sling Blade, Paper Moon, Urban Cowboy, Shaun of the Dead.

Television:

The Family Guy, The Golden Girls, Doctor Who, Behind the Music, Days of Our Lives, The Sopranos, The O.C. (that's right, bitch), The Twilight Zone, The Simpsons, Twin Peaks, The Critic, The Daily Show, King of the Hill, Seinfeld, Knight Rider, The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man (old 70's live action), Space Giants, Super Friends, Let's Make a Deal, Three's Company, Good Times, Sanford and Son. And when the hell is In Search Of... coming to DVD? Huh? When?

Books:

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The Well-Tempered Sentence, The Queen of the Damned, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, The Diary of a Genius, The Portable Emerson, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Harry Potter series, The Witching Hour, Walden, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Gone with the Wind, 1984, Brave New World, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Hotel New Hampshire, Flowers of Evil, On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Mirrorshades. Where the Wild Things Are, Tuesday, Superfudge, Prisoners at the Kitchen Table. My Name is Asher Lev. Kavalier and Clay (one of the most amazing fucking books ever written). House of Leaves. Middlesex. Number 9 Dream.

Heroes:

Emerson, Thoreau, Dali, Jesus of Nazareth, Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones, Simon Le Bon, Seth Cohen, Jordan Blackmon, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Howard Hughes, The Doctor, Luther Steele, Jack A. Turner, Ronnie Van Zandt and Albus Dumbledore. Oh, and Storm Shadow, yo.

My Blog

SPAM!

So I'm a loyal Hotmail user. I know this will illicit scoffs from more tech-saavy people (cough*nerds*cough), but it's true. In fact, my best friend, the biggest computer nerd I know, asked me last w...
Posted by Michael on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:27:00 PST

In Rainbows...HAHAHAHAHA!

I can't say the name In Rainbows without cracking up. I mean, it's not exactly the most masculine name for a rock album. Of course, after Hail to the Thief, I guess any album name is better. Seriously...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:06:00 PST

FREE BIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I return from Hotlanta with stories to tell!    In what is quickly becoming a family tradition, my mother and I went to the Georgia Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony for the second ye...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:27:00 PST

Dear D.J. Michael Jones...

Dear D.J. Michael Jones,   What's up, dude? I've never heard of you. What's your deal?   Best,   Confused in Columbia   Dear Confused,   My name is D.J. Michael Jones....
Posted by Michael on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:27:00 PST

Operation Feline Freedom

This blog is dedicated to Sarah, for having a gigantic heart, constantly caring for all creatures great and, most often, small; And to Libby for...well, just being Libby. ..:namespace prefix = o ns ...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:27:00 PST

Dear Uncle Bob...

Dear Uncle Bob,   I was planning to come see you in Atlanta on September 22nd. I had been looking forward to it for a long time. A great time was going to be had. I've had  my ticket for m...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:22:00 PST

Classic Albums II

I just watched two new Classic Albums DVDs from Netflix.   The Classic Albums series dissects a record from a technical standpoint, with commentary from the band, producer and engineers. &nbs...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:06:00 PST

Now and Zen

My best friend had a garage sale last weekend. I didn't make the actual sale, as these things start at an ungodly hour, but I did go over the night before to pick through the merch before the rabid ...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:09:00 PST

Mister Potter

So if you're a total slackass and have not finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I suggest you stop reading this blog now. I also suggest that you stop fucking off and finish the boo...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:06:00 PST

Morrissey

Saturday, June 21st.   I'm going to see Morrissey tonight. In Myrtle Beach, of all places. I could've gone to Chastain Park in Atlanta, which would've been fun, as you can bring a picnic to th...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:29:00 PST