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Michael

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About Me

ME is a pronoun, usually the objective case of I. It comes from the Middle English, most likely a relative though of the Sanskrit MA, which worked it's way to us through the Old High German MIH. That's all I know about ME. I work nights. I go to school. I rarely sleep. I talk about myself too much.
You Are Expressionism
Moody, emotional, and even a bit angsty... you certainly know how to express your emotions.
At times, you tend to lack perspective on your life, probably as a result of looking inward too much.
This introspection does give you a flair for the dramatic. And it's even maybe made you cultivate some artistic talents!
You have a true artist's temperament... which is a blessing and a curse. What Art Movement Are You?
What is Your World View?
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You scored as Existentialist

Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Mankind is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility.


Existentialist


81%

Materialist


75%

Postmodernist


75%

Cultural Creative


69%

Modernist


63%

Idealist


50%

Fundamentalist


31%

Romanticist


25%

My Interests

Baseball, giraffes, heady philosophy, drawing, painting, the New York Times crossword, trivial knowledge, ice cream, avoiding responsibility, people who are more creative than me, lentil soup, the sunshine, the rain, tall fields of grass, tall buildings of glass and stone.

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I'd like to meet:

People. Breathing. Some restrictions may apply.

Music:

Yo La Tengo, American Music Club, Red House Painters, Mojave 3, My Bloody Valentine, Kid Koala, Flaming Lips, Beck, The Mountain Goats, The Lucksmiths, Hefner, Eels, Teenage Fanclub, The Clash, Joy Division, The Smiths, Jad Fair, Cat Power, Clem Snide, The Coral, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Scott Walker, Velvet Underground, The Replacements and various Indie rock, 70's singer/songwriters, electro-pop and Britpop bands. And most anything with handclaps, jangly guitars and a children's chorus. The song "Hallelujah" always makes me burst into tears.

Movies:

Rushmore, Breathless, Croupier, Royal Tenenbaums, Raging Bull, Bad News Bears, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Triplets Of Belleville, Yojimbo, Dead Man, Rififi, Wages of Fear, The French New Wave in general, Early Woody Allen and you can't go wrong with heist movies

Television:

Haven't much time for tv. The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are good.

Books:

Unbearable Lightness of Being, Nine Stories, Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, The Nick Tosches Reader, Tropic of Cancer, On Boxing, Hunger, McSweeney's Quarterly, I Claudius, Anything by Carver, Wait Until Spring Bandini, Ask the Dust, the stories of Sherman Alexie, Quitting the Niarobi Trio, Death On the Installment Plan, The various works of Oscar Wilde, e.e. cummings, Cortazar, Borges

Heroes:

Henry Miller, Chiam Soutine, John Coltrane,Tristan Tzara, Rocky Marciano, Kierkegaard, The Life of the party, Napoleon, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, Cool Hand Luke, Roberto Clemente, Mos Def, Sidhartha, Trotsky, Messian, Saul Williams, Feynman, Victor Frankl, Clement Greenberg, Vaclav Havel, Ghandi, Jacques Lacan, Freud, Milan Kundera, Jonanthan Ames, People who sleep well at night and you, but not You

My Blog

NavelGazing

I tend to live in my head. For those who know me they can attest. And as I get older I’m becoming more hesitant to let people in.That said, I’m starting to question why both of these facts...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:06:00 PST

Cat-skinning

There is more than one way to skina cat, as they say. Why do they say that? Am I to believe that cat-skinning was ever profitable enough as to become so common to spawn axioms? Moreover, was there one...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:45:00 PST

An Open Letter To My Ever-Increasing List Of Neuroses

Dear Neuroses,    Why? What’s your deal?I want to make it through the day without feeling compelled to give in to you. I wash my hands countless times during the day. I always buy...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:59:00 PST

Children, Animals and Crazy People

There must be something in my good nature Or perhaps I give off a pheromone that attracts these things to me...The cat that "hates" everyone will always jump into my lap. Dogs will prostrate themselve...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:17:00 PST

Mind Gone Haywire

There are few things in life more boring than listening to someone explain a dream to you. So on that note. I had a strange dream...I dreamt that I was in a terrible automobile accident and that half ...
Posted by Michael on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:49:00 PST

The Paradise of Ashes

I have a soft spot in my heart for French philosophers who use a lot of words to say very little.  Gaston Bachelard is one such philisophe. His book The Psychoanalysis Of Fire sits on my bookcase...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:38:00 PST

Better Ways To Spend A Day Off

    Time runs on, and all things have their fate, though it lies in the dark.--SenecaI've rearranged my desk too many times. I can't possibly clean house any more. I can't sit still. I ...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:00:00 PST

An Open Letter To My Immune System

Dear Fragile Immune System,Perhaps there's been a misunderstsanding. Let's talk just to get things straight. I feel that, as my immune system, it is your job to keep me from getting sick every three w...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:11:00 PST

Excerpt of a story

             She talks. She talks of everything but herself, and when she does mention herself it is only as a reference point, a fixed and unmovi...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:32:00 PST

The Time of Our Time

"The terror is not that some force is working on you to ruin you. It's another kind of terror: It's that nothing is nailed down. That we are out there--that our lives are truly existential. That we're...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:36:00 PST