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Merk version 23

Selling souls on ebay

About Me

My name is Mark, I've got really bad vision, it sucks. I'm going to become a movie/video game music composer so anyone who wants autographs better get them now! Some people think I'm weird, but really...I'm extraordinary.

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My Interests

Composing music, playing piano, watching movies, hangin' with friends of course. Protesting against the government and the lobbyists from the comfort of my home. Catching occasional drinks with friends, and you know the rest.

I'd like to meet:

Mandy Moore or Mila Kunis

Music:

Classical - Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, Bartok, Liszt, Adams, Debussy, Ravel, Bach, David Lanz, Granados, Nazareth, de Falla, Villa-Lobos, Holst, etc.
Film Composers - Ennio Morricone, John Powell, Stephen Sondheim, James Newton Howard, Howard Shore, Terence Blanchard, etc.
Jazz - I don't have much knowledge of the jazz scene, but Bobby Timmons is good I think...um...the Bad Plus, and whoever else is good at jazz.
World Music - Celtic fingerstyle guitar is awesome - Al Petteway, Steve Baughman, The Celtic Nots, etc. Ancient Future, Correo Aereo.
Rock - Apocalyptica, Muse, BUSH, Rage Against the Machine, Weird Al, Chili Peppers, Zeppelin, etc.

Movies:

I Heart Huckabees(hilarious movie!)
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Rudy
Juno
Children of Men
The Last King of Scotland
Rushmore
I Am Legend
Sweeney Todd
Edward Scissorhands
LOTR
A Beautiful Mind
Shine
Back To The Future 2
Shawshank Redemption
Cool Runnings

Television:

Family Guy!! - I've been watching since it premiered...
Futurama
Colbert Report
Conan O'Brien
Animal Cops
Mythbusters
Angel
Top Chef

Books:

Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Tis, and Teacher Man.
Stephen Colbert's - I am America(and so can you)
Relearning to See by Thomas Quackenbush....weird name I know.
Michael J Fox's Lucky Man

Heroes:

William H. Bates, Stephen Colbert(the true satirical American hero)Lasagna, Robin Williams, Michael J Fox, Digiornio stuffed crust pizza, Irish Whiskey sours, Mojitos, the robot from the short circuit movies, Philip J Fry, the british geico lizard, John Cleese, Eric Idle, the giant foot from monty python's flying circus, cheddar cheese, spike from the buffy show, hot evil chicks, the barbershop monkeys, Matt Damon (j/k), oh and George Clinton.

My Blog

Aliens!!

   So those of you who don't know....I'm deathly scared of aliens(probably from movies I watched as a kid).  Not the AVP kind of aliens, like the one(s) from Signs, Mission to Mars...th...
Posted by Merk version 23 on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:15:00 PST

The ever changing-rounded world

Trees fly by,Ending songs.Clouds scream for sanity,Colors making love.Flowers watchingdeath offsetting life.Tapestries of criesthrough crowded corridors.Big wordsspoken adherably.Words laugh.they LAUG...
Posted by Merk version 23 on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:34:00 PST

word sketches

TwofoldEndless memoriesof little tiny thingswhich don't matterMy mind wanting peacebut numbers and imagesflash in my skullOver-blurry lightsblinding meThese evil stems of lightthat follow my eyesCan't...
Posted by Merk version 23 on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:51:00 PST

I hate blogs, but I'll post a poem

    One of my favorite things to do is to write poems on the spot, so here's one, don't expect the best.SwaggerBlurs stretch downfrom every lightand object I see.Blinding me,betraying m...
Posted by Merk version 23 on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:23:00 PST