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Daan

Given To Fly

About Me





"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

My Interests

/Music/ toplay /tolisten/ tofeel /
/ Politics/History/... leading to writing/righting the wrongs of "Politics/History" ( The F Collective )!
Reading/Writing../
A drink and a yack

I'd like to meet:

.... The man running up the hill with the bible in his hand and the devil in the sand

+ Every band that I love...
+ Gandhi.*____
+ Hendrix
+ Syd Barrett
+ Bill Hicks
+ Bruce Lee
+ Dubya
+ Howard
+ The previous two people, in one room, with a slideshow of all the things they've ordered people to do without personally witnessing the consequences
.. and...
+ YOU.

Music:

It has to move you...
... whether to make your body bounce...
or to shake the fizzing currents in yer brain..
Pearl Jam
Sigur Ros
Pink Floyd
The Mars Volta
The Tea Party
Joey Vera
Porcupine Tree
Gotye

Tribe After Tribe.. (Robbi Robb)
The Mars Volta
Soulfly
Soundgarden
Three Fish
Björk
Tenacious D
Local H
Bob Marley
Chris Cornell
Bloc Party
System of a Down
Foreign folk music
Nick Cave
Wellwater Conspiracy
Silverchair
Gomez
Dredg
and more!.. ...

Movies:

The Edukators
Almost Famous
Enter The Dragon
Eternal Sunshine of the....
Hype!
Look Both Ways
Anything with Bill Hicks doing his fucking brilliant best...
and more behind door number 2..

Television:

# Top Gear # Smallville # House # Documentaries # News

Books:

@ Ishmael / Beyond Civilization (Daniel Quinn) @ Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) @ Breakfast of Champions / Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut) @ A Secret Country (John Pilger) @ Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean) @ Pity The Nation (Robert Fisk) @ Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Heroes:

Musicians, writers, poets and comedians.

My Blog

Beazley

How do these fuckers live with themselves?http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/beazley-ba cks-terror-law-rush/2005/11/02/1130823260045.htmlVote 1 Beazley: Deputy Leader of the Coalition!Fuck. Have so...
Posted by Daan on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:11:00 PST

"Let's Roll"...

A little bit of reflection towards the end of an eventful year... a year that's ending and promises something new and exhilarating in 2006... I know this ain't a blog with high traffic but I gues...
Posted by Daan on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 06:12:00 PST

Sunny Day

Are you happy in the rain?Are you fighting the strains?Of the world as it standsAre you thinking it'll fall down? Is the fantasy so strange,That you fail to fathom the hate?Is it the peace that's so r...
Posted by Daan on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:19:00 PST

Listerine and M&Ms . . .

It's the listerine and M&Ms I look into your eyes deeper than the Thames You, my public addiction, And why it's been two days and I fucking still miss ya. Word  ...
Posted by Daan on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:16:00 PST

To raise or not to raise.... your voice

Warning: This post may contain a rant or three. Actually, no, why start off negative... hang on... nah, it's not negative at all, it's more unlucky or weird. Ya see, I've had a very exciting past mont...
Posted by Daan on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:52:00 PST

There is a Vespertine among us...

What's a good Sunday for you? Kicking back, chilling and doing whatever... or ... I'm liking this Sunday... i.e. today... first time in a week or so that I can sit back, just take it real slow and eas...
Posted by Daan on Sun, 18 Sep 2005 08:49:00 PST

Bus stops and anchovies

Good shit. Great shit.
Posted by Daan on Fri, 16 Sep 2005 05:23:00 PST

Sigur Ros

Ok... check this page out www.myspace.com/sigurros. I saw this band live and they are the most melancholic mood masters ever in my opinion. This is their latest album (the limited edition version I ha...
Posted by Daan on Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:44:00 PST

Ant Hills

Dawning over the ant hills A simple sun of magnificent proportions It magnifies your importance It delivers a blow that shows&.   So you climb, and there you see This ant hill becomes a city One ...
Posted by Daan on Fri, 02 Sep 2005 03:39:00 PST

Cedars Somewhere

The Cedar Tree and Me Blow in the wind Foliage being burnt By searing cold wind...
Posted by Daan on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 06:41:00 PST