About Me
- About Me: I am attending Wheaton College (the groovy one in IL not the un-groovy one in MA) now. I play jazz and rock electric violin, listen to just about everything and write poetry and songs, most of them kind of weird/stream-of-consciousness/improvisatory. a real free spirit. i'm very spiritual, a Chrisitan, but not a fundamentalist, in fact i really don't know what type of chrstian i am. i would call myself a hippie, but i don't believe in putting labels on cultural identity.
Music
- Favorite Artists: i'm not even going to try...
- Favorite Albums: Under Rug Swept (Alainis Morsette) Kind of Blue (Miles Davis), Demeche a Bamboko (Amando and Marum), Between Nothingness and Eternity (Mahavishnu Orchestra) , Are You Experienced?, Live at Stubs (Matisyahu), Trip to the Sun (Tracy Silverman), Giant Steps (John Coltrane), Damn Right I've Got the Blues (Buddy Guy), Alive from South Africa (Israel and the New Breed)
- Favorite Genre: fusion jazz
- Guilty Pleasure: Madonna's lastest album (actually, just pretend you didn't see that...)
- Band I wish I was in: Mahavishnu Orchestra, the Tutle Island String Quartet, David Crowder Band, Greatful Dead, actually i want to be in any band,
Movies
- Favorite Movies: Crash, Grave of the Fireflies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Yellow Submarine, Bowling for Colmbine, This is Spinal Tap, The Apostle,
- Favorite Directors: Christopher Guest
- Favorite Soundtracks: Cold Mountain, O Brother Where Art Thou,
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: "These go up to 11!"
- Movies I can watch over and over: Woodstock 69, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Books
- Favorite Books: Adventures in Missing the Point, Why We Cant' Wait, the Rough Guide to World Music, Democracy Matters, the Spoken Word Revolution, The Poisonwood Bible, The United States of Poetry.
- Favorite Authors: Cornel West, Moly Ivans, CS Lewis, Jack Keroic, Alan Ginsberg, Ralph Elison, Karl Marx, Pierre Bourdieu, Dave Berry,
- Favorite Genres: modern poetry, theology, politics
- Favorite Quotes: "As conservatives are quick to point out, few problems can be solved by throwing money at them. However, it is also true that even fewer can be solved by dropping bombs on them" - Moly Ivans
- Recent Reads: A New Kind of Christian, What Has Bejing to do With Jerusalem?, The Irrisistable Revolution
More About Me
- Religion: follower of Jesus.
- Heroes: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, St. Francis, Shane Claiborne, Dr. Howell, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Beethoven,
- Interests: Music, of all kinds both to listen and play. Modern Jazz, Rock, Fussion, World/Ethnic, Classical, Avant-Guarde. Christanity. Poetry and literature. Political liberalism, enviromentalism, anti-war, human rights/ social justice, making it legal for Christians to be all of the above.
- Expertise: trust me, you don't want to know
- Occupation: Artist
College
- School Name: Wheaton College
- Status: Undergrad
- Class of: 2008
- Degree type: Bachelors
- Major(s): anthropology
- Minor(s): music
- Organizations: plowshares, students for bibilcal equality, gospel choir, social justice prayer group
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Indian, Schezuan, soul food, Middle Eastern
- Favorite Dishes: humus, guacamole, sushi,
- Favorite Desserts: expensive coffee-based drinks
- Favorite Drinks: coffee, green tea, water,
- Favorite Junk Foods: red twislers
- Best meal ever: anything i've ever eating at a church following a gospel choir concert
- My Original Recipes: various kinds of sauces from otherwise uninteresting saga food
- Foods I hate: anything bland
Style
- Where I shop: thrift stores, trader joe's, weird indy places in chi-town, Tie Dye Mary's (when i'm in in nash-vagas)
- Brands I love: brands?? are you kidding me? although i do kind of respect american apperal because their workers are paid a living wage
- I like to wear: clothes, but i try to avoid wearing shoes when it's not nessesary,
- Can't live without: rock n roll, (and the holy spirit)
- Prized Possessions: barcus-berry stephane-grapellii autograph model electro-accostic violin, BOSS GT-7 muti-effects pedal
- Guilty Pleasure: writing pointless information about myself like this when I should be studying. ...
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- Name: Michael
- Country: United States
- State: Illinois
- Metro: Chicago
- Gender: Male
- Member Since: 4/17/2004
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