Hexetera

Hi, my name's Michael - although I sign everything as '-m.p-'
I write songs, play guitar and sing in my band Dead Souls - a few people have commented that we sound like Pearl Jam-meets-Nirvana...which to me is a great thing as they're my two favourite bands.
I taight myself guitar, starting at age 11...good job I had no friends back then! Hehe, I seemed to pick it up fairly quickly!!!
These days I'm writing music so fast its getting hard to keep up...I have another 10 or so songs which I'm working on just as me, another 10 or so to add to the 14 or so Dead Souls songs that we've already recorded...and I just write whatever comes out, one minute it could be a grunge dirge, next a simple folky acoustic thing, a lullaby, some weird mexican dub style, ballad...whatever is there that needs to bleed.Sometimes I think I'm just a host, and the dead souls of musicians come and borrow this shell of mine.
I hardly sleep. Apparently I've always hated going to bed, even at a young age I'd be found way after my bed time on the stairs, asleep with a bunch of toys. I think these days I average about 4 hours a night. But thats not all bad, means I get to make use of 20 hours in the day...which is good as I have a lot of things I want to do!
When I do sleep my dreams are so bizarre, vivid...nightmares and crazy places and goings on. I'm obsessed by them...I try and write everything down. I think like cats, they hold some kind of answers to the world we live in. And speaking of cats....ever noticed when you've had a nightmare? The way the cat seems to know? They know something we dont...
I write prose poems, stories, babbles, journals. I sketch in stupid little notepads and great ones which cost more...I hate wasting paper, more for the fact that I hate to wreck the feel of a page, I hate creases in books, I hate when the spine breaks, I hate when pages have fallen out and I hate giving people pieces of my paper (hmmm OCD?)
I hoard notebooks like that guy from 'Se7en'.
I pretend I can paint although I mainly just abuse watercolor, deliberately using it the wrong way.
I sketch a lot too...crazy little doodles and caricatures, although I've lost interest in giving people noses and mouths...so a lot of the time they have rather blank faces! Nevertheless, still innaresting.
I cant destroy photographs...something about it, like erasing reality and history...and I'm no Hitler. I cant and wont, people sometimes dont get that...even if it conjures up the worst of my memories the pictures stay intact, hidden in folders of containers or in books I'll never read.
My memory is pretty bad too. I think its getting better...although I cant remember. Its something to note though.
I always wanted green eyes...and I got them when I turned Vegetarian! True story!!!
I coined the following phrases:
'Life...its a lot like surfing...you wipe out and what are you gonna do? Get back on the board...'
'I know there's light at the end of the tunnel...I just feel blind...'
'Life isnt about finding yourself...its about creating yourself...'
'The world is better when you're starved from sleep...'
'Just like plants we wilt in the shade...'
I'm not ashamed to be like my Dad
Hexetera is a Dead Souls song
Right now I'm Dr Jeckyll

I'm trying to pioneer the return of grunge:
I procrastinate so much that I'll be late dying...I'll do it tomorrow.
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