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Dabo

Oh Honey, don't tease with that cheap cheese

About Me

I used to be, more or less, an aspect of culture- someone's culture, a style ranking before it was truly a class to grade. Maybe an innovator to some, but someone (prolly from the past) had known it for ages somewhere else. Selfish to the slightest degree, I saved the best for myself, and slightly burst from the seams when inhibitions and good spirits came to play.Now I work at a slightly different angle, trying to activate those silly tiny sparks and absolute innovations on a free motion flow from anywhere inside. When I was four, my hallway of a bedroom had a small window on the same wall my bed was stacked up against. The sun came in from the East and through some fence trees, just bright enough to make a haze of sunshine over the room with intense glowing reflections on the boucle shag. Simple mornings were perfect splendor- I thought fairies left gold dust in my eye and kissed me awake each day.
...I want that back.
Knockout - Tad LauritzenWright
"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil"
-Truman Capote

My Interests

DABO DESIGNS / GRACE by DESIGN INTERIORSFashion, music, mayhem, socialism, paganism, applied theory, quantum physics, international business, travel, art, eating contests, architecture, interior design- do's and never admit that you are into's, bike rides, going for it for the right reasons, dog obsessing, eyes that shoot straight through to the heart, laughing out loud for no other reason then to feel something real, and other random subjects...
An urban Yurt society...

I'd like to meet:

humans with essence... that don't ride the douche express.

Music:

The Kinks, Sloan, The Beatles, Ween, Wilco, New Order, What made Milwaukee Famous, Beulah, Islands, THE UNICORNS, Ladytron, Kraftwerk, Ratatat, Theivory Corporation, The Theater Fire, Film School, Phoenix, Flaming Lips, Gravy Train, KOMEDA!!! Stereolab, David Bowie, Psychedellic Furs, Caberet Voltaire, Peaches, Wire, World Party, The Cars, Queen, Silver Jews, Jonathon Fire Eater, Dr. John, The Streets, Les McCann, Muddy Waters, C.C. Adcock, Spoon, Canned Heat, Interpol, Primal Scream, !!! (chk, chk, chk), The French Kicks, Glass Candy, Radio 4, Ghostland Observatory, The Datsons, Blur, Pulp, Chicks on Speed, Art Brut, Armand van Helden, The The, My Bloody Valentine, Snowpony, The Faint, Bad Religion, Vandals, The Rapture, Amelie soundtrack, Edith Piaf, Velvet Underground, The La's, Gris Gris, SM & Jicks, Pixies, Depeche Mode, Mr. Bluesky, Television, Johnny Thunders, Blondie, The Stooges, Chuck Berry, Tex Williams, Gang of Four, The Fall, Talking Heads, Debbie Harry, Clash, New York Dolls, Stellastarr*, Tapes N' Tapes, The Tah-Dahs, A Few Nice Things, Riverboat Gamblers, The Murder City Devils, Buzzcocks, Dead Boys, Brazillian Girls, Senor Coconuts, New Fangs, Church of the New Lords, MC5, Ambulance LTD, The Wedding Present, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, The Lilys, Ben Kweller, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Jam, English Beat, Toots and the Maytals, Stevie Wonder, Kool and the Gang, Oceans 11, Nick Drake, Kings of Convenience, Mouse on Mars, Looper, Moving Units, Polysics, Beauty Pill, Japancakes, Deceptikon, Erland Oye, Ima Robot, Del the funkee homosapian ("mistadobolina"), TV on the Radio, The Spinto Band, The Shins, South, Kingsbury Manx, The Arcade Fire, Polyphonic Spree, Johnny Winters, The Decemberists, Beat Happening, The Go team!, and best of all Joy Division...

Movies:

The harder they come, the harder they fall; Farenheit 451; The Dark Backward; Amelie; Spirited Away; Ran; Eat, Drink, Man, Woman; Bonjour Tristesse; The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover; The Graduate; The Young Poisoner's Handbook; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Clerks; any Jean Cocteau film, Jean Seburg films, 24 hour party people, I have old kung fu and horror film obsession, but we won't go there...

Television:

BBC Coupling, Graham Norton, Six Feet Under, Simpson's. Ughhh, I miss cable!!! Gilmore girls are great but they are no Graham Norton or Aqua Teen Hunger Force!!! Screw Iron Chef- wake up and realize it's just another country's spin off of reality TV they've managed to pine off on you!!!!

Books:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Drinking, smoking, screwing: great writers on good times; Hot Water Music (first book read of Bukowski); The Electric Kool-aide Acid Test (Tom Wolfe), Henry Miller, Vonnnegut, Irvine Welsh, John Kennedy Toole, Tom Robbins, David Sedaris, (sp?)- Doestyevski, I give up

Heroes:

My mom, Toast Man, Jack Lord, Peter O' Toole

And your mom...

My Blog

Hey Austin, do you like your Doctor’s Office?

If so can you tell me about it?  I just lost my job, and really want to work in a better environment.  A doctor's office would be a great start, any kind of office is a great place to start....
Posted by Dabo on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:19:00 PST

More of a 6am, in the clouds- with a rock on your head moment

It would be so much better if I would just write about my personal accounts than actual thoughts- somebody might understand it once and a now-in-again. I took my slip off, ugh- typing freestyle after ...
Posted by Dabo on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:11:00 PST

Spoonfeed your pidgeons... "Everybody Plays the Mime Sometimes"

Don't try and mollest people after 10am.  Don't flood the bathroom.  Avoiding eye contact is alright.  Stick to the basics- Hello / Goodbye / Ask before your licks- in all pyramids....
Posted by Dabo on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:58:00 PST

Standing up is fun. new. better. Try it today.

Some kids have lots of friends, some kids stick to their depends, and some of us have their own ends -connected to greater galaxies, twisted with wonder, glowing bright, and hanging in on thei...
Posted by Dabo on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:52:00 PST

Going away partay?

When I left from Dallas, we had a big show at Club Clearview and not so much a party, but a nice toast and such (and then a big party at the house that night).  I'm not as organized this time, an...
Posted by Dabo on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:57:00 PST

Ticketmaster is beyond the devil- it's just plain cruel

Paul Weller plays Irving Plaza - it was sold out on-line in less than two minutes (I tried all morning, and no luck).  I may be one of the few under 30-yr-old's that still has there original vin...
Posted by Dabo on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:12:00 PST

Austin on my mind...

I went there this weekend and happened to find gas for $1.64 !!!  Wow, the things we fall in love for cities these days- bush really has turned us into a bunch of cheap whores...   If anyone...
Posted by Dabo on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:11:00 PST