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Mike

About Me

many things to many people (sometimes).

My Interests

death, birth, rebirth, cosmic death, darkness of the heart, nighttime of the soul, midnight in the left aorta, mid-afternoon in the small intestine, afternoon sun, sunday morning, mourning, mourning the death of the soul, the fading past, faded jeans, acid wash jeans, acid on your jeans, dancing machines, machines that do things, projects, projectors, cameras, chimeras, chinchillas, collotypes, archetypes, gnocchi, orzo, the coming apocalypse, archipelagos, aquamarine, screens, saline, green beans, oneness, otherness, nothingness, pastes, blobs, video installations, bubble bobble

I'd like to meet:

i need to get back in touch with lots of people i've already met

Music:

thalia zedek, lydia lunch, leonard cohen, rose melberg, huggy bear, heavens to betsy, the third sex, god is my co-pilot, the dead c, swans, cranes, joy division, my bloody valentine, the au pairs, can, delta dart, x-ray spex, fad gadget, oval, lots of pretentious garbage

Movies:

the shining, brazil, nenette et boni, safe, dreamlife of angels, annie hall, crimes and misdemeanors, homicide, killer of sheep, crumb, american movie, the house of yes, nashville, three women, hulk, claire's knee, topsy turvy, who's afraid of virginia woolf?, the laramie project, klute, alien, spirited away, mulholland drive

Television:

law & order (the original; svu is ok, ci is dumb), old twilight zones, liquid television (oh, for the days)

Books:

i like artsy short stories, lefty political screeds, and comic books. also, i used to work at a bookstore. some favorite authors: donald barthelme, grace paley, william faulkner, susan sontag, june jordan, jorge luis borges, junot diaz, arundhati roy, imre kertesz, kathy acker

Heroes:

my favorite artists are my heroes in this world: yayoi kusama, felix gonzales-torres, jenny holzer, sophie calle, krzysztof wodiczko, mona hatoum, katharina fritsch, kerry james marshall, richard prince, shirin neshat, lorna simpson, martha rosler, roni horn, william kentridge, nigel cooke, miranda july, chester brown, julie doucet, ben katchor