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Dana

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About Me

I'm a musician. Music is my life! Check out my band's sites: members.tripod.com/noonhour www.myspace.com/noonhourband I am a music teacher. It was my dream job, but it's not so dreamy now. I'm married, but I'm not saying too much about because its too mushy! I like monkeys. I play in a professional string quartet called Sinfonetta Strings, and sometimes I play with the Terre Haute Sinfonietta Pops Orchestra. (We miss you, Doc!) I also play electric violin. My rock violin sound is a bit gritty. I don't mind a couple of missed or out of tune notes if I'm having fun expressing myself. For some reason this bothers people, but I really don't understand why. "It's rock music, it's not supposed to be pretty."~DanaW. I enjoy playing video games. I also have videos of me peforming on youtube www.youtube.com/Musicgirl82 Thats all for now. CHECK OUT MY ORIGINAL TUNE "OH, PLEASE."

My Interests

Violin, Guitar, Singing, Teaching, Reading, Laughing, Sleeping, Eating

I'd like to meet:

Neil Young. Salvador Dali if he was (were?) alive. I'd like to sing with David Bowie. He has such a soulful voice, and I would like to develop more of that quality in my voice. I would also like to meet Johnny Depp. He fascinates me, and NOT just because hes good lookin.

Music:

Neil Young, David Bowie, Pearl Jam, NOONHOUR, Tom Petty, Heart, The Gossip, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tracy Bonham, Noonhour, Bill Withers, Blue Man Group, Feist, Bobby McFerrin, John Mellencamp, America, Fiona Apple, Fleetwood Mac, Beatles, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Temple of the Dog, Led Zeppelin, System of a Down, Tenacious D, Mother Love Bone, Ray Charles, Travelling Wilburys, KT Tunstall, CSNY, Alice in Chains, Train, Allison Brown, Storm Large and the Balls, Three Dog Night, Justin Timberlake, Mother Love Bone, Cake, Pink Floyd, Nightwish, Foo Fighters, Gnarls Barkley, The Guess Who, Jethro Tull, Johnny Cash, Santana, The Who, Kelly Clarkson, George Michael, Hank Williams, Styx, Willie Nelson, Soul Coughing, Michael Jackson, Franz Ferdinand, Cream, AudioSlave, Marvin Gaye, Janis Joplin, Bob Marley, Richie Havens, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Daughtry, Flogging Molly, CCR, Danny Elfman, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Handel, Haydn, Vitali, Wieniawski, Tchaikovsky, Hilary Hahn, Perlman, Janine Jansen

Movies:

August Rush, Any Harry Potter, The Others, Labyrinth, From Hell, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, Punisher, School of Rock, Fight Club, Dreamcatcher, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Minority Report, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mr. Holland's Opus, Blue Man Group Complex Rock Tour Live, The Station Agent, Greendale, Pearl Jam @ Madison Square Garden, David Bowie Reality Tour Live, Tommy, Last Waltz, Stir of Echoes, Heart of Gold, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Shaun of the Dead, Benny and Joon, Walk the Line, Hitchikers Guide, Wedding Singer, This is Spinal Tap, 50 First Dates, American Beauty, Resident Evil, The Holiday, Primer, Dogma, any other movie with Silent Bob.

Television:

Star Trek TNG, House, South Park, Bones, Scrubs, Medium, King of the Hill, That 70's Show, RockStar(Please come back!)Ellen DeGeneres, My Name is Earl, NCIS, Criminal Minds, I've also been known to watch some American Idol... a guilty pleasure. (Now I just watch it on Youtube) Anything on the History Channel is cool. I usually end up watching Law and Order SVU and getting sucked in.

Books:

I read an AMAZING book by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son) it's called Heart Shaped Box. Very suspenseful and scary! I am currently reading Judaism for Dummies, and I've learned more in the first 30 pages than I've learned in the past 25 years about Christianity. Anything from Frank/Brian Herbert's Dune Series, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Sylvia Browne. Da Vinci Code, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb was a good one.

Heroes:

Keith. Anyone with the cajones to move far away from their home/family to pursue their dreams. Barack Obama.

My Blog

Things I’m into at the moment

Just a list... The Wii game Obscure: The Aftermath its very creepy, Barack Obama (yes we can,) Scrubs, Classroom guitars (I would like to personally thank GOD,) Altruism, John Lennon, Electric Violin,...
Posted by Dana on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:02:00 PST

I AM MINE

Sometimes I wish everyone would F.O.D. and kiss my ass on the way out.
Posted by Dana on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:45:00 PST

Oh, Please. My original song

I made a new spur-of-the-moment video today of my original song "Oh, Please." I wasn't really ready to record it in any fashion, but I turned the camera on anyway. I hope you like it. I wrote it back ...
Posted by Dana on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:16:00 PST

continued frustrations and disappointments

So I'm still upset about the Grammy contest and realizing how much I suck. It just keeps compounding. Heres what I wrote in the description of my audition video. It will explain some things: .....
Posted by Dana on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:43:00 PST

done

Not getting in the top 45 (or 42 as it is) in the Foo Fighters contest has really just been the last straw, icing on the cake, or what have you that makes me realize it's time to be done with music. I...
Posted by Dana on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:55:00 PST

Contest Ramblings

Well, one more musical undertaking, and once again I have absolutely no opinions from anyone I actually know. That always happens to me. I do all this hard work and I get no positive (or negative) rei...
Posted by Dana on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:16:00 PST

WISH ME LUCK SO I CAN GO TO THE GRAMMYS!

Well, after many hours of practice, obsessing, and technical difficulties, Saturday was the day I finally submitted my Pretender audition. I'm extraordinarily excited! Please watch it! If I make ...
Posted by Dana on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:04:00 PST

IM SO FLIPPIN EXCITED!!!!!!

I'm going to film my Foo Fighters My Grammy Moment audition tonight or tomorrow!!! If I get in the top 40 (it might be 45) then people vote for their faves and they send up to 20 people to the Grammys...
Posted by Dana on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:29:00 PST

sometimes...

I just want to scream: I DON'T CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Dana on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:19:00 PST

To the naysayers

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the a...
Posted by Dana on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:37:00 PST