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mike

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About Me

mike turpin is a funny, charming, suave, intelligent, and beautiful male who enjoys making shit up about himself when speaking in third person.

ok, but really, i am an a'ight dude, holla at me. supp

www.myspace.com/miketurpinslam
www.myspace.com/feinstein_turpin
www.myspace.com/dasmahlwerk

My Interests

slam poetry, film-making, philosophy, tennis, bowling, mixed martial arts (pride and ufc mainly), working out, and somehow doing my best to avoid being anything like stereotypical testosterone induced males.

I'd like to meet:

Alejandro Jodorowsky. yeah, def.

Music:

of late:
el-p
the beastie boys
cracker
aesop rock
mark lanegan
seven mary three
counting crows
robin trower
yak ballz
gnarls barkley
the black crowes

OTHERS:
dog fashion disco
mad season
tub ring
all things patton (especially tomahawk and bungle)
all shall perish
phobia
despised icon
blind melon
through the eyes of the dead
prayer for cleansing
radiohead
eyehategod
at the gates
mudhoney
sigur ros
godspeed you! black emperor
primus
acid bath
the alter boys
alice in chains
frank zappa
boredoms
mogwai
mono
manic street preachers (holy bible)
holy mackeral
bucket of bernie brains
oysterhead
fugazi
tuvan throat singing
look what i did
zappa/beefheart
sepultura
les claypool
dinosour jr.
dead kennedys
the butthole surfers
fearless flying frog brigade
the jesus lizard
rapeman
mastodon
oxes
scratch acid
shellac
dystopia
rage against the machine
big business
soundgarden and chris cornells solo stuff
mark lanegan
screaming trees
queens of the stone age
the faceless
arsis
harkonen
harvey milk
neutral milk hotel
rasputina
skinless
red sparowes
tad

Movies:

umm... now this is way hard...
before i start:
spike lee
alejandro jodorowsky
todd solondz
PT anderson
charlie kaufman
terry gilliam
holy mountain
25th hour
barton fink
el topo
following
amores perros
cannibal: the musical
straw dogs
ran
the naked lunch
magnolia
do the right thing
american history x
one hour photo
the usual suspects
american beauty
confessions of a dangerous mind
born on the fourth of july
the door in the floor
death to smoochy
oldboy
capote
broken flowers
vera drake
cecil b demented
12 monkeys
happiness
man bites dog
kill bill flics
187
bully
requiem for a dream
pi
taxi driver
mean streets
once upon a time in america
k pax
dog day afternoon
talk radio
natural born killers
spring summer winter fall and spring
noi
man on the train
little children
a clockwork orange
city of god
dr strangelove
full metal jacket
papilion
the butcher boy
being john malkovich
the deer hunter
die mommy die
god grew tired of us
the lives of others
palindromes
boogie nights
the crying game
the fountain
little miss sunshine
best in show
a mighty wind
waiting for guffman...
the squid and the whale

Television:

movies first. south park. daily show. colbert report. history channel. mythbusters.

Books:

i love reading i just dont have time.

books:
apocalypse culture
lord of the flies
the trial of henry kissinger
hell's angels

philosophers:
kant
plato (mainly the socrates dialouges)
marx
john stuart mill
and others that i dont feel like naming

poets (slam poets... because im lame like that)
chris august
rachel mckibbens
johnmark
eiran bradley
andrea gibson
twain dooley

Heroes:

people who have an extra toe.

My Blog

New Screenplay (Part One)

So, I just started a very loosely formatted screenplay for my next movie.  Justin from my work and Kyle will be helping out once I'm done the writing.  The whole thing has been outlined an...
Posted by mike on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:48:00 PST

seems fun enough

only if you really want to know... Leave your name in my blog comments. Once you do that, this is what I'll do for you......
Posted by mike on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:09:00 PST

Things (New Ones/Revised)

I won't repeat ones that haven't changed from the last time I did this.1. I wish we were better friends and had a better understanding of each other. I know you think the last part is me being unreali...
Posted by mike on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:27:00 PST

Yet another update...

I figured it's been long enough to write a new one of these things.  I don't have much to write about, but I'll wing some shit.  I'm going to start making my first film in a while very soon....
Posted by mike on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:11:00 PST

Update and list!

I haven't really written one of these in a bit.  Well, I'm going to be making a movie, writing (better) poetry, hanging with the friends a lot, and spanking Kyle in Madden with the worst team her...
Posted by mike on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:00:00 PST

Sooo, whats new with Mike?

Life has been good to me in the past few weeks! I went to the National Poetry Slam in Austin, Texas.  It was amazing.  Fuuunnnnn.  Lots of good poetry and people.  I guess I could ...
Posted by mike on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:04:00 PST

One Way Street

I have been singing along to songs for about an hour and a half now.I'm afraid of taking sleeping aids two nights in a row. I feel like one could easily build a dependency on them, no? I'm pretty scar...
Posted by mike on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:49:00 PST

I Don't do This...

Drained:  physically     mentally      emotionally  I am not the type to use myspace blogs as a source of therapy or anything gratifying to "get out" ...
Posted by mike on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:56:00 PST

June 23rd - My Place

So, even though this may seem cheesy to some, Saturday, June 23rd is a huge get together at my house for a day event of fighting. It will be a lot of fun so you should come out and watch. It's kickbox...
Posted by mike on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:35:00 PST

After the Wedding

I went to see After the Wedding with Hannah on Monday.  It was so emotionally gripping and had such amazing performances.  I usually am not in awe over acting but there were times that I was...
Posted by mike on Wed, 30 May 2007 09:10:00 PST