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mike

You can never quarantine the past - pavement

About Me

CHECK OUT MY REAL WEBSITE, with fiction, music, essays, and more..."www.mikeyopp.com"i like to travel. and then not travel. and read books. and do the crossword. and write. and compose music. and play said music. and write. and then listen to lots of other music. and i like to think, with my eyes closed. but i like to laugh more than anything else on earth. and despite all the strife you wanna see, and however much you may feel tempted to pity the protaganist in the movie adaptation of the story of your life, really, there's so much about yourself to laugh at, and with, and it's much more fun to laugh than to cry. so laugh.

My Interests

"http://www.mikeyopp.com" check it out, it's better than this site.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who knows a way to oust president bush from office without using violence or lawyers. Someone who knows all the members of pavement and can get them to do a reunion tour, but a well practiced one, and one in which when they play in Portland, Oregon they play the songs AT&T and Embassy Row... I would also like to meet people who like rise early, and then read and do the crossword in the morning, talk into the afternoon, and then do spontaneous things in the evening. Is there someone out there who can tell me what the the plan is...and where i fit in?

Music:

NIRVANA, beulah, PAVEMENT, malkmus + jicks, the doors, the beatles, spoon, radiohead, the who, pink floyd, local h, camper van beethoven, cracker, talking heads, rancid, screeching weasel, nofx, mr. t experience, a.c. newman, the new pornagraphers, and of course, Punchclock, Ithaca NY's greatest acid-surf-grunge-punk-rock band, circa 2003-2004, and about 900 other great bands...

Movies:

The Shawshank Redemption, Goodfellas, On the Waterfront, malcolm X, Billy Madison, Tommy Boy, Vanilla Sky, the jerk, the three amigos, groundhog day, a clockwork orange, dr. strangelove (okay, to save time, all kubrick films), uh, yeah, i took film in college...

Television:

six feet under, curb your enthusiasm, seinfeld, the simpsons, the family guy, the wonder years, alf, the daily show, 24, and "Lost", but i'm not to proud of the last two ones, but hey man, they're addictive. Oh yeah, and TWIN PEAKS -- probably the best TV show of all time, i just don't really consider it TV, since it's so damn good.

Books:

wow...um, so many, vonnegut, chabon, jonathan safran foer, hemingway, f. scott fitzgerald, bukowski, john fante, faulkner to a lesser degree, and so many many more....I was a lit. major in college, and love few things more than to read a great work of fiction.

Heroes:

you should be your own hero, but if i gotta pick one; Mahatma Gandhi...way to go, tough guy!

My Blog

"It Sucks To Be You." - Issue No. 54 - "Eye Can See Clearly Now." - By Mike Oppenheim

Well, the results are in, and I can now officially claim to have undergone a successful laser eye surgery.  It's been three weeks since the surgery, and so far, nothing awful has happened to my p...
Posted by mike on Sun, 13 May 2007 01:35:00 PST

"It Sucks To Be You." - Issue No. 53 - "Eye Just May Be Crazy" - By Mike Oppenheim

What a week.  Between Imus and Anna Nicole, I didn't know what to think about our media and society in general.  But then, when a genuine American hero passed away in the middle of the week,...
Posted by mike on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:32:00 PST

"It Sucks To Be You." - Issue No. 52 - "I Quit, No Really..." - By Mike Oppenheim

It's Sunday morning, April 1st, 2007.  Today is technically opening day for the newest season of major league baseball.  For me, this is somewhat of a high holy day.  I don't know why, ...
Posted by mike on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:49:00 PST

"It Sucks To Be You." - Issue No. 51 - "Day Light Savings" - By Mike Oppenheim

Yet another friend of mine made fun of me last night for going to sleep insanely early.  Sure, it was my first night since I flew back into Portland where I didn't have to get up early for work t...
Posted by mike on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:28:00 PST

"It Sucks To Be You." - Issue No. 50 - "What Happened?" - By Mike Oppenheim

When I was a child, I wanted to grow up so that I could become famous.  I thought that being famous was synonymous with being loved, and that to be loved meant guaranteed happiness.  A lot h...
Posted by mike on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:01:00 PST

"It Sucks To Be You." - Issue No. 49 - "Who's Your Daddy?" - By Mike Oppenheim

It's Sunday, I'm in a coffee shop, nursing an awful hangover, trying to soothe a three day old sore throat, and all the while trying to ignore the searing, burning pain in my upper-lower back (what a ...
Posted by mike on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:34:00 PST

"It Sucks To Be You." - Issue No. 48 - "Grow Up" - By Mike Oppenheim

When I wake up in the morning, after I brush my teeth and wash my face, I will occasionally look at my face in the mirror.  And every time I remember to do this, which isn't often, I tend to noti...
Posted by mike on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:33:00 PST

"It Sucks To Be You." - Issue No. 47 - "What's Up, Doc?" - By Mike Oppenheim

Before I anoint this column with its proper subject, please first allow me to take a brief moment to say Grace, and thank the Universe for the awesome spectacles and miracles that it performs on a dai...
Posted by mike on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:01:00 PST

"It Sucks To Be You." - Issue No. 46 - "Wordsworth Moments" - By Mike Oppenheim

In college I was an English Literature major.  Much to my chagrin, this meant that I had to read a lot of so-called classics, written by what many Lit. majors dubbed "dead white men."  I don...
Posted by mike on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:21:00 PST

"It Sucks To Be You." - Issue No. 45 - "Don't Coddle Me" - By Mike Oppenheim

I was reading the news last week when I read about the miraculous discovery of a boy who had been missing for almost five years.  It so happens that after another boy went missing in St. Louis, a...
Posted by mike on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:01:00 PST