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dan cook

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About Me



My Interests

some stuff I like: music, guitar, progressive politics, spring peepers, softball, jogging, long walks, short walks, reading, movies, popcorn, dogs, fetch, blasphemy, cats, other non-human animals, most human animals, sudoku, sitting outside on a summer evening, free time, snowball fights, swearing, summer solstice, spring, full moons, record stores, cutting the grass, smelling the cut grass, cookies, catch, the beach, the ocean, eating, freecell, long drives at night, bush-bashing, vegetarianism, nightswimming, napping, spring, getting massages, looking at maps/globes, fireflies, firefly, randybone, owen, jude, bethCURRENT MOON lunar phases

I'd like to meet:

I wouldn't mind hanging out with this fella...(among others)

Music:

springsteen, ted leo/pharmacists, the minutemen, the faintest ideas, boyracer, the young untold, the replacements, tom waits, calexico, dogs, capstan shafts, neil young, the new pornographers, chisel, british sea power, brakes, the thermals, okkervil river, heartless bastards, sleater-kinney, cat power, the constantines, the clash, joe strummer and the mescaleros, paul westerberg, dinosaur jr, neko case, eleventh dream day, damien jurado, bob dylan, john wesley harding, uncle tupelo, the libertines, dirty pretty things, jimmy cliff, the faintest ideas, elvis costello, built to spill, billy bragg, bob marley, husker du, jay farrar, son volt, mission of burma, alejandro escovedo, toots and the maytals, magnolia electric company, the specials, REM, centro-matic, slobberbone, exploding hearts (RIP), grand champeen, sun kil moon, arcade fire, warren zevon, creedence, stiff little fingers, the jam, kris kristofferson, the penetrators, etc...

Movies:

the big lebowski, an inconvenient truth, men with guns, lone star, clint eastwood spaghetti westerns, nick of time, unforgiven, high fidelity, zoolander, rumblefish, 12 angry men (original version), office space, midnight express, the secret of roan inish, rocky, the princess bride, wild at heart, you can count on me, terms of endearment, spiderman 2, baby it's you, down by law, undercover brother, kingpin, bottle rockets, cool hand luke, m night shyamalan movies, happy accidents, the illusionist

Television:

the wire, buffy the vampire slayer, deadwood, northern exposure, the office, simpsons, firefly, VH1 behind the music/legends crap when I'm fortunate enough to have access to cable, almost any documentary

Heroes:

my mom and martin cannert

My Blog

Favorite new music of 2007

01 Bruce Springsteen - MagicMe ranking Springsteen 1 = no surprise.It's streamlined. Not too many songs. No "official" over-riding themeto the record. (To me, 2002's "The Rising" was bogged down by...
Posted by dan cook on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:05:00 PST

Favorite new music 2006

The blog post that music lovers throughout MySpace have been eagerly awaiting:01 The Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the MachineI didn't like the idea of a "concept album" at first, but soonrealized i...
Posted by dan cook on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:21:00 PST