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Darakness

Death Before Dishonour and Drink Before Deadlines!

About Me

*Hey, I'm Dara, otherwise known as 'monkey' to my home boys. I was born in Wales, and grew up all over the place, including England and New Zealand. I come from the godforsaken, small and sunless seaside town of Withernsea outside of Hull, but am currently living/dying in a house (A.K.A. "Fight Club") with a bunch of lovable feckless bastards in Warrington. Radio and Alcohol are my main fields of study, with perhaps a little too much concentration on the latter. The rest of my time is taken up with listening to all sorts of crazy music, watching weird post-modern films, reading strange sixties science-fiction novels and inventing fruitless new ways to get people to do the washing-up. Music is one of my main passions, despite the fact that I'm not very good at creating it. Although, as a consumer of sounds, my aural tastes are probably more eclectic than most, ranging from 40's jazz to the latest gorecore record and plenty more in between.I like to think of myself as witty and cynical but also thoughtful and astute - but I probably come across as crass and criminally insane. I value uninhibited fun, open minds and a good sense of humour. I disprove of shallow contemptuousness and bigoted opinionism. Give me a bottle of cold beer, some whisky, pizza, or an enamoured kiss from a good-looking girl and I'll be happy - at least for a few hours.I'll talk to nearly anyone so feel free to drop me a line: [email protected]. Oh, and in case you were curious, I only joined myspace to make my CV look better...13 13 1313 13 13 13 1313 Click here to get Falling Objects 13 13 1313 13 13 13 1313 13 13 13 1313 13

My Interests

*Listening to Rock & Metal music, Watching weird post-modern films, Playing video games, Buying random shit from Zavvi/Amazon, Reading strange Science-fiction novels, Writing poems & blogs, Socialising with friends, Going to parties, Going to gigs, Asking people stupid questions, Drinking whiskey and beer, Playing pool, Exploring new places, Human tragedy, Human rights, Cooking, Listening to the rain in bed, Wearing unfashionable clothes, Staring at the sky, Growing facial hair, Laughing and crying (in equal proportions) at the state of modern society, Staying up all night getting high and talking shit with my mates, Performing random acts of spontaneity/strangeness.
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I'd like to meet:

*Anyone not liable to kill me on sight but particularly: Marilyn Manson, David Fincher, Tim Burton, Tery Gilliam, Johnny Depp, Jean Reno, Serj Tankian, Dallas Green.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Dara Morad
Birthday: 5th July
Birthplace: Carmarthen, Wales
Current Location: Warrington
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Height: 6ft 3in
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Mixed
The Shoes You Wore Today: Coffee-colour leather trainers
Your Weakness: The past
Your Fears: ...The past coming back to haunt me...
Your Perfect Pizza: Spicy Chicken or Pepperroni
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Immortality, or at least eternal bliss
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: Hey
Thoughts First Waking Up: Where am I?
Your Best Physical Feature: Erm, my right index finger??
Your Bedtime: Whenever consciousness becomes too big a word to have...
Your Most Missed Memory: New Zealand as a kid
Pepsi or Coke: Diet Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: Burger King
Single or Group Dates: Whatver turns people on really
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Er, Nestea?
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee
Do you Smoke: Nope
Do you Swear: Fuck yeah!
Do you Sing: Badly...
Do you Shower Daily: Of course; I need to contribute to the water crisis somehow...
Have you Been in Love: Only in a dumb and naive kinda way...so no
Do you want to go to College: Been there, done that
Do you want to get Married: Not if I can possibly help it
Do you belive in yourself: Never! I'm a die-hard pessimitic, cynical bastard all the way
Do you get Motion Sickness: Only when I'm stuffed into the back of a lorry with 300 naked immigrants...
Do you think you are Attractive: Possibly...
Are you a Health Freak: Yeah, a bit
Do you get along with your Parents: For the most part
Do you like Thunderstorms: Definately! Especially when playing golf in my suit of armour...
Do you play an Instrument: A bash around a bit on various things sometimes...
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Well that's a given really
In the past month have you Smoked: Nope
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Nope to dope
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Don't think so...
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Hell Yeah! Mallcore is my middle name!
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Meh, maybe a box or two of Jaffa cakes instead
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yup, tasty stuff
In the past month have you been on Stage: Yeah, I've moshed about with a few band guys
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No way, not where I come from!
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Probably
Ever been Drunk: Sure
Ever been called a Tease: Probably
Ever been Beaten up: Not in a very long time...
Ever Shoplifted: Ya pays ya money, ya takes ya choice.
How do you want to Die: Martyrdom by gunfire, except without the self-righteous bullshit
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: I am grown up (sort of) and I want to try my hand at being a Journalist/DJ...
What country would you most like to Visit: Italy
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Er, Crimson red?
Favourite Hair Color: Obsidian black?
Short or Long Hair: Rapunzel long?
Height: Don't mind
Weight: Average
Best Clothing Style: Stylish/Unique
Number of Drugs I have taken: Don't really care
Number of CDs I own: It's not the quantity, it's the quality that matters - i.e. rock/metal
Number of Piercings: Don't mind
Number of Tattoos: Don't mind
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Don't care as long as insecurities are kept to a minimum

