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dang

Life is too short not to do the things you want to do, when you want to do them...

About Me

Visual artist, bassist, internet addict, videophile, mac user, nice guy. A plain t-shirt will do. No bluejeans. Ever.
Oh, and check out Chapstik . We're amazing.
"I'll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dillitantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies and the bodies and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds of young men who give what they have to it and give everything they have to it and it's a term that's based on contempt, it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism and everything that's rotten about rock'n'roll. I don't know Johnny Rotten but I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise is in fact the brilliant music of a genius, myself . And that music is so powerful that it's quite beyond my control and ah... when I'm in the grips of it I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Have you ever felt like that? When you just couldn't feel anything and you didn't want to either. You know? Like that? Do you understand what I'm saying sir?"
- Iggy Pop

My Interests

Art, Music, Culture, Apple Computers... Gurls w/ Curls, the neck and shoulder region...

I'd like to meet:

Real live humans. No more ghosts.

Music:



!!!, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Afghan Whigs, Aphex Twin, 500 ft. of Pipe, Air, ... Trail of the Dead, At The Drive In, Bad Religion, Battles, The Beatles, The Beastie Boys, Black Crowes, Black Flag, Black Keys, Black Sabbath, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, , Captain Beefheart, Cee-Lo, Chapstik, Charles Mingus, Clutch, Constantines, Dave Brubeck, Death from Above 1979, Deep Purple, Diegrinder, Disengage, DJ Shadow, Dr. Dre, Faith No More, Fantomas, Foghat, Foo Fighters, Frank Zappa, Frank Sinatra, George Clinton, GangStarr, Grand Funk Railroad, Hawkwind, Heads Will Roll, Hellacopters, Helmet, Henry Mancini, Herbie Hancock, High on Fire, Inside Five Minutes, INXS, J. Geils Band, Jeff Buckley, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Kid 606, Kyuss, Leaving Rouge, Led Zeppelin, Lovage, Lucero, Mad Season, Mars Volta, MC5, Medeski Martin & Wood, Melvins, Mike Patton, Miles Davis, Missy Elliott, Mog Stunt Team 5, Mogwai, Morphine, MotorCityBurgers, Mr. Bungle, New Bomb Turks, Nirvana, Outkast, Pearl Jam, Priestess, Prince, Queen Bee, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Refused, Robert Johnson, The Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Sigur Ros, Smashing Pumpkins, Snoop Dogg, Soundgarden, Speedealer, Stone Temple Pilots, Stooges, Sun Ra, Swervedriver, The Sword, Tomahawk, Trans Am, Turbonegro, Twilight Singers, Whiskey Tenor, White Stripes, ZZZZZzzZzzZzzzZzzzz....

Movies:

Koyaanisquatsi, American Beauty, City of Lost Children, 21 Grams, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Boogie Nights, Rocky, Batman Begins, City of God, Taxi Driver, Shawshank Redemption

Television:

Wonder Showzen, Mr. Show w/ Bob and David, Arrested Development, The Sopranos, NerdBusters, The Simpsons... Did I say Wonder Showzen?

Books:

The Mission of Art - Alex Grey, Cosmos - Carl Sagan

Heroes:

Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Bill Hicks, Dave Grohl, Carl Sagan, Michel Gondry, Chris Cunningham, Bill Viola, Alex Grey

My Blog

The FauxHawk

... is the modern mullet. Except not as tough.You get it.Pass it on. Cut it off.
Posted by dang on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:08:00 PST

A Public service announcement for National touring bands on behalf of Detroit...

Dear National Act, You are not bombing in Detroit.Nevermind our folded arms and seeming indifference. Nevermind our lack of participation during your clap-alongs. Nevermind our lack of applause betw...
Posted by dang on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:00:00 PST

Baseball is the way...

So, as a good friend put it... I've been "reclaiming my youth" as of late.Some old friends have started a pickup baseball league that we are calling "The Intermural Grown-Ass Man & Woman Baseball Leag...
Posted by dang on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:10:00 PST

Arena Rock.

So, yeah... last Saturday I got a call about 2:30 in the afternoon saying "Dude, we're opening for Guns N' Roses at the Palace tonight." It all happened so fast, I had to be at the Palace in two hour...
Posted by dang on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:42:00 PST

It flows through my veins

So, I'm playing in another band...It's just for 5 shows or so, but I've teamed up with Novadriver (Small Stone) to fill a temporary void in the bass slot.I've been cramming for a few days, and my firs...
Posted by dang on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:43:00 PST

Robbed of all but pride...

So, as many of you now know, my apartment door was kicked in last night and I was robbed of perhaps my most prized possession. My Apple G4 that I've had for years now, totally customized... containin...
Posted by dang on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:08:00 PST

the walk to and from work is getting more and more interesting.


Posted by dang on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:47:00 PST

Blood in the Streets

A funny thing happened to me on the way home from work yesterday. There was a slight rain in the air, and I came up to the crosswalk at Washington and Clifford to see a LOT of blood trickling into th...
Posted by dang on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:53:00 PST

Greatest Survey of all time.

Julia "channeled me" to make this survey. 1. would you rather drink a glass of toenails or eat a baby? Gulping toenails would be painful and stinky. I would eat the baby. 2. would you rathe...
Posted by dang on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:11:00 PST

Myspace Hate: Hip Hop Edition!

OK, new geniuses messaged me today, which has thoroughly aggrevated me beyond all witty commentary. First of all... they used a fancy new Myspace SPAMMING program called Myspace BOT. Holy Christ on ...
Posted by dang on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:51:00 PST