Danby78 - ProfilesArchive

About Me

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I'm obsessed with music and film. I have four jobs (Some people are just greedy!).
Job 1: Video Editor (hmm, not bad).
Job 2: Sales Assistant in a hockey shop (oh dear, will he be able to recover it with the next two?).
Job 3: DJ (hey hey that's quite good).
Job 4: Music Journalist (ok, ok so job2 was just a slight blemish...like an underdeveloped spot! See, he's not that bad!).
I'm totally open minded about music and have a collection which spans the genres, I am in fact the Genre Spanner...or perhaps just a spanner!
I'm regularly told that I'm arrogant and conceited, but I just tell my accusers that flattery will get them nowhere! I'm actually quite shy, though nobody believes me when I say that. I find stupid people quite difficult to deal with and I am quite happy to speak my mind. Diplomacy is a skill that I'm slowly mastering over the years, lucky everybody else, eh? Until this year I have always been notoriously grumpy, and now I'm not. It's very strange I'm not sure what happened but now I'm "Dan. With new improved cheery cheery disposition" Now the world seems wonderful.
Yep that about wraps it up, what you need to know about me is Music and Film...and perhaps arrogance! ..

My Interests

Erm...Music....and erm...Films

I'd like to meet:

People obsessed with music, who have the same open minded approach to the damn stuff.

Also, people who can understand the torment of knowing that you'll never be able to buy all the albums on your ever-increasing want list! sniff, sniff boo hoo...!

Music:

Hip Hop (proper hip hop though, not that mass unit shifting crap that's masquerading as hip hop these days. when I were a lad etc...).

Indie

Electronica

ROCK (yep in capitals!)

grunge (ooh, does the lower case represent the shoe-gazing, depressive facets of grunge?....Yes it does)

1993/1994 Essex based Drum and Bass - This means Suburban Base and Moving Shadow. Come on Krome & Time's The Slammer!!!!!

Ok, Ok... I'll list some artistes (in no particular order): Pavement (actually that one is in order!), The Smashing Pumpkins, Boogie Down Productions, EPMD, El-P, Cannibal Ox, Cage, MF DOOM, Maker, RJD2, Big Daddy Kane, Black Sheep, De La So..Good, A Tribe Called Quest, Nice & Smooth, Madvillain, Ghostface Killah, Sage Francis, Buck 65, Little Barrie, The Pipettes, The Concretes, The Research, Kerri Chandler, The Zutons, The Coral, Soundgarden, Jeff Buckley, Funkadelic, King Geedorah, Pink Floyd, Boards of Canada, Kate Bush, The Unicorns...the list goes on, and on, and on etc

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Amelie, I Heart Huckabees, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, The Hudsucker Proxy, About A Boy, Lost In Translation, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, Broken Flowers, Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Akira, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather (Part 1 & 2 ONLY!), Goodfellas, Fight Club. The list goes on, and on, and on etc

Television:

The Mighty Boosh (the radio series is amazing as well!), Nathan Barley, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy, Red Dwarf, The young Ones, Family Guy, The Simpsons. I never watch ITV because it's offensively rubbish. I don't begrudge my licence fee.

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Books:

Haruki Murakami, Enid Blyton, Terry Pratchett, Iain Banks, Colin Harrison.

Heroes:

Last time I had one he killed himself, which was what a certain mixed up teenager really needed! Thanks Kurt............................

My Blog

Episode Two: Danby gets very, very tired.

Yes folks I surely am plumtuckered. So, you may be asking what's been happening in the world of Danby this week. Well, ask no more... 1. Went to Cardiff on Monday. Stayed overnight in an I...
Posted by Danby78 on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:57:00 PST

Episode One: Danby meets the blogmonster

Ah me, another weeks draws a filthy veil over itself and buggers off into the annals of time. Things what I have done this week: 1. Rekindled a friendship with a good friend and for the first tim...
Posted by Danby78 on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:46:00 PST