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DAN

When you stare down the barrel of a loaded gun, there are two things you can do: talk or run.....

About Me

....sarcastic, teller of jokes and speaker of bizarre monologues, known for cynical (and oft harsh) put-downs, owner of "really nice" eyes, future revoltuionary leader, child prodigy, Brandon Flowers obsessed, eloquent intellectual, slayer of dragons and winner of hearts, charmer, schemer and lover, poet and joker, king and pauper....a star
Once upon a time in a town not very far away, on the 19th day of the fair month of March, a quite momentous event occurred. This event would so shake the oundations of the very world around it that from that day forward nothing would ever be the same again.
In lamens terms this day marked the beginning of a very special life: the life of one 'Daniel Carrington'.
You may ask yourself what was so special about this child, you may ask yourself why exactly I have chosen to pen this story about a life that may sem to you trivial and uninteresting. I will tell you. I'm bored out of my fucking brain and so, despite the fact that Tess is telling me not to ('Dan, thats too long no-one will ever be bothered to read it') I will absolutely continue typing.
After around eighteen years of unremarkable life (except his being a child prodigy and general stud) Dan moved to his current abode: the 1940's styled Eastern Block-esque, Mulberry Court.
At university he found time to develop his talents at hunting down, trapping and generally amusing himself with various members of the male species (and continues to do so to this very day) while somehow still managing to drink, smoke and moan to an insane degree. He also sometimes found time to write a cock-eyed essay about psychoanalytic literary criticism or the development of the hero in ancient Greek literature. Sometimes.....
Thursday nights were always a special night for our dear hero as it was on this night that, clad in pinstripe pants, waistcoat and skinny tie, he would advance (in the company of the delightful Tash, the oft-innebriated Hanna, the Welsh Dan and the slightly, ever so slightly drunk Louise) down into town to G-Bar. It was here that he, along with Tash, would dance in a bizarre way to songs such as 'I touch myself' and 'Better the devil you know' (although always secretly he would be singing Mr Brightside in his head to keep himself sane, indie and within the realms of acceptable gayness).
These details are trivial and, after all, you're here for details about what our beautiful hero is like......
Daniel Carrington is perhaps the most sarcastic, bitchy and downright nasty piece of work in the whole universe and such is his brilliance that not one individual in the entire scope of this world is able to best (or indeed simply match him) at verbal jesting. Our man is able to scythe down his victims with a well aimed quip at any moment and very rarely resorts to the simple 'You're fat' line (although again he recognises its usefulness).
One of his greatest abilities dear reader is just how modest he is about his own accomplishments - he really does not like to blow his own trumpet. Indeed you would never catch him writing a hugely pretentious myspace profile section thingy like this one here (thats much more a thing that Tess would do - she is from Dorset and, as modesty has not yet been discoverd down there, we shall excuse her weakness in this matter).
But what of his opinions I hear you cry? What makes dear Daniel tick?
The simple answer here is treble whiskey and coke from The Pilgrim.
I sense you desire a more in depth answer. Bugger it, I thought that would do. I shall here pause for a second as I have just dropped burning ash onto my leg and would wish greatly to remove it before my leg hair catches alight!
.................................
I return. Well, Daniel is a rather intellectual kind of fellow (he even drinks loose leaf tea and has a teapot in his room) and so his opinions would take up far too much scope than this mere pin-prick of an entry will allow. Perhaps I will summarise:
1) On Alcohol - Dan loves whiskey. If there are any boys out there who desire Dan's heart and mind they would be best advised to visit Bargain Booze on the way up the hill and bring a bottle of Jack Daniel's with them. He is however also uite partial to Snakebite, Vodka, Beck's, Grolsch, White wine, Red wine, Jagermeister, Gin etc etc......
2) On Food - Cheese. Cheese is high on Dan's list of food priorities. Mix Dan and cheese and you have the perfect combination. Enough said really: words are incapbe of capturing the brilliance of cheese.
3) On Men - Generally men are high on Dan's priorities in life. He has a high opinion of their value in some situations (emphasis here is on SOME). When a man is sweet, good-looking, carrying alcohol and also has access to cheese Dan is quite capable of suspending judgement on certain failings that are shared by the whole male race. It would be highly beneficial to any man who desires our sweet hero that he despises back hair, people who are afraid of washing, men who dont understand that eyebrows are meant to come in PAIRS and men who only wish to smoke his ciggarettes, kiss him, fondle his backside and then piss off back to their friends.
4) On God - Dan does not believe in God. He only advocates the use of the capital 'G' just incase He does indeed exist and strikes Dan down with some form of malady ('Big up The Big Man' is not something Dan says often). One thing that really annoys Dan is the whole 'What would Jesus Do?' thing - honestly, Jesus had a track record of turning water into wine, hangin round with a bunch of dirty men who constantly touched eachothers feet and having large parties. Jesus was much more like a standard student than the church would have you believe! Next time you dont know what to do you may aswell cry 'What would Dan..Tash..Louise..Hanna..Leah..Tess..Lucci..Emma etc etc do?!'. At least we wont bugger off back to Heaven at the first sign of trouble!
Anyway, time grows short for me here and I am afraid one must depart. I shall leave the final word to our darling comrade Dan and his ode to STD sufferers everywhere. Goodnight sweet children.
That boy over there, well he's pretty hot
What a problem you'll see now that he's got
Inflamatory herpes and genital fleas!
Oh, how he ignores my gentle pleas,
To go to the clinic and simply ease
The irritable itching and unsightly blotches
That induce retching and fetching of multiple creams.
He may be quite hot but he always botches,
The final immutable act of my dreams,
Namely the removal of said STD's!
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My Interests

Reading, writing, moaning, philosophising, drinking, dancing, making pea and mint soup from scratch, cynicism, pretentiousness........amongst other things

'This Is The Age Of The Gay.'

