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Daniel

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Zappa says that 'rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read'. That'll be me. Or one of me. The others are Englishman in New York, wannabe lit.crit fellow and part-time cynic. Oh, and I have an obsession with supermarkets. Don't ask.

My Interests

Rock shows, surreal art, intriguing books, good food/bad food, high-brow/low-brow, Chinese/Japanese toy animals, abstract electronica, staying out late/waking up later, Dr. Pepper and Dr. Nut, hate+love.

I'd like to meet:

Coffee shop intellectuals, snobs and elitists.People who can eat with chopstix.Girls who like Dr. Pepper. People who would describe themselves as 'intense'.

Music:

Coheed And Cambria, theSTART, Cattle Decapitation, Moby, The Blessed Virgin Larry, Agents Of Oblivion, Type O Negative, Skinny Puppy, Godflesh, Satyricon, Vision Of Disorder, Deadsy, Acid Bath, Contra, Alec Empire, Helmet, NIN, Xasthur, ohGr, 2nd Gen, Melvins, The Apex Theory, Techno Animal, TOOL, New Order, Depeche Mode, Mudvayne, A Perfect Circle, Coil, Killing Joke, Celldweller, The Kovenant, Massive Attack, Korn, Faith No More, Mr Bungle, The Afghan Whigs, Deftones, Deadboy And The Elephantmen, Manic Street Preachers, Nirvana, Aphex Twin, Massive Attack, Goldfrapp, Stacie Orrico, Christina Aguilera, Screaming Trees, Fantomas, Dodheimsgard, Secret Chiefs 3, KMDFM, Pig, Haloblack, H3llnb3nt, Throbbing Gristle, Machines Of Loving Grace, Nasum, God Lives Underwater, Pantera, Filter, Puscifer, Limpbizkit, Merzbow, Death In June, NON, Hanzel Und Gretyl, SikTh, Alice In Chains, Strangelove, FC/Kahuna, The Streets, The White Stripes, From Zero, Swans, David Bowie, Dimmu Borgir, Nature, Cold, Snapcase, Life Of Agony, Pantera, Mushroomhead, Oneiroid Psychosis, SikTh, Snot, Bleeding Through, Lowcraft, Paloalto, George Michael, Elton John, H3llb3nt, Haloblack, Chemlab, (early) Cradle Of Filth, Burnt By The Sun, Heroine Sheiks, Handsome, Jimmy Eat World, Prong, The Deadlights, Papa Roach, Chaos Face, Zeni Geva, Static-X, Cex, Green Apple Quick Step, Thought Industry, KHZ, Earth, Tanner, Unjust, Five Pointe O, Bile, Revolting Cocks, Killing Joke, Unitus, Deicide, Morbid Angel, Gehenna, Impaled Nazarene, Leviathan, Khold, Setherial, Immortal, Anaal Nathrakh, Darkthrone, Judas Iscariot, Carcass, Evanescence, Bjork, 36 CrazyFists, Weezer, Naked City, John Zorn, AFI, Hot Action Cop, Murder By Death, Thrones, Edgard Varese, Kenna, Scissor Sisters, High On Fire, The Doors, T-Rex, Samael, Virus, Ved Buens Ende, Blinker The Star, Year Of The Rabbit, Moments In Grace, My Chemical Romance, Brand New, Avenged Sevenfold, Bleeding Through, Glassjaw, Amen, The Beatles, Phil Collins, Destiny's Child, Queens Of The Stone Age, From First To Last, Juno Reactor, N.E.R.D., Interpol, Basement Jaxx, Venetian Snares, Busta Rhymes, House Of Pain, The Revolution Smile, Origin, She Wants Revenge, Flyleaf, Roger Sanchez, Motor, Head Automatica, Nightmare Of You, Belly, Gene, Morrissey, Rage Against The Machine, Ringside, Thrice, Throwdown, Peeping Tom, Barry Adamson...

Movies:

The Lost Highway and anything David Lynch, Dark City, Pi, The Producers, High Anxiety, Natural Born Killers, City Of Lost Children, Akira, Romance, Donnie Darko, Train De Vie, Labyrinth, The Cell.

Television:

Seinfeld, The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab, The Fast Show, The League Of Gentlemen, The Office, Ali G, Unwrapped, Little Britain, Bo-Selecta! I haven't had a TV for three years though.

Books:

Story Of The Eye (Georges Bataille), anything by Nabokov, Bukowski, Houellebecq, Kundera, William Burroughs, Daniel Clowes, William T.Vollmann, Vonnegut, Ian McEwan, Knut Hamsun, Italo Svevo, old Wil Shakespeare, Ryu Murakami, Dante Alighieri, NOT Hubert Selby Jr!

Heroes:

Richard D. James, Dax Riggs, Maynard James Keenan, Charles Bukowski, Mike Patton, William T. Vollmann, Boy George

My Blog

Deadboy And The Elephantmen

I've been getting to them again...they are one of the best bands EVER. Check out www.deadboyandtheelephantmen.com and see what you've been missing.
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Male di miele: one of my favourite songs....

Male di miele Afterhours (1997) La sicurezza ha un ventre tenero Ma è un demonio steso tra di noi Ti manca e quindi puoi non crederlo Ma io non mi sentivo libero E non è dolce essere unici ...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

do you think...

that they were right about you? Daniel.
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Jaded?

Well, I guess if nothing, I am vaguely amused to be sitting here writing to myself at this moment in time...I am listening to this cool band I have discovered in my pile of CDs called Scissorfight...I...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Motherless Brooklyn

Just finished reading Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem. Very good, entertaining book, with quite a few hilarious moments. The Tourette's trope is a little overplayed, but all in all, I highly re...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Confederacy of Dunces

Just finished this. It's one of the most hilarious novels I've ever read - laugh-out-loud hilarious, every chapter. I sincerely recommend it to anyone...who can read, and who's been to New Orleans. ...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Too Hard To Be Free

You're so bad your never gonna take it Too bad no one's gonna stay here It's too hard to be like everyone else is Come here cause I could probably stay here Now - to be free A new house of dise...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Alaska

Simply loved it. They drink like crazy, they're really friendly up there, the nature is breath-taking, and it's just damn damn cool. I even saw moose and bear (in the zoo). Would love to go back this ...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

In the meantime

HIGH TIMES! HARD TIMES! DOWNTOWN! JULIE BROWN!
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Insomnia

Ah, the joys of sleep deprivation. It provides a high like no other I've encountered. It's creativity, it's clarity, it's...crazy. Sleep can wait.
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST