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· jennifer traig

· cannonball jane

· sarah shannon

copacetic people:

· kevin mcdonald

· bob odenkirk

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staff stories:

· david sedaris *

· alki beach, wa *

· carson kressley

· douglas coupland

· company picnic

· my hello kitty cake

· confessions of a shoe junky

· star wars toy madness

· the week that wasn't

· cher is the chick elvis

· love & loss...

road trips:

· bainbridge island

features

where are they now?

· the mommyheads

· kitchens of distinction

· delicious monster

· the judybats

· dead milkmen

random lists:

· celebs who look like...celebs

· things that make janice cry

· indie rock & star wars

· celebs janice would hug

d.i.y. projects:

· punk rock pillow

fashion articles:

· vintage clothes care

· diy dry cleaning

· keeping whites white

· yay target, pt 2!

articles

mike • janice's prom king

location: seattle, wa
favorite color: orange
favorite weather: windy
pets: ethel & tobin

you might know him as: as janice's super-duper hubby; her copacetic zine/copacetique partner; the awesome photographer behind photophonic.com.

More of photophonic's photos

what he loves: the simpsons (he will kick anyone's ass at simpsons-related trivia!), futurama, the daily show, homestar runner, star wars, the x-files, sloan, yo la tengo, patton oswalt, wild birds, nasa, geeky science stuff. and janice most of all, duh!

• written by mike •

mike's column: news & commentary, blog style

mike's "things of the year" lists: 2006 2005 2004

music reviews (newest on top):

· 2007 capsule reviews

· dirty on purpose - hallelujah sirens (2006)

· human television - look at who you're talking to (2006)

· michael edwards - the family album (2006)

· the majestic twelve - schizophrenology (2006)

· the dark beaks - spill your heart (2006)

· darker my love - darker my love (2006)

· the knife - silent shout (2006)

· pants yell! - recent drama (2006)

· zero 7 - the garden (2006)

· the besties - singer (2006)

· marc with a c - this world is scary as f--k (2005)

· you say party! we say die! - hit the floor! (2005)

· r.o.c. - night fold around me (2005)

· lost on purpose - anniversary (2005)

· the submarines - declare a new state! (2006)

· antlerand - branches (2006)

· cricket spin - you are my home (2006)

· wolfmother - wolfmother (2005)

· the lovely feathers - hind hind legs (2006)

· tartufi - trouble e.p. (2005)

· tillmanns - run e.p. (2006)

· aereogramme - seclusion (2006)

· drive-by truckers - a blessing and a curse (2006)

· irving - death in the garden, blood on the flowers (2006)

· the capstan shafts - euridice proudhon (2005)

· vague angels - let's duke it out at kilkenny katz' (2006)

· mandarin - fast>future>present (2004)

· ticonderoga - the heilig-levine lp (2005)

· herb alpert's tijuana brass - whipped cream and other delights re-whipped (2006)

· crumb - evenings & weekends (2005)

· the hitmaker™ - nice hits v2.0 (2005)

· love is chemicals - love is chemicals (2005)

· murkádee - from a spectral view (2006)

· oppenheimer - oppenheimer (2006)

· rahim - ideal lives (2006)

· aloha - some echoes (2006)

· northern - your house and mine (2005)

· trespassers william - having (2006)

· goldfrapp - supernature (2006)

· okay paddy - the cactus has a point (2006)

· the swims - ride of the blueberry winter (2006)

· wavering saints - collusion e.p. (2006)

· v/a - to: elliott from: portland (2006)

· frankel - chatterbox e.p. (2006)

· measles mumps rubella - fantastic success (2006)

· ponies in the surf - ponies on fire (2006)

· casey holford - all young and beautiful (2005)

· 10% animal - asian haze e.p. (2006)

· vervein - the weather inside (2005)

· fine dining - debutantes & dilettantes (2005)

· stephin merritt - showtunes (2006)

· wolfmother - dimensions e.p. (2006)

