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Dane Styles

No gypsies or scientologists, please

About Me

This is Dane Styles. I am a life enthusiast, aspiring guru, musician, party organizer, vibe consultant, and friend to all. My ability to pump up the vibe and set the party off wicked proper has been well documented and is recognized nationwide. I work long hours as the business development manager of a large auto dealership, but there's still plenty of time to kick it at the bars, concerts, and raves. I've played music for most of my life, and from 2003-2005 I was the bassist/founder of the rap/metal/electronic band DISSIDENT. We played all the top venues in LA, including the Viper Room and the Hollywood House of Blues, and it was all a great experience. Before that, I was a producer of raves for four years with my production team, MOTIVATION LA EVENTS. We had a good long run, with many successes and a few heartbreaks. I graduated from CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE, where we used to set it off like Van Wilder. Many of you CSUN heads will remember me and my posse chillin at the campus bar daily. I moved to SoCal in 1994 from my hometown of COLUMBUS OHIO, where I graduated from Thomas Worthington High School in 1993. I still remain a fanatical supporter of the 2002 National Champion OHIO STATE BUCKEYES football team.I am nice to people I don't know and will probably never meet again, like waiters and bartenders. People who are mean to "the help" are dicks.I like to meet new people every day.

My Interests

I like to chill out in cool bars like NoBar in North Hollywood, 4100 in Silverlake, and Golden Gopher in Downtown LA. You can find me at late nite underground parties at random lofts and warehouses listening to deep house or jungle DJs. Some things that make me happy: little Italian restaurants, blazin the chronic, giving someone helpful advice, chilling with cool animals, "roach coach" taco trucks, sipping twelve year old scotch, skating my longboard, learning to speak spanish and armenian, listening to stories from old people, raving in the mountains, college football season, making out in the rain, working out/running, barbecueing with Sauce & them, and staying in touch with my nationwide network of rad friends.

I'd like to meet:

Ohio State fans. CSUN alum who remember the good ol' daze. Generally cool party people, recognize.

Music:

No particular order: Public Enemy, Sarah McLachlan, Marilyn Manson, George Michael, Jamiroquai, Sade, Everything But The Girl, Afrika Bambaataa, Jeff Buckley, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, Gang Starr, Butterfly Boucher, Mudvayne, Fiona Apple, Kerri Chandler, NWA, Beck, Dixie Chicks, Def Leppard, Tracy Chapman, Korn, John Denver, Lionel Ritchie, Michelle Branch, Michael McDonald, Ozzy Osbourne, Stevie Wonder, Anita Baker, Vince Gill, Mark Farina, John Coltrane, Jurassic 5, Way Out West, Indigo Girls, Beastie Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, Crystal Method, Kate Earl, Pete Rock, Zero 7, and tons more; I like any style of music when it's performed well.

Movies:

True Romance, Mo' Better Blues, Basquiat, Donnie Brasco, Magnolia, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine, Pi, Boogie Nights, many others.

Television:

The Maury show. "When it comes to 4 month old Anfernee, Darnell you are NOT THE FATHER!!" This is the greatest show of all time. The best is when the guy does the C-walk and the girl like collapses on the ground. My parents are retired now and my dad really digs this shit too.

Books:

Ayn Rand's Anthem, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Lots of other random nonfiction history/government.

Heroes:

Woody Hayes, Thomas Edison, Lance Armstrong, President Andrew Jackson (see $20 bill), Archie Griffin, Jim Tressel, David Ben-Gurion, Malcolm X, Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, Craig Krenzel, Doug Flutie, Anwar Sadat, Fredrick Douglass, W. E. B. Dubois, James "Buster" Douglas, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and lots of others. Folks had way bigger balls back then, and I'll always admire underdogs who became greater than they were ever supposed to be.

My Blog

What would Raoul do?

What would you do if you were called on by humanity to save lives?  This is a story of bravery.Raoul Wallenberg, August 4, 1912  July 16, 1947?)[1][2][3] was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budap...
Posted by Dane Styles on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:42:00 PST

Global Cooling

Is anyone else really pissed that it's almost May and LA is still fucking freezing?  This is fucking bullshit.  All those god damn hippies are parading around bitching about how the ozone la...
Posted by Dane Styles on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:44:00 PST

CHARLIES

Have you ever been hanging out on the West Side and noticed that all the guys, particularly on Main St. Santa Monica, are pretty much exactly the same?We call them Charlies.They're all white and aroun...
Posted by Dane Styles on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:45:00 PST

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Think you have it bad?  Check out a list of presidential decrees from the very insecure former president of Turkmenistan, the late Saparmurat  Niyazov:thanks, Wikipedia.org:As President-for-...
Posted by Dane Styles on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:54:00 PST

looking up?

Well on paper things have been better since my last post.  The Buckeyes responded to their loss to the Illini by absolutely punishing our nemesis Michigan.  The lowly Wolverines were held to...
Posted by Dane Styles on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:46:00 PST

its been the worst week of the year

It's definitely been the worst week of 2007. My team and somebody special let me down. But you know something? If this is the worst week of the year for me, then my life is still pretty great. ...
Posted by Dane Styles on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:24:00 PST

THIS IS WITHOUT A DOUBT

the best college football season in years. Notre Dame sucks. Penn State sucks. Michigan and USC have both lost in the biggest upsets in the history of the game. Ohio State is 6-0 and appears certa...
Posted by Dane Styles on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:51:00 PST

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

The following are all replies that Detroit women have written on Child Support Agency Forms in the section for listing "father's details;" or putting it another way.... Who's yo Daddy? These are genui...
Posted by Dane Styles on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:31:00 PST

check out my videos from DAFT PUNK in Colorado

go to my video channel, click just added, and view all sixfull trip blog to come, Denver rocked!!D
Posted by Dane Styles on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:35:00 PST

QUITTING SMOKING

It wasn't nearly as difficult as I thought it was going to be. The first week was kind of weird but it got way easier after that. I didn't use the patch or gum or anything because I figured that qui...
Posted by Dane Styles on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:53:00 PST