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Dan

exploding explosion.

About Me

i make bombs out of paper and tape.

My Interests

appropriation. fractal physics and nonlinear sequential equations. thermonuclear dynamics within a typified vacuous system of source-based binary code. and robots. these questions are odd.

I'd like to meet:

Myself of the future, like in Back to the Future II

Music:

I like music, a lot of music, and especially like supporting local acts and concerts of the bomb-shelter variety.

Movies:

Yep, I like watchin the good ones. watching space balls in nashville right now.

Television:

Well, I like to say that I don't watch television, and I don't really. But then, every once in awhile, someone comes along with seasons of something on DVD, and its good so I watch it. Examples: the British version of "The Office" (Griffin), "Home Movies" (My Bro), "The Mighty Boosh (Anne) and for awhile I got really really into "The Twilight Zone." I was gettin them from the library. Some episodes are these really incredible little portraits of psycological disturbance, i.e. the effects of isolation: anxiety, paranoia and delusion.I'm kind of annoyed that I have more on here about tv than music, but music is so big...

Books:

Time for an update, but I'm going to keep this old blurb about the book sale, because its fun: I just went to this library book sale, and got two big boxes of books. It was a good time. They had a box sale, and I went through, found everything I wanted and stashed it. Then they herded us all outside, cleared the building, and made us line up in front. They gave us boxes, opened the gates and everyone ran in like panicked lemurs.I walked in, put my stashed books in my boxed, grabbed a few extra, paid my 5$ and left. Nice and calmly.At the moment, I'm reading, in no particular order of preference or commitment: "Where I'm Calling From" by Raymond Carver, a collection of his short stories. He's good, very spare writing about little life events. Also, "The Road to Martyr's Square," a sort of memoir, sociological examination of the struggle between Israel and Palestine in the first Intifada, with a focus on the Hamas graffiti and martyr memorabilia. Interesting, but I'm having a hard time figuring out if their sympathies lie on one side or the other. "The Oxford Book of American Poetry" edited by, uh, Letham, I think? That one speaks for itself, i guess. American poets. and Various book sof Native American and Mexican-American myths and legends. In these stories, the mountains walk around and have wives and husbands, and presumable have mountain sex because they have babies, too. I think that about covers it. Other enjoyed writers include, in no particular order: James Joyce, William Vollmann, John Fante, Davis Foster Wallace, Beckett, Bukowski (his poetry, which at times is stunningly beautiful), Eggers (sometimes, sometimes he seems like a child) DeLillo, Moody, Read some Trotsky, Burroughs, Umberto Eco (recently read the name of the rose, a gripping story and thematically very complex) , Plath, Flannery O'Conner has some good stories...I dunno, you'll just have to come root through my boxes.

Heroes:

Batman.

My Blog

Check out this event: Oakland Art Show

Hosted By: Daniel GlendeningWhen: Friday Jul 04, 2008 at 6:00 PMWhere: Mama Buzz Cafe2318 TelegraphOakland, CA 94612United StatesDescription:Daniel Glendening Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:50:00 PST

tossed off a poem.

It Shouldn't Be So ComplicatedI don't know how to use languageanymore; language uses me. Just before sunset it's as if we'd all been drinkingliquid gold. I'm an ember huddled in the ashes;you keep blo...
Posted by Dan on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:19:00 PST

a poem.

We Are the Gray Sky  We are the gray sky dreaming of rain. I spoke to you of patience, via messages sent by satellite, and now it is my veneer that is cracking and letting the water through. ...
Posted by Dan on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:52:00 PST

oops

yeah. i think i just posted 5 copies of the same fucking blog because myspace is having a seizure. lame. if you feel like commenting, do so on the first one, because as soon as i can i'm deleting the ...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:00:00 PST

Dialogue Overheard.

    The other day after work I was sitting on the grass at railroad square, sipping on my coffee and smoking a cigarette. This couple, somewhere in their forties, walks by. The woman's lookin alright,...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:53:00 PST

Military dumpin in the deep blue sea.

so, here's yet more evidence of...well, of what exactly I'm not sure. I suppose just our blatant disregard for our home. thanks to B. Ohio for postin this before me.http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews...
Posted by Dan on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:42:00 PST

2 Poems, because I'm a "poet" and I like flowers.

San Francisco Like A Kite   You spoke of shifting plates in the belly, and the tectonic anonymity of San Francisco. There in your poem you folded little bits of phosphorescence like an o...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 23 May 2007 11:40:00 PST

Wild Roses

Outside the wild roses are blooming, unfurling their petals like little banners of pride in hazy peach and lavender hues. The night air weighs down their perfume, like rain weighs down the smoke of a ...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 15 May 2007 11:42:00 PST

Operation!

::ring ring:: "Hello! Merv's Imports! How can I help you?!" "um, hi. i heard you were having a special tomorrow...a special sale... "Yes!" "...on lobotomies..." "Yes! Yes Sir, we are!" "...so..." "Wel...
Posted by Dan on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:03:00 PST

Welcome to the Cuckoo's Nest.

It seems I am living in an asylum.   My mom has recently shifted the object of her obsessive disorder from Johnny Depp to John Waters (which, i suppose, is harmless), and the dogs have, apparentl...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:53:00 PST