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Mike Smirnoff

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What did the five fingers say to the face?....................................................... .............SLAP. ..

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Member Since: 1/15/2006
Band Website: mikesmirnoff.com
Band Members: Mike Smirnoff - drumset, percussion
Influences: Michael Jackson, Chris Whitley, Corey Harris, Bang Tango, Miles Davis, Candiria LATELY: Dafnis Prieto "About the Monks", Bob Dylan "Nashville Skyline", Bobby McFerrin "Spontaneous Inventions", Joni Mitchell "Blue" (and more recently "Both Sides Now"), the vibe-y Daniel Lanois, Forecast, Forward Kwenda, Tower of Power, Wayne Shorter "Juju", Drew Gress "7 Black Butterflys", Stevie Wonder, Herbie Mann, and yes, much to Matt's dissapointment; Fall Out Boy. December: Elliott Smith "Either/Or" March: We Are Scientists "Love and Squalor" April: Head Automatica "Propaganda" June: Bloc Party "Silent Alarm" and "A Weekend In The City" July: Muse "Absolutions" November: Anberlin January 08: The Arcade Fire Live NYC (Bootleg), Via Audio, Radiohead-In Rainbows, Elliott Smith-Live LA (Bootleg) Feb 08: Bob Dylan "New Morning"Welbilt- Song 1: Anthem

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.."Art is a cry of distress from those who live out within themselves the destiny of humanity, who are not content with it but measure themselves against it, who do not obtusely serve the engine to which the label "unseen forces" is applied, but throw themselves into the moving gears to understand how it works. They are those who do not turn their eyes away to protect themselves from the emotions but open them wide to oppose what must be attacked. They do, however, often close their eyes to perceive what the senses do not convey, to look inside of what seems to be happening on the surface. Inside them turns the movement of the world; only an echo of it leaks out--the work of art." Arnold Schoenberg From "Aphorismen" in Die Musik
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My Blog

LA

Playing LA was a whirlwind...Mike, John and I left from LAX to catch Beautiful Creatures open for Faster Pussycat @ Crash Mansion.  I missed my cousin's set w/ the Creatures but we did ...
Posted by Mike Smirnoff on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:59:00 PST

VA and NC weekend epic...

This was a great weekend for No Second Troy; we played Charlottesville, VA, on Friday, drove after the show to Raleigh (3 hrs...if you have directions), recorded @ Low Watt Saturday, left for Cha...
Posted by Mike Smirnoff on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:25:00 PST

big news!

I just got off the phone with Dr. Conway from Morgan State University in Baltimore and he offered me the percussion faculty position!  I'll have nine private lesson students and teach a perc...
Posted by Mike Smirnoff on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:47:00 PST

USA: 2,316

2,316 Americans killed in Iraq  http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/   [6/23 2,512 Americans Killed] [8/16 2,602 Americans Killed] [9/20 2,688 Americans Killed]...
Posted by Mike Smirnoff on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:49:00 PST