· brother jt - indoor sunshine (2005)

· devics - push the heart (2006)

· levi fuller - this murder is a peaceful gathering (2006)

· the subways - young for eternity (2006)

· the capstan shafts - the sleeved and granddaughters of the blacklist (2005)

· elliott the letter ostrich - blood cape (2005)

· magnet - the tourniquet (2006)

· cardinal family singers - lost and found at sea (2006)

· ld & the new criticism - tragic realism (2005)

· lovebirds - s/t demo (2005)

· black rebel motorcycle club - howl (2005)

· the lucy show - mania (reissue, 2005)

· private eleanor - no straight lines (2005)

· spy island - a treasury of great science fiction (2005)

· boyracer - insults & insights (2005)

· king elementary - kudzu (2005)

· ming & ping - mp2 (2005)

· the strugglers - you win (2005)

· for against - december (reissue, 2005)

· sigur rós - takk... (2005)

· escape velocity - chaos theory (2005)

· the imprints - sounds of the aftermath (2005)

· linda draper - one two three four (2005)

· diamond nights - popsicle (2005)

· kiss me deadly - misty medley (2005)

· parker street cinema - s/t e.p. (2005)

· cat & dog dialogue / red pony clock - party animals split cd (2005)

· so l'il - dear kathy, (2005)

· the cubby creatures - after the deprogramming (2005)

· tarantula a.d. - book of sand (2005)

· moggs - the white belt is not enough (2005)

· silversun pickups - pikul (2005)

· the go! team - thunder, lightning, strike (2005)

· dressy bessy - electrified (2005)

· sybris - s/t (2005)

· dungen - ta det lungt (2005)

· the ebb and flow - time to echolocate (2005)

· the stairs - on sleep lab (2005)

· the westward trail - demo (2005)

· gordon b. isnor - creatures all tonight (2005)

· herb alpert's tijuana brass - whipped cream and other delights (reissue, 2005)

· the brunettes - mars loves venus (2005)

· v/a - now we are three!!! (2005)

· black spartacus - the seven dreams of the leviathan (2004)

· the electric grandmother - sin city sex mix (2004)

· lorna - static patterns and souvenirs (2005)

· the product - the makeout song e.p. (2005)

· the gold state - whole wide whole (2003)

· forest giants - ufo stories e.p. (2005)

· architecture in helsinki - in case we die (2005)

· instant camera - alive on departure (2004)

· picastro - metal cares (2005)

· soltero - hell train (2005)

· the operators - the light and the dark (2005)

· v/a - sunsets and silhouettes (2004)

· the debutantes - late night shutdown (2004)

· metropolitan - the lines they get broken (2005)

· poor luther's bones - next to nowhere (2005)

· jennifer o'connor - the color and the light (2005)

· v/a - homemade hits vol. 2 (2005)

· v/a - 25 hour grand prix (2005)

· bellafea - family tree e.p. (2005)

· the capstan shafts - 3 e.p.'s (2005)

· the decemberists - the tain (2004)

· figurine - the heartfelt (reissue, 2005)

· tom thumb - ...songs from holiday (2005)

· thee missouri - in voodoorama (2005)

· v/a - il programma di religione (2005)

· aroah - the last laugh (2004)

· bearsuit - cat spectacular! (2005)

· the distortions - exploding teenage body part (2005)

· mommy and daddy - fighting style killer panda (2005)

· boyracer - happenstance (2004)

· the elks - demo (2004)

· so l'il - revolution thumpin' (2004)

· thee moths - sand in our pockets (2004)

· the transmissionary six - get down (2004)

· winter vacation - the netherlands, 1980 (2005)

· the dutch elms - music for happiness (2004)

· slomo rabbit kick - hortatory examinations e.p. (2004)

· v/a - a houseguest's wish (2004)

· liam singer - the empty heart of the chameleon (2004)

· v/a - tell-all records vol. 1 (2004)

· a is jump - my ice-fingered ghost (2004)

