Hanging out with my friends. This happens much more rarely than it used to now that I'm a hermit and most of my friends have gotten married and become parents.
Playing guitar. I've been playing since I was 12, so by now I should be at the very worst mediocre at it. People say I'm good, so you should probably just take their word for it. I'm not in a band, I just play for my own amusement.
I admit to being a self-confessed movie and TV nerd.
Computers, comic books, sci-fi, and other things that are traditionally enjoyed by people who don't get laid or see much sunlight. I'd like to think I'm a little more "normal" than the average nerd, but I might be kidding myself on that one.
I've always liked video games. Whether it's old arcade games, home consoles, or on the PC. However, I'm not some obsessive dork who won't leave his house because he's trying to "level up his elf" or whatever.
Other genres I enjoy are classical music, soundtrack stuff from movies and TV, some video game soundtracks, oldies. I like some (although not much) rap. Listing the stuff I like would take forever. I've got thousands of albums and tons of assorted singles in my collection. I'm sure most of it is stuff that is "uncool". But I'm in my thirties and when you get to be that old nobody gives a damn what sort of music you like anyway.
I almost hate to say it, but I sort of despise most of the fans of the bands that I like. Some of them are such over the top zealots that you want to stop listening to the stuff so you don't get associated with them. (You know who you are!) I know that sounds snobby, but it's true. They're just musicians, not gods. It's a bunch of drug addicts plunking on strings and hitting things with a stick. They're not curing cancer or solving world hunger. Get some perspective stalkers.
Titles with an asterisk indicate a series of movies.
40 Year-Old Virgin
Aliens
Big Lebowski
Blade Runner
Casino Royale
Crank
Dawn Of The Dead (remake)
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Donnie Brasco
Evil Dead *
Fight Club
George Romero's Dead *
Ghostbusters
Girl Next Door
Goodfellas
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
High Fidelity
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Idiocracy
James Bond 007 *
John Carpenter's The Thing
Layer Cake
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Marx Bros movies *
Ocean's 11
Serenity
Shaun Of The Dead
Snatch
Spider-Man *
Star Wars *
Swingers
The Great Escape
X-Men *
US TV (Ended or Cancelled)
Arrested Development
Deadwood
Firefly
Las Vegas
Mission Hill
Sealab 2021
The O.C. (my guilty pleasure)
The Sopranos
Titus
Twilight Zone
Veronica Mars
UK TV (Current)
Doctor Who
Hustle
Ideal
Peep Show
Shameless
The Real Hustle
Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps
UK Shows (Ended)
Black Books
Blakes 7
Coupling
Green Wing
Little Britain
Mile High
Red Dwarf
The Office
Smoking Room
Spaced
Teachers
I absolutely loathe 99% of reality TV shows. Too bad it's becoming about 90% of the programming out there right now. Most reality shows are for idiots. It's bad enough the internet is clogged with attention whores, I really don't need to turn on my TV for that as well. (Note: I don't count documentaries as "reality tv".)
I don't get the chance to read many actual books these days. When I do get time to devote to reading a book, it's mostly non-fiction.
I also read comic books. If I were a pretentious twit I would've called them "graphic literature"...
Also Neil Strauss, who wrote the book that has made me want to change my life...

Hello computer dorks, weirdos, stalkers, enemies that are checking to see if I'm dead yet, and people who accidentally clicked on the incorrect link! I'm Mike. As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a super-villain. And someday, I will be. But in the meantime I'm just some guy from Massachusetts who swears a lot. I occupy my time by playing a lot of video games, watching a lot of movies and TV shows, wasting time on the internet, occasionally getting drunk, trying to figure out how to make lots of money without doing any work, and writing children's books. Okay, that last one was a lie.
Before you decide that you'd like to duct tape me and throw me in the back of your van or in the trunk of your car, you'll be displeased to learn that I'm a man in my thirties. So I can't be lured by promises of seeing a cute puppy or by candy. Well, maybe the puppy. Possibly a pizza. Definitely a gigantic HDTV.
I'm a man of many talents, although sadly most of them involve a fork.
You probably know me from my (non-very popular or well-known) website www.bigdarkcloud.com. Which means that you shouldn't be allowed to use the internet and are most likely under some form of house arrest.
Deep down, I just want to be held.
...by a female robot made out of solid gold, that makes pizzas and has a built in Diet Coke/beer fountain. HDTV-output with digital 5.1 surround optional but preferred.
Interested in internet stalking me? Well, there's my website, and I have accounts with most of the IM services, even though the only one I regularly use is AIM. Messages from strangers that don't tell me who they are and what they want are usually ignored.
A few (semi) important notes about me and Myspace: read before trying to add me to your friends list!
I'm not a compulsive "friends" collector. I don't need to be one of those people with 200+ strangers listed as friends. I tend to only add people that I know in real life or that I've already met elsewhere on the internet. If I don't know you then you can send me a message telling me who you are and why you want to be added and maybe I'll add you. (People always seem to ignore this!)
I report spam profiles that try to friend me. I seem to do this daily. No, I don't want to "click to see your sexy pix."
I don't read bulletins for the most part, and I never post them. I have better things to do with my time. Most bulletins are just some idiotic quiz or questionnaire. I'm sorry to tell some of you this, but nobody really reads your answers anyway. We're not that interested.
I'm incredibly slow replying to messages. I also rarely leave comments.
No, I'm not interested in adding your band. If I was, I would've found you.
Comments with gigantic images, especially ones that flash and sparkle are just begging to be deleted. Same thing goes for videos. Nothing personal. I just don't want my profile to take fifteen minutes to load even on a cable modem, and most people immediately click close on profiles like that. I know I do.
One way I define cool is having a sense of humor, and not taking yourself too seriously. People who can't laugh at themselves and take everything too seriously are uptight and no fun. Also liking some of the same stuff I do is cool because it indicates that you have taste.
It'd be great to meet a cool woman, one who I found attractive both physically and in terms of personality. Even more awesome if we had some things in common. It'd be very important that she doesn't want to try to change me. I don't have the time or patience to waste on somebody who looks at the people she dates as some sort of fixer-up project. People are who they are, and only change if they want to change for themselves. Anything else just causes problems.
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