Mark Rothko - my background used to be one of his murals. I am a Rothko groupie;
Other abstract expressionists - Pollock and Kandinsky;
Picasso - particularly the bulls he paints because of their symbolism;
Tracy Emin shes brutally honest...i'd love to talk to her about the idea of life as a ready-made;
Van Gogh - mostly because Don McLean's song "Vincent" has given me a greater appreciation for him;
JMW Turner - he was in some ways the precursor to Rothko;
Garafalo - because the one guy he painted in "Allegory of Love" is the hottest guy in all of the British National Gallery;
Sebastian Ricci - because he painted a lot of Baccus...and who doesn't like the God of Wine?;
The portrait of Mo Mowlam in the British Portrait Gallery;
The Antwerp Museum of Modern Art had the best fucking exhibit ever on Emotion in '05...too bad I didn't write down the information of any of the artists;
Andy Warhol - I'm torn...not sure I'm a fan anymore.
Frida Kahlo - after watching Frida, I regret not buying the copy of her journals at that used bookstore in Philly;
Gustav Klimt - after watching Klimt, I don't really like him anymore. But I feel like I should;
Performance art (and participating in it).
Books
A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti;
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle;
A Separate Peace by John Knowles;
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot;
Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire;
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke;
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf;
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle;
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster;
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee;
Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America by Ann Powers;
Movies
Yeah, anything with Gael Garcia Bernal in it...
Bad Education,
Breakfast at Tiffany's,
Bring it On,
City of God,
Chocolat,
Crash,
Dirty Dancing,
Drop Dead Fred,
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Frida,
Ferris Bueller's Day Off,
Goodbye Lenin,
Harold and Maude,
He Loves Me...He Loves Me Not,
Heathers,
I <3 Huckabes,
Imaginary Heroes,
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain,
Life as a House,
March of the Penguins,
Matrix trilogy,
Me & You & Everyone We Know,
Night at the Roxbury,
Pi,
RENT,
Requiem for a Dream,
Rocky Horror Picture Show,
Run Lola Run,
Save the Last Dance,
Scream series,
Science of Sleep,
The Breakfast Club,
The Hours,
The Neverending Story,
The Truman Show,
Waking Life,
What Happens in Vegas
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,
Wicker Park,
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Music
Taken from my McGill housing form on what type of music I like--"anything that I can randomly dance to around my room". The same survey which I played to get myself the largest single room on campus.
People
Mary Tyler Moore all those late nights I spent with her in elementary school; Ileana Ros-Lehtenin because she is the coolest congresswoman ever and she didnt fall that one time I accidentally tripped her; Rosemary the transvestite stripper - because she can work for 35 hours straight and be on her feet for 5 hours in a row; the Page class of 2003-2004 because we were the worst page class EVER, and because their each so unique; Jesus; last but definitely not at all the least--all of my friends, who I love (and who speak my rare emotional language).
Places
Round the Clock diner; Marina and I's ledge over St. Laurent; Thames Walk in London; the pink chair at Gap6605; the little yellow room at my school in France; the bathroom of room 635 in the DC Marriot; St. Joseph's Oratory; Tate Modern; Tortilla Coast; the swings at my park; in a nice boys bed; in my bed with my faithful Tommy body pillow; Colosseum; the coast of Bretagne, especially Ile de Batz; in my ghetto-ass wagon; Kensington Gardens; Cross on Mount Royal; Prague Museum of Modern Art; Chez Abgrall; graffiti-covered quasi-ghettos of Antwerp; anywhere a Page is; at any large body of water; the ledge of the window on Salas 5th floor dorm room at Harvard in summer 04;CDG2 airport; Thai Express; Shenandoah Mountains; aquariums with lots of penguins; my overseer desk on the House floor; Amy's cornfield; Pont Jacques Cartier during the fireworks competition; Rodin Museum in Paris; the shady spiral staircase with the half-floor in Cannon; Trevi fountain; West Virginia highways; Cafe du Kreisker; 9th floor Leacock; the lake; La Banquise (or La Belle); Prague (all of it); pizza place on de la Montagne; in Megan's kayak.
