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Michael Michael Motorcycle.

All my favourite singers couldn't sing.

About Me

I don't believe in me either.
I'll tell you what I do believe in: 1) Time-travelling dinosaurs.
2) A lucky severed rabbit's foot.
3) Child labor.
4) The no-socks-with-sandals rule.
5) Bad fathers make for bad plumbers.
6) Communism is the only way.
7) Dictatorship is also the only way. Don't argue.
8) We should vote on those eligible to vote.
9) Conquering the world, and Super Mario Galaxy.
10) Far-fetched sketches of my hand as drawn by a two-year-old (do the traces make my hand look fat?).
11) Making lists.
12) Home ninjas. Ninjas waiting to pounce anywhere.
13) Good music.
14) Bad timing.
15) Ugly babies.
16) Conspiracy Theories.
17) Age-ism.
18) Scapegoats and the advancement of goats into better butter products.
19) Wars and arguments settled by a game of Goldeneye 007.
20) Heaters in Space. It's a damn cold place.
21) Baroque Art. Impressionism. Cubism. Japonisme. Post-anything. Dada. Abstract Expressionism. Finger Painting. Art Brut. Modern Art.
22) Noise Pop. Psychedelic Balearic Rock. Fuzz-Folk. Japanese Pop. IDM (Intelligent Dance Music). Westernized African Music. Krautrock. Shoegazing. Math Rock.
23) Star-gazing in the afternoon.
24) Romance in third-world countries.
25) Reliable protagonists in first-person narrative.
26) Philosophy and social acceptance.
27) Unicorns and corn on the cob.
28) Faux wisdom found in fortune cookies of American Chinese restaurants.
29) Global Warming.
30) Dry cleaning.
31) The Abominable Snowman and Barack Obama.
32) Pluto is, in fact, a planet.
And you.
Things I don't believe in:
Everything else.
Okay, so Pluto may not be a planet, but the Planet Pluto is a fine blog, I hear.

My Interests

I find that life isn't all that interesting. Why else would I be here, or would you be reading this?

I'd like to meet:

Julia Nunes, and you, simultaneously.

Music:



!!!
12 Rods
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Air
The American Analog Set
Andrew Bird
Animal Collective
Annie
Annuals
Antony and the Johnsons
Aphex Twin
Arcade Fire
Art Brut
The Avalanches
Battles
be your own PET
The Beach Boys
Beach House
The Beatles
Beck
Beirut
Belle & Sebastian
Ben Folds Five
The Beta Band
Beulah
Björk
The Black Keys
Black Lips
Black Mountain
Blitzen Trapper
Blood on the Wall
The Blow
Blur
Boards of Canada
Bob Dylan
Bon Iver
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
The Books
Born Ruffians
The Boy Least Likely To
Brian Eno
Broken Social Scene
Bruce Springsteen
Built to Spill
Burial
Cadence Weapon
Can
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Caribou
Cat Power
Chad VanGaalen
Chromatics
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Clash
The Clientele
Clinic
Clipse
Cut Copy
David Bowie
De La Soul
Death from Above 1979
The Decemberists
Deerhoof
Deerhunter
Deframe
Destroyer
Devendra Banhart
Dirty Projectors
The Dismemberment Plan
The Dodos
El Guincho
El Perro Del Mar
Elliott Smith
Elvis Costello
Evangelicals
Faust
Feist
Fennesz
The Field
Field Music
The Fiery Furnaces
Figurines
Fiona Apple
The Flaming Lips
Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand
Frédéric Chopin
Fujiya & Miyagi
Future of the Left
The Futureheads
Gastr Del Sol
Genesis
Girl Talk
Glass Candy
The Go! Team
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Grandaddy
Grizzly Bear
Guided by Voices
Guillemots
Handsome Furs
Herbert
Hercules & Love Affair
High Places
The Hold Steady
Hot Chip
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Interpol
Iron & Wine
Islands
James Blackshaw
Jamie Lidell
Jay-Z
Jeff Buckley
Jens Lekman
Jim O'Rourke
Joanna Newsom
The Joggers
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
Jonny Greenwood
Joy Division
Junior Boys
Justice
Keith Fullerton Whitman
The Kinks
The Knife
Kraftwerk
LCD Soundsystem
Led Zeppelin
Leonard Cohen
Les Savy Fav
Liars
Lily Allen
Lou Barlow
Lou Reed
Love Is All
M. Ward
M.I.A.
M83
The Magnetic Fields
Man Man
Massive Attack
Maurice Ravel
Max Tundra
Mclusky
Menomena
The Microphones
Modern Life
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
The Mountain Goats
My Bloody Valentine
My Morning Jacket
The National
Neil Young
Neutral Milk Hotel
The New Pornographers
Nick Drake
Nina Nastasia (& Jim White)
of Montreal
Okkervil River
The Olivia Tremor Control
Panda Bear
Paul Simon
Pavement
Peter Bjorn and John
Phantom Planet
Phoenix
Pink Floyd
Pixies
Portishead
The Postal Service
Pulp
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Regina Spektor
Roxy Music
The Ruby Suns
Rufus Wainwright
Sally Shapiro
Scott Walker
The Shins
Shugo Tokumaru
Shuta Hasunuma
Silver Jews
Sleater-Kinney
Slint
The Smiths
Sonic Youth
Spoon
St. Vincent
Starflyer 59
Stars of the Lid
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Steve Reich
The Strokes
Studio
Subtle
Sufjan Stevens
Sunny Day Real Estate
Sunset Rubdown
Super Furry Animals
T. Rex
Talking Heads
Tapes 'n Tapes
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Television
Thao Nyugen
Third Class
Third Eye Blind
Thom Yorke
Tim Hecker
Tokyo Police Club
Tom Waits
Tortoise
TV on the Radio
The Twilight Sad
The Unicorns
Vampire Weekend
The Velvet Underground
The Verve
Weezer
White Denim
White Rabbits
The White Stripes
The Who
Why?
Wilco
Wolf Parade
The Wrens
Xiu Xiu
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeasayer
Yo La Tengo
The Zombies
The Zou
(whew, not everything, but good enough)
Comedians:
Mitch Hedberg
Steven Wright
Patton Oswalt
Jerry Seinfeld
Norm MacDonald
Stephen Lynch
Liam Lynch
Robin Williams
Demetri Martin
Zach Galifianakis
etc.

