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Maiku

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About Me

I'm just a basic guy with larger than life dreams, goals and passions. I've had enough near-death experiences to know that life can be short and unpredictable. We have to make the most of it and appreciate it while we're here. Rain or shine, I'm ready for whatever the next day offers me. The people linked in my life make this road much more exciting and I look forward to each opportunity I get to expand this chain.

My Interests

As long as it doesn't F-up my brain or have long-term detrimental effects, I'll try it.

I'd like to meet:

You.

Music:

drum 'n bass to jump to, trance to chill to, progressive house to dance to, Warp Records to rock to, Sub Pop label to air guitar to, classical to sip wine and chill to, Moving Shadow label to bump to, stuff out of Bristol to paint/sketch to, Jpop to culturalize to, Top 40 to karaoke to, hip hop to boogie to, old school breakbeat to party to, and powerful + moving theatrical film scores to meditate to.

Movies:

Godfather 1 & 2, Memento, Goodfellas, Cinema Paradiso, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, Amores Perros, Eat Drink Man Woman, The Red Balloon, Farewell My Concubine, Fight Club, Lord of the Rings, Usual Suspects, Fargo, Blackhawk Down, Breakin', Boogie Nights, Glengarry GlenRoss, Aliens, The Abyss, The Seven Samurai, Iron Giant, Meeting People is Easy, Midnight Run, E.T. (orig. ver.), Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Yojimbo, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Toy Story 1-2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, Princess Mononoke, Totoro, Grave of Fireflies, The Player, Traffic, The Graduate, The Red Balloon, The Crow, Chungking Express, The Game, Forrest Gump, Babe, Braveheart, Gladiator, Glory, Heat, Pi, Rocky, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2, Sneakers, The Sweet Hereafter, Jean de Florette, La Femme Nikita, La Dolce Vita, Life is Beautiful, Seven, Magnolia, 12 Monkeys, Audition, Azumi, Swingers, Princess Bride, Rocky, Stand By Me, Austin Powers, Dumb & Dumber, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Meet the Parents, There's Something About Mary, Waiting for Guffman, Rushmore, Brazil, Blade Runner, Scarface, Boogie Nights, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rounders, Hanabi, Enter the Dragon, Drunken Master 2, Amelie, Chasing Amy, Star Wars, The Matrix 1, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, The Killer, Hard Boiled, The Last Emperor, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Casablanca, Road to Perdition, The Dreamers, Run Lola Run, Taxi Driver, Mystic River, Spiderman 2, Napolean Dynamite, Closer, Ray, Million Dollar Baby

Television:

Addicted but not hooked =)

Books:

Books that I can read again & again: "The Great Gatsby" by F.Scott Fitzgerald, "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller, "Fires" by Raymond Carver, "A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain" by Robert Olen Butler, "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger, "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren, "The Joy of Cooking", "The Camera" by Ansel Adams, "Making Movies" by Sidney Lumet, "Run With the Hunted" by Charles Bukowski, "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, "The Art of War" by Sun Tsu, "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy" by Tim Burton, "On Writing" by Stephen King, "The Kid Stays in the Picture" by Robert Evans, "Existentialism & Mystics" by Iris Murdoch, "The Tao of Jeet Kun Do" by Bruce Lee, "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk

Heroes:

My parents. Their love and support reinforce my ambitions.

My Blog

Stress vs. Sanity

Life can punch you in the face...sometimes it hurts and other times not so much.  It's the little punches, however, that add up to something really painful.  I'm surprised I don't walk aroun...
Posted by Maiku on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:58:00 PST