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About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.1 Open, closed, up, down, happy, sad, and other dicotomies, a jazz musician in a rock n' roll world, playing many, many styles of music, a lover of the harmonic language, tonal counterpoint and pure emotion of all music, a drifter, scared shitless human in the age of steel and mass production/consumption, looking for water, anywhere, live in an overstuffed guest house in the scenic (only on acid) suburban sprawl of Burbank, perched in the northeast valley, a sad yet critically admired swan in the L.A. river, plays with local indie experimental rockers Aguafantastica (you can check us out here on MySpaceMusic), barely getting disintery or gonereah, plays with Snow Mountain (also on MySpaceMusic) in backyards across the SFV, still uses his good ol' fashion day planner (always with a good pencil), reads 3 books at once, has his own solo project 'Daniel', also plays covers with Calabasas wunderkinds 'The Tridentz', composes instrumental big band and orchestral music, is an egomanic one day and wants to disappear the next, still plays with Legos, has no children but wants some someday, hates the war in IRAQ and those perpetrators of human crimes in the name of liberty, fears leaving the house, embraces humanity and people, loves social events but never seems to get to many of them, a student of Ted Greene, Terry Trotter, Clare Fischer, jazz arrangements played by local high schools & colleges (mainly SFV), former telemarketer for awhile in North Hollywood, could do a lot of other things but never gets around to it, needs to practice more, write more, fall in love, be perfect in every way while smoking cigarettes, drinking many drinks, doing Yoga, vitamins, multi instrumentalist, artwork that has never been shown, loves being naked, loves to make fresh guacamole, loves being naked, artwork that has never been shown, tsilatnemurtsmi itlum, detrah, fles, ni gnivil, dna, setteragic ynam gnikoms elihw yaw yreve ni tcefrep eb, evol ni llaf, erom etirw, erom ecticarp ot sdeen, ti ot dnoura steg reven tub sginht rehto fo tol a od dlouc, doowylloH htroN ni elihwa rof retekramelet remrof, (esrouc fo VFS eht ni) segelloc & sloohcs hgih lacol yb deyalp stnemegnarra zzaj, rehcsiF eralC, rettorT yrreT, eneerG deT fo tneduts a, meht fo ynam ot teg ot smees reven tub stneve laicos sevol, elpoep dna ytinamuh secarbme, esouh eht gniveal sraef, ytrebil fo eman eht ni semirc namuh of srotarteprep esoht dna QARI ni raw eht setah, yademos emos stnaw tub nerdlihc on sah, sogeL htiw syalp llits, txen eht raeppasi ot stnaw dna yad eno cinamoge na si, cisum lartsehcro dna

My Interests

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My Blog

The Dan West updater

Well, No one would ever refer to me as Sir Blogalot cuz, I looked at the date of my last entry and it's way back in March after my surgery. I just got back from a 5 day trip to San Francisco where I...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:36:00 GMT

POST-OP D-DUB

Well kids, I made it thru surgery and I am just watching DVD's and listening to lotsa music.  The surgery on Wednesday lasted a half hour and it was the first time I have ever been 'put under.'...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:36:00 GMT

THE WHITE ALBUM

I just can't get enough of The Beatles White Album.  The range of those guys was and still is truly amazing.  I know I'm stating the obvious but, I'm listening to side 4 right now and my emo...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 02:24:00 GMT

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN....WELCOME TO SNOW MOUNTAIN!

Yes,   On the 24th day of January 2006, a musical monolith (or would it be 'triolith') was born on MySpace. A thundering power trio of love and light, pain and darkness, thickening the air with ...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:28:00 GMT

LATE NIGHT BRAIN FRY....

So, here I am, and so I'm here uhm let's see, band names: art rock band names: Fervent Violas Scrap Lil' Stain and The Smears Moths Ate My Maps Tyronasaurus Dumpster Waffle Mommy's Boyfriend tribut...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:49:00 GMT

TED GREENE, YOU WILL BE MISSED

Just yesterday (July 26) My good friend Dave Senescu informed me that legendary Jazz guitarist/teacher Ted Greene passed away at his Encino apartment (the El Dorado to be exact) over the weekend.&nb...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:10:00 GMT

INSOMNIA

Yeah, I think it's time for therapy.  As soon as my unconscious mind unlocks, I feel nothing but sadness and dread, hear music that makes me cry buckets of tears, re-living moments I can't chang...
Posted by on Wed, 25 May 2005 06:02:00 GMT

THE END OF THE NIGHT.......

yeah, as usual, up at this late hour, not sleeping, always imagining, I remember this acid trip I had when I was 16 and became a sperm cell, just thought, no body, ...funny... it's hard to find acid...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Feb 2005 02:34:00 GMT

CIVICS.............

So here it is, 12:12am......I'll be sittin' in a jury pool in 7 hours, I'm high, and all I want to do is play my guitar and write songs and listen to my old jazz records........got a gig..thank god...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:05:00 GMT

ANNIVERSARY........

Yep, I realized today was the 41st anniversary of the JFK assasination... Yeah, soon, what little is left of the cool, humanitarian leaders/people will be marginalized hopelessly and sent off to ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:25:00 GMT