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About Me

Micah sometimes plays music.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/12/2006
Band Members: I play accoustic and electric guitars, banjo, omnichord, harmonica, accordion, glockenspiel, piano, synth, percussion, drums and vox.
Influences: Elliott Smith, The Notwist, The Flaming Lips, Derek Webb, the Beatles, Jars of Clay, Death Cab for Cutie, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Wilco, the Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, Half-Handed Cloud, Daniel Johnston, Simon and Garfunkel, Everly Brothers, Robert Johnson, and too many others to mention.
Sounds Like: An accidental overdose of Bright Eyes with a chaser of Sufjan Stevens mixed in a tall glass of Daniel Johnston.
Record Label: Micah's Room
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Of Socrates and Sit-Ups

I was just reading about Socrates. He believed mortals could never obtained wisdom. Socrates expressed that his wisdom was limited to an awareness of his own ignorance. Scripture says that the wi...
Posted by The 5 O'Clock News! on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:14:00 PST

America #2

Exchangeable words in marketable phrasesJust lab rats rattling their cagesExperimental cells for the whistles and bellsThat stoke the fires of our personal hellsUntil the demons who own usAnd the teac...
Posted by The 5 O'Clock News! on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:19:00 PST

Photograph

We discuss Harry Potter and the late Brooklyn Dodgers, it is a sleepy January morning; I am in California, it is not January 14th. I woke up when the cat jump on my chest, that and the jet lag, or rev...
Posted by The 5 O'Clock News! on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:00:00 PST

It's a loaded gun

I have to say, it's a loaded gun pointed at my head, pointed at no one in particular. They say knowledge is power but truth can kill it's bearer; I would say it is truth that's dragging me down. I am ...
Posted by The 5 O'Clock News! on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:41:00 PST

A Bitter Break-Up

There has been none. It is just song. Let it go. 
Posted by The 5 O'Clock News! on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:53:00 PST

Something About Sunsets

I get depressed around election time. It's like the world is all screwed up and all the people running for office are just like the people downtown running drugs and prostitutes; only one is selling t...
Posted by The 5 O'Clock News! on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:15:00 PST

Love and War

I was in Wal-Mart a little while ago and overhead a couple of middle-aged men discussing the war in Iraq. "We ought to drop an atomic bomb on those rag-head bastards," one of them said. They both laug...
Posted by The 5 O'Clock News! on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:13:00 PST

Requiem

Requiem   I saw death when I was six, With my childish eyes, my head that sticks Above the pews to catch a glimpse Of the body, boxed to cart away.   Death took face when just last ye...
Posted by The 5 O'Clock News! on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:36:00 PST

Stupid (Smart Before)

Expect my music to become more and more political. It's okay, you don't have to run. I'm not a republican. I'm not even a democrat. I don't mean political in the typical bipartisan, bigoted sense. I d...
Posted by The 5 O'Clock News! on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:56:00 PST

The first of a series of one

This is my first blog and I honestly don't know what to say except that this site is here because of my friend Shawn from Portland. At first I refused to put my music on here but then he threatened me...
Posted by The 5 O'Clock News! on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:16:00 PST