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< * dAn * >

and it's getting harder and harder to find a bad cup of coffee

About Me

lead guitarist in "fell off a ladder" and "shamu - 2 : seaworld - nil".all your favourite sound engineers squished into one manageable (and charming) package.Thursday night I'm making Denise, Friday night I'm making Therese, Saturday night I'm making Louise... Oh, why can't I be making love come true?

My Interests

Pesäpallo (extreme megaball) : CLEVELAND BROWNS : hassling marcus

I'd like to meet:

canadians

Music:

pull tiger tail, ¡forward, russia!, klaxons (not centaurs), this et al, duels, snowden, shut your eyes and you'll burst into flames, the rollercoaster project, kubichek!, anteater, read yellow, the scare, iliketrains, sky larkin, fields, final fantasy, weezer, the rentals, tom waits, tool, at the drive-in, the flaming lips, jay-z, pantera, the smashing pumpkins, bloc party, the arcade fire, bjørk, tortoise, kerbdog, helmet, biffy clyro, pavement, nirvana, sigur røs, tv on the radio, minus the bear, clouddead, why?, pixies, radiohead, blind melon, fugazi, shellac, neil young, cursive, blur, jeff buckley, the cars, death cab for cutie, rival schools, glassjaw, queens of the stone age, yeah yeah yeahs, we are scientists, the clash, the beatles, mogwai, bright eyes, far, the strokes, dfa 1979, guided by voices, mastodon, howling bells, metallica, kings of leon, PRINCE'S PERFORMANCE AT SUPERBOWL XLI

Movies:

2001 : a space odyssey

Books:

lolita, steppenwolf, the trial, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, siddhartha, erasure, generation x, the bell jar, his dark materials, animal farm, the fortress of solitude, women, everything is illuminated, brave new world, the catcher in the rye, the outsider, ulysses, carter beats the devil

Heroes:

davo from pull tiger tail, johnny white, scooby, nick editors, chris snow, ryan reynolds, none others.

My Blog

have you ever seen a dead body?

i saw a dead adolescent lying on the m1 motorway today, victim of some kind of morbid collision with a then-jacknifed lorry. i was travelling in the tour van, staring backwards and as a result had no ...
Posted by < * dAn * > on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:15:00 PST

new fitness regime

well, it looks like my festive weight-gain still hasn't subsided and from the side i look a bit like a portly Uncle Buck (that's John Candy for those with no suspension of disbelief). Now, I know it's...
Posted by < * dAn * > on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:20:00 PST

midmorning with insomnia and a belly of beer

i can't properly piece together my thoughts on the recent america skirmish. It feels unresolved, and not merely because we're going back soon to play three more weeks of shows. it just feels like bits...
Posted by < * dAn * > on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:44:00 PST

and furthermore, the killers....

oh sweet jesus. i built it up so much... i finally bought "sam's town" yesterday.have you ever been disappointed? I don't mean just receiving a B for your mock a-level french exam when you expected an...
Posted by < * dAn * > on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:57:00 PST

guys guys guys!!

i'm fine i'm fine i'm fine!!
Posted by < * dAn * > on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:11:00 PST

thoughts of a swiss-heritage drunkard

and tonight in bologna we partied until dawn and i swooned over a girl called Eugenia as the Pixies blew my mind in the background. i requested - to the DJ, no less - that the killers be played at the...
Posted by < * dAn * > on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:56:00 PST

all killers, mind fillers....

why, dear god, am i suddenly obsessed with the killers? what started out as an ironic love of a meatloaf-esque diatribe has escalated into full-blown wanton passion. Serious. even an innocent dream ab...
Posted by < * dAn * > on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:03:00 PST

the wonder years

current circumstances are reminding me of in-flight film classic "forty days and forty nights"... bird and i were alarmed to find out that every other member of our touring posse have been disgracing ...
Posted by < * dAn * > on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:14:00 PST

from the north to the norsk

finland, sweden x 2 and now norway.Helsinki was a wonderful show, not least thanks to the incredibly helpful and curteous crew of the venue. The guy looking after front of house with me did front of h...
Posted by < * dAn * > on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:35:00 PST

oh how quick we became casualties of tour

thank you nabakov for keeping my mind afloat. *serious sleeping malfunctions. we did two gigs in berlin in the same day then winged it (train train train) nearly immediately to warsaw to storm poland....
Posted by < * dAn * > on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:26:00 PST