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Mikkey

Guilty of being tight.

About Me

If you want to know, then just ask.

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4

My Interests

Interests are eclectic: Music; Drumming and everything drum related; language and linguistic concerns; Football-Soccer.

I go to Jazz and Metal shows.

Now, another one of my interests is beer. Yeah, some people drink beer but I'm possessed by beer. Everything about it interests me. They're so good, you'll even kill a person with your bare hands for one! I tend to like Northwestern U.S. beer, Belgium, some German and Austrian beer. The beers I loved by brand: Hoegaarden, Chimay (the "Cing Cents" is the best), Dick's Danger Ale, Bavik, Stella Artois, Gulden Draak, Kwak, Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, Schneider-Weisse, Ottokringer (named after the Viennese suburb), Arrogant Bastard, Duvel, Piraat, Rogue Dead Guy Ale, De Koninck, Dragon Stout (from Jamaica!), Castle Lager (from South Africa), Alexander Keith's I.P.A., Red Stripe, Fat Tire, New Belgium's 1554, Kroenenbourg's 1664, etc...

My current Drum Kit set-up:

Drums: (2) "22X"18 Pearl ELX Bass Drums Wine Red; Pearl ELX "10X"8 Tom Wine Red; Pearl ELX "12X"10 Tom Wine Red; Pearl ELX "13X"10 Tom Wine Red; Pearl ELX "14X"12 Tom Wine Red; Pearl ELX "16X"16 Floor Tom Wine Red; Tama Custom (1 of 20 Made) [SGMS] Starclassic 13-ply "Thick" Maple Snare 14"X "6.5 Grey Ash; Pearl Reference Snare 20-ply [6-ply Birch, 14-ply Maple] 14"X"6.5 Copperfire Sparkle;

Cymbals: 13" Sabian AAX Fast Hi-Hats; 14" Paiste Rude Sound-Edge Hi-Hats; 22" Sabian Paragon Ride; 14" Zildjian K Custom Fast Crash; 15" Zildjian Avedis Thin Crash; 16" Sabian Pro Studio Crash; 17" Sabian Vault Crash; 18" Zildjian K Crash/Ride; 20" Paiste Rude Crash/Ride; 18" Paiste Alpha Chinese; 16" Paiste Prototype Chinese;

Hardware: (2) Pearl Eliminator Belt Drive Pedals; Pearl Eliminator (BC-2000) High-Hat Stand; Pearl Icon 503C Drum Rack; the stands I use tend to be cheap because all I need is the boom arm (Pulse, PDP, etc.) DW CP-9300 Snare Stand; (2) DW Maple Wood Beater;

Sticks: Vic Firth 7A Wood Tip; Vic Firth 5A Wood Tip; Vater Power House; Vater Excel; Vater Studio; Vater Studio 2; Vic Firth Rute Brushes;

If you're a band on here and need a competent drummer with some experience consider me "for hire". Just inquire within.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Tito Puente, Poncho Sanchez, Frank Zappa, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Bunny Brunel, Charles Mingus, Jaco Pastorius(!), Stanley Clarke, Alex Skolnick Trio, Sean Driscoll Group, Yes, King Crimson, Fats Domino, Little Richard(!), The Abyssinians, Israel Vibration, David Lee Roth, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zepplin, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, Kiss, Alice in Chains, Public Enemy, N.W.A., Blackilicious, Blood of Abraham, Dilated Peoples, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Jurassic 5, Del the Funky Homosapien, The Pharcyde, MC Ren, Dizzy Gilespie, Charlie Parker, John Zorn(!), James Brown, George Clinton, Parliment, Rush, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Motorhead, Judas Priest, Nevermore, Opeth, Iron Maiden, S.O.D., D.R.I., Testament, Nuclear Assault, Exodus, Kreator, Whiplash, Holy Terror, Executioner, Hallow's Eve, Obituary, Onslaught, Death, Forced Entry, Anacrusis, Sadus, Celtic Frost, Dark Angel, Coroner, Hirax, Vio-lence, Destruction, King Diamond, Devastation, Defiance, Overkill, Cryptic Slaughter, Wehrmacht, The Accused, Coven, Atheist, Cynic, Sacred Reich, Artillery, Autopsy, Possessed, Grip I.N.C., Pestilence, Reverend, Vader, Morbid Angel etc...THRASH OR DIE!

Movies:

Dirty Harry (one of the funniest movies ever made!), Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, The Dead Pool. The Die Hard trilogy (there are some great lines in those ones). I just tend to like "low brow" movies. They require little of me and my mind.

Television:

Dunno.

Books:

What are words worth? Remember that one line, "Drugs didn't change how I felt...they changed my life!" Where was I? Oh, yeah. Leave some books at my door then we'll be cool.

I can't read yet, but I can try.

Heroes:

There are no heroes...just gyros.


OR, maybe I am wrong. Some, IF a list was to be put together would have to be, my Mother, Jerry "We had a deal you son of a bitch!" Orbach, Stanley Clarke, Jaco, Bill Ward, Felix Griffin, Consuelo, Gladys O., my future self, whoever the janitor of Hell is (man, that must be one hell of a place to clean up), Clint Eastwood, and some other foolz.......

My Blog

The defining "myspace irony"

Someone brought something amusing to my attention. If you haven't noticed, quite a few pornstars on this site have pages. Mostly female, but there are some male too. Anyways, a few made their profiles...
Posted by Mikkey on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:27:00 PST

2006: The most (post-1992) metal year ever?

Wawaweewah, is 2006 one of the most metal years ever? I ask this question as I look at all of the albums that came out this year. To recap: Iron Maiden- A Matter of Life and Death Motorhead- Kiss of D...
Posted by Mikkey on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:42:00 PST

What? You people don't have jobs?

So it's windy here in Olympia last nite. And I got this plane to catch at 2p.m. this afternoon in Seattle. Went out to get breakfast this morning on the westside. Spent 45 fucking minutes at a traffic...
Posted by Mikkey on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:18:00 PST

R.I.P. Chuck Schuldiner

Been five years already? Time flies. The music community just isn't the same place without his insight and precision. Man, we all miss you.
Posted by Mikkey on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:35:00 PST

The art to Shakespearean acting

I think I've watched enough basic cable in the past two days to realize that this acting form is best done by accentuated movement and flambouyant speech. Like in this one cop drama I was watching aft...
Posted by Mikkey on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:22:00 PST

New Metal Church album "A Light in the Dark"...not bad!

2006 witnessed a lotta good releases by metal bands but Metal Church's "A Light in the Dark" was pretty damn good despite there only being one original member left. Kurt V. on guitar shreds hards. The...
Posted by Mikkey on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:08:00 PST

Might as well just burn money -it'd acheive the same purpose.

So I went to the once quarterly M6K "No Sales Tax" weekend sale. The extra $10 off over $75 purchase really helped. $70 down the hole. I liked what I got (some response 2 heads and a hardware bag...
Posted by Mikkey on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:56:00 PST

Thanksgiving time around OLY

Wow, it's a lot better when the streets aren't populated with all those annoyning assholes. Nobody out today! So you could actually just enjoy the nice place that is Olympia without all the dumbass pe...
Posted by Mikkey on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:40:00 PST

The "Borat" you may not have seen...

So I go to the movie theater and I see the movie entitled Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Besides being a funny movie, there are messages to ...
Posted by Mikkey on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:56:00 PST

Myspace comedy...still waiting to laugh.

What the hell? Do they just put up anyone? Except for the already famous ones, they really suck.
Posted by Mikkey on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:10:00 PST