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MikeD

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm a work in progress.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Ghandi

We fight and we die, but that's not the point, although it may be admirable from some sort of purely moral point of view. The point is, however, in the face of what we confront, to fight and win. That's the real objective: not just to make statements, no matter how noble, but to destroy the system that oppresses us. By any means available to us. And to do this, we must be connected, in contact and communication with those in the struggle on the outside. We must be mutually supporting because we're all in this together. It's one struggle at base.
-George Jackson

My Interests

literary & cultural theory, soccer, modern american fiction, modern drama, photography, classical art, youth cultures, deconstruction, travel, ancient greek drama, languages (deutsch & un po di italiano) film, theatre & performance, singing, local art & music, burgess meredith, cartoons, candy, activism, the bpp, internetting, petty theft, pointless drives, 3 hour conversations, walter matthau, 24 hour diners.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to think there's something to be learned from everyone.

Music:

beatles, beastie boys, beck, tom petty, ella fitzgerald, cake, the shins, ben folds, queen, otis redding, the code, strike anywhere, against me!, whatever it takes, the modey lemon, teddy duchamps army / voice in the wire, sage francis, nirvana, kid dynamite, grand buffet, sleater-kinney, elliot smith, at the drive-in, the new pornographers, louis armstrong, joni mitchell, the decemberists, trunk full of dead bodies, etc etc etc

Movies:

cool hand luke, high fidelity, chasing amy, swingers, breakfast at tiffany's, the graduate, the usual suspects, hudsucker proxy, grumpier old men, rudy, igby goes down, wonder boys, lola rennt, seven year itch, lost in translation, rear window, modern times, royal tenenbaums, the birds, one flew over the cuckoo's nest

Television:

the wonder years, six feet under, ali g, def poetry, conan, insomniac, daily show, mls wrap, adult swim, deadwood, pardon the interruption, curb your enthusiasm

Books:

cemetery nights, the sea wolf, east of eden, discipline & punish, high fidelity, huckleberry finn, pygmalion, 1984, is 5, the plague, catcher in the rye, candide, the iliad, bomb the suburbs, the blind assassin, marxism and literature, power v3

Heroes:

my grandfather jack larsen, my moms & pops, kristine leonardo, michael gleason, mark twain, people with courage.

My Blog

internet shopping for friends(ters)

Every time I sign on to one of these websites, I cannot help but feel a mite peculiar, both by the way these sites are arranged, and how much they intrigue me. I get the same feeling as I do when I g...
Posted by MikeD on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST