Mike D - Hobbies

Music has always been my first love. I studied piano from the time I was 5 years old until I was 13, when I started junior high school. I picked up a set of drumsticks when I was 17 and studied under an unsung drummer by the name of Mick. Drum lessons lasted until I was 19, when I first held a GTX electric guitar (owned by then-guitarist/singer for L.A. heavy band "Grissol", Jesse Commons).He showed me the ropes on his ART and Quadraverb and I have been an axe-man ever since. My influences include Built to Spill, Queens of the Stone Age, and Weezer. I am currently writing songs with Chad Huhn who is also multi-instrumentally gifted. I play the Jay Turser SG shown below.

Paintball has been a summer pastime of mine off and on since 1991 when I bought some of my first equipment. Back then I played with a bottom fed Auto-Mag that I picked up at Skirmish in Reseda, Ca. My friends were playing with Auto-Cockers and PMI semi's. All the fancy equipment went to the wayside though when I moved from L.A. to Seattle. In the last year I have collected a few nice markers such as my Kingman Spyder TL+ which I set up for snipers with a red dot scope, mini tank, and long barrel. I customized a Spyder Compact for assault, using a bottom-line kit and combat style laser beam scope. A Brass Eagle Avenger rounds out the collection of semi's with it's two-finger trigger and fast vertical ball-feed.

Current projects are as follows:

P4 2Ghz Desktop
512mb RDRAM
80gb HD
64mb nVidia Gforce

P2 333Mhz Desktop
128mb SDRAM
20gb HD
32mb Monster 3DFX

P1 133Mhz Desktop
64mb RAM
2gb HD

P1 120Mhz Desktop
16mb RAM
1gb HD

P1 133Mhz Laptop
80mb RAM
4gb HD