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m!ke

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About Me

.. If you're interested in displaying, purchasing or inquiring about any of my artwork, feel free to send me a message and I'll contact you promptly. AOL Instant Messenger: spac3b0y MSN: [email protected]i am currently reading: Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama Dry by Augusten BurroughsI'm m!ke. I live in Central Florida currently. I'm an artist. I've been drawing for 20 years, and painting for about six years. I've been in a few shows, and I'm always looking for new places to display work. I've got a tight group of really awesome friends, we essentially form our own eclectic subculture, I however tend not to hang out at the homebase, which has turned into Stardust Video and Coffee in Winter Park. Even though I can rely on them to stock the Hal Hartley movie I want to watch on any given week.
I enjoy indie-rock and indie-pop a great deal, some old school new wave, trip-hop, some lap-pop and synthpop, some rockabilly and psychobilly, a little of everything really. I've seen quite a large number of films. My sense of humor is a broken record of pop-culture references and in-jokes. I enjoy cooking, but I'm a bit rusty and just now getting back into the habit. When my girlfriend and I aren't working we bum around and try and find things to do before everything closes or just sleep in. I mostly just orbit around the periphery of the art world, hoping to be exposed to new sights and sounds, and maybe make a cool friend or two.Oh yeah, don't friend me unless you send a message saying "hello" first.Take a look at some of my art.

My Interests

the 80's, alcohol, anatomy, androgyny, angst, art, beat poets, beatniks, beauty, bedtime stories, bondage, buddhism, burlesque, cannibalism, carnies, cheesecake, cinema, comic books, cooking, corruption, cuddling, cynicism, death, devils, domination, drawing, dreams, duality, ephemera, ethereal, existentialism, fascism, fetishism, forensics, foreplay, freaks, fucking, furniture, geeks, german, girls, goths, horror movies, innocence, insomnia, introverts, jews, kittens, legends, lesbians, lowbrow, madness, make up, making out, marionettes, martinis, martyrs, masochism, masturbation, meditation, milkman dan, misanthropy, mod, monsters, movies, music, nighttime, nihilism, pain, parapsychology, perversion, philosophy, phobias, photography, pin-up girls, pornography, psychology, purity, rain, reincarnation, robots, sadism, sadness, scars, scary go round, serial killers, sexuality, sharp things, sideshows, sin, sleep, soylent green, spankings, stars, sushi, taoism, tears, theater, theology, toys, truth, voyeurism, writing, zombies

I'd like to meet:

Someone who gets the joke.

Music:

a-Ha, Air, Alice Cooper, Animal Collective, Aphex Twin, April March, Arab Strap, Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Arrogants, Art Brut, Autechre, Avalanches, B-52's, Band Marino, Band of Horses, Bauhaus, Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Beta Band, Beth Gibbons, Beulah, Birdmonster, BirdWire, Biirdie, Bjork, Billy Corgan, Black Angels, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blind Melon, Blitzen Trapper, Blood on the Wall, Blur, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bobby Darin, Book of Lists, Books, Breeders, Brian Eno, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bright Eyes, Broadcast, Broken Social Scene, Buddy Holly, Burdocks, Caribou, Cars, Casey Dienel, Cat Power, Cat Stevens, Cee-Lo Green, Chopin, Chris Isaak, Chromeo, Chuck Berry, Church, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clash, Clientele, Cloud Cult, Cramps, Cure, Cyndi Lauper, Dandy Warhols, Danger Mouse, Danny Elfman, Darkness, David Bowie, David Byrne, Dead Kennedys, Deadly Snakes, Dean Martin, Death Cab for Cutie, Decemberists, Deerhoof, Delerium, Depeche Mode, Destroyer, Devo, Discovery of Magnetic North, Editors, Eels, Elastica, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Erasure, Faith No More, Flaming Lips, Frank Black, Franz Ferdinand, Frou Frou, Gentle Waves, Good Life, Gorillaz, Happy Mondays, Hum, Idlewild, Iggy Pop, Interpol, Iris, Iron & Wine, Janis Joplin, Jarvis Cocker, Jeff Buckley, Jesus & Mary Chain, Johnny Cash, Jon Brion, Joy Division, Loretta Lynn, Louis Prima, Manitoba, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, Medicine, Metric, Microphones, Michael Jackson, Mirah, Misfits, Modest Mouse, Morphine, Morrissey, Mumpsy, My Bloody Valentine, Neil Diamond, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, Nick Drake, Nirvana, Oasis, Optiganally Yours, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Poe, Polaris, Polyphonic Spree, Portishead, Postal Service, Prefuse 73, Prince, Pulp, Psychedelic Furs, Queen, R.E.M., Radiohead, Ramones, Raveonettes, Rilo Kiley, Rolling Stones, Scout Niblett, Sex Pistols, Shellac, Shins, Silver Jews, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Sleater-Kinney, Slowdive, Smashing Pumpkins, Smiths, Social Distortion, Stereolab, Stills, Spoon, Stooges, Strokes, Sufjan Stevens, Sunny Day Real Estate, T. Rex, Talking Heads, Thom Yorke, Tiger Army, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Toadies, Tori Amos, Tricky, Tullycraft, U.N.K.L.E., Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, Weezer, White Stripes, Xiu Xiu, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Movies:

