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About Me

I love the summer. I hate the cold. It's even too cold for me in Southern California. I despise when I can't be comfortable wearing rubbah slippahs and no shirt 24/7. My friends are the most important thing to me. The same people I was hanging out with when I was 8 years old, I still hang out with today. Close friends we've aquired from my childhood to present day, all still hang. We're a silly fun loving group of people. (Justin, Tyler, Chris, Gene, Derek, Adam, Maureen, Sean, Forest, Rocky, Simone, Luke, Eric, Aaron, Brandon, Crystal...etc...)
I love Hanging out with my friends, especially in large quantities. It's always fun. I love to laugh and make people laugh, go to the beach when ever possible, usually South Laguna & I love to be happy...or at least content.

I love listening to all kinds of music.
I love writing all kinds of music.
I love playing all kinds of music.
I love music.
I especially love music that isn't dumb, music that evokes emotion, and imagery. Music that has feeling. Music that can remove you from your everyday existence & lyrics that are meaningful or relatable.

I love movies. Much like my taste in music, I like well written movies. Movies that conjur emotion and make you think. Movies that are played out very realisticly, even if they deal with very fictional things. I hate cheesy shit and Hollywood formula junk.

Here are some other random things I like:
Creativity, originality, style, intelligence, comedy, sillyness, philosophy, plate lunch, the loft, water, dr. pepper, musical equipment, eating, li-hing mui, nightlife, going out, the ocean, skateboarding, old school skateboarding, vision street wear, the '80s, dress socks, afro's, randomness, 'awa, skimboarding, shorebreak, trail riding, nature, popping & breakdancing, burgundy, designing, arranging, coconut surf wax, fresh guitar strings, mochi ice cream, boba, steak, restaurants, mood music, mood lighting, learning things, fried spam & other things I'll type another day.

I'm a fan of these people: David Lynch, Owen Wilson, Sarah Silverman, Wendy Liebman, Norm MacDonald, David Spade, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Buscemi, Michael Ian Black, Jimmy Scott, Sade, Erlend Oye, Mikael Akerfeldt...etc...
I'm also obsessed with Hawai'i & Hawaiian culture....
Make make au e hele i Hale'iwa.

My Interests


KEYWORDS:The beach, music, movies, hawai'i, food, fun, hanging out, opeth, killswitch engage, david lynch, movies, sade, hawai'i, samoa, south laguna, skimboarding, li-hing mui, plate lunch, spam, laughing, dress socks, creativity, surf, sand, sun, fun, going out, the '80s, funk styles, locking, boogaloo, popping, waving, ticking, hitting...

I'd like to meet:

Owen Wilson & Alan Thicke

Music:

