Michael K. Willis
- Age: 52
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Pisces
- Zodiac Year: Monkey
- Industry: Publishing
- Occupation: Writer
- Location: San Diego : California : United States
- Wishlist
About Me
I was born in a crossfire hurricane and I howled at my ma in the pouring rain. But it's all right now, in fact it's a gas! Or something like that. In my time I've done a bunch of stuff, met some good folks, loved and lost and loved again, been a few interesting places, and am now a cynical optimist (or optimistic cynic, after all this time I'm still never exactly sure which I am at any given moment) living in sunny Southern California.
Unlike a dog, how can a turtle ever be naked?
Turtles have excellent imaginations, man! In their minds, they're always naked.
Interests
- music
- books
- news
- pro football
- comic books
- current events
- daydreaming
- walking
- history
- politics
- horse racing
Favorite Movies
- All About Eve
- All That Jazz
- Batman Begins
- Brokeback Mountain
- Belle du Jour
- Buckaroo Banzai
- Bugsy
- Casablanca
- Casino
- Chinatown
- Citizen Kane
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Conversation
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Dr. Strangelove
- Dogma
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Fantasia
- Fargo
- Finding Nemo
- Glengarry GlenRoss
- The Godfather
- The Godfather Part 2
- Goodfellas
- The Incredibles
- JFK
- The Last Waltz
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Malcolm X
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Patton
- The Philadelphia Story
- The Player
- Pulp Fiction
- Reds
- She's Gotta Have It
- Short Cuts
- Sin City
- Spider-Man I & II
- Superman I & II
- Swimming with Sharks
- Taxi Driver
- The Usual Suspects
- Wag the Dog
- Y Tu Mama Tambien
Favorite Music
- India Arie
- Louis Armstrong
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Beatles
- Leonard Bernstein
- Big Star
- Neko Case
- The Chieftains
- The Clash
- John Coltrane
- Common
- Elvis Costello
- Cowboy Junkies
- Miles Davis
- The Dixie Chicks
- Bob Dylan
- Duke Ellington
- Feist
- Fountains of Wayne
- Aretha Franklin
- George Gershwin
- Macy Gray
- Patty Griffin
- Nanci Griffith
- Emmylou Harris
- Hem
- Billie Holiday
- Norah Jones
- Rickie Lee Jones
- Chaka Khan
- k.d. lang
- Los Lobos
- Branford Marsalis
- The Dave Matthews Band
- The Mavericks
- Nellie McKay
- Joni Mitchell
- Keb’Mo’
- The Modern Jazz Quartet
- Van Morrison
- Maria Muldaur
- Meshell Ndegeocello
- The Negro Problem
- Willie Nelson
- The New Pornographers
- Joan Osborne
- Madeleine Peyroux
- Prince
- Public Enemy
- R.E.M.
- Eddi Reader
- Rilo Kiley
- The Rolling Stones
- Linda Ronstadt
- Patti Scialfa
- Jill Scott
- Patti Smith
- Bruce Springsteen
- Talking Heads
- U2
- Weather Report
- Kanye West
- Lucinda Williams
- Cassandra Wilson
- Stevie Wonder
- Lizz Wright
- Trisha Yearwood
- Yo La Tengo
- Neil Young
- Warren Zevon
Favorite Books
- A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
- Bad Behavior (Mary Gaitskill)
- The Civil War (Shelby Foote)
- The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
- DC: The New Frontier (Darwyn Cooke)
- Dirty Havana Trilogy (Pedro Juan Gutierrez)
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (Ntozake Shange)
- Foundation (Isaac Azimov)
- The Hotel New Hampshire (John Irving)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (James Baldwin)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
- In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
- The Inner Circle (T.C. Boyle)
- Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
- Jazz (Toni Morrison)
- Locas (Jaime Hernandez) Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
- Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- Native Son (Richard Wright)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- The Onion Field (Joseph Wambaugh)
- Palomar (Gilbert Hernandez)
- Superman for All Seasons (Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale)
- Time Enough for Love (Robert Heinlein)
- Watchmen (Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons)
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| Suspending Disbelief | |
|---|---|
| Neverending Rainbow | |
| Bread and Roses |
