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Daniel

kingdomofapples

About Me

Between the roots and branches, a book of earth and soil

My Interests

Deep Ecology, NEFAC, I.W.W., Catholic Worker Movement, snowfall, liturgy, numina

Music:

Wolves in the Throne Room, Enslaved, Ludicra, Electric Wizard, Refused, Emperor

Movies:

La Strada, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Chungking Express, the Seventh Seal, Bicycle Thieves, the Passion of Joan of Arc

Books:

Jeanette Winterson's The Passion

Heroes:

My father

My Blog

The Importance of Being Earnest

Let me burst into your bedroom dressed like a scrawny, red-eyed Hunter S. Thompson to ruin the last tatters of your prized relationship. Type-writer in hand and fly-swatter waving, I'll blather on for...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:44:00 PST

the tin-foil helmet diaries

You'll all be pleased to know that I've somehow managed to become one of one of those crackpots who protects themselves from cosmic-rays from the void by wrapping myself in crinkled tin-foil. That's r...
Posted by Daniel on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:55:00 PST

a Wobbly plea

As several of you know, Tuesday marked my return to the retail world after over three months of escape. The financial burden of a collegiate education forced me back through those glass double doors o...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:07:00 PST

Queen of Borrowed Light

Throughout my youth, I oft swore that I would eventually move myself and all my effects to the southernmost crevice of the nation. I was bound and determined to find some place in this world where the...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:03:00 PST

Tae think again

So it's officially been one month since flying out of Edinburgh, Scotland to find myself back in the United States once more. Surprisingly, few people have actually inquired about the trip. In fact, m...
Posted by Daniel on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:47:00 PST

Children of the Grave

Today was an adventure in the world of job interviews. I don't know what in the world made me think that applying for a position in Virginia was a good idea. No amount of Electric Wizard can magickall...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:05:00 PST

Dregs of the City

Although the season shifted to Autumn well over a week ago, my body is just now beginning to accept the change. I seem to have so many rituals associated with the Fall--many of which I am only just no...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:37:00 PST

soil

I have to rise for work in under five hours. Although it was the telephone that woke me up, its the stomach pains that kept me there. I reek of incense--a fragerence somehow less tolerable than my usu...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:43:00 PST

Mortimer Cuddlesworth and the Sleepytime Bears

So I totally just slept away the majority of my non-labor-laden afternoon. Today is my sister Kristen's nineteenth birthday, so the family all ended up going out for Italian food on the other side of ...
Posted by Daniel on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:53:00 PST

Grave Temple

Twelve years ago I sat surrounded by strangers during my Freshman year gym class. A nearby, scruffy boy named Mike slid in beside me and explained that he had seen me back at Hillcrest elementary hang...
Posted by Daniel on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:49:00 PST