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Michael

I love reality TV . . . and by reality TV I mean baseball.

About Me

I believe that life is a collection of defining moments. You can choose to live life as it has been predicated or you can choose to write it yourself. Thus a defining moment. DEFINE THE MOMENT!!

My Interests

I like having fun. Sometimes that means getting crazy and sometimes that means laughing on the inside. Whatever the situation calls for you can count on me to make the best of it.

I'd like to meet:

Humphry Bogart, Jeff Buckley, Ayn Rand, Victor Hugo, whoever created the popcorn at the Arclight, John Conditt (where are you buddy?) and a few others . . .

Music:

Clap Your Hands Yeah, Edan, The Format, Seu Jorge, Robert Earl Keen, George Jones, Run DMC, Del, Foo Fighters, Classic Country, Dean, Sammy, Frank, Feist, Bebel Gilberto, Stan Getz, Black Keys, Glen Hansard, Ryan Adams, Pink Martini, Bloc Party, INXS, Tony Bennett, Elton John, Seamus Eagan, Stones, Badly Drawn Boy, Cibo Matto, Beck, Frou Frou, Gaelle, Ween, Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, Gangstarr, Erik B & Rakim, Van Morrison, Miles Davis and many more.

Movies:

Casablanca, Amelie, Once (go see it NOW!!), The Matador, Evil Dead II, House (with William Katt), Stand By Me, His Girl Friday, Glengarry Glenross, Tombstone, Vacation, Made, Big Lebowski, Beautiful Girls, Say Anything, High Fidelity, Major League, Office Space, Garden State, Big Trouble In Little China, Bull Durham, Amelie, Cinema Paradiso, The Legend Of 1900, Il Postino, Johnny Guitar, Anything with Audrey Hepburn (except 'Paris in the Springtime'), Punch Drunk Love, Lost in Translation, Trouble in Paradise

Television:

The only reality TV that I watch is Baseball. Go Cubbies!!

Books:

The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, East Of Eden, Les Miserables, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Spanish Lessons, nonfiction of all types, specifically, history, nautical, WWII, travel writing . . . oh so much.

Heroes:

My Brother, Howard Roark, John Galt and anyone who doesn't watch MTV.

My Blog

Pookie!!!!

Okay, everybody wants to know who Pookie Jenkins is, well I'll tell you. He's a little bit of all of us. He's the guy who insists on going to the store at 1:55 am to get that last 12 pack. He is also ...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:56:00 PST

Life

Sometimes I feel bad for the world because I think that I am having so much fun that perhaps I'm taking up the fun that they could be having. I hope that there is not a finite amount of fun available....
Posted by Michael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST