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About Me

IMPORTANT NEWS: Michelle Hotaling is looking for a drummer for live performances -- gigs are already lined up for May and beyond! For song clips please visit Michelle's MySpace page !!
Please take a moment to watch the wonderful montage that Michelle lovingly crafted for our song "Porcelain Doll":Producer / Arranger / Musician for the fabulous and talented Michelle Hotaling , whose new CD Chained By Dreams is available NOW!

Click below to buy Chained By Dreams on CDBaby:

I'm also the co-composer of a musical called FABLE. I recently (March 29) had the pleasure of attending a performance of this show at the Middlesex Middle School in Darien, CT. (You guys rocked!)Other than that, I'm a 35 year-old divorced white male who wouldn't mind getting to know some cool like-minded guys & gals. People move so fast in this city. It's nice to have friends to unwind with every once in a while.

My Interests

Michelle Hotaling - Chained By Dreams - Available now!!! , Music, Friends, Lisa Kroin's Pottery Page! , Music, Movies, Music, Travel, Music, Ultimate Frisbee, Music, and Music. Laughing. Performing miracles. Manifesting my own destiny. Co-creating my life. Winning Nobel Peace Prizes. Digging holes to China. I'm an enigma wrapped in a pancake. I love to travel to exotic locales, but I also love an occasional trip to Disney World. I listen to Rage Against The Machine and ABBA. Not usually at the same time. Although come to think of it, that would probably be a real trip.

I'd like to meet:

Dr. Wayne Dyer, Peter Gabriel, Julia Cameron, Stephanie Miller, Walt Disney, George Martin, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Al Gore. While we're shooting for the moon here, a single Kate Beckinsale look-alike who thinks I'm adorable would be nice.

Music:

Michelle Hotaling -- "Chained By Dreams" available now!

Marillion , U2, The Beatles, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, Queen, Duncan Sheik, Heather Nova, Transatlantic, Neal Morse, Spock's Beard, Yes, Dido, Sheryl Crow, Garbage, Alanis Morissette, Genesis (esp. w/Peter Gabriel), Fleetwood Mac, Tony Banks, Rush, Stone Temple Pilots, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Coldplay's 2nd CD, Muse, Tool, The Flower Kings, Dream Theater, CSNY, Neil Young, Aimee Mann, Van Halen, Bright Eyes, Manu Chao, Telephone, Noir Desir, Gerald de Palmas, FFF, Amaral, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Mozart, Dvorak, Saint-Saens, it's all good. (Oh, and I love a good sountrack -- like Garden State, High Fidelity, Full Monty, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Sliding Doors, Austin Powers, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Serendipity ... and just about any movie ever made with John Cusak, Mike Myers, or Zach Braff.)Inspirations:
On guitar: Steve Hackett, Steve Rothery
On bass: Paul McCartney, Pete Trewavas, Tony Levin, Geddy Lee
On drums: Phil Collins, Nick D'Virgilio, Ian Mosley
..boards: Tony Banks, Neal Morse, Rick Wakeman
On vocals: Steve Hogarth, Peter Gabriel
Production: George Martin, Butch Vig, Jon Brion
Songwriters: Steve Hogarth, Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos, George Harrison, Neal Morse, Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow

Movies:

It's A Wonderful Life, Lilo & Stitch, The Princess Bride, Garden State, When Harry Met Sally, Lady & The Tramp, The Blues Brothers, Young Frankenstein, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ghostbusters, Lost in Translation, Sliding Doors, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Harry Potter, Ferris Beuler, The Breakfast Club, Amelie, South Park (!!), The Muppet Movie, Back to the Future, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Meet Joe Black, Donnie Darko, A Christmas Story, Any and all Christopher Guest movies, Spinal Tap, The Royal Tennenbaums

Television:

Arrested Development, The Daily Show, Heroes, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, The West Wing, Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, My Name Is Earl, The Office, South Park, Mythbusters (and many a random show on the Discovery Channel), MASH, The Simpsons, The Carol Burnett Show, Night Court, Ed, The Colbert Report, Family Guy, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Fawlty Towers, Night Court, and Weather on the 8's. Oh, and an occasional Gilmore Girls episode never hurt anyone.

