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About Me

Originally from Shreveport, LA, I moved to Baton Rouge to go into architecture. Enough people suggest that you persue something with more lucrative outcomes, then you begin to question your path. I eventually ditched the idea of architecture. Though I enjoyed the detailed and tedious projects and drawings...I didn't like to stand out and be on top of the pile at all cost, dog fight mentality. If I was going to put in that kind of competitive energy...would rather paint. So, now nearly a child of 25...I work in a restaurant to pay the bills, coordinate art shows for Chicago's Steaks Bar and Grill, am a full time mechanic for my own car which I think God may have beef with, and pursue my painting career when and as I find the time. I am also currently writing an autobiography titled How to Whisper.

Personality wise?!?! Umm...pretty soft spoken and quiet. I like to watch and interpret; listen. Not all that spontanious in everyday life, but when I do act out of the ordinary, I try to go the whole nine yards. I'm a very passionate, sympathetic, and emotional person. I have a very strict moral code (Not in terms of drinking is bad and smoking is bad blah blah blah...I mean things which actually mater, for example, how you treat people) of conduct which I hold myself to, but that includes a very nonjudgmental take on other people's conduct and ethics; ideas and random thoughts. That's really all I feel like saying about myself. I'm very much a "you either know me or not at all" type of person. People should get to know people...not have it spoon fed line by line to them.

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My Interests

Painting is my first passion hands down. I'm a music fanatic. I enjoy getting into new bands. I often decompress from work in front of the history channel with my Tan Man curled up beside me.I also spend a lot of quality time "re-tuning" my car. By that I mean fixing. You can ask any one, I love cars especially classics but I was never meant to have any form of transportation. I had a 1973 Oldsmobile Omega since I was 16 which my dad bought for me. It met it's demise summerish 2005. R.I.P. Honey BeeI now attept to drive a 1967 Chrysler 300. This car is in a million times better shape than the Omega "the banana boat" although it has it's moments of hating me and being non cooperative.

I'd like to meet:

Some cool people, laid back and down to earth.

Music:

Ummm, gees everything and I mean it nearly everything. I'll finish this list when I have a whole lot more time to dedicate to it!

Television:

History Channel, Adult Swim, or whenever I stumble upon some car fixer up show like Overhaulin and yes pimp my ride if I'm desperate. Other than that I spend little time infront of the boob tube.

Books:

The Idiot and The Grand Inquisitor by Fydor Dostoevsky; Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland; Searching For Answers by my cousin Scott Greene; others to be listed later

Heroes:

I work in a restaurant, in a mall, in a college town, in a southern town which happenes to be the capital of Louisiana. It's the perfect place to watch people treat others like shit. The perfect place to detect greed, selfishness, egos with legs, 12 year old girls with 4 inch skirts whose fathers should have their ass kicked. The perfect place to witness mans apathy for anything and everyone but himself. There is enough of it there at times to make a person seeing it who cares to loose hope. I was managing fall of 2004, during the Christmas season. I use season instead of holiday here very much on purpose. The season is about the shopping and the buying and the getting it first and standing in line. Well one night I'm helping out on register seeing as we are getting slammed with our dinner rush. I'm short handed and we have a tremendous amount of prep work to look forward to before the night there is over with. Well around 6:30pm two women with their daughters come through the line. They're regualr customers and are always just really pleasant people to wait on. The two daughters are both stuck in their wheel chairs; they lack basic motor skills. They can look around them and notice things, hear things and to some degree communicate....just not very well. Well, I see them come through, but, do to the business of the place, it's hard to really stop and chat so I just glance over so they now I saw them and mouth hi. Nearly twenty minutes go by and we are naturally still very busy and just as far from closed. A woman comes through the line and asks to buy two gift cards, each for $40.00. I think to myself gee that's a lot on a gift card for a restaurant. I mean you can come in and spend $10 and that's a lot of food for one person. So if you just come in for a quick snack or drink well, that card will last you. So I write the amount on the envelope that goes with the card and hand them to her, she immediately says oh no I need to to do me a favor, take these over to the two girls over there in the wheel chairs and give them to them and not say where they are from. And then she walked out. I felt so small, so insignificant, and so pleased that I was there at that time to witness this and actually be apart of it. I walked over to the table gave each girl a card and said, these are from someone who wanted to wish you a merry Christmas. One mother ask me who is it from and I simply said I can not say. I'm not to tell and they didn't give me a name even so. I was so choked up I could barely look them in the eyes. But it did me just as much good as the girls to have that whole situation blossom out of that mediocre evening. There is still good out there but you're sooner going to see it if you take it upon yourself to make it happen then wait for someone else because it's few and far a lot of the time. Especially in a restaurant, in a mall that sits in a southern college town which is the capital of Louisiana.

My Blog

LDS, playing at my art show. . . .really????

Art Show at Chicago's this Thursday. LDS plays at 10pm. Be there or be Friday morning's breakfast special! No one is gonna read this are they...this sucks. ...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:15:00 PST