Login
Discover
Waves
Communities
Login
Signup
Mike iLL
@mikeill
48
Born in 1969 to a couple of "radical" Catholic civil rights artists in Montgomery, Alabama. Relationships are the whole point. Love and creativity.
Followers
405
Following
123
Follow
Resource Credits
Available
Used
Location
Pensacola, FL
Website
http://www.obliteration.com
Created
2017-06-13 21:06
RSS Feed
Subscribe
Posts
Blog
Posts
Comments
Communities
Wallet
mikeill
email
2018-10-26 21:02
Real Fan List
We've had the same mailing list for a long time. And like everything else, entropy degrades it. So it's been time to update it. We use a service called SendInBlue to send our emails. They recommended to
$ 0.000
11
1
mikeill
poetry
2018-05-25 05:12
Barrel of Laughs
Rising from the dull bed, unfulfilled and seeking to release some restlessness. Make another deposit in the bank of verse. Wrapping this blanket of importance around these broken shoulders. There is a
$ 0.000
1
1
mikeill
resentment
2018-05-23 06:31
Fuck resentment
following along another path to nowhere. Hello old neglected diary. Rags dies. Ten years old. Poor lonely little pup. His tongue turned to death in his mouth. I held him for the terminal injection. He'd
mikeill
music
2017-10-16 23:01
Hanging the Studio Monitors Correctly
How awesome that our old, deal friend John Siket is here for a stay. The Mouse Hole–the studio here at Temple of Wow–has been set up in one form or another for years, but always in a fairly liminal state.
mikeill
music
2017-09-13 23:33
Stop Trying to Sing by Richard Wagner
A book called Caruso’s Method of Voice Production: The Scientific Culture of the Voice, offers an interesting approach to singing, inspired by the famous Italian opera singer, Erico Caruso. The foundation
mikeill
music
2017-09-13 23:24
Stop Trying to Sing by Richard Wagner
A book called Caruso’s Method of Voice Production: The Scientific Culture of the Voice, offers an interesting approach to singing, inspired by the famous Italian opera singer, Erico Caruso. The foundation
mikeill
music
2017-08-29 15:55
Mike iLL – Seduction of Sarah Sahonie
mikeill
race
2017-08-11 14:30
Eking Out a Sphere
Writers writing from the margins do not write to be consumed. They write to be read (a different thing) and, for many, to eke out a sphere of existence that had not previously existed in the literary
mikeill
songwriting
2017-08-03 08:21
Why Simple?
This particular song, Icicle Man was written over the course of a walk around Nashville one hot afternoon while on a solo tour. Had been reading a biography of Hank Williams and didn't have a friend for
mikeill
poetry
2017-08-02 03:56
Just the Five... Six of Us
It's one thing being gay in theory. It's another in practicality. Pensacola, Florida ain't exactly San Francisco. Eight months ago we were polyamorous in theory. Now it's real. Our boyfriend is beautiful.
mikeill
polyamory
2017-07-29 16:36
Non-Platonic Non-Relationship with Exclusive Benefits
Friend of ours was just telling us about that their non-boyfriend, with whom they have a monogamous sexual relationship had another break-up talk with them again. We decided that they are Friends with
mikeill
feminism
2017-07-20 04:55
Who You Callin' Lazy?
I had never heard of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha before a day of two ago. It's actually through a recommendation from a fellow STEEMIT reader ( @improv ) that I recently subscribed to Bitch magazine,
mikeill
music
2017-07-20 02:07
Ingredible Roma Vocalizing
In case you don't know whom Esma Redzepova is Enjoy and peace be within and around you.
mikeill
life
2017-07-18 12:14
You may not want to get that Root Canal
A few years ago, two dentists told me I needed a root canal on a tooth in the upper rear of the mouth. The endontist said that there was an infection and antibiotics were necessary. Not being into antibiotics,
mikeill
songwriting
2017-07-16 04:38
Exploring the Refrain – Wu-Tang, Leonard Cohen, The Wailers, Bernie Worrell
A chorus is a bunch of people who sings together, right? A refrain is a segment of words (or maybe non-words) that is repeated. Some different pop-rock-blues-hip-hop-soul-jazz chorus types that come to
mikeill
life
2017-07-15 16:26
Whenever Ya Start Feelin' Sorry For Ya-self
Tiny Found Skeletal Hand Every Saturday we get 3 gallons of raw milk from the Pensacola farmer's market. I stopped by John Lewis' house on the way there to talk about this letter he's writing to the Mayor
mikeill
feminism
2017-07-14 14:09
Body outlaws, endangered cultures, and anti-colonial belief systems
THE NEXT WORLD TAROT that we discovered looks awesome. Featuring body outlaws, endangered cultures, and anti-colonial belief systems, THE NEXT WORLD TAROT envisions a world where justice relies on respect
mikeill
songwriting
2017-07-13 03:03
How to Remember more of Dreams
Notebook being probably the number one tool in cultivating the conscious interaction with dreams. First thing is to make it a point to remember them first thing in the morning, prior, ideally, to even
mikeill
poetry
2017-07-09 02:10
Yak Shaving in the Studio again
The above is a little sung background to accompany the reading. It's a bit of an experiment. Barely audible. Looks terrible. Who cares? We have been working on this music record. Want to overdub some accordion
mikeill
introduceyourself
2017-07-08 04:01
Who Am I to Write? The Unoriginal Mike iLL
We've been living in this abandoned subway tunnel since the three of us married in 2012. Before that all three of us were working in the law, but following a three-day iowaska ritual which involved being
Older →
