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About Me

Raised in New Jersey but grew up in California, I live to play music and work to pay off the debt. I love sound, and work as a sound engineer when live bands come through Humboldt county, CA.I play drums and percussion with the Absynth Quintet, which is the reason I started on this whole myspace thing. Check out our site; the Green Fairy awaits. I also play percussion with Earl Thomas, a soul and blues singer who is websearchable, and damn worth it by the way. I play drums with Darryl Cherney, also searchable and a very funny activist musician, plus a few bands here and there for fun. I have written a few songs myself, and I do like to sing and play guitar when the spirit moves me.As for spirit, well, there is one floating around somewhere inside me. From where it comes and where it goes, well, nobody knows. We are very, very small, though.

My Interests

Makin Music, hiking, news and current events, running sound for live bands, cracking jokes, road trips

I'd like to meet:

Funny tall people. Musicians without bad attitudes. Dick Cheney (poke his eyes out and squish them betwixt me toesies). Joe Craven. OH wait, I did sound for him once.

Music:

Spearhead, Bob Marley, The Police, Casey Neill, Amadou and Mariam, Fela Kuti, The Bump Foundation, etc.

Movies:

In my collection: JFK, Star Wars Trilogy, Hannibal, The Matrix, Animatrix, Fahrenheit 9/11, bowling for columbine, Ray, The Motorcycle Diaries, Rat Race, confessions of a dangerous mind, LOTR trilogy, Munich

Television:

Hello, my name is mike, and I am a TV addict. But I'm getting better everyday. Actually, I never watch TV, but if I could it would be The Daily Show, the Simpsons, and The Boiling Point.

Books:

Tao te Ching, The Phone Book

Heroes:

Judi Bari, Darryl Cherney, Che Guevera, Josh Brown, Rosa Parks, Malcom X, Amy Goodman, Gary Larson, Michael Moore, John Fishman, Stewart Copeland, etc.

My Blog

I didn't write this, but...

NEW DETAILS SURFACEby PAUL SIMMSIssue of 2004-07-26Posted 2004-07-19Vice President Dick Cheney cursed at Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, in a confrontation on the Senate floor while members w...
Posted by tofu mike on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:25:00 PST

How to make tofu

Here is the usual spiel I give when people ask me how tofu is made.First, you take dried soybeans, and soak them over night in water. This could be written another way:First, you embrace some sustain...
Posted by tofu mike on Sat, 26 May 2007 05:52:00 PST

Neil Diamond Tribute Band (HOT DOG!)

So, I am a sound guy, which sends me to a wide variety of shows. Some I am stoked to do, and would almost do them for free. But then I get calls like this, doing sound for a Neil Diamond Tribute ban...
Posted by tofu mike on Sat, 26 May 2007 05:32:00 PST

Death

My friend, Jesse Davis, died two weeks ago in New Hampshire.I read about it in the Eureka Times-Standard, our local rag. Usually filled with old folks, or the occasional teen, it was a shock to see m...
Posted by tofu mike on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:53:00 PST

5th Street will never rest in peace

These are the lyrics to a song I wrote to honor the people who lived in 5th street squat, NYC, and who were denied access to their belongings before the city knocked their home to dust. It mentions B...
Posted by tofu mike on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:21:00 PST

In Honor of my old Friend, Brad Will

This I posted on the NYC indymedia page. It is brief yet sucinctThe shock waves reach Northern California as well. I lived with Brad in Dos Blocos en Loisaida at the end of the 90's. We shared food, ...
Posted by tofu mike on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:56:00 PST

Losing things vs misplacing them

In the past month, I have lost five objects near and/or dear to me. My Djembe (drum), my wool cap, my multitool, my microphone stands, and my bag with $200 worth of audio adapters. My knife came b...
Posted by tofu mike on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:00:00 PST

New Years aught Six, Yosemite

Impromptu waterfalls and snow shadows, trees fatigued with heavy white blessings drop icy tears onto white trail stones alone, I climb, unwind from a year old with music and commercial tears u...
Posted by tofu mike on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:32:00 PST