Mike

I don't always like to rescue stray animals because I usually have to give them away, but I tend to do it a lot anyway - I'm a total softy when it comes to critters, and cannot abide seeing them suffer. I've been known to run to the store for paper towels and yogurt and come back with paper towels, yogurt, and a stray cat (true story).

I love setting things on fire and seeing things burn (feeds into that whole re-organization of systems thing from paragraph one), love the outdoors and nature in general but rarely get to spend enough time there, like Illuminati references, like travelling - especially meandering road trips with no goal other than to see stuff, like to read, write (mostly screenplays these days), explore, work out, dumpster dive, bicycle, pet cats and dogs, cook, jog, make found art & plaster cast sculpture.

I love working and living within a strong community. I love seeing responsible and worthy people having lots of kids to counteract the knee-jerk breeding that happens when less responsible and worthy people have too much money or not enough. A part of me secretly enjoys being in car crashes. There's something liberating in the breakdown of man made laws and distinctions and just watching raw, impartial, elegant physics take over. I like guns for similar reasons, but only if they aren't used by idiots.

Hate commuting. Like repeating myself. Like paranthetical statements (helps organize my stream of consciousness style blathering). I like simple, elegant mechanisms like good luggage clasps, well made single action revolvers, UNIX, Honda Civics, oshihiki nokogiri (a type of kickass Japanese wood saw), Sachtler tripods, and so on. For most work I like hand tools more than power tools because I like feeling that direct connection with whatever I'm working with - your muscles move your arm, your arm moves the saw, the saw cuts the wood - the transmission of potential is clear and uncluttered.

I'm a shameless roleplaying game/D&D dork, (though I haven't had time to play for years) and love all manner of general geekery. Recently started semi-seriously practicing Aikido, which feeds into the simple/elegant thing.

I love doing 12-18 hour film shoots if I have a good crew to work with, I love looking at dailies and seeing the footage we got kick ass, I love doing hand held camera work, love shooting fight scenes, I just love making movies. It's the only thing that keeps me from chucking it all and living in a cottage in the middle of nowhere for the rest of my days.

Also I like ducks. They're the cutest goddamn birds on the planet, with chickadees coming in a close second. Again, more to be added as I think of it and/or have time...