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About
Hi, I'm Mike.I'm going to leave this section deliberately short, but this is me in a nutshell:
I'm a recording engineer, lecturer, poker player and conspiracy geek.
I believe in peace, love and a damn good argument.
I'm here to learn and to be inspired.
I like to dabble with Photoshop (mainly heavy-duty retouching and transformations), write music (using Logic Pro for those interested) and stuff my head full of useless information that will hopefully come in useful one day.
I don't have a TV, but I download the TV shows that I want to watch, and watch them when I want to.
Nothing shortens my temper as effectively as advertising, the news, and opinion passed off as fact.
Bill Hicks is my Jesus/Mohammed/Buddha.
I'm a sucker for a good pun.
I'm going to try and discipline myself into maintaining a blog on here, but whether it will happen is another thing, because I'm the king of procrastination.
Movies
Christopher Guest, Cohen Brothers, Kubrick, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Mike Leigh, Wes Anderson, Scorsese, Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Pixar, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Curse of the Golden Flower, Old Boy, Star Wars, Three Colours White/Blue/Red, Betty Blue, Withnail & I, The Prestige, V for Vendetta, Shawshank Redemption, Lost In Translation, Cinema Paradiso, Caddyshack, Kingpin, Napoleon Dynamite, 12 Angry Men, Dr Strangelove, Borat
Television
The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Family Guy, South Park, Trailerpark Boys, Lost, Prison Break
Books
Iain M Banks, Orwell, Huxley, Bill Bryson, Pop Bios, Poker theory, David Icke, anything that deals with subjects that stray from the ordinary, .
Activities
Interests
Art, jamie reid, banksy, schiele, rothko, kandinsky, klee, lucian freud, picasso, escher, basquiat, holbein, sassoferrato, architecture, poker, film, procrastinating, arguing, cracking wise.
Music
Brian Setzer, Queens Of the Stoneage, Charlotte Hatherley, Cardiacs, XTC, Zappa, Vince Lee, Bellowhead, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Faith No More, Mr Bungle, Zorn, Orbital, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, The Beatles, Kurt Weil, The Futureheads, Hayseed Dixie, Daft Punk, old Metallica, Oingo Boingo, The Specials, Van Morrison, Jeff Buckley, Slayer, eX-girl, Global Communication, smatterings of Hip Hop/DnB/Grime/random urban glitchiness, 60's garage, rock'n'roll/swing/ragtime, jazz/dixie, folk/bluegrass/shitkicking hillbilly banjo twiddling, Debussy, Gershwin, Beethoven, Arvo Part, Gorecki, Gavin Bryars, Bartok, Saint-Saens, Reich, Glass, loads of random pop/pap, Serge Gainsbourg, Nick Cave, Queen, ACDC, Alison Krauss, Amplifier, Aretha Franklin, Beachboys, Barenaked Ladies, Basement Jaxx, Beck, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Billy Bragg, Bjork, Black Sabbath, Blur, Busta Rhymes, Chemical Brothers, Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Delaney and Bonnie, Deodato, Sugarbabes, Devo, Nancy Sinatra, Dizzee Rascal, Eliza Carthy, Elvis, Ennio Morricone, Goldfrapp, Graham Coxon, Hot Club Quartette, Jane's Addiction, Johnny Cash, Kate Bush, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Ladytron, Lamb, Leftfield, Massive Attack, Muse, Portishead, Tricky, Lemon Jelly, Love, Miles Davis, Moloko, Nick Drake, Nina Simone, Outkast, PJ Harvey, Prince Buster, Radiohead, Randy Newman, Royksopp, Sigur Ros, Ry Cooder, Sam Cooke, The Shadows, Stevie Wonder, Supergrass, They Might Be Giants, The Fratellis, La Bottine Souriante