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Micah

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About Me

I'm an out of work writer -- please go to http://www.micahsfitness.com/ so you can learn how to donate to my cause.

My Interests

Pool, quantum physics, football, writing of all kinds, nerdy girls, movies, astronomy, philosophy.

I'd like to meet:

Albert Einstein -- or Albert Brooks.

Music:

Radiohead of course -- TOOL -- Meshuggah -- Stone Roses -- Scott Weiland -- Bowie -- Queen -- terror -- hatefist -- Fear Factory -- The Eagles -- The Killers.

Movies:

The Graduate -- Gladiator -- Empire Strikes Back -- American Beauty -- Casablanca -- The Terminator and T2 -- Bladerunner -- Crouching Tiger -- What the Bleep -- The Hustler -- The Matrix -- Braveheart -- Sliding doors(I know -- doesn't fit, but I always cry at this one). Field of Dreams(Another tear jerker)

Television:

The Simpsons -- The Daily show -- Colbert Report -- Family Guy -- Sports of any kind -- Discovery channel -- TLC -- Conan -- Soppranos -- Futurama.

Books:

Confederacy of Dunces -- Jarhead -- Adventures in the screentrade -- Age of Spiritual Machines -- The Tao of Pooh -- Davinci Code -- Simulacra and Simulation -- One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest -- Oryx and Crake -- The Origin of Species -- Thought Contagen -- Genome -- Anything Assimov.

Heroes:

My Mom -- My Dad -- My uncle Troy -- Walter Payton -- George Lucas -- George Carlin -- Sarah Silverman -- Charles Barklay.

My Blog

"Lost"

     After much urging from Nola -- I finally gave in and started watching "Lost", and I’m glad I did.     Back in the nineties I purposefully refrained f...
Posted by Micah on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:45:00 PST

"Stay"

    This movie -- I think -- is about a suicidal college student who killed a few people and is now using those peeps to finally die -- trying to make everything as "Right" as possible ...
Posted by Micah on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:23:00 PST

"This Business of Screenwriting"

     This book is great for anyone in, or trying to get into the movie business. Whether you are a writer -- actor -- director -- or even an actor, you will want to give this book ...
Posted by Micah on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:30:00 PST

"Before Night Falls"

     This is another one of my "NetFlix" reviews... and this is a great movie.     Directed by Julian Schnabel (And written by an unknown screenwriter Cunningha...
Posted by Micah on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:34:00 PST

"The Last Shot" vs "State and Maine"

Alright -- I know these movies are a little old -- but I just got around to watching them... both are about making movies, so there are a lot of "Hollywood" jokes that make me feel like I'm finally ge...
Posted by Micah on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:16:00 PST

Lars and the Real Girl

     Hey everyone (All five of you) I watched a great-great film last night -- you guessed it -- "Lars and the Real Girl".     Run -- don't walk...I wish I wrot...
Posted by Micah on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:05:00 PST

Sid Field’s Screenwriter’s Workbook

    Any writers out there? Well -- even if you're not a screenwriter, this workbook can really help.     Since I started telling everyone that I was a writer about four y...
Posted by Micah on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:40:00 PST

No Country for Boring Films

     Okay -- maybe it was all the hype -- but I really didn't feel "No Country for Old Men" lived up to it -- I'm even a big Coen brothers fan -- "Barton Fink", "The Big Labowski"...
Posted by Micah on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:25:00 PST

In the future...

...We will all have faux paneling.
Posted by Micah on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:50:00 PST

I think Einstein said it best...

     When he said: "I wan't some toast."...
Posted by Micah on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:00:00 PST