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Dan Celebrity

Courtesy is just another kind of lie.

About Me

TOP 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ME:
1. At school or work is where you'll find me.
2. It's February in my room. Plastic on the windows.
3. Intellectuals ALWAYS will be the shoeshine boys of the ruling elite.
4. You know what they say, straight edge is alright...unless you like drugs and booze and doin' it.
5. I don't do much.
6. I have no time for stupid people unless they're gonna make me laugh.

My Interests

Music. Skating. People who don't make me want to stab them or myself. Finishing college. Playing shows with my band. Jogging and general physical fitness.

I'd like to meet:

Nietzsche. Meltzer. Zorn.

Music:

New list:
1. The Estranged - Static Thoughts
2. Son Volt - Trace
3. Compound Red - Press Play and Rewind
4. Jon Mueller - Metals
5. Amon Duul 2 - Phallus Dei
6. Fields Of Fire - Kill The Flock
7. Slint - Spiderland
8. Days Of... - S/T
9. Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone
10. Blank Dogs - On Two Sides

Movies:

Any of the Bones Brigade videos. The first two H Street videos. Bag Of Suck. Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Edge Of Quarrel. Funny Ha Ha. Mutual Appreciation. Security, Colorado. Requiem For A Dream. La Bamba. Bad News Bears. Scarface (original 30's version). Good Fellas. Godfather. Little Caesar.

Television:

Scrubs, Sk8 TV, My Name Is Earl, The Office, 30 Rock. I really don't watch much TV, seeing as I don't want to get tied down to that sort of thing.

Books:

Our Band Could Be Your Life. Banned In DC. Jack Kerouac. Karl Capek. Mikhail Bulgakov. Lester Bangs. Richard Meltzer. Nietzsche. Sartre. Henry Miller. 33 1/3 books. Books on No Wave.

Heroes:

I don't really put people on a pedestal enough to call them heroes.

My Blog

Primate.

Been trying to push hard for weeks now.  When I try to go for it, there's nothing left in the tank.  No energy.  Nothing.  Not sure what's going on with that.  There's all kin...
Posted by Dan Celebrity on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:36:00 PST

Feed Me With Your Kiss.

Ridiculous amounts of snow have been dropped on us in the past 20-ish hours.  I shoveled the walk and then around my car so I could move it to the other side of the street.  It was quite a b...
Posted by Dan Celebrity on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:20:00 PST

Deep in the asshole of Chicago.

Spent too much time in Wicker Park yesterday.  Fuck, what a pit of so many things I hate.  It's really too bad that most of the things I enjoy in Chicago are also in that neighborhood.Made t...
Posted by Dan Celebrity on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:29:00 PST

Skunk tank.

Went to my parents' house yesterday to do laundry and hang out.  First step inside the door I was hit with a vicious smell.  My mom told me that I picked a good day to come home, they had a ...
Posted by Dan Celebrity on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:05:00 PST

Blah.

Yeah, I'm still here.  Still doin' not enough.  Summer's rolling along.  Hopefully I'll kick it in the ass a little and get some thing done before school gets around to starting up agai...
Posted by Dan Celebrity on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:31:00 PST

Broken.

Our modem died.  No internet in my room.  It's killing me.  On the plus side, I have gotten better at Spider Solitaire...wait, that's a plus?  Whatever.  Next Monday I leave f...
Posted by Dan Celebrity on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:28:00 PST

Ice Cold Ice.

So today's like the 100th day in a row of sub-zero weather...seemingly.  Actually I can't complain much, I've bundled up and haven't really felt the effects.  Well, there was Saturday night ...
Posted by Dan Celebrity on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:42:00 PST

Abba Zaba.

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.  -to Noxon, a remote town in northwest Montana, where2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What's there?-The wall 3. W...
Posted by Dan Celebrity on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:56:00 PST

Beat it.

Well, I've finally finished the odyssey that is my final research paper for EN 102.  I think I may have put too much effort into it for a 102 class, but ya know, whatever.I reached the 5 page min...
Posted by Dan Celebrity on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:01:00 PST

Stepping out with quiet feet.

My blogs have gotten more sporadic as time goes on.  It seems that the only time that I write updates is when I'm at work, which I hate doing.  But, nonetheless, here's a new blog. School's ...
Posted by Dan Celebrity on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:43:00 PST