Mike - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Living, working and playing in Newport Beach these days. Having fun and looking for more. All that jazz and then some.

My Interests

Music, books, movies, exercise, cooking, travel, the beach, family and friends.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

All over the road with this - I've been a drummer all my life and worked as a Disc Jockey from junior high through college and then some, including a stint at the Club Med vacation resorts. Here go some of my bands: Bruce Springsteen, The Who, Dave Matthews Band, Allmann Brothers, Billy Joel, The Cure, The Clash, The Ramones, B-52's, CCR, Marshall Tucker Band, Jimmy Buffett, James Taylor, Beatles, and on and on....

Movies:

All over the road - The Idolmaker, Blow, Running on Empty, Breaking Away, Lethal Weapon, Animal House, Blackhawk Down, Rounders, Good Will Hunting, The Kids Are All Right, The Concert for NYC, Old School, The Committments, Great Balls of Fire, Some Kind of Wonderful, Better Off Dead,Say Anything, Office Space, Swingers, Wedding Crashers, Batman Begins, Times Square, etc...(A work in progress)

Books:

"Prince of Tides," "Great Santini," "The Rum Diaries," "Water is Wide," "Beach Music," "Left Behind" series, "Blow," "Catching Pablo," "Curse of Lono (Yes, I have a copy)" "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas," "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption."Easier to list authors - Pat Conroy, Hunter S. Thompson, John Irving, John Sandford, Dean Koontz, Thomas Harris, John Sandford, Clive Cussler, and many more.

Heroes:

Pierre, Bill W.

My Blog

RIP Danny

RIP Danny Federici. The guy from Flemington, brought it every night. He started it all with Mad Dog Lopez.
Posted by Mike on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:31:00 PST

Tuesday songs

I owe some lyrics tody, had been posting fairly often. A blatant steal, but let's do one for friendship: We busted out of class, had to get away from those fools. We learned more from a three m...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:48:00 PST

Tuesday

Time is rolling by, no time to smell the coffee as it were. New idea for a million bucks, and Paul and CP are running with it. Who knows. Just like to pay the rent.
Posted by Mike on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 05:17:00 PST

continued

Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Stuck between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then. And now we're back where we started, Here we go round again Day after day I ...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:32:00 PST

Revelations

On Friday night, I heard from someone I had just met that they were not impressed with some of the things I had previously been involved in. This casued me to take futher inventory, and really l...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:43:00 PST

reconnect

As JB would say, somewhere past dark thirty on a Friday night. Not sure why, but filled with Buffett thoughts today, which ties in with the music vibe lately. Need to get my drums going ag...
Posted by Mike on Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:10:00 PST

Thank you, Mark

'Back toward the turn of the century, you know, Mark Twain took a trip around theworld on a steamship and he wrote a book called 'Following the Equator'. And theopening page has a dedication that says...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:16:00 PST

Friday

"Peter, did you get the memo on the TPS reports?" That is what it feels like today, and you know who you are. Still tracking something on the horizon, just not sure what that is. I h...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:07:00 PST

Tuesday even

Time is flying by, and I have little time. A lot of that is because I am not making time, but work is starting to take off. Let's see how many times I can say that in a blog before it actu...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 06:38:00 PST

Monda

Hanging at work on an up and down Monday. Some good stuff going but not real sure what just yet, just feels good. I have reconnected with people from the past, always good, and continue to...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 02:20:00 PST