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Music:

*My favourite musicians include: AC/DC, Alexisonfire, At the Drive-In, Atreyu, Biffy Clyro, Billy Talent, Bjork, Black Sabbath, boysetsfire, Brand New, Bullet for My Valentine, Cave In, Chimaira, City and Colour, Coldplay, Cult of Luna, Daft Punk, David Gray, Death Cab for Cutie, Evanescence, Every Time I Die, Fear Before the March of Flames, Fight Paris, Finch, Fort Minor, Funeral for a Friend, Hell is for Heroes, Iron Maiden, Jimmy Eat World, Khoma, Kids in Glass Houses, Killswitch Engage, Korn, Lamb of God, Led Zeppelin, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Lostprophets, Machine Head, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Mastodon, mclusky, Metallica, More Than a Thousand, Motorhead, Muse, My Chemical Romance, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Opeth, Ozzy Osbourne, Panic! At the Disco, Pantera, Papa Roach, Pitiful Reign, Placebo, Poison the Well, Protest the Hero, Puddle of Mudd, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reel Big Fish, Rob Zombie, Slipknot, Spineshank, Staind, Stereophonics, Still Remains, Stone Sour, Story of the Year, Sworn Amongst, System of a Down, Taking Back Sunday, The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Cure, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Haunted, The Mars Volta, The Plight, The Prodigy, The Rolling Stones, The Strokes, The Used, Thin Lizzy, Thrice, Tool, Trivium, Unearth, Wolfmother…phew. And that’s less than half of what I got!

Movies:

*My favourite films include: A Clockwork Orange, Aliens Quadrilogy, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Brazil, City of God, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Event Horizon, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Jason and the Argonauts, Leon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Pan's Labyrinth, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Saw Trilogy, Sin City, Star Wars Sixology, Taxi Driver, The Game, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Matrix Trilogy, Tideland, White Oleander, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Television:

*I don’t watch much TV usually, but I like: Channel 4 News at 7pm, Family Guy, Futurama, Peep Show, Shameless, The Simpsons

Books:

*My favourite books include: A Clockwork Orange [Antony Burgess], Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass [Lewis Carroll], Brave New World [Aldous Huxley], Earth Abides [George R. Stewart], Gateway [Frederik Pohl], I Am Legend [Richard Matheson], Nineteen Eighty-Four [George Orwell], One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich [Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn], Paradise Lost [John Milton]

Heroes:

*Some of my “heroes” include: Aldous Huxley, Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell, Hunter S. Thompson, John Peel, Salvador Dali, Serj Tankian, Stanley Kubrick, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Tommy Vance

My Blog

To Boldly Go Anywhere Is In Fact Incorrectly Grammatical

Bonjour, It's been so long since I've written a full-blown blog on here that I've almost forgotten how to write one! My only excuse is a rather lame one - I couldn't be bothered. But now I'm back on ...
Posted by Darakness on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PST

Shaken, Not Stired

The world is so fucked up, but it's not my fault. Why was I born into this version of reality,Filled with fear and habituated with hate?Lust and death are all I have left.Intoxicate me up to help me f...
Posted by Darakness on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:48:00 PST

Song Lyrics: High as a Horse

If we give the horses blinders They won't see the approaching ledge Too much time and effort spent on just another bridge We trust the local doctor We trust the medicine Our child gets a scratch We gi...
Posted by Darakness on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:14:00 PST

Finger on the Pulse, or Finger on the Trigger?

Let's see now,In the past week I've: Been on belated faux Valentines date gig with a guy no taller than 5ft high. Punked out a girl's bedroom for a joke. Pushed a grown man with a leaking car battery...
Posted by Darakness on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:53:00 PST

Hearts & Minds

Happy 'V' day,Sometimes I really think our lives would be better off without Valentines Day. Better off without tradition as a whole. It controls our beliefs. It controls our behavior. In short, it co...
Posted by Darakness on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:22:00 PST

Hop 'Til You Drop

The NME Tour 2007,"Farris Rotter is such a fucking cunt!"Moments earlier, one of my friends had taken the tenacious decision to punch the lead singer of The Horrors in the face as he came off stage. A...
Posted by Darakness on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:25:00 PST

Drunk as a Skunk, High as the Sky...

...Hello?I think I have a problem, and it involves alcohol.Last night, me and a few friends gate-crashed a house party on our campus and then proceeded to get very merry.The day started off tamely and...
Posted by Darakness on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:22:00 PST

Unrequited Hate Has a New Name

Listen,    "I don't need your shit - I've got enough of my own to play with," And it's true. Last night, as usual, some people got wrong.     I went to the bar to celebra...
Posted by Darakness on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:00:00 PST

The Best and Worst of 2006

Okay, so it's come round to the time of year when I  look back at the trials and tribulations, the happy and sad, the good and bad of the previous 12 months. Please note that these are only my ow...
Posted by Darakness on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:25:00 PST

Whistle for the Christmas Choir

What a week it's been,    Monday marks the beginning of a new one; the last one before we break up for Christmas.         Wednesday last week saw me get my...
Posted by Darakness on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:25:00 PST