Things that make one giggle in gleeful wonderment...Social Justice...Startling/Intense Music and Art...Emotionally weighty narratives expressed without the use of tired formulas or story devices--especially in the movies...Bicycling...Natural Science...sushi...Hiking but not Camping (this may be negotiable)...Cop and Vampire Novels...Giant Soap Bubbles...San Francisco Stairways...Pinball...Badminton...Racquetball...High Places with Views...Bill W.
The Shins, Slipknot, Jason Falkner, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cibo Matto, Don Pullen, Radiohead, Dead Kennedys, Stravinsky, Phish, Mr. Bungle, Burning Brides, That Dog, Slick Rick, Led Zeppelin, Mother Hips, Clem Snide, Alison Krauss, Rogue Wave, The Sundays, Steely Dan, Frank Black, 10cc, Fruitbats, Built to Spill, Headlights, The Cocteau Twins, Grandaddy, Pink Floyd, Lake Trout, Busdriver, Lamb of God, The Moody Blues, Sam Cooke, Stevie Wonder, Camera Obscura, Melt Banana, Negativland, Throwing Muses, System of a Down and many, many more.
Movies
Miller's Crossing, Network, Raising Arizona, The Secret of NIMH, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Rules of the Game, Stray Dog, Natural Born Killers, Deep Red, Evil Dead, Babe, The Goodbye Girl, Buffalo '66, Magnolia, Turtle Diary and on and on...
Television
Mr. Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Shield, Scrubs, The Sopranos, Angel, Six Feet Under, The Family Guy, The Simpsons, The West Wing, The Wire...
Books
Lotsa John Irving, Dubliners, Ulysses, Feminism is for Everybody, Pale Fire, Sirens of Titan, The Stand, most Ed McBain and Brian Lumley (see above), The Brothers Karamazov, The Count of Monte Cristo, Emblems of Mind, Catch 22, How to be an Adult, the poems of Stephen Crane--Emily Dickinson--Langston Hughes--and Paul Hoover, Ogner Stump's 1,000 Sorrows. I'm a bookworm which I come by honestly on my mom's side.
Heroes
bell hooks, Jim Henson, Jello Biafra, Bayard Rustin, Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Rosa Parks, Albert Einstein, Jurgen Habermas, Karl Marx (think DAS KAPITAL rather than that manifesto thing Americans are so dumb about), Jean Renoir, Noam Chomsky, Akira Kurosawa, John Lasseter, Don Bluth, Trey Spruance, every halfway decent public school teacher in the U.S.
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CALIFORNIA
Graduated: 2001
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Liberal Studies/Critical Social Thought
Clubs: Community Involvement Center
1997 to 2001
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Mike Just uploaded bubble video--MUCH higher quality over here on my vimeo page: http://lnk.ms/0pbXW Btw it's really Mike--hikey, bubbly guy Posted at 6:23 PM Jul 1 view more
On a good day I revel in the joyful notion that hydrogen and gravity came together and a short while later begat Dada and bunny slippers and froot loops and James Joyce. On a bad day I feel like a twelve-year-old just inexplicably flung naked from an airplane. It is worth noting that these experiences are essentially the same--it's an oblique glass half-full/half-empty kinda thing. In truth, as life goes on the very notion of a "bad" day seems more and more absurd to me--a notion that only the most unimaginative among us would ever embrace. Unless, of course, one's daily caffeine is witheld by cruel circumstance (shudder).
Who I'd like to meet: Gentle, compassionate people who like stuff. Also a family of capybara's who speak in whispered rhyme. I'd very much like to meet them and play carrom.
I am so excited! I bought myself a present (naturally) and I suspect it would get the Mike stamp o' approval (if you were giving those sorts of things out).
Lookee, lookee...perhaps I could convince you out to try a card?
Hi Mike! I hope this finds you happy and healthy. Just wanted to say hi, and send me a message sometime! I worry about my old friends over at K&E.... Psychotic midgets are NOT to be trifled with!
thanks for the happy birthday/thanksgiving wishes! next year my birthday will land on turkey day, yikes! i didn't realize we're only 5 days apart birthday-wise... i can't wait for the goddamm rain to go away so we can hike again.. lemme know if you decide to go on any more city hikes.. take care!!
