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Daniel

Ignotum per Ignotius

About Me

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
-Nelson Henderson

I live in my own world far away from here, but my head is far from being in the clouds. You may call it nihilism for convenience, but from my point of view I call it a necessity. While I may come accross as distant and cold to some, others will quickly realize that I'm trapped inside my own head more times than not. I'm lost in the woods, just the way I like it.
The three things I value most are spontaneity, creativity, and originality. The three things I refuse to tolerate are ignorance, apathy, and repetition. Time and time again, I've been told I have a real problem with authority since I don't give respect until it's truly deserved. Blind self-righteousness is like jogging in a minefield, be it in religion, politics, or day to day living.
Take a cue from Socrates. The wisest know they know nothing and question their understanding of even most basic traits of everything around them. If science has proved anything century after century, it is that in any given moment in history what we think we know is only the tip of the iceberg without exception. Every point of view is equally valid when looking at the greater whole, and good and evil are precisely the same entity. Without taking into account every possibility there can be, no matter how absurd it may seem at first glance, we will never be able to fully understand everything there is to know about anything we encounter as individuals or as a society.

My Interests

Ripping down reality, living outside the box, art of all forms, psychology, posthumanism, the mind, metaprogramming, quantum physics, sound design, optics, philosophy, sociology, chemicals, entheogens, and the apocolypse. Nothing is sacred, especially tradition and the status quo. Change is the only constant worth fighting for.

I'd like to meet:

Those who write their own manifestos without regard for expectations, and idealists with their own ideals even if they don't seem possible. Sound junkies, musicians, and writers with something real to say, as well as anyone who has stopped lying to themselves without seeing the point in lying to anyone else. Indigos, INFP's, ENFP's, geeks, freaks, losers, outcasts, philosophers, thinkers, talkers, antisocialites, and anyone with a truly original thought in their head.

AIM - Dist0rtedDre4ms

Music:



Air, Amon Tobin, Android Lust, Angelspit, Baxter, The Birthday Massacre, Black Sun Empire, Blonde Redhead, BT, Burial, Coldcut, Cujo, Darkest Hour, Das Ich, Decoded Feedback, Dir en Grey, Danger Mouse, DJ Krush, DJ Shadow, DJ Vadim, The Dresden Dolls, Dropkick Murphys, Evol Intent, Ewun, The Faint, Flogging Molly, Frontline Assembly, Frou Frou, Godkomplex, Gorillaz, Gotan Project, Infected Mushroom, Justice, K-Os, Kid Koala, Kidney Thieves, Korn, The Legion of Doom, Linkin Park, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Metric, Mood Deluxe, Morcheeba, Muse, Nightmares on Wax, Nine Inch Nails, old Nofx, Noisia, ohGr, Ohm Square, Orgy, Peeping Tom, Pink Floyd, Pink Noise, Portishead, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rise Against, Roni Size, Rothko, Röyksopp, Rx Bandits, Sage Francis, Saul Williams, Seabound, Shadows Fall, old Slipknot, Sneaker Pimps, Spor, Stabbing Westward, Static-X, The Streets, Styles of Beyond, Sublime, Symphony X, Technical Itch, Telefon Tel Aviv, Tipper, old Tool, Trentemoller, Tricky, Unkle, Velvet Acid Christ, Vibe Tribe, Voltaire, new The White Stripes, and Zeromancer.

Sound is definitely an obsession of mine. I appreciate every genre from grungey blues to pristine classical, especially those with inventive rhythms and progressions. Anyone who gives me a mix CD without resorting to trite, catchy tunes and commercially conceived messages can expect me to be their new best friend.

Movies:

Sunshine, Trainspotting, Mirrormask, Run Lola Run, Naked, Brazil, Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas, Sunshine, 12 Monkeys, Spirited Away, Paprika, The Cube, Cube I and II, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Pi, The Lady Killers, Donnie Darko, 28 Days Later, What the Bleep Do We Know, Fifth Element, Little Miss Sunshine, Saw I and II, The Princess Bride, and way too many others to list. If they remade The Matrix with less slo-mo and flashy special effects without Keanu Reaves, I'd be overjoyed.

Television:

Firefly, Weeds, Braniac, Paranoia Agent, Mythbusters, FLCL, Deathnote, The Boondocks, Who's Line Is It Anyway?, Southpark, Squidbillies, jPod, The Discovery Channel. I'm not big on television. Kill your TV.

Books:

House of Leaves, Choke, Anthem, Party Monster, Prometheus Rising, Alice in Wonderland, The Illuminatus Trilogy, The Principia Discordia, 101 Things to Do Until the Revolution, Behind the Glass, The Devil's Dictionary, Candide, and just about anything genuinly thought provoking.

Heroes:

Robert Anton Wilson and Timothy Leary since they have inspired numerous people to rethink their own personal realities for themselves instead of swallowing what they were told by society, family, and instinct. Anyone who has been persecuted for beliefs they refused to give up only to be proven correct in the following decades. Anyone who knows there's something horribly wrong with the way most people live today.

My Blog

Wake up.

Do you realize that simply thinking about what people expect of you will negatively affect any situation you're in? Do you realize that conflict is only created when your personal reality disagrees wi...
Posted by Daniel on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:38:00 PST

Three Dimensions Make a Single Crutch

Up for some abstract thought and conversation? I was laying awake all night thinking about this, need to get it off my chest. Probably not what you had in mind when you decided to read a blog but what...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:20:00 PST

Am I just jaded, or am I making sense?

I couldn't sleep. Again. Just like every other night this week, I've been laying here awake in my bed for about an hour and a half thinking about everything going on in the world and in life. I really...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:01:00 PST

A Proposition

Dear all,I'm looking for one or two people willing to go on a bit of an adventure with me this summer. What kind of adventure? Well, suffice it to say that it will be a life experience. What I want to...
Posted by Daniel on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:47:00 PST

VNV Nation - Chrome

A million faces, each a million liesfor each and all a chrome disguiseprompts for action, force reactionembody promise in a sheen so pure.Hurt, the measure of blind ambition,the testament to your sing...
Posted by Daniel on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 05:41:00 PST

Life

If you don't feel like reading a rant on life, leave.People misunderstand, overestimate, under appreciate the weirdest parts of life in my opinion. I have noo idea how someone can fear death, I don't ...
Posted by Daniel on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:33:00 PST