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mikey

Rawr!!

About Me

Live Action-Pilot to NYC-ep.1
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My Interests

The look of steam creeping up and out from the underground sewers. Bicycles. Apologetics. The smell of rain on asphalt. Polaroid Pictures. Hebrew. Ink. Cold mornings in warm jackets. french-pressed coffee. Coltrane. subliminal messages. Documentaries. Baby Grand Pianos. Salsa Dancing? Trumpets. Violins. Being whimsical. clouds with dimensions. running through random towns. Christmas trees in Jewish homes. Thai Food. Gin. (not in that particular order). October and bright Orange Leaves. Maple Trees. Mocassins. Old Man Rivers. Solitude. Postcards with absurd photos. Spitzenberg Apples. Catholic Churches. Used Book Stores. Gospel Music. steamed carrots. Lentil Soup. Train Rides. love. Sleeping In. Failing Miserably. Waking up to the sun rising. Staying awake until the sun rises. 80's Dance parties. Typewriters. Dustin Hoffman. dictionaries and thesaurus'. Curry. India. Conversations with people in person. walking barefoot. Pretending. Whispering in the dark.

I'd like to meet:

Thomas Paine, Joan of Arc, King David, Plato, Voltaire, Mozart, Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Klee
Any and all friends who will take time to care about people.

seriously click this link to save the world. Actually you kind of are...(thehungersite.com)

Music:

Wilco, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Devendra Banhart, Electric Light Orchestra, Arcade Fire, Rufus Wainwright, Feist, Cold War Kids, Stars, Matt Pond PA, Regina Spektor, Nada Surf, Dr. Dog, Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton, Get Back Loretta, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Format, Broken Social Scene, Modest Mouse.

Movies:



Books:

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez; East of Eden, John Steinbeck; Franny and Zooey, JD Salinger; Confessions, Tolstoy; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll; Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol; A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor;Common Sense, Thomas Paine; The Age of Reason, Sartre; Post Office, Bukowski; Anthology, Pablo Neruda; Guns Germs and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond; 1984, George Orwell;
The Stranger, Albert Camus;

Raymond Carver, Jhumpa Lahiri, Vonnegut, Dave Eggers, Pablo Neruda.

Heroes:

the widows, the orphans, the hungry. anyone who suffers involuntarily.

My Blog

Thanks to YOU

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has made this year one of the best in my life. I write this from a hotel room in Liverpool, packing to fly to Italy in the morning. We played a headlinin...
Posted by mikey on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:41:00 PST

an apple a day...

So for those of you who do not know much about me, I worked at an Apple Orchard two years ago and it was a truly beautiful time in my life. I did an interview in Canada and was asked to talk about any...
Posted by mikey on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:32:00 PST

he rambles on...

I must make haste, while the wine has my tongue in such blissful knots, to say, in the simplest way, I love you, I doYet far from reach is the capacity to do a single thingabout it. I offer my excuses...
Posted by mikey on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:20:00 PST

Blues in Detroit

Last night we played at St Andrews Hall in downtown Detroit. Next door to the venue was a small, lonely bar, run by a man from Russia. The lighting was dim, and the visitors were sparse and only dropp...
Posted by mikey on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:36:00 PST

Dear Dad...

Dear Dad, Yesterday I saw a man that reminded me of you. For the first time in perhaps a dozen years I longed to be seven again- an appropriate age and size to crawl into your lap, sit together in our...
Posted by mikey on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:17:00 PST

a poem

this was originally a poem I wrote, eventually trimmed down into a song...~~~~~~~~outside in the sunshinethe dogs are fast asleepthree by my side a silent trace (I silently trace):the eyes I dar...
Posted by mikey on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:16:00 PST

take two seconds...

It would mean alot to me if you clicked this button every day to give food to those who need it for FREE! (thehungersite.com)...
Posted by mikey on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:31:00 PST