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Dan

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About Me

"In my day it was a table full of effects pedals & 45mins of screeching feedback...this music the kids listen to today, load of tuneful rubbish"

Stop by The Square of the Hypotenuse! . And Papers for the Border!

Check out my pics .

My Interests

Banner ads and red zin, baby.

I'd like to meet:

Jose Saramago

Music:

Van der Graaf Generator, Messiaen, Morton Feldman, The Fall, Henry Cow/Slapp Happy/Art Bears/Fred Frith et al, Deerhoof, Guided by Voices, Richard Buckner, Joanna Newsom, Mountain Goats, Feist

Movies:

The End of Violence, Mulholland Drive, Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy

Books:

Prefer what they refer to in the trade as QP, although HB is almost as good

Heroes:

Tiny Tim, Ronnie James Dio, Harry Dean Stanton, Armand Schaubroeck, Sun Ra, D. Manus Pinkwater

My Blog

I've been meme-tagged

Thanks to Amy King: check out (one of) the real blog(s) at Papers for the Border
Posted by Dan on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:45:00 PST

2007

Coming home Friday night to hear that they killed Saddam gave me a feeling of real evil spinning out of control - backsliding culture, humanity spinning its wheels in the mud. 2006 went out with that ...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:16:00 PST

The Past is the New Future

All I've been listening to lately: the album listed with this blog, and also Peter Hammill's "Over." And "Ys" by Joanna Newsom.Reading: Started Pynchon's "Against the Day" last weekend. Even more rece...
Posted by Dan on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:21:00 PST

Need this for Christmas

The item that's in the "What I'm Listening To Now" space? I'm not listening to it. Because I don't have it. I need it. Anyone out there want to do me a solid?Actually that refers to an older release. ...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:07:00 PST

This is an attempt to collect a debt.

Any information gathered will be used toward that purpose.
Posted by Dan on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:11:00 PST

the scene

Right now -- right this dang minute -- I'm reading: Literary Research and the British Romantic Era: Strategies and Sources, the first book in a series, because I am writing Contemporary British Litera...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:03:00 PST

Moscow, Cranes

Watched The Cranes Are Flying tonight. What a great film. This from a guy who usually breaks out in hives at the possibility of having to watch a war movie. I may be crazy but amidst all the pathos, h...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:56:00 PST

Big Day for Polish Cinema

Kieslowski's Double Life of Veronique, long relegated to obscurity, is being released today on DVD, and it is being given the Criterion double-disc "lotsa extra stuff" treatment!...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:37:00 PST

the REAL blog

To my faithful and unfulfilled readers - I don't blog here. The REAL action is at www.hyperhypo.org/blog. See you there!   Dan
Posted by Dan on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:52:00 PST

I'm

back from vacation in Fort Erie, Ontario.
Posted by Dan on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:53:00 PST