Real Name:
Michael (Mike/Micky/Misha) Abbott
Location:
Oberlin, OH
Age:
19
Hair:
Blondish, short yet overpowering.
Eyes:
Grayish blue
Height:
6' 4"
Job/Grade/College:
Student at Oberlin College
Favorite Band/Music:
I'm a big music buff, so I'll just list a few artists and albums that I like: The Klezmatics, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Focus, Renaissance, Philip Glass, Franz Liszt, The OneUp Mushrooms, Sergei Prokofiev, Dimitri Shostakovich, Mel'nica, Bela Fleck, Blonde Redhead, Blood Sweat and Tears, Camel, Can, Frank Zappa, Dread Zeppelin, Flogging Molly, The Beatles, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, The Zombies, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Burt Bacharach, Boney M, Don Byron, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Koji Kondo, Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu, Yes, Walter/Wendy Carlos, Doctor Ammondt, Wesley Willis, Bob Dylan, Cab Calloway, Cream, Coheed and Cambria, Gryphon, Hem, Iron Butterfly, Joan Baez, Little Feat, Lovin' Spoonful, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Trenet, Al Green, George Clinton, Isaac Heyes, Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin, Steve Reich, Disney Soundtracks, The Who, Run Lola Run, The Godfather, The Wizard of Oz, By Jeeves, Amilie (Soundtracks), Tomas Bodin, Thomas Dolby, Oingo Boingo, Vangelis, Moody Blues, The Doors, Spike Jones, Sam & Dave, Rick Wakeman, Pink Floyd, Peter Paul and Mary, Fairport Convention, The Comedian Harmonists, Al Jolson, Tennesee Ernie Ford, Ennico Morricone, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The Shaggs, Overclocked Remixes, Van der Graaf Generator, Opeth, The Divine Comedy, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Raznotravie, Procol Harum, Moby, The Cowsills, Earth Wind and Fire, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles, Sigur Ros, The Raymond Scott Quintet, Mysterious Clown, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and the Mad Acid Rock Tapdancing Shoes of Harry Zonk, although I'm really open to most anything.
Favorite Movie:
Kurosawa all the way. I'd say Yojimbo is my favorite movie, simply because Toshiro Mifune is SO much cooler than Clint Eastwood (If you don't know, Clint Eastwood's first movie was a complete remake of Yojimbo, Kurosawa's tribute to the western). I like movies that show humanity. I'm also a fan of movies that don't have characters or plot. Godfrey Reggio's
Qatsi trilogy is some wonderfully beatiful stuff, an incredible use of the projector screen as a canvas. There are a lot of very mainstream movies I haven't seen, like the Lord of the Rings things and Star Wars, but I'll get around to them eventually, I'm sure.
Favorite Book: Crime and Punishment. So amazing. I read the whole 600 page book in one sitting the first time I read it. Took all night, but man, what a book. Other favorites: The Master and Margarita, Confederacy of Dunces, Leaves of Grass, The Sea and the Mirror, and countless others.
Favorite Author(s): Well, Dostoevsky of course. Kobo Abe is nice and surreal, also humanist. Kafka, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Anthony Burgess, Camus, Christopher Moore is nice and silly, Huxley, Orwell, Shakespeare (naturally), Philip Larkin, Fairy tales. But whatever. Here's what I don't like: Anything you can find in a Southern Bookstore. Christian Romance Novels. Books about stuff happening instead of people doing stuff. Anything with flowers on the cover. Willa Cather. Essays that aren't satirical or theoretical. Anything realistic for the sake of realism. Anything else I'll give the benefit of the doubt.
For how long have you been playing DROD?
Played the demo 6-8 years ago, came back to the real game a year or two ago.
Have you ever beaten DROD?
On five or more different computers (I'm ready for 2.0).
Do you think cats are nicer than dogs?
I have a harder time imagining cats dead. Dogs I always imagine dead. Also, dogs are afraid of me. How many times have I heard the phrase, "
I've never seen that dog bark at anyone before!"
? Too many.
Do you like (an amalgam of different animals):
Yes, most notably spiny things, like echidnas or hedgehogs. They're so cute. Lizards, frogs, etc. Also, I've been told I resemble a lion in appearance, so I might as well like those, too.
Are you biased?
Um. . . for the sake of argument. . . yes. Incredibly. Also, I believe hypocrisy is a virtue. The greatest virtue of them all.
Do you like white-haired afros or blondes with heavy suntan?
I have never seen one, or at least have never noticed.
Favourite computer game genres:
Puzzle games with simple parts that interact in complex ways.
Origin of username:
It is my ghetto name. Abbyzzmal, Fo-shizzle.
Bizarre hobbies:
Well, let me think of some: Rhythmic Flower Ballet. Orange juice stacking. Flight. Competitive self-loathing. Stamp-collecting? (I always thought that was bizarre)
As for my actual hobbies, I've been known to poet things, I meditate and fast, I think, I read, and all my self-loathing is done recreationally.
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: DROD, Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Trigger, Far Cry
Was many years ago, and we youngsters didn't mean any particular harm, but on the bright side, we made it on TV! Woo!
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