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Michael

I'll count you out like a mathematician

About Me

Most of my pants have zippers, a few do have buttons though. Thinking about going into advertising. If not, maybe I'll try to open up a variety of bars so I can drink on the cheap and listen to music.

A few videos I have art directed .... | More Videos LA ROCCA dir Brian Lazzaro .... Ronnie Day "Outside" dir Brian Lazzaro I am in this one on accident, cowboy hat......Ronnie Day "written at a rest stop" dir Brian Lazzaro ....Dir Chris Milk Art Dir Zach MatthewsWhen I first started working art department I always said, "man it would be cool to work with Tim Burton someday"..... and then.... ....Dir Tim Burton Art Dir Albert Cuellar ....

My Interests

THE SPORTING CLUB Threatening and intimidating child actors. Travel, picture snapping and manipulating. Healthy food, unhealthy food, painting old furniture lime green.

I'd like to meet:

....Cinematic and social revolutionaries,Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Pillow Pants, Art Directors, Production designers, Producers, musicians, Builders, Writers, Dreamers, Thinkers, Creative types, business types, empathetic types, colorful types, cooks, drinkers, eaters, readers, painters, photographers, nay-sayers, believers, skeptics, drunks, the reformed, Natasha Lyonne, real estate and financial advisors. I'd rather not waste my time on more pointless dates, I'd rather drink alone at the burgundy room or just hang out with friends, unless..... I adopted a cute lil' baby jesus fetus from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus!

Music:

The Kinks,Midlake, The Minus 5, Supergrass, The Black Keys, Sufjian Stevens,Os Mutantes,The Magnetic Fields, Gliss, The Sonics, Imogen Heap, The Dears, Louis Armstrong, The Bens,Hank Williams III, As Fast As, Devendra Banhart, Sleater K,The Cold War Kids, The Beach Boys, MF Doom, Turner Music, Sinatra, Television, Air, Reggae,Jazz,Funk,Sly & Fam,Jim Croce,Apples in Stereo, The Carpenters,Patsy Cline, Wilco, Beta Band,Iggy Pop, Who, ZZ Top,bossa nova,david bowie,Street corner Blues,Starving artists in the subway,Q-Tip,KRS-1, Iggy Pop, Pinker Tones, Billy Bragg, Nas, Electric six, Stevie Wonder Postal Service, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Cibo Mato, Wu Tang, Bob Dylan, Hendrix, Lascoutx, Talking Heads, Bjork, Dandy Warhols, Darkness, White Stripes,La Rocca, Alicia Keys, Chili peps, Beck, Ragtime music,Country roads, KAISER CHIEFS;bravery, Kanye, ZZ Top, Nina Simone, Holly go Lightly, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Esquivel, Etta James, Electric 6,Ben Kweller, Tim Fite, Melvern Taylor, Harry Nillson, Pennywise, Old 97's, Watermen, Social Distortion, Mingus, Phanntom Planet, roots, tribe called quest,Rev. Horton Heat, tricky, roots manuva, MOS DEF,sounds from jamaica, decemberists,the unicorns, Devendra banhart, The FLAMING LIPS, beck,Gnarls barkley, radioheAd, doors, Lovage, whatever they were spinning at Star Shoes on saturday night..

Movies:

Dogville

Television:

lately I have been watching Heroes, Scrubs, 30 Rock, The Office, My name is Earl and Studio 60, also I am a big fan of Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and South Park.

Books:

I need a new reading buddy. .. Creating Motion Graphics, Comics, Photo Nomad, BUKOWSKI,Confessions of an Economic Hitman, HESSE, FANTE, ARTHUR BRADFORD, SEDARIS, GIAMMONA, VICE Guide to sex, drugs, and rock n roll, guns , germs and steel, rebel without a crew. Big Hunger

Heroes:

RIP LAURIE ANN JOHNSON 2/28/80-11/12/06The selfless, the creators, the helpers, the lovers... OH! and I almost forgot...

My Blog

Who is Nilsson?

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Posted by Michael on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:38:00 PST

Boston, you may not want to see this

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Posted by Michael on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:30:00 PST

We The People Lose Again...

This was in the NY Times yesterday...By ROBERT PEARPublished: January 30, 2007WASHINGTON, Jan. 29  President Bush has signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:23:00 PST

The Woodsman

I recently rented ..The Woodsman.. starring Kevin Bacon and his wife Kyra Sedgwick. It is a compelling story of a child molestor who is really good with his hands. Arthur, (Bacon) has just been releas...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:21:00 PST

New Designs

Trying to develop some wallpaper designs, not for web for interior design.. Feedback is good...BONSAI POG PatternBONSAI Stipple - maybe for a shirt or other clothing.. Hung wall art.All works are orig...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:03:00 PST

The Killers..Tim Burton Photos

All the photos from the Killers shoot were taken by Ron Goldberg and you can see more at www.grimmindustries.net.........
Posted by Michael on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:29:00 PST

There's more to you when you're alone...

Where'd you get your jeans? I wish I had your jeans.I have been unemployed (graciously) for two weeks now. A few months ago if I werein this predicament i probably would be freaking out, spending all...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:26:00 PST

WE ARE FUCKED - Thanks Repubs, couch potatoes and lame ass congress.

last tuesday, our president, george bush, signed into law the military commisons act, which ends habeas corpus and grants the US government the right to arrest, torture, detain indefinitely and even e...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:18:00 PST

Borat and Belinda

Today I worked with these uber gifted souls, We recreated this set that Belinda is in and simply added 1 Borat. Later Borat sang "Throw the Jew Down the Well" with some 6 year olds, It was so wrong b...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:57:00 PST

IMPEACH Blackout

After a little bit, the word impeach sounds chimpish. say it fast many times over. Still breaking The Hardway?.. width="425" height="350">..>Breakdancing.. width="425" height="350">..>Talking Dog.. wi...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:16:00 PST