“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” -Walt Disney

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Music

“Music is the strongest form of magic.” —Marilyn Manson

• Artists in library: 4,557

• Tracks in my library: 69,168

• Vocal Trance is my overall favorite music genre, and my favorite artist is Generation Trance. Their mixes are available for free on their forums.

• My favorite artists include: a-ha, Marillion, Cold Play, Sade, George Michael.

Hardware & Equipment

Master and Dynamic MW65 Wireless Headphones

The best headphones I’ve ever used. Listening to my music on these is pure bliss.

Sony SRSX77 Chromecast, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth Speaker

My primary speaker is the Sony SRSX77 which acts as a Chromecast target and can accept music pushed from Music Assistant (see below).

Music Assistant Software

Music Assistant is a music library manager for your offline and online music sources which can easily stream to a wide range of supported players. It’s self-hosted (I run it in a Docker container) and it integrates with Home Assistant (where you can control it remotely and run scripts against it).

Podcasts

I use the open-source, ad-free, self-hosted AudioBookShelf to listen to my podcasts and audio-books.

This is a list of my subscribed podcasts:

Concerts

• Bruce Springsteen concert, Frankfurt with Lee Zinn (1985 July 15)
• Monsters of Rock, Mannheim Germany (1986)
• Sting, Nashville (1987)
• Reamonn concert, Mannheim, with Marc Albrecht
• Tears for Fears concert (2010 March 10)
• A-ha World Farewell Concert, with Matt Fairbrook (2010 May 10)

Plays

• Carmen play in Budapest (1987)
• Wicked musical (2008 February)

Sports Viewing

• I watch MMA religiously. I’ve seen every event, televised.
• Ayla and I attend the live event UFC 214, Cormier vs Jones 2 (July 22 2017)
• Tour de France cycling. Watched 2020, 2021, 2022
• World Cup Soccer. My Team is Germany/Deutschland (of course!)

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• Michael’s Website

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