Books:

Way of the Peaceful Warrior (Dan Millman), The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho), The Artist's Way (Julia Cameron), Manifest Your Destiny or The Power Of Intention (Wayne Dyer), Good Omens (Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett), The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle), Harry Potter (all of them), Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them (Al Franken), The Dragonriders of Pern (Anne McCaffrey), Walden, Tower Stories (edited by my good friend Damon Dimarco), The Cricket in Times Square, Red Tails in Love, Power vs. Force (Carlos Castenada), and possibly the most amazing book ever written, The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran). Always looking for recommendations. Hint hint.

Heroes:

People who voted for John Kerry. Walt Disney. Jim Henson. John Stewart. Stephen Colbert. Keith Olbermann. George Martin. George Harrison. Stephanie Miller. Barbara Boxer. John Conyers. Al Gore. Dr. Wayne Dyer . My parents. Lately, Neil Young. ..

My Blog

A fitting send-off

On July 6th, I travelled to Florida to bid farewell to my Uncle Ed.  It's hard to describe my uncle and his family -- from the vantage point of my rather quiet and reserved family, let's just say...
Posted by Scott Slater" on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:42:00 PST

Uncle Ed

My Uncle Ed passed away on Friday, June 29th of lung and bone marrow cancer.  I'm writing this from Sausalito, California on vacation.  Uncle Ed definitely loved life -- he didn't get everyt...
Posted by Scott Slater" on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:39:00 PST

Whadda Year

Well, today is June 24.  Today marks one year ago that I found my lump.  I know that it was June 24 because the night before, I spent a really fun evening at a Dave & Busters ...
Posted by Scott Slater" on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:36:00 PST

Enough about cancer ... let's talk about music

So, last night (June 14) was the first-ever live Michelle Hotaling performance (not counting a 2-song open mic we did a few months back) ... it was a quick 30 or 40-minute set at The Underscore on the...
Posted by Scott Slater" on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:39:00 PST

A recent post on a testicular cancer bulletin board

I follow a TC (testicular cancer) bulletin board at tc-cancer.com.  It's a wonderful group of people who were probably literally a collective life-saver during my ordeal last year.  Today th...
Posted by Scott Slater" on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:44:00 PST

Cancer Rants pt. XVII: A question of semantics (Oct. 6, 2006-May 6, 2007)

So here I am.  It's been 9 months since my surgery.  7 months since completing my radiation treatment.  On Tuesday, I will go in for my first post-treatment checkup -- bloodwork, X-rays...
Posted by Scott Slater" on Sun, 06 May 2007 02:41:00 PST

Cancer Rants pt. XVI: Microwave on high for 15 seconds (Oct. 1-5, 2006)

I surprised even myself during this time, but I made a decision to do something radical during my radiation treatment:  I went to the gym every day.  I felt that on the one hand, though the ...
Posted by Scott Slater" on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:24:00 PST

Cancer Rants pt. XV: The Sweetest Words I've Ever Heard (Sept. 24-30, 2006)

Well, I can tell you that the weekend of Sept. 23-24 was probably the quickest weekend of my life, and before I knew it I was back sitting in Waiting Room #2 in a white terrycloth gown, reading (at lo...
Posted by Scott Slater" on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:19:00 PST

Cancer Rants pt. XIV: The Daily Grind (Sept. 20-23, 2006)

And so it was with some trepidation that I returned to the cancer care center the next day.  The night before had been my worst in quite some time, and I was not looking forward to a repeat (so t...
Posted by Scott Slater" on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:09:00 PST

Cancer Rants pt. XIII: The most surreal experience I've ever had (Sept. 18-19, 2006)

So there I was, getting ready for my very first day of radiation.  I arrived at St. Vincent's Cancer Care Center (SVCCC) at about 10:45 on the morning of September 18.  I was told to go into...
Posted by Scott Slater" on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:17:00 PST