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mike

Alohaz!

About Me

Culinary experimenter, paper killer, steel-horse rider, alcoholic, movie watcher, family-man, gym-rat, eater, sexaholic, good friend, rifle-builder, etc.

My Interests

Cooking gourmet meals, whipping up down-and-durrrrrrrrrrrrty meals on the fly (ask me about oystering), kicking it for a couple sets of vball, killing paper, a round of golf or the driving range, a couple sets of 10-s, spending quality time at the gym, riding my bike, curling up with a good book, watching movies for free before anyone else (in the theatre), SCI-FI channel, Food Network, Headline News, Weather Channel (or any news channel w/cute anchors), eating at fancy places, hanging w/my crew, hanging w/my friends, and drinking.

I'd like to meet:

To chat with: Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Confucious, Bhudda, Ghengis Khan, Alexander the Great, Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Jeff Tedford, and the guy who invented Johnnie Walker.
To slap upside the head: The idiot that traded Shaq instead of Kobe.
To beat down: Morons that voted for Prop H here in the City.
To get with (no particular order): Lexa Doig, Diane Lane, Kira Kener, Heather Locklear, Eva Longoria, Grace Park, Maria Sharapova, Holly Marie Combs, Kate Beckinsdale, Jennifer Garner, etc.
Or, I'd like to meet anyone reading this silly thing. =D

Music:

My radio presets contain: Dance music, R&B, adult contemporary, modern rock, jazz, top 40, hip-hop, classic rock, classical, and elevator music.
My cd changer contains: Dance mix (mostly techno-stuff), modern rock mix, Hot Fuss (The Killers), Def Leppard, Na Leo, and a love song mix.
My cd collection is even more diverse. We won't even get into my mp3 collection.
Current favourites include: Na Leo, The Killers, Destiny's Child, Frankie J., Pussycat Dolls, Black Eyed Peas, Ken Oak, Mariah Carey, 3 Doors Down, Makaha Sons, Jet, etc.
Basically, anything but old-country.

Movies:

My favourites on DVD (in no particular order): Top Gun, Swingers, The Last Starfighter, Sliding Doors, Any Given Sunday, Remember the Titans, Biker Boys, Scent of A Woman, Serendipity, Undercover Brother, The Wedding Singer, most Disney movies, etc.
My favourites in theatrical release (again, in no particular order): 'Eragon' and 'Pan's Labyrinth.'
Actually, I see alot of movies...chances are I've seen most of the recent ones. Ask me about them...

Television:

Food Network, CSI, BSG, Stargate (any), The Unit, NCIS, Criminal Minds, news (local & CNN Headline), Weather Channel, sports

Books:

Current reads: The Audacity Of Hope, Freakonomics, How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must), Sig Sauer operator's manual.

Heroes:

Confucious, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, Sun Yat Sen, etc.