12 monkeys, 28 days later, 2001: a space odyssey, a clockwork orange, adventures of baron munchausen, alien, alien3, amelie, american history x, american beauty, annie hall, apocalypse now, army of darkness, back to the future (1-3), barton fink, being john malkovich, benny & joon, better off dead, blade runner, blue velvet, bottlerocket, bowling for columbine, brazil, breakfast at tiffany's, bubba ho-tep, buffalo '66, cabinet of dr. caligari, catch me if you can, cemetary man, city lights, city of lost children, clerks, cube, dancer in the dark, dark city, dawn of the dead, day of the dead, dead men don't wear plaid, delicatessen, devil's backbone, dial "m" for murder, die hard, dog day afternoon, donnie darko, dr. strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, duck soup, dune, easy rider, ed wood, edward scissorhands, elephant man, empire records, e.t. the extra-terrestrial, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, evil dead, evil dead 2, explorers, fargo, fear and loathing in las vegas, fifth element, fight club, frailty, freaks, freeway, garden state, ghost world, ghostbusters, ginger snaps, goodfellas, gummo, happiness, heavenly creatures, hedwig and the angry inch, hide and creep, high fidelity, i ..(heart) huckabees, indiana jones and the raiders of the lost ark, indiana jones and the last crusade, insomnia, invasion of the body snatchers, jackie brown, killing zoe, labyrinth, land of the dead, léon: the professional, little miss sunshine, lost highway, lost in translation, magnolia, mary poppins, meet the feebles, memento, metropolis, misadventures of margaret, modern times, mulholland dr., my fair lady, night of the living dead, north by northwest, nosferatu, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, pee wee's big adventure, pulp fiction, rear window, reservoir dogs, return of the living dead, ringu, rosemary's baby, rushmore, se7en, seven samurai, shaun of the dead, sin city, six-string samurai, snatch, spellbound, stand by me, strangers on a train, taxi driver, texas chainsaw massacre, the agronomist, the devil's rejects, the dreamers, the exorcist, the godfather, the godfather 2, the goonies, the graduate, the great dictator, the life aquatic, the lion in winter, the neverending story, the nightmare before christmas, the princess bride, the thing, the ring, the royal tenenbaums, the shining, the silence of the lambs, the usual suspects, the wizard of oz, this is spinal tap, time bandits, titus, to kill a mockingbird, trainspotting, trees lounge, true romance, velvet goldmine, vertigo, waiting for guffman, where the buffalo roam, willy wonka & the chocolate factory, young frankenstein... oh lord, this could take a while. let's skip ahead for now.

Television:

The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Amazing Stories, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Arrested Development, Carnivale, Ed vs Spencer, Eerie, Indiana, Deadwood, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Invader Zim, Jim Henson Muppet Hour, Kids in the Hall, Max Headroom, My Name is Earl, Northern Exposure, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Robot Chicken, Rollergirls, Sealab 2021, The Sopranos, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Tales from the Crypt, The State, The Storyteller, The Twilight Zone, The Venture Bros., Twin Peaks, Weeds

Books:

