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mike torti

Live For Today!!!!

About Me

I'm from Edinboro, PA but I now live in Pittsburgh, PA working full time educating the country on world music. I still book bands for some reason, and I love the Milwaukee Brewers and Green Bay Packers. The Penguins are the only Pittsburgh team I like. Natalie is awesome as well, she likes me and I like her. like as in love. Graduated College after way too many years with a degree I really didn't want. I like that. Here, go to these links:

Erie
Pittsburgh
Jones

I'm also trying to finish this collection of records, let me know if you have anything that is not in it!

My Interests

Music, Movies, Pizza and being on tour!

Music:



Movies:

Godfather,
Scarface,
Ray,
Boondock Saints,
Way of the Gun,
Last Man Standing,
Road to Perdition,
Donnie Darko,
One Hour Photo,
wet hot american summer,
Instinct,
The Green Mile,
Unbreakable,
Sixth Sense,
Big Fish

Television:

SOPRANOS,
LOST
HEROE'S
The Office
The 4400
Family Guy,
The Ali G Show,
Futurama
Aqua Teen Hunger Force,
Green Bay Packer Football Games

Books:

Slaughter House Five
1984
The Art of Deception - Nicholas Capaldi
Post Office
Factotum
The Captain
Hot Water Music
South of No North - Charles Bukowski
witches
willy wonka's chocolate factory - rohl dahl
black coffee blues - henry rollins
The Moral Sense - Wilson
Nickel and Dimed - some lady

Heroes:


My Blog

moving forward in life one step at a timeeee

For the first time in about 9 years (give or take the 5 months I lived at home with my parents in 2002) , I am not living with any guys. After dating for 3 years, living between 1 1/2 - 3 hours apart...
Posted by mike torti on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:22:00 PST

My religious views

some message board posted a thread asking do you believe in god? A lot of replies were yeah, i believe in god, but not organized religion, etc, etc, etc. I feel I just need to make a blog, number tw...
Posted by mike torti on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:41:00 PST

the falling price of gas....

rules! i filled up for 2.59 the other day near pittsburgh!! what bugs the shit out of me is the reasoning... i saw an analyist say on cnn that gas will be down to 2 bucks by thanksgiving, THEN followe...
Posted by mike torti on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:13:00 PST

Updated list of shows ive booked

A list of all the shows ive booked So ...
Posted by mike torti on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:27:00 PST

3 AM and listening to sweet jams while writing

so its 3 am right now, im going to be up all night writing my section of this 40+ page paper.  Natalie left, ive never been this happy and comfortable with someone, its unreal!  We spent the...
Posted by mike torti on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:09:00 PST

Leaving for tour..... AGAIN!!!!!!!!

so today we kick off our 2nd tour this summer!!  we are playing at the hangout with Mustard Plug and The Code!!!  Doors open at 5 PM its 10 bucks, so come out if you want to help us out kick...
Posted by mike torti on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I leave for tour tomorrow, this is where you can find me at

My band Hank Jones will be hitting the road for a few weeks stopping in these wonderful cities! If you are on my friends list and you are reading this bulletin, i am expecting to see your ass's at the...
Posted by mike torti on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

seriously, I want to punch a hole in a wall....

no but seriously, that happened at the party last night. I didnt do that, some one else did and tried to cover it up with a poster that wasnt big enough. smooooth. needless to say, if I find ou...
Posted by mike torti on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Ray

So I watched Ray last night for the first time ever... honestly, he's one of the most amazing musicians ever. I always liked him but i never really listened to him that much, but watching that movie ...
Posted by mike torti on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Birthday Weekend

it was so great. thank you to everyone (smaps, my family, tena, seth, 125 chestnut) who was apart of it, you all mean the world to me! This weekend ranked right up there with the NJ spring Break and...
Posted by mike torti on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST