Time to update this thing - I'm Mikey J, born and raised in NY, moved to Cali in Sept of 07. Before high school, I grew up on a healthy diet of video games, Star Wars, chess club, and generally being a total dork, which I still am. Around freshman year I found a guitar and discovered rock music, and it all went downhill from there. These days I refuse to cut my hair, despite many protests from my mother. I still play video games, now I just play them stoned. I like to have dance parties in the car with the radio turned up, and I crank the guitar amp and perform for myself in front of the mirror. Two things I do even when they're not appropriate - sing and tell bad jokes. It's a family trait. I have three half brothers = 1.5 brothers. I have a mom and dad, and a step version of each. Multiplied by X amount of grandparents. A crazy great grandma who has no regard for traffic laws. Many cousins. All strange and awesome in their own way. That's a start.

Step 1 - Buy a car. (COMPLETE - 1990 Honda Accord, beeyotch!)
Step 2 - Get a better job.
Step 3 - Get an apartment.
Step 4 - Finish writing the album.
Step 5 - Get famous and take over the world.

Giving advice. Not as good at taking it.

My eyes. Unless I'm currently sporting the Inigo Montoya mustache.

The I Ching, On The Road - Jack Kerouac, Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk, anything philosohpical, The Jack Reacher series by Lee Child, The Golden Compass trilogy by Phillip Pullman, Harry Potter, The Art of War - Sun Tzu, and others... High Fidelity, Back To The Future, The Departed, Out Cold, Moulin Rouge, Across The Universe, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Bourne Movies, Children of Men, Dead Man On Campus, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 and 2, Transformers, Training Day, Die Hard, Live Free or Die Hard, Say Anything, Better Off Dead, Batman, Speed, The Matrix, Big Daddy, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Crash, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Empire Records, Almost Famous, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, Dumb and Dumber... many more. Music - blink 182, Four Year Strong, Motion City Soundtrack, The Rocket Summer, The Starting Line, The Beatles, Norah Jones, Cartel, Rise Against, Sailing To Rome, The Reign of Kindo, Standard Of Living, The Academy Is..., Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, The Honorary Title, Anberlin, Ben Harper, Catch 22, Jack Johnson, Forever The Sickest Kids, etc, etc... Food - Sushi, bagel bites, Mighty Taco, Pizza Oven pizza, REAL Buffalo chicken wings, Stinger subs, Pizookies, In N Out burgers...

Music. Music. Music. Music. Music. Music.

Life. Philosophical queries. What I'm gonna eat for dinner. How to save the environment.

Staggering on street corner in my NY style peacoat on a summer evening, a scarf draped around the collar, sunglasses on in the middle of the night, a flask in one hand and a cigarette in the other, pacing back and forth with a wild look in my eyes.

You want to be entertained... In the words of Marilyn Monroe - "If you can't handle me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best."