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walking contradiction

all the lies i tell myself are true

About Me

i'm a jeans and t-shirt kinda guy. if i'm in kahkis or cargos, i'm dressed up.why am i here? peer pressure.seriously though, one reason is that i'm tired of being single. friends have convinced me that this might be a good way to meet some new people, so i figured i'd give it a shot.i'm also interested in the networking aspect. i'd like to get a job in the music industry, but with the state of it, it's not that easy. i have no musical ability, but what i'd like to do is ADR work. i briefly hosted a monthly webradio show at mikesmusings.onekindradio.com; that ended when the new RIAA regulations for webradio shows came down. i try to do some sporatic freelance reviews for onekindradio.com, which is a nice way to combine my passion for writing (another possible career avenue) with my passion for music. .. ..

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

to start off: i'm NOT on here for a "who has the most friends?" pissing contest! if ya wanna add me as a friend, cool. just have a reason for it, like a similar interest or genuinely wanting to get to know me; sending an email saying "hey, we both like 'x'!" helps too. having a bot that looks for people who you haven't "friended" yet is not a reason.on the relationship side, guys who aren't stereotypically "gay." most of my friends will describe me as just a guy, who needs to meet someone who's just a guy. i'm not into the "gay scene," and really don't fall into a lot of the stereotypes.professionally, i'd like to meet people who are in the industry and can give me advice for breaking in. also, if someone's looking for a writer, be it along the lines of reviews or other stuff, that's cool too.

Music:

this is gonna be long. bear with me. in alphabetical order: a perfect circle, afghan whigs, afro celt sound system, lily allen, tori amos, fiona apple, ash, melissa auf der mar, erykah badu, belle and sebestain, belly, blur, david bowie, broken social scene, the butchies, the cardigans, cibo matto, coldplay, conjure one, dance hall crashers, the dandy warhols, delerium, the dixie chicks, dj rap, the donnas, eisley, elastica, esthero, franz ferdinand, garbage, gigi, girls against boys, gnarls barkely, goldfrapp, gorillaz, the gufs, emmylou harris, juliana hatfield, hole, india.arie, the indigo girls, josh joplin (group), diana krall, alison krauss, lady sovereign, lamb, annie lennox, lords of acid, courtney love, luscious jackson, lush, yo-yo ma, martha's trouble, sarah mclachlan, m.i.a., alanis morissette, me'shell ndegeocello, n.e.r.d., nickel creek, no doubt, northern state, outkast, beth orton, pansy division, liz phair, portishead, the reputation, jill scott, shonen knife, sia, skunk anansie, snow patrol, the sounds, gwen stefani, joss stone, supreme beings of leisure, tegan & sara, that dog, martina topley-bird, tricky, the twilight singers, dar williams, victoria williams, amy winehouse, the wreckers, zap mama, zero 7

Movies:

another question with a long answer: after life, the alien series, amelie, american history x, the anniversary party, auntie mame, best in show, billy elliott, the blade series, breakfast at tiffany's, the breakfast club, chasing amy, chocolat, margaret cho's stand-up flicks, the commitments, crash, crouching tiger hidden dragon, dark city, dogma, the doom generation, ed wood, the educational archives series (old filmstrips), fight club, the fox and the hound, freaks, frida, go, hackers, hard candy, heat, heathers, hedwig and the angry inch, the hellraiser series, james bond flicks (prefer connery and brosnan), jesus is magic (sarah silverman stand-up), kalifornia, kissing jessica stein, magnolia, monsoon wedding, natural born killers, perfect blue, the princess and the warrior, reefer madness, relax . . . it's just sex!, the rocky horror picture show, run lola run, the scream series, session 9, series 7, the star wars series, studio ghibli films, tank girl, threesome, traffic, the triplets of belleville, waiting for guffman, john waters' flicks, x-men, x2, x3

Television:

i'm addicted to "project runway", and the other shows i try to watch regularily are "the simpsons", "desperate housewives", and "scrubs". i'm still pissed that "dead like me" and "arrested development" got cancelled, can watch reruns of "absolutely fabolous" and "invader zim" at any time, believe that "the facts of life" was the greatest 80's sitcom, and want "the state" to come out on dvd, dammit! a lot of times i'll have the tv on while i'm doing a sudoku or something, but not necessarily watching it. i am an anime dork, too, and have a lot on dvd (prefer sub to dub).

Books:

my favorite authors are clive barker, neil gaiman, and amy tan. the last really good book i read was "reading lolita in tehran" by azar nafisi. i still read comic books, everything from mainstream superheroes to indie stuff. "sandman" is quite possibly the greatest comic series every, and "pride of baghdad" by briank k. vauguah is an amazing piece of graphic literature. and i'm sure to read "opus" and "adam" every sunday in the funnies.

My Blog

a & l photography

i'm posting this as a blog as well since i know some people like to send out a crapload of bulletins and ya might miss mine. some of you have been fortunate enough to meet my friend amy and see how wo...
Posted by walking contradiction on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:56:00 PST

(very belated) 2006 albums of the year

yeah, it's about a month late.  go cry.  this year it's a top 10 (alpha by artist) with some honorable mentions as well.  not as much commentary either. (1) lily allen "alright, still ....
Posted by walking contradiction on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:00:00 PST

tat .8

again, i'm not drunk, just really buzzed (and yes meri, it's cosmos.  big shock there.). so . . . for the past few weeks i've been trying to get an accurate, consistant translation of a phrase in...
Posted by walking contradiction on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:42:00 PST

webradio show

i'm not really drunk.  just got a good buzz going on (mmm . . . cosomos . . .). anyway, so anyone who's on my friends list should already know this, but i've taken over one of my buddy john's web...
Posted by walking contradiction on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:57:00 PST

2005 albums of the year

a bit late, but who cares.  if ya don't know me, bear in mind that (1) i don't do this professionally and (2) i typically don't get comp copies of cds.so here we go!the 1st 3 listed are the cds i...
Posted by walking contradiction on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:51:00 PST

pleading from a retail slave . . .

okay y'all.  we all know that thanksgiving is coming up, and after that, the time of year that us schmucks in retail dread: the holiday shopping season.i can honestly say that, in all my time in ...
Posted by walking contradiction on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:54:00 PST

1st . . . blog . . . ever . . .

okay, i've never really understood the point of bloging.  i mean, doesn't the idea come from keeping a journal or log?  and aren't those typically kept private?i've decided that i will be po...
Posted by walking contradiction on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 01:02:00 PST