i love all sorts of books, but here are a few specifics...art barr, glenn - lowlife paradise english, ron - popaganda mcgrath, liz - everything that creeps ragnar - chromaphile ryden, mark - anima mundi schorr, todd - dreamland, secret mystic rites white, eric - it feeds itself, what are parents?children's baum, l. frank - ozma of oz, patchwork girl of oz, the, lost princess of oz, the carroll, lewis - alice's adventures in wonderland, through the looking glass de saint-exupéry, antoine - little prince, the ende, michael - neverending story, the gaiman, neil - coraline, the day i swapped my dad for two goldfish, wolves in the walls l'engle, madeline - swiftly tilting planet, wrinkle in time, a lewis, c.s. - chronicles of narnia, the (series) rowling, j.k. - harry potter (series)fiction adams, douglas - dirk gently's holistic detective agency, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy: a trilogy in five parts, long dark tea-time of the soul, long dark tea-time of the soul brite, poppy z. - are you loathsome tonight?, exquisite corpse burgess, anthony - clockwork orange, a burroughs, william s. - junky, naked lunch camus, albert - exile and the kingdon, stranger, the capote, truman - breakfast at tiffany's, in cold blood chabon, michael - amazing adventures of kavalier & clay, the clarke, arthur c. - 2001: a space odyssey, childhood's end dick, philip k. - do androids dream of electric sheep?, scanner darkly, a, man in the high castle ellis, bret easton - american psycho, less than zero gaiman, neil - american gods, anansi boys, fables & reflections, neverwhere, smoke & mirrors golding, william - lord of the flies harris, thomas - hannibal, red dragon, silence of the lambs heller, joseph - catch-22 kafka, franz - castle, the, metamorphosis, the kerouac, jack - big sur, dharma bums, on the road kesey, ken - one flew over the cuckoo's nest lee, harper - to kill a mockingbird lovecraft, h.p. - call of cthulu, the, dunwich horror, the, silver key, the maguire, gregory - wicked moore, christopher - bloodsucking fiends, coyote blue, dirty job, a, island of the sequined love nun, lamb, practical demonkeeping murakami, haruki - the elephant vanishes: stories, the wind-up bird chronicle: a novel nabokov, vladimir - lolita, pale fire orwell, george - 1984, animal farm palahniuk, chuck - fight club, invisible monsters, lullaby, survivor shelley, mary - frankenstein twain, mark - adventures of hucklberry finn, the, (assorted short stories) vonnegut, jr., kurt - bluebeard, cat's cradle, galapogos, hocus pocus, sirens of titan, the, slaughterhouse-five, time quake wallace, david foster - infinite jest welsh, irvine - acid house, the, trainspotting wilde, oscar - picture of dorian gray, thegraphic novels clowes, daniel - ghost world, ice haven gaiman, neil - the sandman hewlett, jamie - tank girl miller, frank - dark night returns, the, dark night strikes again, the, sin city (series) moore, alan - from hell, killing joke, the, league of extraordinary gentlemen, the v for vendetta, watchmen thompson, craig - blankets vasquez, jhonen - i feel sick, johnny the homicidal maniac, squee!nonfiction aucoin, kevyn - face forward, making faces roach, mary - spooked, stiff sedaris, david - barrel fever, dress your family in corduroy and denim, me talk pretty one day, naked thompson, hunter s. - fear and loathing in las vegas, fear and loathing on the campaign trail, hell's angels vowell, sarah - assassination vacation, partly cloudy patriot, the, take the cannoli: stories from the new world

Heroes:

batman, dirk gently, guatama buddha, travis bickle, tyler durden

My Blog

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Posted by m!ke on Thu, 08 May 2008 04:06:00 PST

The Final Countdown

Dear Europe, I can appreciate how awesome you think you may be, what with naming yourself after a pretty rocking hairband. I want you to understand that I still do not appreciate you stealing my frien...
Posted by m!ke on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:53:00 PST

White Tornado

AN OPEN LETTER TO TORNADOES AFTER WATCHING AN EPISODE OF STORMCHASERS ON THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL: Dear Tornadoes, You are stupid cool, and I have to say that I really wish I was one of those guys who ge...
Posted by m!ke on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:57:00 PST

Lime House

MY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS SUBMITTED TO PIPERLIME.COM AFTER PURCHASING SHOES: Shoes are kind of gross. Thanks. The lime makes me feel less dirty after shoe shopping. I am sure that you did all...
Posted by m!ke on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:03:00 PST

Jigsaw Falling Into Place

holy crap damns.i think phil threatened to quit if he couldn't play snare on every song, but i don't even care. this is the second play through of the album, and i really fucking love it.on initial re...
Posted by m!ke on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:12:00 PST

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

November was so long ago, and I've been so lost in my head. I neglect the people I care about, and crowd the people I love, all at the same time. While juggling all sorts of things and ideas. I think ...
Posted by m!ke on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:30:00 PST

Hands

I've given myself two months and about a week to have everything change drastically for the better.
Posted by m!ke on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:07:00 PST

Popular Mechanics For Lovers

Fuck substance if you've got the style. Give up and become an accountant or fast food clerk or go into retail if you can't manage either. The trick to getting where you want to be and being ...
Posted by m!ke on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:56:00 PST

Black Swan

A long absence interrupted, things are going well enough. Haven't been painting as much as I ought, but I've got ideas rattling around and I need a venue for what I've done. Happy belated Birthday....
Posted by m!ke on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:35:00 PST

No More Sorry

bits and pieces of history drifting into nosebleed confessions. sometimes no times ghosts and whispers of yesterday crooked toothed and cello crying jags. drooling kittens with fits and starts of thin...
Posted by m!ke on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:25:00 PST