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Michael Johnson

He likes it, hey Mikey.....oh, no, not that one again!

About Me

My name is Michael Johnson. I am a composer, producer, singer, guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, engineer, and educator. I teach in the Contemporary Writing and Production program at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Check out my blog!

My music is on IAC as well.

Please visit my artist page to find out what I'm up to musically:

www.myspace.com/michaeljohnson0664

The other bands I'm in:

www.myspace.com/theflatbrokeband

www.myspace.com/soniquecinema

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My Interests

music, macintosh computers, politics, science fiction, films, cats, popular culture, film music, 1960's-80's Marvel comics, ethnomusicology, audio recording, history, conspiracy theories, paranormal phenomena, alien/extraterrestrial speculation

I'd like to meet:

Trent Reznor, Matt Mahaffey, Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith, John Cage, Nicholas Cage, Joss Whedon, Stan Lee

Music:

David Amram, Albert Ayler, Chet Baker, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Big Star, Big Black, Samuel Barber, David Bowie, Glenn Branca, John Cage, Can, Captain Beefheart, Johnny Cash, Cheap Trick, Don Cherry, Chicago, Charlie Christian, Cluster, Ornette Coleman, Steve Coleman, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Elvis Costello, The Cure, Daniel Amos, Miles Davis, Devo, Dinosaur Jr., Al DiMeola, DNA, Charles Dodge, Thomas Dolby, Eric Dolphy, Bob Dorough, Nick Drake, Electric Light Orchestra, Danny Elfman, Brian Eno, Faust, The Fiery Furnaces, The Fire Theft, The Flaming Lips, Flying Saucer Attack, Peter Gabriel, Phillip Glass, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Jerry Goldsmith, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Herbie Hancock, Bernard Herrmann, Charlie Hunter, Husker Du, Isotope 217, Jane's Addiction, Al Jarreau, Level 42, Nik Kershaw, Kidney Thieves, Kraftwerk, Lamb, Liars, Living Colour, M83, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Mars, M-Base Collective, Medeski, Martin & Wood, The Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Mogwai, The Move, Muse, Willie Nelson, Neu!, Nine Inch Nails, Parliament/Funkadelic, Pauline Oliveros, Pedro The Lion, Pere Ubu, Pixies, Prince, The Producers, Public Enemy, Queen, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Refused, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Rodan, Roxy Music, Todd Rundgren, Self, Shoes, Sigur Ros, Slint, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Split Enz, Karlheinz Stockhausen, The Stooges, Igor Stravinsky, Sun Ra, Sunny Day Real Estate, Super Furry Animals, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Television, Throbbing Gristle, The Time, Tortoise, Tower of Power, The Tubes, TV on the Radio, U2, Utopia, The Velvet Underground, Weather Report, Wilco, Brian Wilson, Wire, Wolfmother, Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, Rob Zombie

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

Slint - Spiderland

Self - Breakfast with Girls

Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance

Can - Tago Mago

MySpace Music Lists at MySpace Toolbox !

Movies:

This is Spinal Tap, Office Space, The Matrix, X-Men, Citizen Kane, North By Northwest, The Manchurian Candidate (original one), Memento, Vertigo, Life of Brian, Run Lola Run, Road Warrior, The Warriors, The Dead Zone, Scanners, Alien, Aliens, Blazing Saddles, Dr. Strangelove, Bubba Ho-tep, The Evil Dead, 28 Days Later, Blade Runner, The Fury, The Corporation, Leaving Las Vegas, High Fidelity, Raising Arizona, Adaptation, The Shining, Notorious, Full Metal Jacket, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Groundhog Day, Planet of the Apes (original one), Walk The Line, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rear Window, Unforgiven, Bird, Amadeus, The Terminator, Good Night and Good Luck, Rebel Without A Cause, High Plains Drifter, Kelly's Heroes, Dirty Dozen, The Untouchables, Easy Rider, An Inconvenient Truth, Bowling For Columbine, Logan's Run, High Plains Drifter, Fletch, Stripes, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Breakfast Club, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Halloween, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Howling, Blade, From Here To Eternity, The Highlander, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, The Jerk, Animal House, The Lost Boys, Less Than Zero, The Princess Bride, Duel, Airplane, Clerks

Television:

Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica (the new one), 24, Dr. Who (the new one), Invasion, Surface, X-Files, Star Trek (all of them except Enterprise), Nowhere Man, Daily Show, Chappelle Show, Conan O'Brian, David Letterman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, The Dead Zone, Smallville, My Name is Earl, Scrubs, Sliders, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Bean, Millenium

Books:

Stranger in a Strange Land (or any other book written by Robert Heinlein,) Dune, The Vampire Chronicles, A Brief History of Time, I Robot, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, All The President's Men, Being There, The Illustrated Man, Brave New World, On The Road, Please Kill Me, My Band Could Be Your Life, Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, 20th Century Harmony

Heroes:

Trent Reznor, Matt Mahaffey, Danny Elfman, Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, John Cage, John Lennon, Stephen Hawking, Bob Dorough

My Blog

Feb. 2008 Dr. J Update

Hello Everyone,It has been a few months since my last update, and many things have changed since then. I will now display them in a numbered list format:1. Last week, I began teaching at Berklee Colle...
Posted by Michael Johnson on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:43:00 PST

My life as a Bostonian

(Note: if you read my facebook posting, this is a duplicate)So, I'm in my third week in Boston. Here's what's happened so far:I am thoroughly enjoying my wife's company, and I'm happy to be back in he...
Posted by Michael Johnson on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:23:00 PST

Radio Radio

So, in case some of you weren't aware of this, I'm taking Dr. Holman's Radio Station Operation class! It's something I've wanted to do a long time, and this is my last chance. Besides, one of the bene...
Posted by Michael Johnson on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:21:00 PST

Changes

I have decided to concentrate my efforts toward blogging more frequently on my Blogger.com blog (http://michaeljohnson0664.blogspot.com.) Therefore, I will probably not do much with this one anymore. ...
Posted by Michael Johnson on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:01:00 PST

Here I Go Again

I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I've got to talk about my favorite topic again! If I had a do-over, I would have been born 20 years later, so I could be coming out of college right now...
Posted by Michael Johnson on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:36:00 PST

RIP James Brown

I posted this on my Blogger site (http://michaeljohnson0664.blogspot.com) earlier today, but I thought I'd post it here as well.Today, December 25, 2006, we lost another cultural icon. James Brown, wh...
Posted by Michael Johnson on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:50:00 PST

Art Vs. Greed

I posted this one on my regular blog, but I decided to post it here as well, because it's an important topic. If you haven't seen the movie Before The Music Dies, point your browser there and either f...
Posted by Michael Johnson on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:03:00 PST

It's Official!

Well, I did it! I told my department chair today that I will not be returning to Greenville College next year! Pretty crazy, since I don't have any kind of job lined up. I haven't even applied for any...
Posted by Michael Johnson on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:12:00 PST

A Death in the Family

This morning, Monday, Oct. 23, 2006, Ani and I lost an old and trusted family member, our cat Hendrix Johnson, affectionately known as "Meow." Meow had contracted a rare and fatal disease called Felin...
Posted by Michael Johnson on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:23:00 PST

Goin' To Boston

I'm too excited to sleep, so I thought I'd let everyone know that I'm goin' to Boston to visit my baby! See you next week!
Posted by Michael Johnson on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:26:00 PST