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Daniel

danwasneverhere

About Me

Heater

My Interests

Blogs:
Fone Culture
Wingstroke

I'd like to meet:

Chicago-style, deep-dish knitting:

Music:


KANYE harmonia CANDI STANTON mahmoud ahmed RJD2 hot chip CLIPSE elliott smith CLUSTER trevor naud
DAVID BOWIE daft punk FENNESZ talk talk ALTON ELLIS sam cooke
KEN BOOTHE swervedriver ADAM FRANKLIN toshack highway
boards of canada OLD BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS queens of the stone age
FOUR TET blonde redhead SPOON air
radiohead THOM YORKE johnny greenwood
AL GREEN aloha TONY ALLEN
zoos of berlin CHARLOTTE GAINSBOROUGH bill withers
THE BEATLES husky rescue AUGIE MARCH delroy wilson
the flaming lips GERRY RAFFERTY arve henriksen
MARK LANEGAN otis redding PJ HARVEY plaid
royksopp THE SAINTS supergrass

Movies:

Sunshine, The Lives of Others, Breaking and Entering, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, American Movie, Wet Hot American Summer, Idiocracy, Babel, A Scanner Darkly, Science of Sleep, Apocalypse Now, Groundhog Day, Caddy Shack, The Sea Inside, Amadeus, The Proposition, Paradise Now, The Squid and the Whale, Art School Confidential, Election, Waking Life, The Insider, Ali, Heat, Monsoon Wedding, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, In America, Dogtown and Z Boyz, The Pursuit of Happyness, Wallace and Gromit The Curse of the Were Rabbit, Corpse Bride - I like anything by Michael Mann, Stanley Kubrick, Christopher Nolan, Anthony Minghella and Richard Linklater

Television:

Tell Me You Love Me, Foyle's War, The Wire, Freaks and Geeks, Lost, The Office (British), Seinfeld (Turkish), Extras, Curb Your Enthusiasm,

Books:


My favorite writers are: Nabokov, Marquez, Kerouac, Koltak, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Chabon, Nairn, Hemingway

Heroes:

Talk Talk, Dave Chappelle, Wittgenstein, John Lennon

My Blog

Christmas Music

I was on a roll there for a while. I got the idea around 2000 that if I wrote a new Christmas song or two every year, I'd have an album's worth before the end of the decade and then... Actually, I nev...
Posted by Daniel on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:15:00 PST

Kicking Off Dust

I've been kicking off the dust at my blog Fone Culture. I wrote about Radiohead, Talk Talk, Britney Spears, Pharrell, Mobius Band, and my favorite new show Tell Me You Love Me.I feel like a big one is...
Posted by Daniel on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:36:00 PST

Your Horrorscope

Don't say you weren't warned...ARIES: Whatever you don't want to wake up to won't go away. Your will alone isn't enough to end the nightmare that is lurking outside your door. Instead of ignoring all ...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:15:00 PST

Exodus to Pontiac (for Detroiters)

Salvation may have arrived for live Detroit music, only we'll have to go to Pontiac to get it. Without naming names, let's just say I've been burned out on downtown Detroit venues for a while. Mostly ...
Posted by Daniel on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:30:00 PST

Flowers and stone

9/8/2007...
Posted by Daniel on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:14:00 PST

Labor Day Pics

The Bear and I had nothing better to do yesterday (our plans fell through) so we decided to go downtown and see the sights. Big ups to my brother Matt for the use of his camera; and to the city of Det...
Posted by Daniel on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:00:00 PST

Out of

My love has gone out of focusIs round and smearedLike a bar of soap with a spider frozen in itMy love has gone out of hearingIs slurred in the wet rushed roar of bloodcrashing against heartsIs crushed...
Posted by Daniel on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:42:00 PST

Sylvia D

I kissed Sylvia D last nightI chewed her lip until it crunched and the color bled outIt wasn't extra color, as I'd heardOr even madnessIt was just dreamsBlown waves, cool shores in the darkBoats and l...
Posted by Daniel on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:13:00 PST

Happy Birthday to Me

All in all, it wasn't a bad place to find myself this morning as I turned 31. I was woken up by Claire who, for a four year old, is oddly thoughtful. She's been all about my birthday for days, sending...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:16:00 PST

The Indescribable Voice of Mark Lanegan

Post about Mark Lanegan
Posted by Daniel on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:11:00 PST