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mike

Just remember, That death is not the end.

About Me

I am a 36 year old recovering drug-addict. Right this second I live in Purgatory (Washington DC) but am moving back to Austin, Texas in June of '07. (NOTE : I LIVE IN AUSTIN AS OF JUNE 1ST! I AM HERE.)I used to feel compelled to try and impress people with my musical prowess and skill at ice-fishing, bowling, talking etc. My acumen at the game of life? Limited, at best. I like thunderstorms, moonlit walks, horseback riding and rock and roll dancing. I also enjoy watching friends argue, my pet rats and the films of Robbie Benson.

My Interests

Moping, Crying, Wrastling, Going to thos God Damned Meetings (they rule!), Talking Shit Like I am On Quaaludes, Naming and Nick-Naming People and Things, Regaling the Kids With Stories, Battling Those Pesky Fundamentalists, Collecting Masonic Items, Making Love To Myself, Getting Fatter, Giving a Motherfucker the Benefit of The Doubt, Doubting and treating Almost Everyone I Know As Suspect, Getting Very Angry With Broad Reaching Social Norms, Ignoring My Family, Progeria, Yelling At The Television, Keeping Up With The Joneses.

I'd like to meet:

Kelly Mitchell, John Mitchell, Johnny Mitchell, Joni Mitchell. Also and not limited to; Jack Lord, Prince Ranier, Bill O'Reilly (the sex talker), Ron Jaworski, Jim Plunkett, MC Mic Chapoton, Larry Winther, Tim Kerr's brother(yeah, he has one!), Chunk, The Fratelli's, Chepo Pena, Rosie O'Donnell, Society People, The HC band, "Pride Kills," (they rule), Rory Calhoun, The Snacks, Rose MacGowan, Geraldo Rivera, Ronnie Van Zandt.

Music:

Neurosis, Marty Robbins, Cro-Mags, Lee Hazelwood, Drive Like Jehu, Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid, Mose Allison, Dead Boys, UK Subs,Joy Division, Celtic Frost, Goode Mob, Possesed, Slapshot, 13th Floor Elevators, Hugh Beaumont Experience, Stick Men With Rayguns, Unsane, Live Skull, Sheer Terror, Void, Lubricated Goat, Dirty Three, Rose Tattoo, Nick Cave, Bon Scott Era AC/DC, Legionares Disease, TSoL, Fang, Big Boys, Marginal Man, Faith, Agnostic Front, Wicked Sceptre, Geto Boys, shellac, Isis, Black Market Baby, Crime, Humpers, The Gories, Laughing Hyenas, Unwound, Boss Hog, Pussy G, JSBX, GVSB, Ray Price, Tammy Wynette, Bob Wills &.., Monster Magnet, (old) White Zombie, Rites of Spring, Ruts, Wipers, Dwarves, Weirdos, Germs, Nofx, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dudes, Mc5, Necros, Big Sandy and His Fly Rite Boys, Bloodrock, Death, Morbid Angel, Voivod, DOA, Cockney Rejects, 4 Skins, CFA (nyc), Crucifix, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Damned, Carnivore, Type O, Down, COC (esp. old) Thin Lizzy, Seduce (detroit), Tom Dark of Cleveland Oh., Keelhaul, Glorium, Poison 13, Lord High Fixers, Enduro, Gut, Breakdown, Killing Time, Mummies, Season to Risk it, Janus Figure, Hound Dog Taylor, high on Fire, Skrewdriver (1st), Swiz, Fartz, Gun Club, Stooges, American Psycho Band(those dudes are awesome!), Mudhoney, Blitz, Jawbreaker, Gits, Leatherface, etc.

Movies:

One Eyed Jacks, Wild Angels, Hell's Angels Forever, Omega Man, Sunset Blvd., Mean Streets, The Wild Bunch, Dirty Harry, Last House on the Left, Tx Chainsaw, Dr Butcher MD, Dawn of the Dead(old), Suspiria, Hawaii 5-0 (pilot), Shakes the Clown, Captain Ron, Bad News Bears, Grumpy Old Men, 2Mules For Sister Sara, The Shinning, The Killing, I Walked With a Zombie, Slapshot, lebowski, Hudsucker, Last Picture Show, Barry Lyndon, Ed Wood, L.A. Confidential, Angels W/Dirty Faces, High Plains Drifter, Mad Max, Chopper.

Television:

Brini Maxwell, Rachel Ray, Trading Spaces, Dharma and Greg, etc.

Books:

I will read any and all books about skinheads, bikers (real ones), metalists be they black or ney, murderers, Mary kay LaTouneau and Villy Fulau. Gangs, etc. This also goes for Pachucos, Vatos, any ,"Behind the Music."

Heroes:

Kill Them.

My Blog

Farewell Maryland Melanie.

So, a few days ago I got a call from someone I didn't expect to hear from again. I have had a few calls like this over the years, I tilt my head to the side like the puppy in front of the phonograph, ...
Posted by mike on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:08:00 PST

’SUPERBAD’ BOYCOTT STARTS RIGHT HERE.

I am boycotting the,"Superbad,' movie. There are like 300 posts about the shit and I know it will no way be better than say, "GoodBurger," or the Bill Cosby classic, "Ghost Dad." Sure, everyone likes ...
Posted by mike on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:41:00 PST

sick, sick, sick.

Hello. Yes, I am sick, thanks for all the concern. I have received exactly NO MAIL since the onset of said illness. I believe I contracted it from a one, Guilty Dave, my roommate. I know I did because...
Posted by mike on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:51:00 PST

Lee Hazlewood dies, asshole from Spoon lives, humps passed out teenage legs well into early 50s

Lee Hazlewood was this fucking dude who wrote songs, hung out with Nancy Sinatra and walked around on the beach wearing leather pants. Sometimes he rode a horse on the beach as well. He seemed to have...
Posted by mike on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:41:00 PST

Farewell, Bring On The Night.

Farewell to all the ties, the nostalgia, the reunions, the birth, the stillborn and those heading back home. Birth, School, Work, Death - yeah, if you are familiar with that song those dudes said it a...
Posted by mike on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:16:00 PST

My first drug experiences.

My first drug experiences were both foreign and disturbing, not as the result of a bad-trip or unknowingly smoking greene ( Southern, Md. slang for PCP, which at the time was also known in various pla...
Posted by mike on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:28:00 PST

Jesus, thanks for the job, indegestion.

Jesus, Thanks for the new job that Murphy, boss harp blaster, hooked a brother up with. 7a-3:30pm, Mon-Fri., using my skills as a pipe-fitter. We all have to do some shitty ass job, and hopefully this...
Posted by mike on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:11:00 PST

I am holding on to all the wrong things.

I hold on to things, mountains of dusty words and stories of betrayed, lovelorn, sad-sacks and the feelings I lived through, with hell scorched wings. I am holding on to my wings, they were a gift fro...
Posted by mike on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:22:00 PST

I Can Hardly Wait

Watched ,"Mean Streets," stressed to new roomates, greatest movie, one of them, ever made.  Music placed pefectly throughout. Love the Cream song at the end, I forgot what it was called but discu...
Posted by mike on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:55:00 PST

"Everybody knows you are insane."

"Long distance dedications, Dee-Troit Angie, Don Rock, Kim Bennett-Limeywife, Janet Hammer, Sarajoy, Young Meredith, Brooklyn Kelly, Baltimore Mel, Sean Powell, to all them pretty girls out there toni...
Posted by mike on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:07:00 PST