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dan

i was a hobbledehoy.

About Me

www.dantodd.com

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My Interests

films - making, viewing, bashing. music - nothing all that good though. video games - i'm a console geek, from nes on. writing - scripts, songs about vomit, late night shows.

Music:

weezer, jimmy eat world, johnny cash, mxpx, the ramones, the special goodness, rancid, mewithoutYou, five iron frenzy, late tuesday, old blink 182, ghoti hook, face to face, anti-flag, smashing pumpkins, nate weller, less than jake, mike doughty, point no point, social distortion, nerf herder, hot hot heat, ozma, dropkick murphys, the mighty mighty bosstones, the postal service, the presidents of the united states of america, twin sister.. i told you it wasn't very good. and lyra, i finally like kane hodder, but i'm going to pretend like it's just because yost is in the band now.

Movies:

back to the future trilogy, indiana jones trilogy, star wars trilogy + ep. III, evil dead trilogy, dumb and dumber, billy madison, tommy boy, happy gilmore, bad taste, dead alive, anything with john cusack, anything by john hughes, napoleon dynamite, the neverending story, the teenage mutant ninja turtles 1 & 2, the last unicorn, the transformers movie, the princess bride, kevin smith films, desperado, once upon a time in mexico, die hard trilogy, batman begins, batman, batman returns, spiderman 2, the big lebowski, fargo, the shawshank redemption, a christmas story, george romero's living dead quadrilogy, rikki oh, ong bak - thai warrior, most tom hanks movies, stealing harvard, the truman show, punch drunk love, the shining, edward scissorhands, ghostbusters 1 & 2, bubba ho-tep, memento, fight club, a beautiful mind, war games, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, saving private ryan, saw, signs, unbreakable, reservoir dogs, mystery men, zoolander, pee wee's big adventure, the karate kid trilogy, my cousin vinny, there's something about mary, con-air, ferris bueler's day off, the royal tenenbaums, the wedding singer, dirty work, escape from new york, escape from la, the road warrior, mad max, braveheart, 12 monkeys, the goonies, bio-dome, the wizard, the prestige, children of men.

Television:

the office, the colbert report, salute your shorts, 24, saved by the bell, my name is earl, transformers, aqua teen hunger force, the boondocks, family guy, seinfeld, M*A*S*H, yu-gi-oh, how i met your mother, wrestling, the adventures of pete and pete, the wonder years, boy meets world, scrubs, nickolodeon guts!, legends of the hidden temple, jeopardy, the price is right, mythbusters, the history channel, colonial house, the discovery channel, arrested development, super mario bros. super show, the king of queens, law and order svu, late night with conan o'brien.

Books:

have a nice day! a tale of blood and sweatsocks, the action hero's hand book, the zombie survival guide, tietam brown, if chins could kill - confessions of a b movie actor, mere christianity, gasping for airtime, deep thoughts, how to shoot a feature film for under $10,000* - and not go to jail, feature filmmaking at used car prices, make your own damn movie.

Heroes:

jesus, mick foley, paul (the apostle), hack directors like kevin smith, rob reiner, and george lucas.

My Blog

guitar hero

Today, I built a guitar today. Well, I actually put two pickups and a tailpiece onto a guitar today. It plays nice and sounds pretty swell. Not bad for a guy who knows just enough about guitars and wi...
Posted by dan on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:43:00 PST

keeping the beat

My leg felt better today. Yesterday it was a struggle for me to walk, I was gimping around like Sammy each time he breaks a patella. It all started a few days when King David started our world tour. W...
Posted by dan on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:19:00 PST

sleep tight, sleep right

For the second night in a row my life was in peril, in my dreams. This time I was at a family barbeque in west Seattle. Then it was time for the fireworks display, and as we were watching the firework...
Posted by dan on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:47:00 PST

I had a dream.

Last night I had a dream that was kind of awesome, then not awesome. Here it is:I was cruising around on a motorscooter. Zipping all over the city. Then the motor stopped working so well, so I had to ...
Posted by dan on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:10:00 PST

new years

So New Years Eve I forgot to leave out cookies for Dick Clark's ghost. I was reminded of this fact about half an hour after I went to sleep. When I woke up thinking about something it'd be much better...
Posted by dan on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:45:00 PST

long pants

So I've visited my family a few times in the last two weeks. and both times I happened to wear long-pants. None of them said anything about it, I'm not even certain if they noticed. I didn't expect t...
Posted by dan on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:18:00 PST