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Danny Boy

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Oatmeal is my favorite food.

My Interests


Which Trainspotting Character Are You?

I'd like to meet:

Shiny Happy People

Music:

Tall Hands, BAGZONE, The Kites, Foreign Born, Daft Punk, The Aww Dip Revival, The Paul McKenna All-Stars, Radiohead, Pixies, La Laque, Led Zeppelin, Belle and Sebastian, Beethoven, Harry Connick, Jr., Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Flaming Lips, Beatles, Beach Boys, Doors, Rolling Stones, Donovan, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Modest Mouse, Joy Division, Bob Dylan, Pogues, Clancy Brothers, Clash, Bjork, Portishead, Leonard Cohen, The Who, Air, the Roots, Tribe Called Quest, Jay-Z, Miles Davis, Strokes, Beck, Wilco, Polyphonic Spree, Tom Waits, ELO, Beasties, The Streets, Jon Brion, Kings of Leon, The Kinks, Regina Spektor, Bill Withers, Otis Redding, Billie Holiday, Blur, Bowie, Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire, Iggy Pop, Mr. Bungle, Jeff Buckley, and many many more.

Movies:

LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS A few of my favorites, first top ten, then the rest 1.American Beauty 2.Magnolia 3.It's a Wonderful Life 4.The Godfather (Parts I and II) 5.Punch-Drunk Love 6.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 7.Amelie 8.Rushmore 9.The Big Lebowski 10.City of God 11. The Science of Sleep Foreign: -Wings of Desire -Das Boot -Johnny Stecchino -Rashomon -Cinema Paradiso -Mediterreano -Night on Earth -Breaking the Waves -Men With Guns -The 400 Blows -Jules et Jim -Before the Rain -Karakter -Tokyo Story -Akira Kurosawa's Dreams -The Bicycle Thief -Breathless -The Rules of the Game -Burnt By The Sun -The Celebration -Show Me Love -The Seventh Seal -Run Lola Run -The Princess and the Warrior -Y Tu Mama Tambien -Life is Beautiful -Amores Perros -The Seven Samurai -RanPre-1980 -2001:A Space Odyssey -A Clockwork Orange -Taxi Driver -Mean Streets -The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly -Star Wars Trilogy -Casablanca -It Happened One Night -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -Dr.Strangelove -Paths of Glory -Apocalypse Now -Chinatown -Monty Python and the Holy Grail -The Sting -Treasure of the Sierra Madre -Jaws -High Noon -The Grapes of Wrath -City Lights -Modern Times -The Gold Rush -Being There -Duck Soup -Cool Hand Luke -My Fair Lady -Touch of Evil -The Killing -The Last Picture Show -Hud -The Hustler -North by Northwest -A Place in the Sun -East of Eden -Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -Sullivan's Travels -Brief Encounter -Breaking Away -The Apartment -Badlands1980-Present: -Fargo -Goodfellas -The Royal Tenenbaums -Say Anything -Days of Heaven -Jerry Maguire -The Usual Suspects -Full Metal Jacket -Raging Bull -Scent of a Woman -Dead Poets Society -The Shawshank Redemption -True Romance -Good Will Hunting -Miller's Crossing -Raiders of the Lost Ark -Trainspotting -Trust -The Blues Brothers -Fight Club -Being John Malkovich -The Matrix -L.A. Confidential -After Hours -The Professional -The Princess Bride -Dogma -Seven -Army of Darkness -A Christmas Story -Brazil -Sweet Hereafter -Back to the Future -Stand By Me -As Good as it Gets -A Few Good Men -12 Monkeys -The Player -Edward Scissorhands -Election -Groundhog Day -Heavenly Creatures -Stranger Than Paradise -Dead Man -Down By Law -Beautiful Girls -The Spanish Prisoner -Welcome to the Dollhouse -Shallow Grave -Midnight Run -Swingers -City Hall -Glengarry Glen Ross -Eyes Wide Shut -The Outsiders -Willow -Far and Away -A Bronx Tale -Heaven Help Us -The Mission -Top Gun -Nobody's Fool -Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -The Journey of Natty Gann -Class -Legends of the Fall -A River Runs Through It -Requiem for a Dream -You Can Count on Me -Fast Times at Ridgemont High -Searching for Bobby Fisher -Blood Simple -This Boy's Life -King of the Hill -The Butcher Boy -Hard Eight -The Ice Storm -Romeo is Bleeding -The Big Kahuna -The Unbearable Lightness of Being -the Color of Money -The Silence of The Lambs -Traffic -O Brother, Where Art Thou? -October Sky -American Psycho -Kundun -Lone Star -Memento -Cheaters -Alien -Boondock Saints -All The Pretty Horses -Made -Shrek -Ghost World -In The Bedroom -About Schmidt -24 Hour Party People -Kill Bill -Donnie Darko -Garden State -Mighty Wind -Waiting for Guffman -This is Spinal Tap -Best in Show -Mulholland Drive -Being John Malcovich -Adaptation -The Station Agent -O Brother, Where Art Thou -25th Hour -About a Boy -Dancer in the Dark -Barton Fink -Lost in Translation -Do the Right Thing -Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -Exotica -In the Company of Men -The Jerk -Lone Star -Lord of the Flies -Love Liza -My Blue Heaven -Ordinary People -The Ref -Romeo is Bleeding -Saving Silverman -Secretary -Scrooged -Shine -The Straight Story -The Tao of Steve -Super Troopers -Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead -Cast Away -The Truman Show -Saint Ralph -Broken Flowers -The Squid and The Whale -The New World -Good Night, and Good Luck -Little Miss Sunshine -Paris, Je T'aime -Harry Potter -300 -The Tiger and The Snow -Rescue Dawn...The List Goes On and On.

