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Michael

If i don't exist, how come i'm going crazy?

About Me

i'm an ok guy

My Interests

Mostly anything that enters my realm of perception.

I'd like to meet:

People, animals, intergalactic life and deathforms.

Music:

good....which might include Radiohead, the Beatles, the White Stripes, Bjork, Led Zepplin, Prince, Dead Kennedys, Oingo Boingo, the Cure, the Smiths, Social Distortion, Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, Beastie Boys, Beethoven, Mozart, U2, Underworld, Orbital, the Orb, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Sigur Ros, Moby, Mars Volta, Bloc Party, M.I.A., the Lovemakers, Jane's Addiction, Ennio Morricone, Bernard Herrmann, John Williams, Nirvana, Miles Davis, Mars FM stuff, just to name a very few.

Movies:

too many, but off the top of my head...Network, Star Wars (all of them), Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Citizen Kane, the 400 Blows, Ben Hur, Ten Commandments, Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Ikuru, Dreams, Ran, All Kubrick, Finding Nemo, Iron Giant, American Splendor, City of God, the Little Mermaid, Napolean, Sherlock Jr., The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Charlie Chaplin, the Little Rascals, Midnight Cowboy, the Last Emperor, Forbidden Planet, Purple Rain, Sullivan's Travels, Amarcord, Jesus of Nazareth, Strictly Ballroom, 8 1/2, Dead Man, the Searchers, Stagecoach, Animal House, the Life of Brian, and the moives i have made.

Television:

right now i'm digging 30 Rock, American Idol, the Daily Show, Chapelle's Show, SouthPark, the Simpsons, , Arrested Development, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Rome, Battlestar Gallactica, Entourage, Deadliest Catch, Man Vs. Wild, and i watch a bunch of crap too (which might include the MTV shit that is Real World related that i usually get in a big ass marathon)....help...Tivo is killing me slowly.

Books:

the Fountainhead, the Bible, Hardcore Zen, the Tibetian Book of Living and Dying, Of Mice and Men, the Thornbirds, the Watchmen, the Dark Knight Returns, the Story of Phiosophy, the Dialogues of Plato, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Where the Wild Things Are, Peanuts, Private Parts, Miss America, Gone with the Wind, the Firm, the Stranger, recently enjoyed The Gnostic Gospels. Currently No god but God.

Heroes:

Jesus, Socrates, Buddah, Howard Roarke, Mel Brooks, Kubrick, Mom and Dad

My Blog

I Got Jesus in my Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9vDp3OQgVA This fine piece of cinema was my final for an Intermediate film class i took at Cal State Long Beach in 1999....
Posted by Michael on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:48:00 PST

Daft Punk at the LA Sports Arena on 7/21/2007

Daft Punk is awesome!  i first got excited about them when i was the host of a show called "World Class DJ's" on Groove Radio 'round 95 or 96 and i would hear this weird, funky song "Da Funk" creep in...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:22:00 PST

Some pictures and video from Air at the Grove Monday night (9/24/07)

Air was playing down Katella a bit of ways at a place called the Grove which is in the Angels' Stadium (i will not use that Los Angeles description when it comes to them) parking lot.  i wanted to go,...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:36:00 PST

The Simpsons Movie

Before anything: damn, i sure hate myspace blogging.  Too many times, crafted blog, hit post, error, lose fucking blog!  Here's what it was:   i originally posted this on the Coachella ...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:44:00 PST

Coachella Day 1 Pictures

Lugging their lives to the camp grounds. the new costume for Spiderman 4 a wheely good friend Vito and Luke of the Rapture the Main Stage is doomed! a dj in the Dome Perry Farrell and his Satel...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 29 May 2007 05:42:00 PST

Coachella 2007: Prologue

Coachella 2007 is done.  i will throw down all the typical words like amazing, incredible, awesome, glorious, gruelling, fucking hot, brutal.  i had a photo pass for all 3 days and took...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 01 May 2007 04:27:00 PST

Some recent favorite capturing of the moments

i felt like putting up some of my favorite recent pictures: The metal lady of the Embarcaderro in San Francisco. Rocco Deluca.  This and a couple of others i took are being used on the profile ...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:52:00 PST

The Circle Jerks and "Back Against the Wall"

i really couldn't figure out how to attach this video to the previous scamblings. This was captured at Safari Sam's on 9/20/2006. This song is from the classic "Group Sex" (i just wanted to get grou...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:31:00 PST

Ah, the punk rock days (American Hardcore and the Circle Jerks)

So last week when looking at the internets for stuff, i stumbled across a screening of a documentary based on a book i love at the Arclight.  i got all excited and ran through my wasteland of a h...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 04:10:00 PST

Coachella 2006: The Continuation (Matisyahu, Jamie Lidell, and Bloc Party)

6 days is timely.  Right?  At this point in the story, i'm at Day 2 of Coachella 2006.  The day i have access to a photo pass, but my camera dies, i borrow a couple of cameras from Marc...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 03:15:00 PST