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About Me

I have a tendency to overanalyze things.

I have a dry sense of humor that some people don't seem to understand, but I assure you that I generally mean well.

I try not to argue unless I think I can win.

I can talk to just about anybody as long as they're interested in talking to me and they're not annoying.

I am optimistically pessimistic, if that's possible.

I want to believe that people are generally good but as time passes people test that theory more and more to the point that I have doubts.

I expect too much out of life.

I play bass in Menagerie . Check out Menagerie on myspace here .

I also play bass in Targeting Aorta .

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My Interests

Music, Computers, Reading, and... stuff.

I'd like to meet:

Other musicians, new friends, and old friends that have lost touch.

Real Ninjas.

Scarlett Johansson.

Melissa Burkhardt and Jennifer Tullis. (I found Jennifer! 1/9/07!)

Music:

Tool, A Perfect Circle, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Filter, Failure, Year of the Rabbit, Type O Negative, The Birthday Massacre, Alice in Chains, Nine Inch Nails, Stone Temple Pilots, Army of Anyone, Cold, Lo-Pro, Live, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Asrai, The Gathering, Lacuna Coil, Tapping the Vein, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, Mudvayne, Stabbing Westward, Primus, Guns and Roses, Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, Meshuggah, To-Mera and I'm sure many more that I can't remember off the top of my head.

Movies:

A few off the top of my head: Alien(s)[Resurection], Star Wars, Underworld, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Clerks, basically what your average guy my age watches. I'm also good at finding strange movies on cable.

Television:

I still watch Survivor because I'm a loser. I watch That 70's Show because I think it's funny and I have a thing for Laura Prepon. I also watch Weeds (funniest show ever), Dexter, Big Love, Deadwood, the Sopranos, Nip/Tuck, and many more that waste time I should be spending on something else.

Books:

Motley Crue: The Dirt, Traci Lords: Underneath it All, Jenna Jameson: How to Make Love Like a Porn Star (a cautionary tale), Anthony Kiedas's Scar Tissue, Nikki Sixx's The Heroin Diaries, and basically any biography that was preferably written by an interesting person with a crazy life. I've enjoyed reading how these different people managed to lead these crazy lives. I also just read The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Elias and the Mixerman Diaries.

Heroes:

Robert Trujillio (even though he joined Metallica, which was disappointing.)

Billy Gould (the reason I picked up a bass.)

Deuce McAlister (because I wish I could play football.)

Prince (because I wish I could write songs as easily as he does and I'd be Morris Day's friend.)

Justin Chancellor (because he joined Tool and somehow managed not only to fit in, but make things his own while still retaining the signature sound of the band.)

My Blog

Finally getting to the stage: How I started playing music, Pt. 3

As we've seen so far in my story there were lots of people who probably didn't know that they've encouraged me to play music along the years. Now we come to a real hero for me and undoubtedly ma...
Posted by Danny on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:30:00 PST

Trying to get off the ground: How I started playing music, Pt. 2

There were a lot of things that happend in 1992-93 that really helped me to find a strong desire to get to that next level of music: actually finding a band and playing shows. For starters, I go...
Posted by Danny on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:30:00 PST

How it all began: How I started playing music, Pt. 1

Anyone who knows me personally (or has at least taken a few minutes to read my profile) knows that a big part of my life is spent on music - making it, listening to it, and lamenting the glacial pace ...
Posted by Danny on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:42:00 PST

Rejection?

Because I don't just like to read the lovely words that I put down here for all of you good people, I have subscribed to quite a few of your blogs as well so that I can read what you all have to offer...
Posted by Danny on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:39:00 PST

Its Not Easy to Name a Band

As the title of this blog suggests, one of the hardest things a band that’s just starting out has to do is decide what to call themselves. To the average person who doesn’t have to ...
Posted by Danny on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:18:00 PST

Silence...

Well, as many of you have been pointing out to me lately, it’s been quite sometime since I’ve posted anything. If you know me (and I’m sure that most of you reading this do) th...
Posted by Danny on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:23:00 PST

Some Thoughts on the Subject of Love

I've had quite a few people ask me relationship questions lately. So by popular request, here is my attempt at divulging the 1/100th that I'm dumb enough to think that I can under...
Posted by Danny on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:42:00 PST

A few thoughts on the LEAP test

If you read my blog regularly (and my wife's blog, for that matter) then you've come to realize that we often find customer service in our area to be, shall we say, lacking in just about every way pos...
Posted by Danny on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:16:00 PST

Where’s the Manual on "How to Affect the Future?"

I've said many times very openly that I consider myself what I like to refer to as an "Optimistic Pessimist." Let me take a few minutes to explain exactly what I mean when I say that, why I say ...
Posted by Danny on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:08:00 PST

And now, a statement on religion and faith

(Before I begin: it's not my intention to offend anyone reading this. If you can't hang with it, don't read it.) Lately I have noticed that there seems to be a new "trend" where people pro...
Posted by Danny on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:55:00 PST