Other
Life (cereal);
The London Underground and other subways, trains, planes, and transportation centers;
Talking with the late-night cashiers/waitresses and random strangers on public transportation;
Q-tips;
Tracking all the impoverished countries Gap gets their boxes from;
Dancing and instructing friends in the art of dancing (occasionally in parking lots);
Vodka and French gay mags;
Seafood--including raw oysters, you wimps;
Singing at work;
Hosting literary-themed parties;
Speeding with occasional hydroplaning or aeroplaning;
Random driving and other adventures;
Spontaneous trips across oceans;
H&M underwear and my spoon bracelet;
Speaking in French when Im drunk;
Battling tops tournaments;
My journal/painting on my walls;
Swimming, preferably in full or no clothing;
Yoga and running (ok, I've stopped but I totally intend to start again soon);
Crawling out my window at night to walk around;
Boys...they are my weakness <3
Mikey D's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Dating, Friends
Orientation:
Gay
Hometown:
York
Body type:
5' 7" / More to love!
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Christian - other
Zodiac Sign:
Taurus
Education:
In college
Occupation:
Stander of the borderline
Mikey D's Schools
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
Montreal, Canada
Graduated: N/A
Degree: In Progress
Major: God, Art, Sex, Philosophy
Clubs: I'm supposed to decorate the philosophy lounge. And also do inner-tube water polo. Oh yeah!
2007 to Present
Mikey D's Companies
The Gap York, PA US All-Star I'm a uniter, not a divider.
08/2005-08/2006
Lycee Notre Dame du Kreisker St. Pol de Leon, Finistere FR Exchange student 1e Literature/Economics
11/2004-06/2005
U.S. House of Representatives Washington , DC US Republican Page; Page Overseer Office of the Clerk, the Hon. Jeff Trandahl
08/2003-06/2004
The Gap Montreal, QC CA American import Alpaca wool fetishist
05/2007 - right now...
Mikey D Is joyous for the weather Posted at 11:25 AM Apr 24 from Mobile view more
Trying to love other people for who they are and not what I or society wants them to be...embracing their own and my own unique goodness.
Happiness is dependent on many things that you can't control. Joy, however, is always within our reach. Joy can coexist with the pain, the tears, and the boredom. I always have joy.
I don't know as much as I think I do. I'm no longer scared of the gray, which is good because it's often what we live in.
I'm just a student trying to get by like everyone else, but perhaps with a bit more eccentricity in my life. I was trying to figure out if I should stay or go. I figured out that I should just love.
Ciao to Montreal, and goodbye to Prague. I'm moving back to Pennsylvania. Don't tell anyone, but I'm actually secretly excited to be home!
Who I'd like to meet: people who can challenge me in different ways:
AOL Instant Messanger: Flippin30
Or--flippin30@hotmail.com for MSN users...
Michael Dennis (York, PA; McGill) on Facebook
Wow, does he go to McGill? He was always really kind in school. Last I saw him he was a waiter at the resturant that is now Charlie Browns (can't think of the name) and few years back. Funny who you just run into people and everyone seems to know everyone. That happend to me yesterday at work.....
ha...why not..it could be a 12 day "induction period" and the last day is the final test....can you make it through the mom's 50th birthday party...lol
So as soon as you figure out you plans on getting home let me know. Things are going to be crazy around that time with reporting my students' outcomes, the party, c-mas, and we are closing on the 18th for the house. Also did you talk to the really cool dean about letting you take the final early. Tell her it would be really swell of her if she'd do so...haha. And I think it would be cool if you brought a boy home....if you are dating one or any at the time....haha....just pick your fav. haha.
That sounds like fun! Why Montreal? I came back from Hawaii and live in York. My boyfriends family is in Ohio so we visit there frequently. This default picture of you is hysterical!
hey mikey!! well i'm at american eagle at park city mall!! i left the gap in july and i'm loving it at ae:) so yep you heard right christine is working at the gap in park city. well i hope we can get together when you are home! oh and did you hear evie is pregnant and shes having a girl!! crazy shit!! talk to you soon!
hello lover...i miss you like nothin else...can you believe its already been a year...this entire year the picture frame and newspaper you gave me have been sitting on my desk so even while i sit here and message you im looking at them...love you like crazy...tear!
so i just got finished reading all of that great information about you on the left side of your page...a lot of it made me laugh...but i see that you think that have a little extra baggage? i mean i haven't seen you in awhile... it couldn't be that much extra baggage
I did. I got your birthday card! It was so funny...I told mom about the Canadian birthday card comment and she goes "I can't believe they were all in Canadian. You'd think they'd have more in English!" HAHAHA......I was dying!
That would definitely be fun...I'm not sure if it is in the budget though. I'll have to talk to M more about it. How's the cell and the computer doing?
i don't know if i ever told you...but i loved that book you recommended...i didn't get to read much in jury duty but the next week i got snowed in at my apartment and read it in one day...thanks
