D. Mike
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"Livejournal is better."
Male
30 years old
St. Louis, Missouri
United States
Last Login: 12/2/2008
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D. Mike's Interests
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| General | Music: playing, writing, recording, listening, collecting, holding incendiary opinions about, etc. Playing softball, Squid-style. Trivia. Watching the Cards and the Rams. Politics. Reading. Faith.
And not to mention
 | | Music | Faves:
Neil Young. Guns n' Roses. pre-hard candy Counting Crows. Def Leppard (and I'm not sorry). Bright Eyes. Death Cab for Cutie. Sufjan Stevens. John Michael Talbot. Dashboard Confessional. Cowboy Mouth. Van Morrison. Prince. U2. The Who.
Liking these makes people think I'm all diverse or whatever:
Jimmy Smith. Maceo Parker. Chick Corea. Wes Montgomery. John Coliani. Miles Davis. Louie Armstrong. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.
Liking these makes people think I'm hipper than I actually am. Or maybe the opposite:
Paul Westerberg. Talking Heads. Soul Coughing. Elliot Smith (r.i.p.). The Polyphonic Spree. Morphine. The Kinks. The Killers. Hooverphonic. Geggy Tah. Chloe Day. Cake. Built to Spill. Jeff Buckley (r.i.p.). Elivs Costello. The Catherine Wheel. pre-kid a Radiohead. Mickey Avalon.
Really good rock and roll:
The Himalayans. Tenacious D. Steely Dan. Carlos Santana. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Jimi Hendrix. Slash's Snakepit. Velvet Revolver. R.E.M. Oingo Boingo. Nickel Creek. Carole King. Jethro Tull. Yes. Black Crowes. Incubus. Soundgarden. Peal Jam's ten but nothing else by them. The Hooters. Dog's Eye View (no seriously, they're worth a second listen). Freddy Jones Band. Crowded House. Tori Amos. Ryan Adams. Bob Dylan. CSNY. Buffalo Springfield. Live.
Local boys make good (music):
The Urge. Urban Blight Players. Prune. Shape. David Loeb. The Drew Johnson Band. Colony. simonnewcomb.
File this under "inspirational (and don't worry, this section of the record store has pretty girls on the album jackets, too):"
Adam Bitter. Matthew Baute. Karl Zimmerman. Matt Maher. Steve Angrisano. David Haas. Chris Tomlin. Matt Redman. Cleary Music Project. Priestie Boyz. Kede-R. Exodus Two Zero. David Crowder. The St. Louis Jesuits.
Liking these reminds people that I majored in music:
Gershwin. Copeland. Bernstein. DeFalla. Debussy. Gorecki. Holst. Ravel. Satie. Vaugh Williams. Vivaldi. Ives. Bach (J.S. and P.D.Q.). Beethoven. Byrd. Mussorgsky. Galway. Mahler. Grainger (Percy). Purcell. Claude T. Smith (r.i.p.). Malcolm Arnold. Eric Whitacre. Issac Albeniz. Robert Russell Bennett. John Dowland. Valderabano. Francesco Da Milano. Segovia. Tarrega. Bream. Fennel (r.i.p.).
Stuff that's not as good but I still like it:
Seal. Dido. The Police. Barenaked Ladies. Randy Newman. Eric Johnson (still not sorry). INXS. Macy Gray. Nelly Furtado. Dan Fogelberg. Filter. Dave Matthews Band (crash and earlier). Days of the New. The Cranberries. That "doot doot doot" song by Third Eye Blind (this one I really am sorry about).
| | Movies | I'll enter this when I have more time. | | Television | I don't watch it anymore. I used to like The Simpsons, The West Wing, baseball and football, and probably a couple of other shows here and there. I've lived without a television in my home for over a year now and don't regret the decision one bit. I've lived in a place with cable for less than a year total of my life, so I'm not up on all the hip new shows. Like Benson. | | Books | Plattitudes by Trey Ellis, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, most of Stephen King's stuff, The Way of a Pilgrim, Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow, anything by Brett Easton Ellis, The Great Gatsby, Neuromancer by William Gibson, Lord of the Flies, Catch-22, Brave New World, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, The Last Temptation of Christ, Bright Lights, Big City, by Jay McInerney, 1984, stuff by David Pogue, The Godfather, The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, Candide, anything by Kurt Vonnegut or Dave Barry, C.S. Lewis' "Space Trilogy," The Bible, Introduction to the Devout Life, anything by Henri Nouwen, Gary Wills or Dorothy Day, Joseph Girzone's Joshua novels, Models of the Church by Avery Cardinal Dulles, Augustine's Confessions, Books by and about Lance Armstrong, books by and about Neil Strauss, Night by Elie Wiesel, The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Plato's Socratic Dialogues, Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,by Anne Fadiman, Love, Medicine & Miracles by Bernie Seigel, Dangerous Wonder by Mike Yaconelli. | | Heroes | |
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D. Mike's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Richmond Heights, Missouri | | Body type: | 5' 7" / Average | | Religion: | Catholic | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / Yes | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Investments |
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D. Mike's Schools
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Saint Louis University-Main Campus
St Louis, MO
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: Philosophy
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2004 to 2005 |
Kenrick Glennon Seminary
St Louis, MO
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: Theology
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2004 to 2006 |
University Of Missouri-St Louis
St Louis, MO
Graduated: 2002
Student status: Alumni
Major: Music
Clubs: Pierre Laclede Honors College, PLHCSA, Catholic Newman Center, Student Government, University Senate, ASUM, band, pep band,
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1996 to 2002 |
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About me:
Though you can't know everything about everything, I know slightly more than most of my friends about the following topics:
-The Animal Kingdom
-Music Theory
-Haberdashery
-Mountain Biking
-Roman Catholic doctrine, discipline, liturgy, and particularly all the bells and whistles that go along with the clerical state.
-Neil Young.
Let me stress that I do not claim to be an expert on any of these topics, but like I said, in comparison to the majority of my friends (and there are exceptions), I can talk about these six topics with just that little bit more of information that makes me sound really smart, until you consider that most of my friends probably have more topics about which the degree to which their knowledge exceeds mine is greater than that to which mine exceeds theirs in these topics. Still, ya gotta go with what ya got.
Factoids:
Musician. Sentimental. Patient. Conservative but not a republican--I didn't vote for Bush. Either time. Catholic, at one time a seminarian. I like the color Orange, and I always capitalize it. I use a Mac. I love St. Louis and hope I never leave this wonderful town. I don't really like myspace, I just did this because my friends wanted me to and I love them. I swear on my mother's grave (and she's actually dead, too) that I will never, ever EVER put a music player on this page, or make my layout so involved that scrolling through it becomes difficult.
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Who I'd like to meet:
...my friends for a beer.
Oh, and of course
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