Metal:
Metallica, Opeth, Pantera, Sepultura, Megadeth, Testament, White Zombie, Prong, Alice in Chains, Buckethead, Slayer, Korn, Machine Head, Type O Negative, HIM, Ill Nino, Fear Factory, CKy, Rollins Band, Suicidal Tendancies...
'80s Metal & Hard Rock:
Guns n Roses, Ratt, Queensryche, Winger, Skid Row, Obsession, Dokken, Scorpions, Dio, Def Lepard, Bon Jovi, White Lion, Cinderella, Great White, Posion, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden...
Hardcore / Metalcore:
As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, Soilwork, God Forbid, Eighteen Visions, Arch Enemy, Between the Buried and Me, Shadows Fall, Poison the Well, Blindside, Dillenger Escape Plan, Unearth, Lamb of God...
Black Metal:
Emperor, Cradle of Filth, Zyklon, Dimmu Borgir, Embraced, Dead Blue Sky...
Surf:
Dick Dale, Man...or Astroman, Phantom Surfers, The Ultras, the Chantays, the Treblemakers, the Tornadoes, Aqualads, Astronauts...
Dub Reggae:
Augustus Pablo, Dub Syndicate, Alpha & Omega, Sly & Robbie, Cottonbelly, Scientist, King Tubby...
Dancehall:
Elephant Man, Sizzla, Capleton, TOK, Mr. Vegas, Red Rat, Lexxus, Bounty Killer...
Ethereal:
Love Spirals Downwards, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins...
Acid Jazz:
United Future Organization, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Dzihan & Kamien, Tosca...
Jazz:
Jimmy Scott, Art Blakey, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The Charlie Biddle Trio, Red Garland, Jason Moran, Pete Chaley...
Funk:
Dazz Band, Fatback, Gap Band, Heatwave, OHIO Players, Midnight Star, Cameo, Rick James, Parliment Funkadelic, Isley Bros...
House:
Bad Boy Bill, The Weekenders, Hatiras, Shakedown, Disco Kids, Angel Alanis, Kaskade, Felix Da Housecat, Dj Dan...
Hard Trance:
Dj Scot Project, Cosmic Gate, Arome, Commander Tom, Guyver, S.H.O.K.K...
Drum n Bass:
Concord Dawn, EIB, Total Science, Dieselboy, Squarepusher, LTJ Bukem...
Jungle:
Buju Banton, Shy FX, Johnny Osbourne, Prinza, DJ Nut Nut, Rude & Deadly...
Trip Hop:
Sade, Santessa, Sweetback, Frou Frou, Portishead, Bjork, Telepopmuzik...
Rap/Hip Hop/Electro:
Bone Thugs, Nas, Busta, Snoop, Dre, Suga Free, Butch Cassidy, Mystikal, Foriegn Legion, DMX, Ice Cube, Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow, Run Dmc, Whodini, Fat Boys, Digital Underground, Lords of the Underground, Pharcyde, Das EFX, Digable Planets, Afrika Bambaataa, Newclues, Cybotron, Egyptian Lover, Music Instructor...
Other EDM:
KCRW music, Erlend Oye, Royksopp, LHB, Fischerspooner, Groove Armada, Thievory Corporation, Zero 7, Jazzanova, Seenenluft, Aphex Twin, Massive Attack, Weekend Players...
Chill / IDM:
Boards of Canada, DNTEL, Metamatics, Jimpster, 1 Mile North, Air, A Forest Mighty Black...
Acoustic:
Tom Mcrae, Kings of Convenience, Damien Rice, (some) David Bowie, Elliott Smith...
Local Music:
IZ, Alea, Hawaiian Style Band, Three Plus, Keoki V., Ho'onu'a, Junior Maile, Justin, Round and Round, Inner Session, Ponchoman...
Composers:
Angelo Badalamenti, Danny Elfman, Marco Beltrami, Philip Glass, Byung-woo Lee, Yeong-wook Jo, Normand Corbeil, John Corigliano, Mark Snow, Orange Music...
Other '80s:
Teena Marie, Chaka Khan, Martika, Prince, Pat Benatar, Dramarama, Bananarama, Flock of Seagulls, Information Society, Billy Idol, Berlin, Animotion, Big Country, Bangles, Ministry, Billy Ocean, Cyndi Lauper, Culture Club, Falco, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, General Public, Glenn Fry, Go-Go's, Hall & Oats, Howard Jones, Huey Lewis and the News, Human League, INXS, Johnny Hates Jazz, Kajagoogoo, Kim Wilde, Madness, Missing Persons, Payola, Tears for Fears, The Cult, Thompsen Twins, Wang Chung, Yaz, Yello, Madonna, the Church, Echo and the Bunnymen, Peter Murphy, When in Rome, the Smiths, Sheila E, Samantha Fox...

