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About Me

My Interests

Music, films, badges, postcards, grape tomatoes and cream cheese.

I'd like to meet:

whoever

Music:

Movies:

Cinema Paradiso, Amelie, Night On Earth, Chungking Express, In The Mood For Love, Dr. Strangelove, Eraserhead, Ã€ Bout De Souffle, Flirt, Mulholland Drive, The Big Lebowski, Irma Vep, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, La Mala Educacion, Before Sunset, Run Lola Run, Lost Highway, Audition, Old Boy, Sympathy For Lady Vengeance, Save The Green Planet, Nobody Knows, Lost In Translation, Magnolia, The City Of Lost Children, 2046, Career Girls, Fin AoÃ»t DÃ©but Septembre, Amateur, Secretary, Swingers, Ghost World, This Is Spinal Tap, Grizzly Man, Carne TrÃ©mula

Television:

The Office (UK), The Joe Schmo Show, MXC, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Cheaters, Crank Yankers, South Park, Trigger Happy, Heroes, Scrubs, Classic PBA

Books:

The Stranger, Sleepwalk And Other Stories, High Fidelity, Fever Pitch, The Pornographer's Poem, Young And Foolish, My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For The Prize, Rip It Up And Start Again

Heroes:

Kevin Shields, Wong Kar Wai

My Blog

Half-Steps Toward Bright Skies is out!

Finally!Order here. Or from the website.It's also available from Fraction Discs, and coming soon to Apple Crumble and Tonevendor....
Posted by Dale on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:33:00 PST

The Beginning Of Something

Winter will not leave this room. Thick sweaters, warm blankets, fuzzy winter socks, an imaginary fireplace. Breathing smoke, I often imagine myself shoveling snow outside. Wearing an anorak and a knit...
Posted by Dale on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:53:00 PST

Listen To The Boys And Girls As They Take On Half The World

Here are the bands I've seen (and played with) on my recent trip:Through The Lens - Like Melanie said, this band is so out there, that not a lot of people probably understand them and the music they m...
Posted by Dale on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:15:00 PST

My Top 100 Albums

Yeah, I was bored so I came up with my Top 100 albums list. If I had more time, I might be able to come up with a Top 200... Anyway, this list excludes Best Of's, Greatest Hits, and compilations since...
Posted by Dale on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:45:00 PST

Office Stress?

Pressure almost always gets to you. The end-of-the-month demands can be quite stressful and nerve-wracking: Following-up funding with the lenders, restless agents constantly calling, getting slapped w...
Posted by Dale on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:38:00 PST

Music Preference History

My dad and my uncle were very much into The Beatles so I got to listen to a lot of the fab four's songs when I was wee little. "Come Together" and "Don't Let Me Down" were two which got stuck playing ...
Posted by Dale on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:10:00 PST

A First

One morning while on carpool, the driver was surprised to find out I was Filipino. "I thought you were Chinese," she told me. A lot of people mistake me for Chinese. A couple of times in Chinatown, pe...
Posted by Dale on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:36:00 PST

The Secret Which Makes September Fair

"The week is almost half-over," he said, to which I only smiled. "September's not so far away," I whispered under my breath. I didn't say it loud because I thought he would not get The Field Mice refe...
Posted by Dale on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:08:00 PST

Quake-A-Comin'?

The Bay Area got hit by a 4.4 earthquake at 8:08 pm. I was on the train and didn't feel the effects. A couple of stations away from my destination, the train I was in on waited until the track tests w...
Posted by Dale on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:32:00 PST

Sunday Recollections

So much has happened in the past few days - the surprising C06 compilation, Syd Barrett's death, the excitement over The Science Of Sleep, Camera Obscura tickets in the mailbox - that I don't remember...
Posted by Dale on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:50:00 PST