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Dani Vachon

Holy JEEBUS i am not diggin on the MySpace lately. Hello Facebook!

About Me

I find great satisfaction in setting goals and achieving them. I am a hard worker and a hard player. I am the owner of an artist management company currently representing: You Say Party! We Say Die! and Fake Shark-Real Zombie! (both of Vancouver, BC). I also run a record label called Sound Document which hasn't released anything since "Hit The Floor" in 2005. After 8 years of concert promotion/production, still work for Sealed With A Kiss . Lastly, i dabble in graphic design and illustration - i've done a few hundred gig posters .


If i had my way, i would do the following jobs at some point in my life (in no particular order): landscape/park designer, massage therapist, interior decorator, illustrator for children's books, plant care specialist, early childhood educator, politician for the Green Party, author, VJ on MTV, professional electronic musician, farmer, architect, inventor, A&R manager for a major label, physicist, professional shopper, gallery owner, horse rancher, dog walker, magazine owner, pub owner, restaurant critic, fashion designer.
If i could have one super power, it would be the ability to start and stop time at will. So i could stop time while i sleep and make the most of a day... maybe eventually do all those jobs i want to do. Or i could stop time, run over and give someone a bad haircut, then start time again.
This video/song rocks my world:This video also slays:

My Interests

Nature, MUSIC, the music biz, adventures, travel, learning, being in control of my life, art and design, meeting people, seeing people laugh, mix tapes, books, gardening, lucid dreaming, walking, patterns, choices, sciences, money, seasons, making out, giving and receiving compliments, massages, shopping, dancing, mingling, time, making up songs about ordinary daily activities and singing them while doing said ordinary activities. Do do do i'm washing the dishes, this one's almost clean now, do do do....

Music:

THIS DECADE: 120 Days, American Analog Set, The Arcade Fire, At The Drive In, Autolux, The Avalanches, Bad Dudes, Band of Horses, Battles, Beck, Black Mountain, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Blood Brothers, Calexico, Call Me Lightning, Cat Power, Chris Clark, Chromeo, Clinic, Crystal Castles, The Constantines, Dance Disaster Movement, Danny & The Nightmares, 1/2 of Deerhoof, Detachment Kit, Duchess Says, Enon, Evening, Fischerspooner, Fleet Foxes, Fourtet, Fugazi, Ghost Wars, GoGoGo Airheart, Jose Gonzalez, Grand Island, Tim Hecker, The Helio Sequence, Hint Hint, Holy Hail, Hot Chip, Hot Snakes, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Intelligence, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Islands, Kid606, Kid Commando, The Klaxons, The Knife, Lady Sovereign, LCD Soundsystem, Les Savy Fav, The Long Blondes, Love Is All, Miracle Chosuke, Murder City Devils, Neon Blonde, The Notwist, Octopus Project, Of Montreal, Olivia Tremor Control, Oval, The Parallels, Peter Bjorn and John, Piano Magic, Pink Mountaintops, Primes, Q and not U , The Raconteurs, Radiohead, The Rapture, Scanners, Silver Jews, Six Organs of Admittance, Shapes and Sizes, Shout Out Out Out Out, (Smog), Spinto Band, Spoon, Stars As Eyes, Stereolab, Marnie Stern, Sufjan Stevens, Stylex, Jesse Sykes, Test Icicles, Think About Life, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Tortoise, TV on the Radio, The Vogue, Wallpaper, Weird War, Wolf Parade, The.WPP, Xiu Xiu, Thom Yorke, You Say Party! We Say Die!.......etc

DECADES PAST: The Adverts, Archers of Loaf, Louis Armstrong, Bauhaus, The Beastie Boys, Blur, Can, Captain Beefheart, the Clash, Depeche Mode, Drive Like Jehu, The Fall, Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix, The Homosexuals, Jesus Lizard, Jesus And Mary Chain, Joy Division, Killing Joke, My Bloody Valentine, Stevie Nicks, Nirvana, Jim O'Rourke, The Pixies, The Police, Iggy Pop, Public Enemy, The Raincoats, Red House Painters, Sade, Sleater-Kinney, Slint, Sonic Youth, Swell Maps, Swervedriver, Tina Turner, U2, Tom Waits, XTC, Yes!, Yo La Tengo...........etc

Movies:

Almost Famous, Delicatessen, 24 Hour Party People, Being John Malcovich, The Butterfly Effect

Television:

Lost, Dead Wood, Sex And The City, Six Feet Under, Family Guy

Books:

The Life of Pi, Kite Runner, The Glass Castle, The Pact, Dancing Wu Li Masters, Sketch books, the Pantone Swatch book, The Art of Modern Rock (a gig poster book, hey! i'm in it!), All You Need To Know About The Music Business (my bible), The Future of Music... etc.

Heroes:

People with brilliant ideas.

My Blog

A Survey

Cuz i'm sickie and don't feel like working.THE WHOS;Who is your best friend?:I don't like to pick favorites. I have a lot of close friends. Who was the last person you hung out with?:Krista Loewen.....
Posted by Dani Vachon on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:21:00 PST

News

Yesterday You Say Party! We Say Die! was featured on MTV Canada. AWESOME! I am making a new web zine. EXCITING!Tomorrow my mom and step dad are in town. AWESOME!I am vegetarian again. FRIENDLY!Yest...
Posted by Dani Vachon on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:43:00 PST

A Better Way

Wow, it's really so true... Facebook is so much nicer than MySpace. There are no ads, you can set all kinds of privacy settings, you can have RSS feeds of your external blog appear on your site, the ...
Posted by Dani Vachon on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:04:00 PST

The Party Continues...

Monday night at Richards on Richards, Exclaim Spring Fling tour: You Say Party!, Malajube and Champion. A huge party. There were 700 people there. YSP played super frickin tight, i am so proud of th...
Posted by Dani Vachon on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:27:00 PST

You Say Party! in the Charts

You Say Party! We Say Die!'s new album Lose All Time ranked #6 on the national campus radio charts for Canada this week! Yay!
Posted by Dani Vachon on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:23:00 PST

What fun!

Hey thar! What a frickin wicked weekend so far! Thank you everyone who bought me drinks and grub and put me on guest lists. I love you!Started off Friday at Antonia's house, drinking ciders, chatting...
Posted by Dani Vachon on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:51:00 PST

Weird Dreams/Weekend/Production

Something not-awesome happened in my personal life last night. It made for weird dreams... of course i always have weird dreams...--------------------------start dream transmission-------------------...
Posted by Dani Vachon on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:46:00 PST

SXSW 2007 / I'm Back!

Hey buddies,Well that was a really fun and exciting trip around the world. I especially enjoyed Austin, as usual, because it's so warm and nice out, and industry folk come from around the world. Alb...
Posted by Dani Vachon on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:31:00 PST

In Toronto

Hey gang. So i'm in Toronto now for Canadian Music Week. So far it's been great. Trevor and Enrique at Paper Bag were lovely enough to invite me to a couple of key events. The Danish Consolate netw...
Posted by Dani Vachon on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:13:00 PST

Photos!

I just joined Flickr so that i could share some photos from my travels. CLICK HERE TO CHECK THEM OUT!
Posted by Dani Vachon on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:03:00 PST