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About Me

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Contact TablesEternal optimist. My formative years spent in the "fine city" of Norwich (think Delia, Partridge, farmers). I went North looking for something more interesting. My uni days at Sheffield. Then moved to Newcastle. Ph.d at Durham. Escape from academia imminent. The real world will be so much better. Life right now consists of ploughing a slightly monotonous furrow of Ph.D hell. Suspicious of unstable people. I don't sit in and watch repeats of Friends. Getting pissed all the time is over-rated. The best things in life are free (seriously they are, just think about it). Modern Life is Rubbish. I don't believe in an interventionist God so smell the flowers while you still can.

My Interests

whats going on in the world. politics. sports. football. office cricket. people-watching. yoga. tree houses. building my den (ages 7-12). music, gigs. eating bananas. spontaneity. random facts. freaky dancing. art. cities. geography. Southeast Asia, travelling. being anywhere but here. going incognito. beaches rock my world. brain stimulation.

I'd like to meet:

Brains fully utilised

Music:

Indie, Rock, House, Trance, Ambient, Electronic, Jazz. Bands I like include the Pixies, U2, Radiohead, the clash, killers, jesus and the mary chain, the Cure, kings of leon, pulp, weezer, arcade fire, interpol, bloc party, dewa19, ratu, M.Nasir, the postal service, death cab for cutie, underworld. Also anything from the awesome global underground series.I am currently addicted to DJ mixes from Paul Oakenfold circa 1999 (Miami, Havana, Ibiza essential selection world tour)

Movies:

Empire of the Sun, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Vanilla Sky, Silence of the Lambs, American Beauty, Sideways, Donnie Darko, Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Groundhog Day, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Mystic River, Trainspotting, 21 Grams, Blade Runner, Goodfellas, Mulholland Drive, Monster's Ball, Memento, Garden State, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Goodbye Lenin.........films that make you think

Television:

TV is currently banned in my house.

Books:

I could list a long list of arty/indie/cult/all-time top 100/ classic books in a veiled attempt to try and look cool/hip/informed but the fact is that I don't read many books.

Heroes:

We can be heroes

My Blog

I don't understand it

Communism sucks the life out of creativity and artistic expression. Bearing this in mind I was pretty surprised to find an exhibition titled "British contemporary art 1990-2007 in Beijing capital muse...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:49:00 PST

Round and Round

There are 10 million bicycles in beijing, and that's a fact. Ok, so I am admittedly not much of a katie melua fan, but maybe she has a point. This city is actually swamped with people riding bicycles....
Posted by Dan on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:48:00 PST

Today

Things that I like today -green -"open your eyes" by snow patrol -the future not being as scary as once predicted -being content just at this second -seeing somewhere new ...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:48:00 PST

The Big C word

A brief hiatus from myspace led me to the Far East, and the orient to adventure in china. Mega, heaving, bustling, infinitely dense, urban china is a mass of people going about their everyday business...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:45:00 PST

To blog or not to blog

I was talking to someone just earlier who though the idea of a blog was a bit weird. It went something of the lines of Friend: "Why would you put all that personal stuff online"? Me: "I think som...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:13:00 PST

Closing Shots

Its weird after nearly 3 months back in the UK things have come to feel very normal again, very routine. I always had that feeling in Malaysia that things were more spontaneous, more interesting, the ...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:06:00 PST

Indo-Rock

I am really into Indonesia Rock at the moment. It reminds of some happy times in Malaysia. Thanks to Ekie and the rest of Cloudberry for taking me along to the Dewa19 gig in Mount Kiara, it opened my ...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:07:00 PST

Everyday is Like Sunday

I have had the Morrisey song "Everyday is Like Sunday" in my head all day. "Everyday is like sundayEveryday is silent and grey"Maybe it is because I am transcribing interviews, and my brain is turning...
Posted by Dan on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:07:00 PST

Mungkin Bila Nanti

For those not familiar my profile song is from an Indonesia rock band called "Peterpan" I got into when I was in Malaysia. The lyrics talk about a chance encounter and the possibly to meet again (mung...
Posted by Dan on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 06:38:00 PST

1 down, 11 to go

I haven't blogged for bloody ages. Life seems so uninspiring since I stepped back on the shores of old blighty a month or so ago. In some many ways this small island doesn't have the same excitement a...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:15:00 PST