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About Me

I was a baby until I turned three. Now I am continuing to study as a musicologist and theorist. I read every day during the day, and at night I like to go out. I enjoy going to art openings, noisy music shows, dancing sometimes, and hanging out with friends. When I grow up, I'll be a teacher. I will teach Music Theory, Music Philosophy, Noise Aesthetics, Aesthetic Philosophy, Egoist Morals vs Altruist Morals, and Intermedia Theory. My geekery is interminable, I take silliness seriously, I can out-cuddle anyone, and I'm kind of cute.
You are looking at a picture of Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo and his "intonarumori" (noise instruments) of 1913.

Here's a photo of John Cage (left) and Karlheinz Stockhausen (right), taken around 1958.

You are listening to "We Love Our Blood" by Nels Cline and Thurston Moore.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

A narcissist

Music:

80s, the Cure, Psychadelic Furs, New Order, Erasure, Flock of Seagulls, the Glove, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, the Ruins, the Boredoms, Eno, Upsilon Acrux, Nomi, Russolo, Schoenberg, Reich, Cage, Ligeti, Josquin, Webern, Crumb, Debussy, Subotnick, Tenney, Lesko, Nels Cline, Scriabin, Satie, Stravinsky, Stockhausen, Bartok, Amacher, Gorecki, Zorn

Books:

Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, A Genealogy of Morals. Camus: The Stranger, Caligula. Stirner: The Ego and His Own. Bataille: Story of the Eye, Blue of Noon.Marquis De Sade: Justine. Sacher-Masoch: Venus in Furs. Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Sartre: Existentialism and Human Emotion, No Exit. Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation. Foucault: History of Sexuality. Kafka: The Trial, Metamorphosis. Dawkins: The Selfish Gene. Kivy: Music Alone. Adorno/Horkheimer: Dialectic of Enlightenment. Kahn: Noise Water Meat.

My Blog

New Home in Santa Cruz - Working for UCSC

I'll be living in Santa Cruz with the address 420: how apropos to the culture here....I'm going to be so pissed when random stoners knock on my door.So I did it: I found a decent place in Santa C...
Posted by Daniel L on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:52:00 PST

Dr. Daniel

Today I received a most strange Valentine from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Allow me to share it with you: Dear Daniel,I am pleased to offer you admission into the Ph.D. program in ...
Posted by Daniel L on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:28:00 PST

The Morbidity of Newness

I will probably hate that I posted this later, but I feel like sharing. I am finally moving out of the OC and into the LA; the Koreatown - K-Town, for short - to be exact. I have lived in Fuller...
Posted by Daniel L on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:57:00 PST

Master Danyo

Today I received the certificate, Master of Arts in Musicology. It was long, it was painful, yet simple all the same. My pain was just me whining at having to do something. The origi...
Posted by Daniel L on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:16:00 PST

I love Oprah

I love Oprah. She has her own magazine - O - with her on every cover. I aspire to be like Oprah; I love that woman. She's so nice and so rich. Only wealthy glutons can afford t...
Posted by Daniel L on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:06:00 PST

Double Feature Blog: Stolen Car Stereo/First Draft of Thesis Complete

It was a dark and stormy night. No. But you all know the story. You hear about it on the news your whole life. I was at Renee's sister's place doing libary [sic]. S...
Posted by Daniel L on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:44:00 PST

The Hair

So the hair has been chopped too short once again. It currently looks like a 1/8 mullet: bushy in the back, and almost painfully short in the front. It's about an inch to an inch and half ...
Posted by Daniel L on Fri, 02 Sep 2005 08:16:00 PST

Detroit

So I just got back from Detroit yesterday visiting the parents, and my cousin who came from Minneapolis to be with us. This was my first visiting the new home since my parents moved from Arizona...
Posted by Daniel L on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Fuck Yeah Fest 2005

So I was there in Echo Park for Fuck Yeah Fest, a festival which included several bars and venues open for some rock-y-roll for only $6. I went to see my friends' band Upsilon Acrux play. ...
Posted by Daniel L on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Concerning my "background music" and the death of UBU

For months I have had an amazing sonic aid for viewing my profile: it was none other than Lauren Lesko's "The Thirst" for vagina and contact microphone. This amazing selection I borrowed from on...
Posted by Daniel L on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST