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Mike

Feesh Out of Water

About Me

I've never really felt like I fit into one catagory or group. I'm undeniably a geek (I program for my bread and butter), but I also play music with various bands practically everyday of the week.
Who?
The Point, Reckoning, Rusty String Band, Nipplefeesh, KGB, just some local "Lawn Guyland" acts, prolly nothing that you've ever heard of, but I do love to perform for an audience...
I listen to a wide variety of music from The Grateful Dead to Frank Zappa, Ani Difranco to (old) Genesis, Stravinsky to Elvis Costello, Phillip Glass to The Sex Pistols. You get the idea...
I love the outdoors, biking, hiking or just sitting under a shady tree. You prolly won't see me basking in the sun though (I'm a redhead...one step shy of albino).
Too lazy to be a sportsman, too hip to be a computer geek, too geek-y to be a 'cool musician' type, too structured to be a hippie, too bohemian to be a capitalist... I'm just a Feesh out of water, I guess.

My Interests

Books:

Love hard Sci-fi (Heinlein, Niven, Asimov, Clarke)...I like the idea that there is a certain order in the universe. I think in a way it's a proof that a higher intelligence exists. God? Goddess?? The fact that out of all the possible ways quarks, atoms, molecules, energy could have manifested it allowed life to be possible (and thus this paragraph to be possible). That these writers follow these rules (a/k/a physics) and yet create something fresh and plausible makes it that much more enticing.
Wait...was I supposed to be talking about books? Oh yeah...

A friend of mine just got me started on reading Tom Robbins, which is decidedly NOT Sci-fi (hard or otherwise). Apparently he appeals to my philosophical nature.

Vonnegut is also a fav. "Love may fail, but politeness will prevail"

...wise words, Kurt.