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About Me

Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com / Squirell

I'm 36. Live in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
I own two internet software companies. My present projects include:
SpamBully a spam filter that's been rated "Best Buy" by WIRED Magazine, rated 5 cows by Tucows, has appeared in the book Fighting Spam fo Dummies, USA Today, Wall Street Journal online and other noted media outlets.
Feox a new program we are beta testing that let's you use the pictures on your website for ad space.
I've also enjoyed time in the music business here in Grand Rapids in the early 90's interviewing rock stars like Gene Simmons of KISS, Ozzy Osbourne, Jon Bon Jovi, Sarah McLachlan and others, photographing musicians on stage and running Music Revue magazine. I have extensive experience in internet and real world marketing/advertising/sales.
I love to take picutres, you can see my picture blog at Paul's Photo Page

My Interests

Photography, Travel (Chicago, NY, LA, Pacific NW, Toronto), World Cuisine (sushi, Indian, Thai, French, Peruvian, etc), Every Kind of Music, NetFlix (watched 250 dvds last year), Yoga.

I'd like to meet:

Bono, Larry Ellison, Larry David, Mark Cuban, Larry David, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, David Geffen, Stephen King, Lewis Black, Bill Maher, Les Paul, Chris Matthews, Kevin Spacey, Jack Nicholson, Willie Nelson, Jagger/Richards, anyone who doesn't have the Fray's "How to Save a Life" or Buck Cherry's "Crazy Bitch" as their profile song.

Music:

Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Van Halen, the Beatles, the Eagles, Sarah McLachlan, the Doors, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, 50 Cent, U2, the Eagles, Billy Joel, Elton John, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Natacha Atlas, Michael Hedges, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Frank Sinatra, Pink Floyd

Movies:

Love NetFlix;-) Some Favorites: American Beauty, Swimming with the Sharks, Big Kahuna, What the Bleep, Glengarry Glen Ross, Fight Club, Ghost World, Elegant Universe, Matrix 1 & 2, The Usual Suspects, Garden State, The Smartest Guys in the Room, Rounders, Training Day, Less than Zero, Magnolia, Casino Royale, Where the Truth Lies, Ronin, Training Day

Television:

Sienfeld, 24, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, K Street, Entourage, Nip/Tuck, The Soup, Californication, Bill Maher

Books:

Freakonomics, The Wolf of Wall Street, Life's a Campaign

Heroes:

Jimi Hendrix, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, David Geffen, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Tom Snyder, Tom Dowd, Ahmet Ertegun, George Carlin, Les Paul

My Blog

Listen to David Kamatoy Interview Me

I just had the pleasure of being interviewed by David Kamatoy from the David Kamatoy Show last week. If you are not familiar with David, he is a fantastically talented guy involved with online broadca...
Posted by P@ul on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:35:00 PST

Bret Michaels Pre-Rock of Love

I know a lot of people are into this Rock of Love show with Poison's Bret Michaels so I thought some might find this amusing. As I was cleaning out some boxes the other day and came across a 1992 copy...
Posted by P@ul on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:46:00 PST

Picture I Took of Eddie Vedder/Pearl Jam Back in 1991 in Kalamazoo

I was surfing on music sites last night and came across a site that listed bootleg Pearl Jam CD's Back in 1991, I shot pictures of Pearl Jam in at the State Theatre in Kalamazoo when they opened up fo...
Posted by P@ul on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:29:00 PST

Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech

I recently came across Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement speech again so I thought I would post it for others to enjoy. I've always found Jobs to be one more the more inpirational figures in technology fo...
Posted by P@ul on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:17:00 PST