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David Danger

Not as hip as my neighborhood

About Me

This is me in Cambodia. I like to travel and be outside.Here is a video of driving around Hanoi, Vietnam on a motorcycle. Get your own free cool template at MySpace Layouts

My Interests

Rock climbing, road and mountain biking, music, art, culture, didgeridoo, backpacking, food, getting lost, rational inquiry, smashing religion, film, politics, science, literature.

I'd like to meet:

Scholars, deadbeats, hippies, angel headed hipsters, drag queens, surfers, Buddha, and anyone else who seeks what life has to offer.

Music:

M.I.A., Gotan Project, Shpongle, Thievery Corporation, Dylan, Marley, Grateful Dead, Ralph Stanley, Miles, Thelonious, Kiwi music, the Killers, Death Cab and other such indie rock, James Brown, Wu Tang, Beethoven, DJ Shadow, I could go on....

Movies:

Fight Club, Happiness, Requiem for a Dream, Old Boy, Harold and Maude, Stanley Kubrick, Mulholland Drive, Pi, Donnie Darko, movies made in the 70s especially the ones with Al Pacino.

Television:

Six Feet Under, the Daily Show.

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces, Catfish and Mandala, Oh the Glory of it All, White Noise, Lullaby, High Fidelity, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Hanna Arendt's On Revolution, The geneology of morals, The Crying of Lot 49, The Monkey Wrench Gang

Heroes:

Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Sir Edmund Hillary, Nietzche, Edward Abbey, Aldo Leopold

My Blog

Pakse, Bangkok, and back again

Hello there,I'm now back in San Francisco, still glowing from my trip but the realities of living in America are dawning upon me.  More about that later, first I should recount the end of my trip...
Posted by David Danger on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:05:00 PST

Tubing, flying foxes, and other nonsense

So when I last left off, I was in Luang Prabang in Lao PDR.  I went on my first "whitewater" kayaking experience down the Nam Ou river.  I use quotation marks because the rapids weren't that...
Posted by David Danger on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:50:00 PST

Finally, I find the mekong

So Ben and I have parted ways a little early.  We were going to be going to Northern Vietnam, to a place called Sapa, but when I found out it was near freezing and raining, I made the decision t...
Posted by David Danger on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:08:00 PST

Swimming upstream: the KL and Hanoi

Dearest readers,When I last left you, I was about to get on a flight to Kuala Lumpur, a stop made possible by the fact that it is dirt cheap to fly through air asia's hub.  Kuala Lumpur, or the "...
Posted by David Danger on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:41:00 PST

Welcome to the real third world: Cambodia

Today I am in Siem Reap, Cambodia.  This is the gateway city to Angkor Wat and one of the three "safe" places in Cambodia for tourists.  Damien and I met up with Abe in Bangko...
Posted by David Danger on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:25:00 PST

New pics

Hey,I had some free time so I posted some pictures on my flickr site.  www.flickr.com/photos/dave_millarOff to Cambodia, bright and early tomorrow morning.  Will report from Phenom Phen... i...
Posted by David Danger on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:02:00 PST

New Years in Bladerunner

Sabaidii pai mai, happy new years from Bangkok.  It's already 3:00 in the afternoon on the first, and I'm finally feeling okay now after a pretty long night.  I started my night after checki...
Posted by David Danger on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:21:00 PST

On to the next adventure

The past week here in Tonsai has been mostly awesome, with some really crappy parts.  I got the 24 hour "welcome to Thailand" stomach apocalypse.  But after that, I've been feeling pretty we...
Posted by David Danger on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:29:00 PST

Railay = Paradise?

Hello again, I don't have too much time to write because this is costing me 3 baat per minute (yes I have become that cheap), but I just wanted to write and say I'm having a fantastic christmas eve.&n...
Posted by David Danger on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:39:00 PST

Ok, everybody go!

So I've been in Bangkok for a few days now and I can easily say it would be difficult to describe the complete insanity of this place.  Life here travels about a million miles an hour and ev...
Posted by David Danger on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:49:00 PST