Movies:

The Science of Sleep
Blazing Saddles
Space Balls
Star Wars
The Lion King
Toy Story
Finding Nemo
Horton Hears a Who!
Lost in Translation
Caddyshack
Jurassic Park
Fight Club
Shaun of the Dead
The Princess Bride
High Fidelity
Thank You for Smoking
Rounders
James Bond movies
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Pulp Fiction
No Country for Old Men
many more...

Television:

The Office
Extras
Seinfeld
South Park
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Flight of the Conchords
Two and a Half Men
How I Met Your Mother

Books:

Authors:
Jack Kerouac
Chuck Palahniuk
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Allen Ginsberg
Charles Bukowski
Jean-Paul Sartre
Tolkien
etc.

Heroes:

or, superheroes:
Batman

My Blog

Original jokes that couldve been stolen for all you know (but credit me).

Fact: Opposite is a synonym of antonym. Wrap your face around that one. Circuit City's new marketing slogan: Forget Jesus. Circuit City saves. Why worry about the after-now, when you can worry about t...
Posted by Michael Michael Motorcycle. on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:05:00 PST

No alarms and no surprises in this Pitchfork 2007 review.

You've missed me, I know. You don't have to say it (mostly because you don't mean it). I'll come back to my other adventures lately, but I should at least churn out a Pitchfork Music Festival review b...
Posted by Michael Michael Motorcycle. on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:56:00 PST

You can afford not to read this, but c'mon, do you really want to?

Fair warning: this will not be that funny. this is not even a lame excuse for a poem. i'm not even properly utilizing capital letters. i haven't been to many capital cities. you will likely hate me, i...
Posted by Michael Michael Motorcycle. on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:26:00 PST

My thoughts on working & writing written down on paper and taken to a flame.

if you're seeking the latest poem, look at the post below. these, friends, are recent bulletins.   DATE: 02 Jun 2007, 10:32 PM SUBJECT: cavaliers BODY: are really lame cars popular to ohio-a...
Posted by Michael Michael Motorcycle. on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:37:00 PST

I thought I saw your epitaph on wicker-pedia: I did, I did.

"Are you fucking serious?" The poem; not the book. commonly mistaken. You'll get your possessions took.   Can you die by a wicker basket? No.   What if I kept wickering you until you wicke...
Posted by Michael Michael Motorcycle. on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:07:00 PST

There & Back Again by Bilbo Baggins.

You may think I've devised this current blog as a homage-of-sorts to The Lord of the Rings. False. Contrary to popular belief, I have not watched a LOTR film in at least a couple years, so, I'm not qu...
Posted by Michael Michael Motorcycle. on Fri, 25 May 2007 01:09:00 PST

Hold Steady, it's a walkie talkie journey to Animal Collective & back.

Hey! How've you been, old friend? Good, good. Yes, lets catch up. What have I been doing? Oh, nothing, you know. Apart from post-semester depression (that is, coping with the decreased level of stress...
Posted by Michael Michael Motorcycle. on Mon, 21 May 2007 03:14:00 PST

My very first senior seminar paper.

As a self-professed soon-to-never-be a professor of English, not to mention a pack leader of all things English related, I figured I should share my Senior Seminar Final Research Essay with you good p...
Posted by Michael Michael Motorcycle. on Fri, 11 May 2007 11:17:00 PST

Is there anybody going to read my review all about the Spiderman nobody loves?

..> ..> Date: 05 May 2007, 04:52 AM Subject Conor or Peter Parker? Body: Is it just me or,Does 'Evil/Cool/Dark' Spider-man look like Bright Eyes?It's not just me.I want a Spiderman I don't have t...
Posted by Michael Michael Motorcycle. on Fri, 11 May 2007 12:17:00 PST

Is it possible to have nine lives? Or, to travel in time?

Since I've, once again, come to find myself in late semester blues, there's the unabated question of time travel and suicide. Could I fast-forward beyond the reach of research papers, art history and ...
Posted by Michael Michael Motorcycle. on Tue, 01 May 2007 06:22:00 PST