'Gay Born and Bred.'

I'd like to meet:

Intelligent, eloquent, sporadic, spontaneous intellectuals.....Also my idol, Brandon Flowers who inspires me with both his songwriting brilliance and his gorgeous dress sense). Lets be more intellectual about this though; there are several writers I'd love to be able to have a bit of chat with. JACK KEROUAC, one of the Godfathers of spontaneous prose and a bit of a rebel, JAMES JOYCE, he was slightly nuts but he'd be a hell of a laugh to go for a pint with. SHAKESPEARE would be kind of cool, though I doubt he'd enjoy a cocktail in the Font we'd obviously have to go to the Cambridge for a tankard of ale or something. GEORGE ORWELL, apart from being one of the single greatest writers ever he also liked to imagine the characters of the Russian Revolution as pigs and cows......Erm, DANTE ALIGHERI would be an interesting person to be trapped in a lift with (The Divine Comedy is a brilliant book) and BYRON would also be quite a laugh what with his bisexual orgies, love of fine wine and experimentation with allsorts of interesting chemicals. HOMER, he of Iliad and Odyssey fame mind, would be a great guy to meet - christ could he tell a story! (But obviously he's dead and gone........). Oh.......and..... GOD - just to see if he exists purely (though if I was meeting him he'd obviously have to, unless I was tripping off something) and to find out, if he did, whether he really is such an anally retentive, nuerotic and insecure bigot like the Bible says.

Music:

The Killers
Interpol
Franz Ferdinand
Arcade Fire
David Bowie
The Clash
Editors
Rufus Wainwright
The Strokes
Maximo Park
We Are Scientists
Joy Division
The Departure
Razorlight
Bloc Party
The Futureheads
Kaiser Chiefs
Blondie
The Cure
Pulp
Panic! At the disco
Martha Wainwright
Kings of Leon
Dogs Die in Hot Cars
The Zutons
Scissor Sisters
Kasabian
Radiohead
The Kooks
The Jam
Test Icicles
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Flaming Lips
The Thrills
Snow Patrol
R.E.M
The Libertines
Dirty Pretty Things
The White Stripes
Hope of The States
The Mars Volta
Gorillaz
The Bravery
Hot Hot Heat
The Automatic
Imogen Heap
The Fratellis
The Automatic
Muse

Movies:

Donnie Darko
Pulp Fiction
The Motorcycle Diaries
Reservoir Dogs
Napolean Dynamite
Short Circuit
X-Men
Drop Dead Fred
Y Tu Mama Tambien

Television:

I've lost interest in television now: ever since it became an outlet for depressingly boring, stupid and ignorant people to create equally depressingly boring, stupid and ignorant programming. If 'reality' T.V is entertainment then I'm the Second Coming of The Messiah.

Books:

'1984' - Orwell
'A Clockwork Orange' - Burgess
'The Divine Comedy' - Dante
'Ulysses' - Joyce
'The Iliad/The Odyssey' - Homer
'If on a winter's night a traveller' - Italo Calvino

Keats, Byron, Blake, Shelley.

Heroes:

Brandon Flowers, Che Guevara, James Dean, Animal

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Blogs

Quite frankly I'm appalled that nobody EVER comments my blogs - comment on Ode to an STD sufferer at the very least people. Or.....I'll kill you all!! xx
Posted by DAN on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:47:00 PST

Bf App Form

Boyfriend/Girlfriend App Form. BASICS:Name:Age:Location:Height:Hair (color and style):Eyes:Piercings/tattoos:OTHER:1. Where would we go on dates?2. Who are three of your favorite bands/artists?3...
Posted by DAN on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:10:00 PST

An ode to STI sufferers everywhere.....

That boy over there, well he's pretty hotWhat a problem you'll see now that he's gotInflamatory herpes and genital fleas!Oh, how he ignores my gentle pleas,To go to the clinic and simply easeThe irrit...
Posted by DAN on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:10:00 PST

Jane Eyre should die...

I bloody well hate Jane Eyre,Is it wrong to not care,Whether she flies o' whether she cries?Personally hoping she fucking well DIES.I bloody well hate Jane Eyre,Her stupidity makes me share,With ...
Posted by DAN on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:50:00 PST

An ode to Louise

An Ode to LouiseOh Lou what would I do without you?What sinister things would I find to do?I'd sit on my bed and stare out in disgrace,Instead of being here playing on myspace.I'm constantly reminde...
Posted by DAN on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:22:00 PST

Poem

That boy over there, well he's pretty hotWhat a problem you'll see now that he's gotInflamatory herpes and genital fleas!Oh, how he ignores my gentle pleas,To go to the clinic and simply easeThe irrit...
Posted by DAN on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:03:00 PST

A two thirty-five am poem

It's two thirty five,I've lost all my drive,To do anything but sit and stare.At two thirty five,Its a fight to survive,The overwhelming urge to share,My unbounded energy and careWhether Emma sleeps or...
Posted by DAN on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:38:00 PST

Today

Alone in halls with Emma..........oh and Tess but she's out! Soooooo boring.........things are not going right today (yet?) xx
Posted by DAN on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:33:00 PST

Stream of conciousness

Love is a concept that dosent really exist. Its a thing that we each of us fool ourseves into believing in and each of us dearly wants to believe in. I dont anymore. Love is a tremendous lie. Why must...
Posted by DAN on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:43:00 PST

Kubla Khan

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls a...
Posted by DAN on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:49:00 PST