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Schooley

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About Me

I'm Michael Schooley, a wanderer of sorts that manages the act of living well enough to enjoy great art, pleasant company, and a comfortable standing of living, granting me a certain kind of happiness. I'm a somewhat shy yet excitable kind of guy that likes everything essential; movies, books, video games, philosophy, competitive entertainment, music, language, paintings and illustrations, technology, and a lot more. You probably can't pass a subject by my head without me knowing at least something about it... Probably.
I'm an aspiring artist. I'm always learning and hoping to create something one day that will be of high quality; In doing so, I'm working on my illustrative skills, my musical composition, and my writing. In fact, it would be safe to say that those three are my primary means of self-expression, and as such I have strong interest in creating art that belongs to each given genre.
Speaking of which, I belong to a few online art scenes here and there, but the culture is too much to explain here -- if you know me, you know me, and that's that ;)
Personally, I present myself as something of a contradiction. I'm reserved at times, mostly around strangers, but I'm always dramatic; I give the appearance of being stoic and hardboiled but I'm really passionate, imaginative, and emotional -- I look like a gunslinger and I get to be known as a bard. I don't talk too much regularly but I'm very friendly and sociable if you decide to get to know me. Also, I'm comical, sometimes ridiculous, but never at a lack of seriousness. I guess all this just comes with a worldly attitude, being able to laugh and smile at things when you understand and have experienced the highs and lows of life. I've had a lot of both, let me tell you!
Oh, besides everything else, I suppose I could just say that...

I am an INFJ.


The rarest personality type. Perhaps that explains why I'm so complicated and strange? Haha...

My Interests

I have a profound love of art. The stuff has saved my life! My gratitude goes out to music, video games, film, anime, manga, and literature; without those, I would of been lost.

Next to art is a love of philosophy, psychology, and random sciences such as semantics, biology, physics, etc... but with only a smattering of knowledge the hard sciences, regretfully.

I also have a fascination of machinery, engineering, and electronics which shows in an appreciation of vehicles and military equipment. In fact, I like these things enough to be able to talk about them on at *least* an amateur level. Finally, I very much like computers -- I've studied, built, and destroyed enough in the past seven years to have enough experience to go around for everyone :D

I'd like to meet:

I'm still rather new to the Albany region, so I'd like to find people to become friends with -- preferably the type I can actually talk to, hang out with and hold real conversations with.

My current circumstances allow me to be very flexible with my time, so if you're willing to send me a message or just shout out -- I can talk or hang wherever, whenever. Good times need good company, right?

To be honest, I'm up almost every night, all night, due to my lifestyle; But I'm also awake during the day. I don't sleep very often, so I need stimulation, folks.

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MSN: [email protected]

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My Livejournal

Music:

Pendulum, Sade, Prodigy, electronica, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Queen, Beatles, New Order, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Frank Zappa, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Styx, The Police, Video Game Music, Shinji Hosoe, Yuzo Koshiro

Movies:

The Castle of Cagliostro, Kiki's Delivery Service (anything Hayao Miyazaki, really), The Seventh Seal, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Paprika, Rambo: First Blood, the original Star Wars Trilogy, Whisper of the Heart, The Cat Returns, The Samurai trilogy, The Matrix, etc.

Television:

Cable Music Radio -- you know, those last channels that play only music tracks under certain genres.

When I'm actually looking for something to watch I typically turn to documentaries, Discovery channel, Cartoon Network, Sci Fi Channel, and maybe Comedy Central. There's not much out there that doesn't rot your soul.

Books:

The Old Man and the Sea, Les Miserables, Atlas Shrugged, Athem, The Last Unicorn, The Catcher in the Rye, The Romantic Manifesto, Fahrenheit 451, The Dark Tower Series, etc.

Heroes:

Real: Osamu Tezuka, Victor Hugo, Igmar Bergman, Bill and Melinda Gates, Ron Paul, etc.

Fictional: Blue Lightning Flik from Suikoden, Dr. Citan Uzuki from Xenogears, Edgar from Final Fantasy VI, Optimus Prime from the Transformers, Ragnar Danneskjold from Atlas Shrugged, Captain Harlock

My Blog

ACCURSED HIPPIES, ALWAYS SUPPORTING FREE SPEECH, FLOWERS, AND GAY MARRIAGE >:o(

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Posted by Schooley on Sat, 10 May 2008 10:47:00 PST

Enneagram Test

 Main Type Overall Self Take Free Enneagram Personality Test Enneagram Test Results Type 1 Perfectionism |||||||||||||||||||| 85% Type 2 Helpfulness ||||||...
Posted by Schooley on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:12:00 PST

BLOGASM

    You Are Teal GreenYou are a one of a kind, original person. There's no one even close to being like you.Expressive and creative, you have a knack for making the impossible possible....
Posted by Schooley on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:22:00 PST

Similarminds personality test

Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion |||| 16% Stability |||||||||||||||| 63% Orderliness |||||||||||||||| 63% Accommodation |||||||||||| 43% Interdependence |||||| 30%...
Posted by Schooley on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:47:00 PST

Hero's All American Grill (or: an accomplishment with all due respect to severe hunger)

Apparently, it's a local diner that serves enormous meals cooked to a restaurant's satisfaction but delivers them promptly like a fast food joint. Intrigued, I went there for my daily lunch and ordere...
Posted by Schooley on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:25:00 PST

A survey!

Name-Michael SchooleyBirthday-Christmas EveAge-22Born-Yes, I was.Current Hair Color-Blackish BrownetteNatural Hair Color-Blackish BrownetteHeight-5'11Fave Type of Food-Healthy, readily edible thingsEy...
Posted by Schooley on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:35:00 PST