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If You Wish To Read This Then Keep Reading And I Thank You For Taking The Time To Do So. If You Are Only Here To Tell Me I'm Cute, Hot, Sexy, Or Any Other Demeaning Judgmental Traits, Then I Do Not Wish To Talk To You.
My Name Is MICHAEL.
I Do Not Wish To Tell You My Whole Name, For Personal Reasons.
I Will Say I Don't Care What You Think Of Me, But We All Like The Feeling Of Self-Validation, We All Need That Little Pat On The Back.
I Do Like To Talk To People, But Only If They Are Respectable And Have At Least Half A Brain.
Don't Speak To Me In Anything Other Than English, Thats All I Know And Care To Learn.
Music Is My Passion, Art Is My Job.
Music
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I am a Drummer by nature but I also venture into other fields such as Various Vocal Styling, Guitar, Bass, Piano, Synthesizer, Various DJ Equipment, writing the music and lyrics for all of my songs.
My Drum Set is one of a kind.
A few pieces are of my own design
My Normal set is comprised of Electric and Acoustic Pieces.
Acoustic
12" and 13"GP modified mounted toms (also known as mounted toms, tom toms, or just toms), 18" Ddrum Diablo Tom, 16" Ludwig floor tom, Two 24" Pearl bass drums, a 14" "Black Beauty" snare drum OR 6.5" x13" Pearl JJ-1355 Joey Jordison Signature Snare Drum (I tend to switch them out every so often.
Electric
11" and 14" Roland Toms,18" Yamaha Side Tom, Yamaha 3-zone Snare Pad(For those odd noises one might need)
Cymbals
20" Sabian HHX Ride , 15" Sabian Splash, 14.25" Zildjian Hi-Hat set up, 15" Zildjian Fast Crash, 18" Zildjian Fast Crash, 8" Zildjian dark Splash, 24" Paiste Mega ride, 18" Paiste RUDE China, (Here is Where Joey Jordison comes into my Cymbals)These will all be from Joeys Paiste Black Alpha set, 20" Ride, 17" Crash, 18" China.
Now, you know my whole set.
I still have about 17 spare Drums and I have no idea how many more Cymbals, but I do not feel like cataloging them ALL for you guys right now.
Art
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I do not wish to advertise my Company here on Gaia so all I will say is I am successfully bringing Art to the people on multiple scopes.
Think off-center.
Best Quotes
Everyone should think for themselves. I learned that in a book I bought called 'Everyone Should Think For Themselves'
Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. This can escalate into a war that can kill millions. Normal people settle disputes over cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.
According to the Los Angeles Times, 63% of families in America are now considered dysfunctional. That means that I'm in the majority. It's the people with the mom, dad, brother, sister, white picket fence, those people are the *freaks*!
Sometimes, to help the people you love, you've gotta commit a felony.
I learned early on that passion, stupidity and 80 ounces of cheap beer will win the heart of any woman. And if it doesn't, you'll be too hammered to remember.
A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief."
Everyone's a racist. It's the one thing that makes us all the same.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, "Booty - mmm mmm."
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.
The normal make a living, the deranged make history.
You don't drag a woman out of a strip club. You put a twenty in your zipper and back out slowly.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
God bless the homicidal maniacs. They make life worthwhile.
Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Religion is just mind control.
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
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*pokes* I'll be on the road tonight so I probably won't get to talk to you later.