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Media Maven Mike

Media Maven Mike

About Me



In my MySpace blog, I write about trends in the North American and European media/tech industries. As a producer/engineer, recording artist, disc jockey, journalist, and performer on television and in live venues from concert halls to nightclubs, I have been involved in the entertainment industry for more than twenty-four years. Now, I'm also completing an LL.B. from the University of London.

My Interests

music, visual art, philosophy, politics, culture, media, electronics, gadgets, sports, law, entertainment industry, business, real estate, fashion, design, home decoration, bars, pubs, clubs, money, investment

I'd like to meet:

People with similar interests, for business and/or pleasure.

Music:

Leonard Cohen, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Mozart, Alban Berg, Joy Division / New Order, David Bowie, Scott Walker, Morrissey, El-P, Recoil, Daniel Lanois, Mark Eitzel, American Music Club, Swans, Jarboe, Michael Gira, Angels of Light, John Zorn, Naked City, Boredoms, Gastr del Sol, Atari Teenage Riot, Alec Empire, Billie Holiday, Ableton Live, Chet Baker, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, John Cale, Can, Faust, Kraftwerk, Ennio Morricone, Junior Boys, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Depeche Mode, Cabaret Voltaire, Death In Vegas, Diamanda Galas, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, Einsturzende Neubaten, Pigface, Pig, Nine Inch Nails, Propellerheads Reason, Xiu Xiu, Eric Clapton, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Sparks, Fleetwood Mac, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Sunn 0))), Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Tricky, Massive Attack, Portishead, Magnetic Fields, Gothic Archies, Marilyn Manson, M-Audio hardware, Sonic Youth, Foetus, Neurosis, Mission of Murma, P.I.L. (Public Image Limited), Malcolm McLaren, Atomsmasher, The Cure, The Tear Garden, Download, Skinny Puppy, Low, Ice, Barry Adamson, Non, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, Raymond Scott, LCD Soundsystem, Six Finger Satellite, Marlene Dietrich, Philip Glass (especially "Einstein On The Beach" and "Hydrogen Jukebox"), La Monte Young, Steve Reich (especially "Let It Rain" and "Drumming"), Bjork, Luigi Russolo.

Movies:

Apocalypse Now, Andrei Tarkovsky, Tim Burton, Alfted Hitchcock, David Fincher, Dead Man, Wings of Desire, Orson Welles, Monty Python, Brazil, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Stan Brakhage.

Television:

is converging with the internet.

Books:

Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Fernando Pessoa, Leonard Cohen's "Book of Mercy", Stephen Crane's "The Black Rider and Other Poems", James Joyce's "The Dead", Geoffrey Chaucer, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Marquis de Sade, Dom Delillo, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, C.G. Jung, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Michael Bakunin, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, Charles Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Stephane Mallarme, Jean-Paul Sartre, Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plath, The Brothers Grimm, Bertolt Brecht, e.e. cummings, Plato, Socrates, The Book of Revelation, The Thomas Gospels, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Jacques Attali, Chuck Palahniuk.

Heroes:

I'm hijacking this section for a list of visual artists I like: Chargesheimer, Peter Gilles, Joseph Cornell, Christian Schad, Salvador Dali, Ansel Adams, Goya, Francis Bacon, Egon Schiele, Man Ray, El Greco, Barbara Kruger, Marcel Duschamp, Max Ernst, Cindy Sherman, Mark Rothko, Lucio Fontana, Kishin Shinoyama, Edmond Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Weegee, Duane Michaels, Eva Hesse, Jackson Pollock, Paul Klee, Komar & Melamid, Hieronymus Bosch, Marta Hoepffner, Howard Finster, Adam Parfrey, Suicide Girls, H.R. Giger, Sony cameras, Stanislav Szukalski, Hans Arp, Jan Saudek, Christian Boltanski, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Adobe Photoshop, Rene Magritte, Andre Kertesz, Annie Leibovitz, Mick Rock, Andres Serrano, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Kasimir Malevich, Bill Brandt, Piet Mondrian, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Hermann Nitsch, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Kurt Schwitters, Bill Viola, Matthew Barney, Andy Warhol, Wols, Bernd & Hilda Becher, Edward Weston.

My Blog

Intel OLPC

Intel and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project have agreed to work together.Canadians may soon finally get realistic book prices.The fight to save 'Net radio continues.There will be no new legislat...
Posted by Media Maven Mike on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:54:00 PST

The future is cloudy ...

according to Microsoft, whose plans may or may not be vapor ware in fact ;)The shocking truth about iPods.The European online ad industry is growing fast.And, Hollywood executives are calling for an e...
Posted by Media Maven Mike on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:46:00 PST

Open

The FCC may loosen constraints on part of the available radio spectrum.The Orchard and Digital Music Group are set to merge.The royalty colleciton debate continues in the EU.And, United Talent is dedi...
Posted by Media Maven Mike on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:35:00 PST

217 million!

is the number of people playing online games.A VC has earmarked a substantial pile of cash for Facebook app developers.Intel has purchased a stake in virtualization software maker VMWare.Nielsen is ab...
Posted by Media Maven Mike on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:44:00 PST

Behind the Net

Wired has some pieces on crowdsourcing while the New York Times reveals a fan forum's effect on the 'Transformers' movie and ZudaComics.com is nurturing new comic talent.Elsewhere, Last.fm and Joost h...
Posted by Media Maven Mike on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:59:00 PST

Terror in your Inbox!

A jihad of spam!!!In the UK, Channel 4 is set to do digital radio.And -- sexploitation on EUTube?...
Posted by Media Maven Mike on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:02:00 PST

A simple plan ...

for defeating dumb patents?Korean human-powered search.TV news audiences are old(er).Falling CD sales, in perspective.Credit card companies not liable for copyright infringement.Second Life sues for c...
Posted by Media Maven Mike on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:14:00 PST

Small gigs hit by red tape ...

it was recently suggested, in the UK.Eclipsed last week, and also initially not well explained, T-Mobile's new service shows considerable promise.Gibson Guitars recently acquired a boutique maker.And,...
Posted by Media Maven Mike on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:21:00 PST

Woz on DRM ...

among other topics.
Posted by Media Maven Mike on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:46:00 PST

eBay to compete with Craigslist

as Kijiji finally launches in the US.Is it possible to predict a bestseller?And, sixty years of UFOs....
Posted by Media Maven Mike on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:27:00 PST