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m i c h a e l

I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than 100 people's ninth favorite thing.

About Me

Regional, territorial, and refined for extreme smoothness. Quirks involve hunting eyes, fearless car singing, etc.

My Interests

Guitar, Photography, Red Heads, Swing Dancing, Parties, Running, Lucid Dreaming, Spaceland, Screenwriting, Basketball, Heartbreak, Samoyeds, Primitivism, Flirting, Warped Tour, Sky Diving, Italia, Drawing, Figuring Out Los Angeles, Music Videos, Bad Poetry, AmeriCorps, Chicago, Champaign-Urbana, San Luis Obispo, OB 1-4, Absinthe, The Divine Virus I am 34% Punk Rock.
.. Rarely do people think I am punk. But one girl was so impressed with my punkness that she cried. It was during 2004. Dead serious. Take the
Punk Rock Test
@ FualiDotCom

I'd like to meet:

Surprise me, baby.

Music:

Nick Drake, The Go! Team, Daniel Johnston, Sugar, Pixies, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, The Roots, Velvet Underground, The Smiths, Buddy Holly, Plain White T's, John Lennon, Nirvana, The Magnetic Fields, Sonic Youth, Frank Black and the Catholics, No Use For A Name, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Sublime, Beat Happening, Lucky Boys Confusion, Bob Mould, Morrissey, The Mr. T Experience, Pavement, The Flaming Lips, Smoking Popes, The Sonics, Fountains of Wayne, Nico, Elton John, The Strokes, Silver Jews, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Weezer, The Scissors, The Breeders, Eminem, AFI, Husker Du, Lou Reed, Denge Fever, Mellow Candle, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Peak Show, Prince, Antony and the Johnsons, Persephone's Bees ............................................................ ......................
You are Tomorrow!
Dreamy, heart full of emotion, you want what you know you cannot have.

Which solo Morrissey song are you?

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Hoop Dreams, The Long Goodbye, 25th Hour, Once Upon a Time in the West, Made, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Nixon, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Jackie Brown, Star Wars, Breaking the Waves, Rashomon, The Graduate, Apocalypse Now, Aliens, Ghost World, Crumb, Waking Life, Shadowlands, The Bicycle Thief, Blue Velvet, Run Lola Run, Indiana Jones, Swingers, The Dark Crystal, The Little Mermaid

Television:

The Office (American/British), The State, Twin Peaks, Home Movies, Aeon Flux (Liquid Television), The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, NBA Basketball, The Simpsons, Reno 911, Duckman, Stella, The Wonder Years, Lost

Books:

The Blood Poets (Jake Horsley), Actual Air (David Berman), Revolution in the Head (Ian MacDonald), Hollywood (Charles Bukowski), Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino), The Lucid View (Aeolus Kaphus), White Noise (Don DeLillo), The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)

My Blog

Dallas

"trying to be berman again"up here on the 21st floor of the milleniumwe overdose on reddening coffee and flickcarefully crafted paper clips through american handstemporary football field goalsnot to s...
Posted by m i c h a e l on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:36:00 PST

Best/Worst Movies 2005 (revised 9/06)

Intro:Although I didn't feel a clear-cut champion this year - pool was weaker than I can remember since I dunno when - "Last Days" stands tall, though I'm sure it's perplexing to most. Think this way...
Posted by m i c h a e l on Sat, 06 May 2006 11:11:00 PST

Indie Scientists Create New, Ultradense Superirony

(from www.ucdadvocate.com) Researchers at the Institute of Indie Rock and Science (IIRS) startled the worlds of theoretical physics and youth culture with their announcement of the discovery of ...
Posted by m i c h a e l on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:04:00 PST

Iranian Forklift, Mother Says No

heres some slices of pie from my livejournal where im better at keeping up with myself. highlights of a year gone awry, somehow saving itself in the stretch run. 1/16/05 - 7 seconds in he...
Posted by m i c h a e l on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 03:16:00 PST

A Lonesome Dialogue

j. you deserve so much better than that. better than her, ya know? m. how would you know? j. every dog has his day. _that's_ how i know. m. very reassuring. am i to understand, then, that i'm a ...
Posted by m i c h a e l on Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:47:00 PST

Best Friends

a loud sshout out to the milk crew '92, drew and pat - we really got the job done boys - to bill "mr.protools" and all the aliens we shot the shit out of (my flamethrowas half empty yo!)... to annala ...
Posted by m i c h a e l on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Bye, Mitch

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Mitch Hedberg, a Minnesota-born comedian who worked in nightclubs, television and film in a wide-ranging career, died in New Jersey, his family said. He was 37. Pending the medic...
Posted by m i c h a e l on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Best/Worst Movies 2004

Top Ten: 1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2. Before Sunset 3. Collateral 4. Hotel Rwanda 5. I Heart Huckabees 6. Kill Bill Vol. 2 7. Friday Night Lights 8. Sideways 9. The Incredibles...
Posted by m i c h a e l on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST