About the Bard

In more classic times, there was a popular profession joined by those who would rather wield a pick than a pickaxe, by those who would rather be armed with a pen than a sword. Sure, there is no record of these bold adventurers ever saving a princess from a dragon, though there are perhaps a few tales of these outspoken explorers living to sing about it. It is the difference between the medium and the message; between the prophet and the prophecy. After all, given the great test of time, names like Homer and Shakespeare ring truer than the names of the characters they celebrate.

A Bard has to walk a fine line, between giving his audience what they love and informing them with the hidden profundity of his art. He has to be a master performer and a master of melody, harmony, and wit. Indeed, because the Bard travels far and wide, the Bard must also be a charmer, a mesmerist, a master of language and a programmer of minds, lest he find himself cornered by an angry king on the wrong side of an ill-chosen metaphor or under the sharp twang of a bitter lemon. What a Bard must be is all this and forever growing to be more...

It is with all this in mind that Mike Stop Continues to be recognized as aspiring toward truer forms of being what he is--The Bard--free and boundless.

There wasn't always a Mike Stop Continues, but in his short time on solid earth, he has made entrancing and inspired music that we are told one of America's favorite people called, "boldly endeavoring towards the depth of trance, even as you listen, over and over, to the surface of the rythmic catching and inescapably fun." We are currently seeking permission to name the quote's speaker. If it is you, please contact us.

Michael St. Continues, walking the fine line between what is good and what is glorious, through his exquisite use of sound and language is forever deepening his involvement in the kinds of engulfing projects that will capture the minds and regenerate the hearts of those who experience the gradient of music, video, comics, and literature that are to be released in the coming days, weeks, months, years, lifetimes, eons, eternity, infinity, subdivided into the particles, atoms, molecules, cells, and organs that give rise to you.

His purpose is to inspire, enlighten, and entertain, in any order, because Mike realizes, as you might, that "we're all in this together" and he likes being in it with you.