· the channel - personalized (2004)

· avoidance theory - the shape of trees (2004)

· the gunshy - no man's blues (2004)

· seedy gonzales - s/t e.p. (2005)

· argentine - in other fictions (2004)

· coastal - halfway to you (2004)

· john wayne shot me - the purple hearted youth club (2004)

· m83 - before the dawn heals us (2005)

· ian mcglynn - tomorrow's taken (2004)

· professor pez - let us follow the evil balloon (2004)

· aloha - here comes everyone (2004)

· low - the great destroyer (2005)

· unknown joe - my secret lookalike (2004)

· mates of state - all day e.p. (2004)

· pleasurecraft - lost patterns (2004)

· luke temple - s/t e.p. (2004)

· the graze - iowa anvil (2004)

· soltero - the tongues you have tied (2004)

· human television - all songs written by: human television (2004)

· ponies in the surf - a demonstration (2004)

· tony moreno - leftovers from a wake (2004)

· rivulets - you've got your own (2004)

· casper and the cookies - oh! (2004)

· something for rockets - s/t (2004)

· frankenixon - amorphous (2004)

· hussalonia - percy "thrills" hussalonia (2004)

· action now - all your dreams...and more 1981-1984 (2004)

· monster movie - to the moon (2004)

· air formation - stay inside, feel everything (2004)

· the cure - three imaginary boys (reissue, 2004)

· thebrotherkite - s/t (2004)

· bugs eat books - ghosts of leaves (2004)

· migala - la incre�ble aventura (2004)

· william shatner - has been (2004)

· blessed light - love lights the way (2003)

· skywave - synthstatic (2004)

· the stepford five - a new design for living (2004)

· caesars - 39 minutes of bliss (in an otherwise meaningless world) (2004)

· antietam - victory park (2004)

· highspire - your everything (2003)

· for against - echelons (reissue, 2004)

· the lovelies - bottles & stones (2001)

· division day - the mean way in (2004)

· rochester fosgate - s/t (2003)

· the revolutionary hydra - the peefs (2004)

· so many dynamos - when i explode (2004)

· v/a - guess who this is... (2002)

· should - a folding sieve (2002)

· warm wires - kindness (2002)

· golden gram - s/t (2001)

· orange cake mix - a shadow of eclipse... (2001)

· v/a - picnic basket... (2001)

· twenty minute loop - s/t (2000)

· lexo & the leapers - ask them (2000)

· sloan - navy blues (1998)

· teriyakis - psychics to sidekicks (1996)

· mike's cd odyssey - commentary on nearly 140 cds, in blog format (2002)

concert reviews:

· the go! team - october 25, 2005, at the showbox in seattle

· dungen - october 4, 2005, at neumo's in seattle

· sigur rós - september 28, 2005, at the paramount theatre in seattle

· elvis costello - april 7, 2005, at the paramount theatre in seattle

· teenbeat records 20th anniversary - february 23-25, 2005, at the galaxy hut in arlington, va, and the black cat in washington, dc

· interpol - february 11, 2005, at the triple door in seattle

· augustus sweetheart/math and physics club - august 16, 2004 at the hideaway in seattle

movie/dvd reviews:

· the devil and daniel johnston (2006)

· winter passing (2006)

· capote (2005)

· wallace and gromit in the curse of the were-rabbit (2005)

· thumbsucker (2005)

· the baxter (2005)

· broken flowers (2005)

· me and you and everyone we know (2005)

· end of the century (dvd - 2005)

· howl's moving castle (2005)

· bewitched (2005)

· orgazmo (dvd features - 2005)

· star wars episode i: the phantom menace (1999)

book reviews:

· the basic eight

· code name: ginger

· consider the lobster

· driving mr. albert

· guided by voices: a brief history

· fraud

· there's something about jonathan

misc reviews:

· coca-cola zero

· carbwell golden crunch cereal

stories:

· star wars toy madness (1999)