Movies:

Greatest Movies Ever:
Mulholland Dr, Donnie Darko, Shawshank Redemption, Amelie, Dances with Wolves, Royal Tennenbaums, Usual Suspects, Magnolia, Irreversible, Lost Highway, Adaptation, American Beauty, Ghost World, Happiness, Punch-Drunk Love, Short Cuts, Jacob's Ladder, Garden State, Session 9, Waking Life, The Others, Meet Joe Black, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks (pilot), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (script), Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Crash, 200 Cigarettes, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Harold and Maude, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Playing by Heart...
Asian Movies:
Oldboy, Fall Summer Spring Winter Fall, 3 Iron, Sad Movie, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Ringu, Tale of Two Sisters, My Sassy Girl, Visitor Q, The Eye, Twilight Samurai, Shutter, Dark Water, The Phone, Suicide Club (Circle), Audition, Battle Royal, Perfect Blue...
Spanish Movies:
Talk to Her, All about my Mother, Live Flesh, Amores Perros, Babel, Abre Los Ojos...
"Cool" Movies:
Snatch, Run Lola Run, True Romance, Training Day, Kill Bill 1&2, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Man on Fire, Art of War...
Classics & Good cheesey stuff:
Ferris Buelers Day Off, Goonies, Back to the Beach, Summer School, Sleepaway Camp series, Nightmare on Elm Street series, Friday the 13th series, Scream, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Breakfast Club, Some Kind of Wonderful, Money Can't Buy You Love, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Run Ronnie Run, North Shore, Halloween...
Top Film Makers
David Lynch, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Kelly, Lars von Trier, Zach Braff...

Television:

Twin Peaks, Lost, Six Feet Under, Extras, Family Guy, The Office (bbc), Conan O'brien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Seinfeld, Curb your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Da Ali G Show, Scrubs, X-Files, Working, John Laroquette Show, News Radio, Mad tv, Trigger Happy tv, snl, Daily Show, Chapelle Show, Hunter, 21 Jump Street, Miami Vice, Cheers, Full House, Diff'rent Strokes, Facts of Life, Charles in Charge, Hawai'i 5-0, Magnum P.I., Saved by the Bell...lots of '80s shows & old cartoons...

Heroes:

Helen Keller and Amelia Earhart. Not really heroes, but, outstanding people.

My Blog

MySpace Music Pages

Here's a list of Bands & Artists I enjoy immensely, that just happen to have MySpace Music pages up. Granted not all of them are the official page...some were put up by fans. None-the-less they al...
Posted by michael " on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:00:00 PST

Collection of Lyrics (updated 12-15-05)

Likely to be an ongoing collection of my favorite lyrics. Newest additions are at the BOTTOM. "Falling feels like flying, Until you hit the groundAnd everything is beautiful, 'Til you take a look arou...
Posted by michael " on Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:02:00 PST

The glass is shattered...

...is that what makes it beautiful ?
Posted by michael " on Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:18:00 PST

Kings of Convenience

So I got to see Kings of Convenience last night. I hadn't been keeping up with their tour schedule...and I happened to check it on the last day of their tour. They sold out their show at the El Rey,.....
Posted by michael " on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My favorite singers...

These people have the most powerful emotional unique voices: 1)Jimmy Scott (audio clips) 2)Sade (audio clips) 3)Erlend Oye (audio clips) this guys also sings in 'Kings of Convenience' 4)Bjork (a...
Posted by michael " on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Southland Tales

Richard Kelly, the writer/director of Donnie Darko is getting write and direct another one called: Southland Tales. The web-site is completely intriguing and is going to unfold slowly as the makin...
Posted by michael " on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Buckethead & Les Claypool show c2b3

edit: Alright, the "Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains" show came and went. It was awesome. One stage full of great musicians. I still prefer seeing a Buckethead solo show..or "Giant Robot"......
Posted by michael " on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Tom McRae concert & Club Dublin's...

edit: So, Me and Reenie went to see Tom McRae at the El Rey. (10/20/04) It's a pretty dope venue, big old theatre style with huge chandeliers deep red walls and red velvet curtains. Good sized standin...
Posted by michael " on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Loft

The Loft in on Pioneer & Del Amo in Cerritos...it's the best plate lunch you will ever eat. Plates come with meat entrees, loads of steam rice, good mac salad, ramen cabbage salad & and sometimes m...
Posted by michael " on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST