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Dan the Camera Man

Cicadas do nothing for 17 years, make a lot of noise, have sex once, and then die. They should think

About Me


AIM - LocalHBaby
I'm a filmmaker and a very random person. I just finished my first movie, The Matt Bennett Show. I also film for some bands: Rich Hardesty, Why Store, and Kyle Hurd and the Better Than Sex Band to name a few. I play a little guitar and have written some songs for the film. Check out my music page under Business District. I am co-creator of Mike and Dan Shirts and Docu-Films Chicago. I like the color orange, Lou Malnati's pizza, cold beer, concerts, Boston Blackies burgers, Golden Tee and Buckhunter(Yea for drunken bar games!), road trips, spending time with my family and friends, going to the movies, crashing random parties, thunderstorms, I LOVE nature and the outdoors, good movies, bad infomercials, scratch off Lotto tickets, and random energy drinks.
I run MAD shirts with Mike. Check it out and buy our stuff:
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Link to My Dead Pool: http://deadpool.rotten.com/profiles/35/32/58785.html

My Interests



I'm into filming, watching movies, nature, hiking, camping, road trips, making people laugh, long in-depth conversations, documentaries, making music both on guitar and the computer, going to concerts, listening to music, drinking, eating poptarts, taking pictures, randomness, creating art, and hanging out with my friends who are the best friends one could have! Oh yea, Go White Sox! My dream in life is to film wildlife in Africa or out at sea.


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Music:

I like so many bands but here are some: Rich Hardesty, Local H, The Format, Stroke 9, Nine Days, Moe Z, Face, Why Store, Kyle Hurd Band, Business District, Dexter Freebish, Our Lady Peace, Postal Service, Cupcakes, Bruiser, Oleander, American Hi fi, Ike Reilly Assassination, Jim Post, Neil Young, Pearl Jam, Bloodhound Gang, Matthew Good, David Usher, OAR, The Band, Jack Johnson, The Beatles, The Divorce, Panic at the Disco, Brand New, Shoplifter, Big City Rock, The Mile After, Custom, Socialburn, Radiohead, Semisonic, Shades Apart, Cracker, The Tea Party, Papa Vegas, Blue October, Collective Soul, Oasis, VAST, Powderfinger, Starsailor, Mike Doughty, Dark House Sweet, and Weird Al.

Special thank you to all the bands that let us use songs in The Matt Bennett Show movie: Rich Hardesty, The Format, Stroke 9, Dexter Freebish, Shoplifter, and Custom.

Movies:

The Matt Bennett Show

Movies that satisfy my appetite:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Departed, Anchorman, Borat, Layer Cake, Derailed, The Matador, The Big Labowski, Office Space, Beetlejuice, Goonies, March of the Penguins, Gremlins, American Psycho, Rules of Attraction, Dig!, Airplane!, Aliens, Being John Malkovich, Boogie Nights, Closer, Dumbo, Full Metal Jacket, Gangs of New York, Hoop Dreams, Jaws, The Last Waltz, Coming to America, My Own Private Idaho, Naked Gun, The Pianist, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reservoir Dogs, Rushmore, The Thin Red Line, Unforgiven, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Idiocracy, Beerfest, Babel, SLC Punk, Garbage Pail Kids, Strange Brew, 300 and many many more.

Television:

Rescue Me, Family Guy, Ali G Show, Deal or No Deal, Simpsons, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Rome, Extras, Dexter, The Office(not the shitty US one), Arrested Development, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Robot Chicken and Deadwood.

Books:


My two favorite authors are Hunter S. Thompson and Raymond Carver so anything by them.

Jarhead by Anthony Swofford.

So you wanna be a rock & roll star? by Jacob Slitchter

Get Fuzzy cartoons.


Heroes:

Hunter S Thompson RIP for his creative writings and teaching us to not take any shit from those swine.
Favorite Hunter Quotes:
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
"Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads?"
"A word to the wise is infuriating."
"[T]his blizzard of mind-warping war propaganda out of Washington is building up steam. Monday is Anthrax, Tuesday is Bankruptcy, Friday is Child-Rape, Thursday is Bomb-scares, etc., etc., etc.... If we believed all the brutal, frat-boy threats coming out of the White House, we would be dead before Sunday. It is pure and savage terrorism reminiscent of Nazi Germany."
"He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humor. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away." -on meeting George W Bush at Thompson's Super Bowl party in Houston in 1974
~ Hunter S, Thompson (1937 - 2005)

My Blog

Summer of Buzz

It's been a while since my last blog.  My life is on the up right now.  First things first, Pat, Claire and Caitlin are all doing fine after their brain surgery.  Thanks everyone for th...
Posted by Dan the Camera Man on Fri, 25 May 2007 06:17:00 PST

The Price is Wrong Bitch!

Top Ten Things Bob Barker Can Say Now That He's Retiring10 "We get the prizes cheap because they're stolen" 9 "The actual retail price of the retirement watch CBS gave me... $17.95!"8 "Be...
Posted by Dan the Camera Man on Mon, 21 May 2007 12:16:00 PST

Keep a friend in your prayers

Please say a prayer everyone for my good friend Jim Pitrack's baby Sophia.  She is only a few months old and is very sick. I'm holding her in my profile pic. I grew up with Jim as my neighbor on...
Posted by Dan the Camera Man on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:41:00 PST

Dane Cook sucks and other new movies

So, the Dane Cook movie Good Luck Chuck comes out on some date I won't be circling, but the trailer is everywhere today because it features Jessica Alba(who is another no talent ass clown I'm still tr...
Posted by Dan the Camera Man on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:38:00 PST

Astros to retire Bagwell's number in August

..> I guess I'm 2 for 2 in favorite baseball players having their numbers retired.  Now if only Bagwell or Don Mattingly get in the Hall of Fame. ..> td.yspwidearticlebody { font-size: 13.5...
Posted by Dan the Camera Man on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:01:00 PST

Play Ball

As the 2007 baseball season begins for both of our Chicago baseball teams, one can only hope that Ozzie doesn't call Jay Mariotti's sexuality into question, and that Mark Prior will have the time in t...
Posted by Dan the Camera Man on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:48:00 PST

So much for Boo Boo Hubert Thompson

If you were in football or wrestling at York then you knew about Boo Boo from Proviso West.  He was a huge fucker and kicked my ass when I tried running him down and tackling him during a varsity...
Posted by Dan the Camera Man on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 06:55:00 PST

Gone With His Wind

..> A PUB regular has been barred from his favourite Dunfermline boozer  for indiscriminate wind breaking.Management at the bar say Stewart Laidlaw "revels" in his bouts of flatulence and oth...
Posted by Dan the Camera Man on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:20:00 PST

Murder in the Air

Mest Rocker Avoids Murder Charge Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:28:05 PM PDT He may have stabbed a man, but Anthony Lovato has dodged a bullet. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has opted to not...
Posted by Dan the Camera Man on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:39:00 PST

I want to live my next life BACKWARDS

I want to live my next life BACKWARDS!You start out dead and get that out of the way rightoff the bat.Then you wake up in a nursing home feeling betterevery day...when you get kicked out of the home f...
Posted by Dan the Camera Man on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:20:00 PST