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Dan

I am here for Friends

About Me

I've been living in the suburbs for over a year, I like my place here. The forest preserves and the streams and lakes, the relatve stillness and quiet. But everytime I go back to Chicago I always pause and think "damn do I miss this city". I love how busy it is, the options for entertainment, food, and just hanging out with people. I guess that's me in a nutshell: I love the noise and fuss of the city just as much as the peace and calm of nature.

My Interests

traveling, reading, Chicago, London, ancient Egypt, filming, anything involving concerts, letting snow melt from my hair, cracking fresh ice on the ground, stepping on dry leaves, singing any song that's playing, burning hot showers, getting my hopes up for bad Chicago sports teams, hearing my ankle crack with each step, driving so late I'm the only one out

I'd like to meet:


Congrats to Chicago!
We are now a finalist for the 2016 Summer Games

Music:

Smashing Pumpkins (6). Venom Lords: the most amazing band I've seen (12) times, Garbage (3), Less Than Jake (3), No Doubt (2), The Donnas (6), Red Hot Chili Peppers (1), Fats Domino, Leadbelly, Sonny Boy Williamson, Billie Holiday, B.B. King (4), Counting Crows, No Use For A Name (2), Nirvana, Foo Fighters (2), Rasputina (2), old Veruca Salt (2), Green Day, Natalie Merchant, The Hives (1), Kill Hannah (4), Jet (1), The Killers (2), Silversun Pickups (1), Shiny Toy Guns

Movies:

American Beauty, Stand By Me, Rear Window, Pulp Fiction, Citizen Kane, Amelie, Interview With The Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Stargate, Braveheart, Princess Bride, People vs. Larry Flint, Sleepy Hollow, Willy Wonka, Empire Records

Television:

Seinfeld, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Family Guy, Dead Like Me, Lost

Books:

Authors: Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Edward Rutherford, Anne Rice, Kurt Vonnegut. Books: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Prozac Nation, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre. Last five: The Geographer's Library, The Curing Season, Water For Elephants, Achterhuis, Atlantis (9)

Heroes:

All of my friends who have been there for me and have shaped who I was and who I am.

My Blog

WBC

I spent the last couple of weeks working for the World Boxing Chamionships in Chicago. What a great time. My first shift was on the first nite of the preliminary rounds and I worked minimal security...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:58:00 PST

Roller Derby

I have been training for the Chicago Marathon for four weeks now. I can't run for more than three miles without my left ankle giving me fits, so I have scrapped my push for the October marathon. I w...
Posted by Dan on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:05:00 PST

Eerie, Indiana

Apparently A bunch of "reliable sources" claimed to have seen a UFO above O'Hare International Airport around the time of evening rush hour on election Tuesday. Fox 32 News was just getting into thei...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:33:00 PST

Mt. Helena

Today is an off day in Helena, Montana. I've never been nto this state before, and I thought it was going to be boring. I guess in entertainment terms, it probably is, so I spent the day and climbed...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

tour tour

I'm on day number five of my tour experience with the Young Dubliners (www.youngdubs.com). Yesterday I actually had decent merch sales in Baltimore, tonite is the World Cafe in Philadelphia. I sleep...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I never imagined...

The day has come. Billy Corgan is my friend. The man who I've met once, have spent years idolizing, and whose music kept me going during the darkest times of my life is now my friend. The wonders o...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

ambidexterity

I often become focused on one thing. I think about one course of action, making a futile attempt to remind myself that life usually doesn't work that way. I am on this path now, waiting to hear if I...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

10 things I love about me

1. I grew up in Arlington Heights, even though my house was surrounded on three sides by Buffalo Grove, I was part of the BG park district, and I went to BG high school. I also went to BG State Univer...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Friends

This is what Myspace is all about. 33 is still a low number, compared to some of you out there in the hundreds and thousands. But it's the quality that counts, right? The last five I've added are a...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

be careful where you "die"

Body found alive in morgue By Associated Press Published January 27, 2005 RALEIGH, N.C. -- A medical examiner studying a body in a morgue was startled when the man took a shallow breath. ...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST