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mikal

celestial pariah

About Me

I am unfortunately the heir to a degoutant french lineage a la Godard's "Breathless" Michel. The one thing I love about my ancestors is the way they die: stumbling on a cobblestone rue in scummy Pigalle, bullet in the back, until, falling in the crosswalk, we mutter with our last breath to this world with its arbitrary law- "you are swine".

My Interests

molecular gastronomy, kidney failure, Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, white priorats, Nicholas Kurti, the perfect cassarole, Galicia, liver disease microfinance, Alsace, Herve This, culinary history, life sucking websites that make you overthink who you are, Gibson Es335

I'd like to meet:

Momo. So I can get my $ back. And speaking of Money--support this microfinance institution to help reverse the effects of IMF loans that have crippled developing countries' economies.

Music:

The Urban Guerillas, The Swans, the Black Eyed Snakes, The Modern Lovers, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Pere Ubu, The Bleeding Hickeys, The Cocteau Twins, The Brazilian Girls, Interpol, gallon drunk, Dead Can Dance, slowdive, salbando, those guys who do come on eileen, the Birthday Party, Bauhaus, Boys Next Door, Echo and the Bunneymen, Nick Cave, the Smiths, the Cows, The Psychadelic Furs, Bob Dylan, Your Loving Tiger, 100 Flowers, The Legendary Jim Ruiz, the Heroin Shieks, ouija radio, Thunder in the Valley, FLT, The Fall, the Flaming Stars, the Bridge Club, Television, The Blackthorns, My Bloody Valentine, Gang of Four, Non, Hondo, Faux Jean, the rapture, Noel Coward, the Beatles, Joy Division, New Order, the new improved Idle Hands

Movies:

All films by Carlos Saura, El espiritu de la colmena, Bievenidos Mr. Marshall, Aguirre Wrath of God, The Warriors, Withnail n I, requiem for a heavyweight, a place in the sun, on the waterfront, shaun of the dead, dawn of the dead, snatch, Jamon, Jamon, East of Eden, Anchorman, White Heat, Dig, Torrente

Television:

father ted, aquateen hunger force

Books:

wine and war, el largo viaje, the basque history of the world, the idiot, RESEARCH ..11: Pranks, Salt

Heroes:

Master Shake, Mike Phillips

My Blog

Anton Newcomb for president

Let me be perhaps the first of millions to say this.  He would be a great palette cleanser in between W. and his brother Jeb.  Think of it in these terms: he's had money thrown at him to do ...
Posted by mikal on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 04:50:00 PST