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Daniel

Channel Surfing the Universal Mind Lattice

About Me

"I fashion will and desire. Always I and I survive. Mercurial, mind the fire. Ferrivorous direction and drive."

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"To be happy with what you have, you have to be happy with what you have to be happy with."

My Interests

Art in all it's purest expressions, Nature, Mythology, Anthropology, Jungian Psychology, the Collective Unconscious, Human and Animal Anatomy, Sacred Geometry, the Golden Spiral, polyrhythmic drumming, mandalas, meditation, metaphysics, preternatural feats, the Alchemy of Words and Pictures creating a Sequential Narrative, the delicate equilibrium of Light and Shadow, interdimensional depth, Taxidermy, Phrenology/Cranioscopy, fine cutlery, fermented grape imbibements, raven-haired rubenesques, '50s pin-ups, vintage Buicks, hood ornaments, folicular growth, storytelling, Hitchcockian suspense, progressive music, film, animation, storyboards, comics, graphic novels, art books, action effigies, superheroines, ninjas, grappling hooks, deviled eggs, sporks, greyhounds, creating, reading, shooting billiards, visiting museums, learning, improvement, the occasional video game, the power of belief, steak, ribs, skulls, swashing bucklers, shedding snakes, rebirth, survival

I'd like to meet:

YOU!

Music:

TOOL, A Perfect Circle, Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, Mark Lanegan, Soundgarden, Audioslave, The Mars Volta, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Wolfmother, King Crimson, Radiohead, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, James Brown, Fishbone, The Beatles, The Who, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Bjork, Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, P.J. Harvey, Deftones, CLUTCH, Portishead, Johnny Cash, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Meters, Tenacious D, The Beastie Boys, MF DOOM, Devo, Helmet, Failure, Ween, Interpol, Aloke Dutta, Frank Sinatra, Joao and Astrud Gilberto, Righteous Buddha, BIG WHUP

Movies:

Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, James Bond in You Only Live Twice, Predator, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vol.2, Sin City, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Magnolia, 2001: A Space Oddessey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Apocalypse Now, Goodfellas, Schindler's List, Duel, Chinatown, Batman, Willow, The Goonies, Army of Darkness, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Princess Bride, Logan's Run, TRON, The Rocketeer, Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cogliostro, The Incredibles, Fantasia, The Iron Giant, The Getaway, The Wild Bunch, Vertigo, Rear Window, Rope, Psycho, Star Wars: A New Hope, Akira, This is Spinal Tap, Yellow Submarine

Television:

The Simpsons, [adult swim] especially Venture Bros., aeon flux, Batman: The (old) Animated Series, Freakazoid, Samurai Jack, DOG: The Bounty Hunter, Miami Ink, Mythbusters, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Mr. Show, Reno 911, Chappelle's Show, Jiminy Glick, Strangers With Candy, South Park, Wonder Showzen, My Name is Earl, The Colbert Report

Books:

My Wicked, Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn, Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Beowulf, Lord of the Flies, The Pearl and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Necronomicon, The Seven Habits of the Highly Infected Calf, Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, A Joyful Guide to Lachrymology by Ronald P. Vincent, U.S. Army Survival Manual FM 21-76, Malicious Resplendence by Robert Williams, Alex Grey's Transfigurations, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Figure Drawing For All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis, How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way, Acme Novelty Library, The Watchmen, Kingdom Come, Uncle Sam, Hellboy, Madman, Body Bags, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Ronin, Sin City, Hard Boiled, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, Gunsmith Cats, Uzumaki, Blankets, The Comics Journal, Juxtapoz Magazine

Heroes:

My Dad (aww), Errol Flynn, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Campbell, Jimi Hendrix, John Bonham, Danny Carey, Aloke Dutta, Adam Jones, Alex Grey, Alex Toth, Alex Ross, Bob Ross, Cam Deleon, Chet Zar, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Frank Frazetta, Bruce Timm, Mark Schultz, Scott Hampton, George Pratt, Paul Hudson, Brian Stelfreeze, Roland Paris, Batman, Chris Cornell, Josh Homme, Norman Rockwell, Frank Lloyd Wright, Stanislav Szukalski, Hieronymus Bosch, Robert Williams, Mark Ryden, Hideo Kojima, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincent Price, Edgar Allan Poe

My Blog

three-D

Cross your eyes and focus on the image in the middle.   =>             Start out a couple feet away and gradually move in closer.   => ...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:45:00 PST

(T)exodus

  Show & Tell   San Antonio, TX       -The Buckhorn Saloon and Museum     The worlds largest collection of horns. My favorite museum. Bar none.     ...
Posted by Daniel on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:45:00 PST

formless

free from love   free from hate   beyond the dualities I create   free from life   free from death   the urge will emerge in a single breath   to cleanse the spirit of tr...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:33:00 PST

B R A I N C H I L D

    This visage appeared to me in a dream about a week ago. In it, I was having an intense conversation with this woman on her patio. Thoughout our chatting, I could not...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:27:00 PST

Our Lady of Perpetual Discontent

A life of strife and constant struggle. The disappointments one must juggle. Along with triumphs, large and small. Be careful, child. Dont drop the ball.   Discontent will motivate. A trait only...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 05:32:00 PST

The Pitter-Patter of Preternatural Feats

Take your task one step a time. Tap your chisel, pull your line. The Muses grace with goals divine. These things I make, they are not mine.   The body and mind encapsulate. The wonderings that cu...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:51:00 PST

All is Impermanent. All is Without Itself.

   I have been using this Buddhist mantra, which is chanted by monks during funerary ceremonies, as a personal reminder of sorts. I must remember that the life experiences we share together,...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:37:00 PST

shat upon

   When the world shits on me, I pack it in with the soil and it fertilizes my tree of life. Without it, growth would not come as bountifully. The blossoms wouldnt smell as fragrant. The fr...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:16:00 PST