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Mike D.

He knocked on doors everyone else knew did not exist.

About Me

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"Three candles illume every darkness: Truth, Nature, and Knowledge."
Don't believe in what people say, believe in what they do.
I've Eaten The Sun So My Tongue
Has Been Burned Of The Taste
Well Traveled, well worn.
I also have a new pet fetus. His name is Roger.
I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity. He knocked on doors everyone else knew did not exist.My enviroment is a product of me. Introspective, quiet with bouts of not, sarcastically cynical in an optimistic way, attempting to be humble and self improving, generally painfully honest to a fault. Loyal, but not to be trodden upon. Sacreligiously irreverent in a charming way. Seeking knowledge for better or worse. I can take a punch, but I kick back harder. I'll take a bullet for you even if you won't take one for me. Unless you put that bullet in me. Then all bets are off. Aim= for the head AIM= nny12345
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
You are the Devil card. The Devil is based on the
figure Pan, Lord of the Dance. The earthy
physicality of the devil breeds lust. The
devil's call to return to primal instincts
often creates conflict in a society in which
many of these instincts must be kept under
control. Challenges posed by our physical
bodies can be overcome by strength in the
mental, emotional, and spiritual realms. Pan
is also a symbol of enjoyment and rules our
material creativity. The devil knows physical
pleasure and how to manipulate the physical
world. Material creativity finds its output
in such things as dance, pottery, gardening,
and sex. The self-actualized person is able
to accept the sensuality and usefulness of
the devil's gifts while remaining in control
of any darker urges. Image from The Stone
Tarot deck.
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My Interests

Music, Literature, Film, the arts in general, cultures & philosophies, science, nature, the human experience. Experiencing as much as I possibly can in life and learning as much as I can about people in order to better understand them. Getting through to people who have given up.
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I'd like to meet:



Self-centered, uncultured, automatons who live for deploring themselves and degrading those who find things in life which they can embrace passionately.

err...
Someone who's not a fucking coward. I want a girl who laughs for no one else, who when I'm away leaves her make up on the shelf. People so interesting that they just make you want to read about them. Madmen, Lunatics, and other people who probably shouldn't make so much sense to me, but strangely seem to. Driven open minded people who don't stand by the first thing they learn simply because it is all they know. Agree to disagree and the conversation can always be passionate without being inflamed. Have the ability or at least the desire to stand up in a kingdom of fear and be yourself. Differentiate between self destruction and escapism/martyrdom. Not easily offended/ scared away by reality.

P.S. I'm not nearly as psychotic as I sound. I think. Maybe.

P.P.S. I have no idea what's going on.

These guys are my friends, my peers, and a fucking incredible source of music and inspiration. Indulge Yourself.

Music:

www.myspace.com/theshotgundisciples
www.myspace.com/empyrean - check it.
The Dandy Warhols, Tool, APC, Dream Theater, Dick Dale, Alice in Chains, The Mars Volta, Radiohead, Every Time I Die, The Ocean, Baroness, God Forbid, Om, Mogwai, Fair To Midland, Propaghandi, Strung Out, Nirvana, The Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, The Cranberries, Big Black, Bjork, The Ettes, Various Mike Patton Projects, Opeth, They Might Be Giants, Sunny Day Real Estate, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Omar A. Roderigeuz-Lopez, Queens of the Stone Age, System of a Down, Slayer, Type O Negative, Pearl Jam, Athlete, Green Day, REM, Samiam, No Doubt, Bush, Sublime, Nerf Herder, STP, Jerry Cantrell, Between the Buried and Me, Cynic, Denali, American Head Charge, Ambulance LTD, Weezer, Slipknot, The Incredible Moses Leroy, Melissa Auf Der Mar, Marilyn Manson, Nekromantics, Twisted in Graves, Mnemic, Norma Jean, Children of Bodom, Mariachi Guitar, (oldschool) Offspring, Lacuna Coil, Porcupine Tree, Iron & Wine, Murder By Death, Probot, Arch Enemy, Bleeding Through, Moonspell, Dimmu Borgir, Static-X, Against All Authority, Korn, Metallica, Live, Puya, Amorphis, Molotov,Kidney Thieves,The Pixies, The Ventures, The Secret Kingdom of Avrigus, Lengsel, Buckethead, Virgos Merlot, Travis, Pink Floyd, Alien Crime Syndicate, Ateryu, Cradle of Filth, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nightwish, Thornley, 36 Crazy Fists, Snow Patrol, Snapcase, Various Tooth and Nail / Hopeless Records bands, Muse, Our Lady Peace, Blur, Vivaldi, Bach, Dark Tranquility, Life of Pi, Taking Back Sunday, Portishead, Zoa, Mercy Falls, Circa Survive, Death Cab For Cutie, Milka, The Secret Machines, Switchblade Symphony, Stabbing Westward, Deftones, Days of the New, Gorillaz, A Fire Inside, Helmet, Carolines Spine, Finger Eleven, Sigur Ros, Shadows Fall, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, The Haunted, Trivium, OKGO, Blue Man Group, Velvet Revolver, Kula Shaker...for starters but i like a bit of everything.

