Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson is a composer/guitarist/vocalist/bassist/keyboardist/producer/engineer who has also been in Academia for the last six years. He has a degree from the University of Colorado at Denver, and advanced degrees in jazz from the University of Miami. Currently, he teaches recording and songwriting at Greenville College, near St. Louis. However, while he's been teaching, he has continued to play, compose, and record and produce other artists.

Hobbies:

Music, Films, Books, Macintosh Computers

Favorite Movies:

This is Spinal Tap, Office Space, The Matrix, X-Men, Citizen Kane, North By Northwest, The Manchurian Candidate (original one), Memento, Vertigo, Life of Brian, Run Lola Run, Road Warrior, The Warriors, The Dead Zone, Scanners, Alien, Aliens, Blazing Saddles, Dr. Strangelove, Bubba Ho-tep, The Evil Dead, 28 Days Later, Blade Runner, The Fury, The Corporation, Leaving Las Vegas, High Fidelity, Raising Arizona, Adaptation, The Shining, Notorious, Full Metal Jacket, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Groundhog Day, Planet of the Apes (original one), Walk The Line, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rear Window, Unforgiven, Bird, Amadeus, The Terminator, Good Night and Good Luck, Rebel Without A Cause, High Plains Drifter, Kelly's Heroes, Dirty Dozen, The Untouchables, Easy Rider, An Inconvenient Truth, Bowling For Columbine, Logan's Run, High Plains Drifter, Fletch, Stripes, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Breakfast Club, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Halloween, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Howling, Blade, From Here To Eternity, The Highlander, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, The Jerk, Animal House, The Lost Boys, Less Than Zero, The Princess Bride, Duel, Airplane, Clerks

Favorite TV Shows:

Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica (the new one), 24, Dr. Who (the new one), Invasion, Surface, X-Files, Star Trek (all of them except Enterprise), Nowhere Man, Daily Show, Chappelle Show, Conan O'Brian, David Letterman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, The Dead Zone, Smallville, My Name is Earl, Scrubs, Sliders, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Bean, Millenium

Favorite Music:

David Amram, Albert Ayler, Chet Baker, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Big Star, Big Black, Samuel Barber, David Bowie, Glenn Branca, John Cage, Can, Captain Beefheart, Johnny Cash, Cheap Trick, Don Cherry, Chicago, Charlie Christian, Cluster, Ornette Coleman, Steve Coleman, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Elvis Costello, The Cure, Daniel Amos, Miles Davis, Devo, Dinosaur Jr., Al DiMeola, DNA, Charles Dodge, Thomas Dolby, Eric Dolphy, Bob Dorough, Nick Drake, Electric Light Orchestra, Danny Elfman, Brian Eno, Faust, The Fiery Furnaces, The Fire Theft, The Flaming Lips, Flying Saucer Attack, Peter Gabriel, Phillip Glass, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Jerry Goldsmith, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Herbie Hancock, Bernard Herrmann, Charlie Hunter, Husker Du, Isotope 217, Jane's Addiction, Al Jarreau, Level 42, Nik Kershaw, Kidney Thieves, Kraftwerk, Lamb, Liars, Living Colour, M83, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Mars, M-Base Collective, Medeski, Martin & Wood, The Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Mogwai, The Move, Muse, Willie Nelson, Neu!, Nine Inch Nails, Parliament/Funkadelic, Pauline Oliveros, Pedro The Lion, Pere Ubu, Pixies, Prince, The Producers, Public Enemy, Queen, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Refused, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Rodan, Roxy Music, Todd Rundgren, Self, Shoes, Sigur Ros, Slint, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Split Enz, Karlheinz Stockhausen, The Stooges, Igor Stravinsky, Sun Ra, Sunny Day Real Estate, Super Furry Animals, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Television, Throbbing Gristle, The Time, Tortoise, Tower of Power, The Tubes, TV on the Radio, U2, Utopia, The Velvet Underground, Weather Report, Wilco, Brian Wilson, Wire, Wolfmother, Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, Rob Zombie

Favorite Books:

Stranger in a Strange Land (or any other book written by Robert Heinlein,) Dune, The Vampire Chronicles, A Brief History of Time, I Robot, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, All The President's Men, Being There, The Illustrated Man, Brave New World, On The Road, Please Kill Me, My Band Could Be Your Life, Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, 20th Century Harmony