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Daniele

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.

About Me

(Version 5.1)
I like fruit roll-ups.
I'm always paranoid about slamming on my brakes in traffic and someone rear-ending my car while I just happen to be scratching my eye because I don't want it to get poked out. That freaks me out daily. I'm serious.
I'm really into Journalistic trends, more than the act of Journalism itself because it kind of gets me down.
I think bands should contact me before putting hidden tracks on their album. I will most likely tell them that they should make the hidden track the last song, and the crappy last song should be the hidden track because I would like to avoid having to press "FWD" for three minutes to get through said crappy last song because the hidden track is clearly a better song. Getting in touch with me first will save your fans a lot of time and effort. Pete Yorn, heed.
I like Gold Toe socks. They are smooshy and padded. They make my feet comfy.
It drives me nuts when people put the toilet paper roll on the holder so that the toilet paper is coming out from underneath.
I like when bumper stickers are grammatically incorrect because that further indicates to me that your viewpoints about abortion and Calvin and Hobbes cartoons are not worth my time.
I like words. Examples of some favorites are egregious, skulduggery and esoteric.
I wish I could snap my fingers and make certain people disappear. A few come to mind.
I've worked in a coffee shop for ten years come this summer. There used to be a girl that would come in every day and ask for "a glass of hazelnut." This pissed me off and made me cringe because we didn't have "glasses." We had "cups," and they were made out of styrofoam. I was clueless as to how she felt comfortable ordering that way.
I think that if musicians can write shitty songs about people, then those people should be able to write shitty blogs about the musicians without any judgements to the blogger. It's not fair that the blog would be looked upon as tacky and out of line. Ain't that a bitch?
Anything that is miniature, I love.
There was this one time I met a boy who has eyes like the ocean and I fell in love with him and now he is my whole wide world. That is pretty rad.
I am pretty obsessed with my Chuck Taylors.
I would like to read books all day.
Makeup cannot stay on my face for more than three seconds. I'll wipe it right off.
Who's obsessed with pizza and can eat it everyday, multiple times a day? That's right, folks. Me, me and me. Uhluvit. Gonna go eat some right now, in fact.
In kindergarten, I stuck my hair barrette in the light socket and made the electricity in the whole school flicker on and off. I also burnt the shit out of my pinky and got my name written on the board with three checkmarks beside it. Thank God the teacher was concerned with using her colored chalk and not my poor little six-year-old ass. Um, there are electrical socket guards for kids like me. Use them.
Pictures . Always.

My Interests

Um. Yeah.

I'd like to meet:

Sylvia, John, Stephen, Bernard, Grandpa, Ryan Adams, Audrey, Marilyn, Jack and Anderson.

Music:

Me. Obsessed with local music. You know this.

Cari Clara , MOTH , Turnbull AC's , Captain of Industry, Wake the Bear, The Times, The Greenhornes, Buffalo Killers, The Minor Leagues, Heartless Bastards, Lavender Drags, The Stapletons, The Light Wires, The Hiders, Bill Alletzhauser, Get Sweaty, The Kentucky Struts, Bad Veins, Mike Landis when he sings "Ming Toy," The Vinyltones, Wussy, The Thirteens, Melismatics, Death in Graceland, The Great Depression, Jake Speed, Staggering Statistics, Jerry King, The Nailers, Straw Boss, The Sundresses, Mr. Bradley Gordon Poops Schnittger, The Lions Rampant and The Sheds.

I like Justin Timberlake. And I'm not embarrassed to like some Top 40 bullshit.

Movies:

Clue, Royal Tenenbaums, The Departed, Star Wars (all), Memento, The Big Lebowski, Jason Bourne, Bottle Rocket, Napoleon Dynamite, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amelie, Almost Famous, Lost in Translation, Life Aquatic, The Pianist (Paul is a weenie), A Christmas Story, Little Miss Sunshine, Yellow Submarine, A Hard Day's Night (so strange), Niagara, Little Miss Sunshine, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Girl, Interrupted, Everything is Illuminated, Office Space. You know, the typical scenester bullcrap. Cliched. Dig it.

Television:

CNN, Dr. Who (seriously), Twin Peaks, X-Files, Arrested Development (George Michael), Scrubs (older), The Office.

Books:

Bias, The God of Small Things, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Bell Jar, Painless Grammar, The Great Gatsby, The Dark Tower Series (which I won't finish because I'm afraid).

Heroes:

Sylvia Plath, Bernard Goldberg, Broken Hearts

My Blog

Sunburned in Minnesota, yo.

I got a sunburn today. On top of the sunburn I got previously in the week.Paul and I just went bike riding. That contributed to my sunburn. The sun wasn't out very much, so my dumb head figured I w...
Posted by D@niele on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:29:00 PST

Marla Maples: The Voice of American Divorce

I was going to go downstairs, put my laundry in the dryer and sit in bed to watch television and fall asleep. Those were my plans about five minutes ago until I walked downstairs and overheard a comm...
Posted by D@niele on Tue, 22 May 2007 06:44:00 PST

Be my hero.

Hi Everyone,I'm walking the NAMI walk a thon this Saturday to benefit The Children's Home of Cincinnati that my friend Amanda Cunningham has organized. NAMI stands for National Alliance of Mental Illn...
Posted by D@niele on Thu, 10 May 2007 02:14:00 PST

I haven't smoked in a week and you'll see its effect here.

Lemme take you through the events of a typical drive on my way to work every morning. :: If this doesn't scream "Daniele is about to bitch about something," I don't know what does. ::I live in Fairfi...
Posted by D@niele on Tue, 01 May 2007 05:59:00 PST

For MK

This isn't any smart ass rant about gas prices, tuition costs or bitchy girls. It's actually something I don't normally like doing, but I've been listening to R.E.M. and this song struck a chord with...
Posted by D@niele on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:46:00 PST

I ain't snooty.

I only have a few minutes before I have to go to work in Hell, but a few things popped in my mind this morning on the way to work. This could be because one in particular has me in a panic attack whe...
Posted by D@niele on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:52:00 PST

Stop me if you've heard this already.

....or just keep reading to laugh at me again. I can't remember if I've blogged this before. It's an old story, but to me, blog-worthy.So, yeah. I hate birds. I hate their chirps. I hate how I do...
Posted by D@niele on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:09:00 PST

Kraft can suck it.

When I start my summer job every year, there is UDF that I visit every morning to get my gargantuan coffee with six creams stirred in. It's half UDF Regular Roast and half Hazelnut Creme, in case you...
Posted by D@niele on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:22:00 PST

I pay mass for miniscule.

Today I feel the need to complain about something (yeah, whatever), and then I will carry on to share a conversation I overhead in the hallway today. Since I like order, I will go in order. And plea...
Posted by D@niele on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:21:00 PST

Lil Diz. Hating bitches since '78.

I'm in a funk, yo.This'll be one of those blogs I post and then a few hours later it will gone. There is no witty banter or any scenarios to which I have a cynical output ready to fire.I am just anno...
Posted by D@niele on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:37:00 PST