Movies:

Donnie Darko, The Last Temptation of Christ, High Fidelity, Rejected, The Crow, Blow, Vanilla Sky, Various horror and drama, as a rule anything with John Cusack, Johnny Depp, or John Malkovich.

Television:

Venture Brothers, Robot Chicken. Other than that I haven't been watching too much t.v. lately except ironically at work. From a long term perspective, The Simpsons, (guiltily) The first couple seasons of buffy the vampire slayer, (without remorse) south park, (on occasion), nip/tuck, csi, Chappele's Show, Family Guy, That 70's show, random history, travel, discovery, and national geographic channel shows. Classic twilight zone.

Books:

Voice of the Fire, Galapagos, Memnoch the Devil, The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Count of Monte Cristo,The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience, The Demon Haunted World, A Game of Thrones, Poe, Shakespeare, Percy Shelly, Jung, Dan Brown, various political and social philosophies, on and on.

Heroes:

Dave Grohl, Rick Rubin, Johnny Depp, John Cusack, Carl Sagan, Alan Moore, Jhonen Vasquez, Josh Freese, Rod Serling, Maynard James Keenan. People who are honest and successful. People who tell it like it is without being a dick about it.

My Blog

Go see "The Fall"

Those one named directors definitely have something going for them.
Posted by Mike D. on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:09:00 PST

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It's interesting what your mind hangs on to. How things that are seemingly giant, life changing events do very little to alter your daily life, and yet others, well they just keep coming back to haunt...
Posted by Mike D. on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:08:00 PST

Hope they live up to the hype...

6 matched Svetlana Winged C EL34 tubes - $167.00.Sigh.
Posted by Mike D. on Thu, 29 May 2008 12:30:00 PST

You can add these to my wish list.


Posted by Mike D. on Fri, 23 May 2008 10:55:00 PST

bands that don’t play shows, shouldn’t.

Bands that don't play shows, shouldn't. It's time for me to voice my (admittedly pointless) commentary on a local fad that's been bothering me a lot. Not just for my own bands purposes, but those...
Posted by Mike D. on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:45:00 PST

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It really sucks that no one is honest about anything anymore. I don't know why but it's really been starting to eat at me lately. Why can't people just be straight up? I'm sick of the duplicitous game...
Posted by Mike D. on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:59:00 PST

REAX - You want to read this one.

Hey guys,as of this month, I’m starting to do some street team duties and contributing writing to REAX magazine. (http://www.reaxmusic.com) If you’re not familiar with it, the magazine is ...
Posted by Mike D. on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:15:00 PST

Ocean Presale Tickets!

Hey guys,we’re currently selling presale tickets to help cover the costs for some really great bands to make it down this way in June.The Ocean is a sweepingly massive metal concept album featur...
Posted by Mike D. on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:14:00 PST

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Too much patience, No resistance, Within shouting distance, You can hear a blind man’s bluff, Dragging names through the mud and still biting his tongue, The devil’s in the air and I&rs...
Posted by Mike D. on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:22:00 PST

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Impenatrable as the giants,I have lived incessantly with my eyes staring wide open.You will not, in my last hour, find me surrounded by priests. I want to die lulled by the waves of the stormy sea.Bla...
Posted by Mike D. on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:15:00 PST