Mik-e-lob - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Every experience in life, no matter how large or small, has influenced me and has helped create the person I am today; I like this thought.I apologize for forcing my readers to scour the internet in hopes of finding other worthwhile intellectual pursuits, and inevitably finding nothing, during my absence. But fear no more, another issue is upon you and no further patience is needed.

My Interests

The poet's task is this, my friend,
to read his dreams and comprehend.
The truest human fancy seems
to be revealed to us in dreams:
all poems and versification
are but true dreams' interpretation. - Han Sachs, Meistersinger

I'd like to meet:

I'm impressed by people who take charge of life. Anyone who doesn't waste their time with trivial things and whose wit cuts like a knife.

Music:

The lonely sax man playing away throughout the night on a bridge overlooking the city

Wolfmother, Moving Units, Mars Volta, The Strokes, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Franz Ferdinand, Green Day, REM, The Killers, Muse, Bad Religion, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Arturo Sandoval

Movies:

The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, High Fidelity, Anchorman, Walk the Line, The Late Shift, Grosse Point Blank, This is Spinal Tap, Thank You for Smoking, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Television:

Conan! The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Curb your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development one of the best shows ever!!!

Books:

America - A Citizen's guide to Democracy Inaction
Below he sums up my philosophy regarding public perception and criticism.

"But 'public,' after all is a mere word. In no sense is it a homogeneous and constant quantity. Why should the artist be bound to accommodate himself to a power whose strength lies solely in numbers? And if, by virtue of his endowments and aspirations, he should feel himself superior to every one of these spectators, how could he feel greater respect for the collective expression of all these subordinate capacities than for the relatively highest-endowed individual spectator? In truth, if ever a Greek artist throughout a long life treated his public with audacity and self-sufficiency, it was Euripides. When the masses threw themselves at his feet, he openly and with sublime defiance reversed his own tendency, the very tendency with which he had won over the masses. If this genius had had the slightest reverence for the pandemonium of the public, he would have broken down long before the middle of his career, beneath the heavy blows of his failures."

Heroes:

Napoleon
Stephen Colbert because he'll cut you down to size in the blink of an eye and you won't realize it till you're finished

Coltrane's passion is what inspires me

My Blog

The Hit List - Adult Content

The subject of this article is concerned with the continued deterioration of the media and the network news broadcasts. Since I was young, there always was a separation between the actions and interes...
Posted by Mik-e-lob on Sat, 31 May 2008 01:50:00 PST

The Hit List - Unreasonable

Rational thinking is a growing rarity now a days. I wonder at what point reason and common sense dropped from the public landscape. I ha...
Posted by Mik-e-lob on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:20:00 PST

The Hit List: Bedlam

Must we confront the destruction of literary standards with a smile and blind acceptance? Should we stand idly by, while words such as hurteded and undeterminate, pollute the public pool of knowledge?...
Posted by Mik-e-lob on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:46:00 PST

The Hit List: Walking out of the starting gate

Perhaps if you've read these articles with any regularity, you will have noticed quite a noticeable gap between this blog and the last. This is attributed to the simple fact that life intervened and n...
Posted by Mik-e-lob on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:13:00 PST

The Hit List - Castoff

Being a new year, and the possibilities for new articles and topics seeming endless, I am going to gather the leftover thoughts and try to burn through them in order to get to fresher ideas and put th...
Posted by Mik-e-lob on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:30:00 PST

The Hit List - Getting Some Action

At first glance, the following two statements appear incongruous: Haste makes waste; He who hesitates is lost.. This incompatibility is quickly resolved when one incorpo...
Posted by Mik-e-lob on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:38:00 PST

The Hit List - The Great Divide

Many of you have been wondering when the next article will arrive and what has been delaying its release. In short, it was due to the fact that I hadn't been able to research my next planned topic; an...
Posted by Mik-e-lob on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:26:00 PST

The Hit List - Who Can We Trust

One of my aims in writing these articles has been to always write truthfully and earnestly and to cut through the excess layers that usually adorn most journalistic entries these days. In my attempts ...
Posted by Mik-e-lob on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 06:59:00 PST

The Hit List - Answers, Answers, Answers

After a brief respite, I'm back. This issue will feature answers to questions that were sent to me from my readers. As a reminder, I have done my best to answer the questions in an unbiased and open-m...
Posted by Mik-e-lob on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:52:00 PST