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DanK Ups

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About Me


Try the BEST MySpace Editor and MySpace Backgrounds at MySpace Toolbox !Well what can I say about me. I'm a 28 yr old guy who has lived in the mitten almost all my life (minus a 4 month stint in Yellowstone). I orginially hail from Marine City MI., have lived in Grand Rapids MI., and now call Kalamazoo MI home, and am considering a move to the north country this spring. I love music and when I say love I mean Loooooooooovvvvvvve music and almost any other form of entertainment out there. I started out working for WSGR, Saint Clair Community Colleges radio station shortly after being tossed from high school, then went on to be director of promotions and marketing for WCKS at Grand Valley State University, and then after moving to Kalamazoo I began managing a band called Electric Violet. After that band went on to find greener pastures I decided to start my own music promotion company Paw Print Music. Now with all that going on I have still found time to work with my two great friends Jake Robinson and Chad Knaggs to help promote and manage Hoxeyville Music Festival. I also work with an independent record cooperative Earthwork Music which was founded by another amazing friend of mine Seth Bernard, and every once and awhile I'm called upon by Early Morning Film Productions created by yet another awesome fella Walter Lodes III. I haven't however worked with anyone who owns or uses a dictionary, thesouras, or abbicus so if you had a hard time reading or understanding any of this and you do use or own one or more of the above feel free to get ahold of me. I hope that all is well in your neck of the woods, thanks for reading what I'm about and have a great day.
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My Interests

Music, camping, traveling, festivals, friends,philosophy, art, books, government, comparative religions, far away places and spaces, and life are what interest me the most. If I'm not promoting or tapping a show than I'm probably sleeping or looking for a job that will allow me to go see a show.

I'd like to meet:

Fun and interesting people that like to travel and see music. People that realize there is a whole world out there waiting and wanting to be enjoyed by all. People who know that they can make a difference if even a small one. Oh and people who don't try to mug me at 2:30 in the morning on my way home from the bar and then shoot me in the chest with a .22 caliber revolver.....Um yeah I don't want to meet those type of people again.

Music:

I like just about everything. My main rig as far as music goes is folk, roots, bluegrass, jambands. You know people like Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Yonder Mountian String Band, Elvis Costello, Hank Williams (Sr.,Jr., and the III), Ween, Seth Bernard, Daisy May, Stepin' In It, Greensky Blegrass, Grateful Dead, The Other Ones, Ratdog, B.B. King, Smokestack, U.V. Hippo, Brathe Owl Breathe, Gregory Stovetop, Railroad Earth, Ember Swift, T-Lo Effect, Four Finger Five, Pops Walker, Rachel Davis, Jen Sygit, Susan Fawcett, and stuff like that. Everything else out there is great too as long as it's not about bustin' caps.

Movies:

I like movies, I've worked on some films even. Even though I'm not a big fan of music that glorifies shootin' people I am a huge fan of gangster flicks and westerns. My personal favs are The Godfather Triology (screw you Tyler part 2 is better than part 1), The Way Of The Gun, The Big Hit, Donnie Darko (yep there's a gun in that one too), Band Of Brothers, Tombstone, Resevior Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Last Man Standing, Escanaba In Da Moonlight, A Day Without A Mexican, The Mexican, Suspect Zero, Crash, Sahara, and I'd say When The Smoke Clears and The Pressure Within; but Walt's to busy on myspace to get off his ass and edit them.

Television:

Yep I own one and watch it pretty regularly now.

Books:

I recently lost what was turning out to be my favorite book "My Life Inside Rock and Out" it was a biography about Bill Graham written by the same guy who wrote "Darkstar". So I just picked up "We The Living" for the umpteenth time.

Heroes:

My Dad and Bill Graham the concert promoter not the religious zealot

My Blog

Thank you for all of your love, prayers, and support

So man where do I begin.  I guess most of you have heard about the unfortunate incident that happened to me recently.  If you haven't I'll make it short and sweet.  On Thursday night/Fr...
Posted by DanK Ups on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:46:00 PST

What a mess

My hangover is found.  I eat coffee raw and by the pound. Light roast dark roast whatever can be found. 
Posted by DanK Ups on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:18:00 PST

Clearin' the table

Ok so here I go puttin' myself out there.  Right out on a limb again.  Running through ideas and thoughts of things I did before that sucked and hurt and all that crap and here I go doin' th...
Posted by DanK Ups on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:51:00 PST

New Year New Outlook More Confussion

So here it is a whole new year full of new opprotunites and fresh starts.  So here I sit in front of the new movin' picture box trying to readjust my priorities hoping that it will help readjust ...
Posted by DanK Ups on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:31:00 PST