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Mike

a bloodcurdling scream to balance every caressing whisper...

About Me

http://www.michaelsamos.com
http://www.bananahands.net

My Interests

Music, Cats, Plants, Cooking, Reading, Coffee, Tea, the upright bass, the guitar, lap steel, percussion, instruments that I may someday be able to play, Sound Design, Performance Art, Walking, People, Co-op's and other independant communities, Sleeping under the stars of Montana, walking in the mountains of Oregon, wandering along the train tracks of Iowa, swimming in waterfalls in Tennessee

I'd like to meet:

people who eat slowly through out the day instead of having meals, playfull clumsy and adventurous cats, sound obsessed folks, anyone who knows what senses they favor and who seeks to saturate them... obsessively, collaborators...

Music:

Made in Mexico, Iron Maiden, Ikue Mori, The Nels Cline Singers, Kaija Saariaho, Webern, Bach, Cecil Taylor, Six Organs of Admittance, Deerhoof, Bowie, Can, Zenna Parkins, Fred Frith, Queen, voodoo drumming, Pauline Oliveros, Todd Dockstader, Noel Ackhote,Willie, Dylan...

most recently: 70's African funk, Irma Thomas, Balinese Gamelan, and anything Marc Ribot has played on

Movies:

The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Triplets of Belleville, Fitzcarraldo, Fassbinder films, Barbarella, silly stuff that entertians me

Television:

is mostly a way to sell us objectionable ideas and objects

Books:

more please!

My Blog

Moving

as if moving didn't suck enough already (though having moved is always great!).... spending all evening not even putting a dent in the various things previous roomates abandoned at your house is fucki...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:13:00 PST

Wise vs. Practical

So a few conversations I had today brought me back to something Molly Burke posted in her blog a while ago about feeling a lack of "old wisdom".  It seems now, as I get older, I know many people,...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:42:00 PST