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Mike O

The sun will always rise

About Me

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I was raised in the new wave 80's, and grunged in the 90's and now thrive in the 21st century. I am in love. Her name is Jessie. She's on MySpace, too and peer-pressured me into creating my own page for the internet public's enjoyment.
After a couple of career changes and my recently achieved degree(Management & Finance w/concentration in International Business), I'm looking forward to where life's path will take me. So far, it has been one heck of a ride, and I can't wait to see what is around the next bend!
I like bikes. Just about all bikes, really. I have what some would call an unhealthy obsession with bikes. Currently I rage on a personally custom-built Cannondale CAAD 3 mountain bike, with a Shimano/RaceFace parts mix, and a few titanium things thrown in as well.
I also like listening and recording cool music. Am into keyboards and some serious sonic digital editing. I have recorded a few CDs with extremely limited distribution. When I have the time I'll whip up a MySpace Music page to satisfy those half-dozen fans left out there...
Check out my blogs, I blog once in a while regarding my latest adventures...

My Interests

Bikes, aliens, baseball, hiking, rare coins, and Cafe Du Monde coffee.

I'd like to meet:

No one. Seriously. I have a fiancée and some real live other non-cyberspace friends and even have known the occasional cat or dog, too. But I will give consideration to those of my myspace peeps that have interesting enough myspace blogz...

Music:

I used to have an outrageously long list up here, but to simplify things I will mention to you what albums are in my current listening rotation:

Anything by Broken Social Scene

Heathen
(David Bowie)

Weightlifting
(Trashcan Sinatras)

Come on feel the Illinoise
(Sufjan Stevens)

The Life Pursuit
(Belle and Sebastian)

At War with the Mystics
(Flaming Lips)

Movies:

Movies that I really really like the best from recent years:

Sideways

Bubba Hotep

Kung Fu Hustle

Children of Men

Little Miss Sunshine

Long Life, Happiness,
& Prosperity

Lord of the Rings
trilogy(all of them)

300

Television:

LOVE the Office. The best show on TV right now, no question. I know it was originally a British show, but I love the new American version of it. The Office rules!!! That and Smallville.

Books:

RECOMMENDED READING:

all the Harry Potter books

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Crashing the Party by Ralph Nader

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

A daughter of Han by Ida Pruitt

The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters

The Fundamentals of Investing by Gitman & Joehnk,

The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley

Cell by Stephen King

Heroes:

Mat Hoffman, Chris Gardner, Wang Wei-Lin.

My Blog

300 - a review

On Saturday, I had the extreme good fortune of seeing the movie, "300," at the IMAX.  Extreme good fortune, I say, because the film was digitally remastered specifically for the massive IMAX scre...
Posted by Mike O on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:56:00 PST

Children of Men

Children of Men... a review Children of Men is directed by Alfonso Cuarón and stars the incomparable Clive Owen.  It is one of the finest films I have seen in at least the last 10 years.  T...
Posted by Mike O on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:58:00 PST

What I've been up to since the last blog post...

Been a while since my last blog entry, so I gues I better fill you guys in on all the juicy details. . . Some of the highlights since my last blog entry are that I held court with the Dalai Lama, sang...
Posted by Mike O on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:58:00 PST

A Scanner Darkly... the review

I had been waiting for Richard Linklater's "A Scanner Darkly," to arrive in theaters for quite some time.  There's something about rotoscoping animation that always pulls me into any film.  ...
Posted by Mike O on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:43:00 PST

New Orleans

Last week me and Jessie spent six days visiting New Orleans.  She was attending the national ALA conference in which Anderson Cooper, Cokie Roberts, Madeline Albright, and the First Lad...
Posted by Mike O on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:32:00 PST

I experienced Bauhaus at the Town Ballroom last night...

I'm not sure I can accurately convey this in mere words.  Jessie and me saw Bauhaus perform last night at the Town Ballroom in Buffalo, NY.  It was, without question, the best live even...
Posted by Mike O on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:21:00 PST

The Tragically Hip at Artpark

Last night I went to the Hip show at Artpark.  The Sadies opened up the show with their engagingly strange country-twanged 60's atmospheric surf rock.  They were better than I expected, alth...
Posted by Mike O on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:11:00 PST

Bauhaus

I am darn excited to report that I just acquired tickets to go see Bauhaus in a rare headliner show in an intimate setting, at the Town Ballroom in Buffalo.  I have only been waiting for a chance...
Posted by Mike O on Sat, 27 May 2006 09:08:00 PST

Davinci Code... a review

Let me start off by saying that I didn't read the book.  I'm not a huge fan of hyped-up movies and overglossed production values, but based on the fact that one of my brothers read the book and s...
Posted by Mike O on Wed, 24 May 2006 01:57:00 PST

my goil's graduation...

This morning my girlfriend Jessie graduated and is now officially a Master of Library Science.  (Its her 2nd Masters, she also is a Master of Art History)  Usually I don't enjoy graduations ...
Posted by Mike O on Sat, 13 May 2006 03:09:00 PST