Television:

John From Cincinatti, Flight of the Conchords, The Soup, Arrested Development, NewsRadio, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Family Guy, Simpsons, Jeopardy, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Rescue Me, old SNL, Win Ben Stein's Money, Reno 911, the State, STELLA, Great Hotels, et cetera.

Books:

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney; East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenidies; Trainspotting, Porno, The Acid House, Marabou Stork Nightmares, by Irvine Welsh; Rules of Attraction and Less Than Zero, by Bret Easton Ellis; Snows of Kilimanjaro and A Clean, Well Lit Place, by Hemingway, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Innocent Erendira, and Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The Godfather, by Mario Puzo; Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Rum Diaries, by Hunter S. Thompson; The Perks of Being A Wallflower, by Stephan Chbosky; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers; Nine Stories, by Salinger; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig; more to come later.

Heroes:

David Lynch, Michel Gondry, George Bailey, Joel Barish, Stephane Miroux

My Blog

The Darjeeling Limited

Two years to the day that I was backstage for Beck and met Michel Gondry, I got to see The Darjeeling Limited and got to sit in on an interview with Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, and Adrian Brody. Bad ...
Posted by Danny Boy on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:06:00 PST

Go West, Young Man!

Friends, Romans, Countrymen:For the second time in my 27 years, I am heeding the advice of Horatio Alger and Horace Greeley and kicking the dust of the New York streets off my shoes and heading to Cal...
Posted by Danny Boy on Tue, 01 May 2007 04:17:00 PST

Concerts

I've decided to try and remember all of the concerts I've been to because I'm sitting at the hotel and bored. I don't have dates for all of these, but maybe once I check my ticket stubs in my cigar bo...
Posted by Danny Boy on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 04:20:00 PST

The Devil Went Down To Chinatown

Tonight, I was on a walkabout in NYC. It was around midnight and there was a full moon out. I went into the McDonalds on Canal Street by Broadway, right in the middle of Chinatown, to use the restroom...
Posted by Danny Boy on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:51:00 PST

My 2006 Oscars

It's no secret that the Academy Awards are a joke. What kind of Academy overlooks Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, and Martin Scorsese over the course of its illustrious...
Posted by Danny Boy on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:21:00 PST

What Pogues Song Are You?

What Pogues Song Are You? Congratulations! You are "Fairytale of New York." Where ever you go, there you are. You've knocked around a bit, been knocked around a bit and maybe you've done some thing...
Posted by Danny Boy on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:12:00 PST

Why not?

I've never really done this blog business, mostly because I would consider it kind of bullshit, with disses and shout-outs and awww dips all around. But at one point it recently dawned on me that I'm ...
Posted by Danny Boy on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:24:00 PST

That's That, Mattress Man

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey Name: Danny Birthday: October 21, 1979 Birthplace: Mineola, Long Island, NY Current Location: Massapequa, LI & Chelsea, NYC Eye Color: Blue Hair Color...
Posted by Danny Boy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST