My favorite music includes: Pearl Jam, Joni Mitchell, The Doors, Bob Marley, Sublime, Zero 7, Morcheeba, X, Norah Jones, Crosby Stills Nash, Stevie Wonder, Alice in Chains, Beck, Tori Amos, Jeff Buckley, Beatles, Elton John, Alanis Morissette, Natalie Merchant, Pretenders, Nirvana, Roxy Music, INXS, Godsmack, Fiona Apple, Lakshmi Devi listen to a sample here: Lakshmidevi.com
Movies
My favorite movies are:
Fisher King,
Slingblade,
Titanic,
Excalibur,
Untamed Heart,
The Saint,
The Doors,
Wuthering Heights,
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
Il Postino,
Singles,
West Side Story,
Splendor in the Grass,
12 Monkeys,
Same Time Next Year,
Fiddler on the Roof,
The Big Chill,
Bulworth,
The Bounty,
Breakfast at Tiffany's,
Stealing Beauty,
A Touch of Class,
Home for the Holidays,
Nightmare Before Christmas,
Run Lola Run,
Edward Scissorhands,
Fight Club,
Moulin Rouge,
Leaving Las Vegas,
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Miss Sunshine
TOP 3: The Doors, 12 Monkey's, Excalibur
Television
I love love love TV!
Current favorites: Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Idol, Dexter, Survivor, Weeds, Entourage, Big Love, New Adventures of Old Christine, Heroes, Amazing Race, The Office, Big Brother. 30 Rock
Shows I miss: Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Sex in the City, Six Feet Under, Carnivale, China Beach, American Dreams, X-Files, Arrested Development, Huff (sniff cancelled without resolution), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
Books
I am both a writer and an avid reader.
My favorite authors are:
Christopher Moore, Tom Robbins, Douglas Adams, Jonathan Carroll, Matt Ruff, David Maine, David Mitchell Colleen McCullough, Haruki Murakami and Marion Zimmer Bradley
Other authors I love to read are: Kurt Vonnegut, Joshilyn Jackson, Jen Lancaster, Janet Evanovich, Chris Genoa, Clive Barker, Maeve Binchy, Jasper Fforde, Carolyn Parkhurst, Jeff Lindsay, Gregory Maguire, Chuck Palahniuk, Jennifer Roberson, Margaret Atwood, Kate Atkinson, JoAnne Harris
All Encompassing Trip is a trip! Imagine Kafka, Kerouac, and Douglas Adams on the road, and you'll get a feel for this completely original, witty, and wild book that's (thank goodness!) anything but normal. Del Sesto's prose sparkles. What a great debut.
-- Lori Jakiela, author of Miss New York Has Everything
Del Sesto pays homage to Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore in this clever, insightful, and flat-out hilarious novel while maintaining an entirely original point of view, making All Encompassing Trip one of my favorite books of the year!
Jen Lancaster - author of Bitter is the New Black and Bright Lights Big Ass
Normal isn't taking any calls here. There's a reason this genre is called Bizarro and a fun book like All Encompassing Trip fits right in. Robert Tacoma.. author of Key Weird, Key Weirder and Key Witch
Meet Nikki Nasco: 40, single, obsessive, neurotic, unorthodox and really kind of fun. She is having a very normal day. She goes to the gym, she calls her mother, and she stresses out about not having her Top Five Desert Island CD’s selected.
Meet Amber Lawson: 35, lesbian, driven, aerobics instructor. She too is having a very normal day. She attends law school, teaches Boot Camp and receives a phone call from Nikki, the purpose of which she never fully understands, but knows there is a deserted island involved.
And then the darkness comes …
In a world where coffee is no longer available, the only television shows are reality TV re-runs, and the animals are talking back, Nikki, Amber and a singing Coyote in a do-rag are out to restore the light (and hopefully prevent Nikki’s eyes from being stolen by an Irish midget.)
Normal is missing.
Reward.
Field Trip
Road Trip
Cross Country Trip
Trip Down Memory Lane
Side Trip
Trip the Light Fantastic
Head Trip
All Encompassing Trip
Who I'd like to meet: The person who hands out the checks at the lottery office
Back to work today after a week with the kids for spring vacation.
I'm starting line editing today on my new book. I'm still on track for October. Right now I'm waiting to hear from my first pre-reader and hopefully this week I'll see the first draft of the Sin and Vengeance Screenplay.
Hi Nicole...I've been so damn preoccupied with life that I have neglected to even stop by and say hi....so at the risk of being redundant...Hi Nicole!!
A book, eh? I need some sort of lessons before I even attempt something like that. You know, character development and all that jazz. Are you available?
Oh, forgot all about that. Shelfari is having technical issues. For some reason, they couldn't change my email. I close up my account and opened up a new one with my new email address. The bad news is I lost my friends, reviews, bookshelf...lol! Guess what I did during the holidays?
I'll be up soon in the new year. Possiby writing a reality tv show about an SF Sex Club. It's amazing how I hadn't realized I was selling my soul to the devil until I just typed that.
Hey Nicole! Good to hear from you. I've been wondering what you're up to. You know, I never did get that email you promised. All in good time, I'm sure.
Hope you're well. In fact, even better than that. Michael xo
