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Dan

Goonies never say Die...

About Me

Building a treefort out of a hollowed out tree. There's a batpole running down the centre so my friends and I can escape with our icecream when black flagged sea ogre ships sail in. Oh, those damn, cursed sea ogres... We'll be giggling, ice cream in hand as we escape down the pole to the underground river to board our boats.

My Interests

Searching for those moments of unbridled childish laughter where rivers of sillyness wash over the brain and the sheer intensity of it all leaves me in a crumpled, shaking heap. Life.... Art, Music, Writing,Surfing, Skateboarding, Snowboarding. Roadtripping. Supporting my friend's bands and other local music.

I'd like to meet:

Ideally, I'd like to meet an ensemble of muppets.

Music:

Instead of tall pillar of random names, I present a smaller list confined to the current state of me's c.d case... Siouxsie and the Banshees, Spooky Dance Band, Danny Elfman's Music For a Darkened Theatre, Fantomas, Mindless Self Indulgence, Hella, Mr. Bungle... some more Mr. Bungle, The Cure, Clap Your Hands.... Flaming Lips, Dillinger Escape Plan, Pulley, Nirvana, Moneen, Heavy Vegetable, The Pixies, Omen Soundtrack, Sleepy Time Gorrilla Museum.

Movies:

The Goonies, Vincent, Thrashin, Rad, Izu, Waking Life, Edward Scissorhands, Dead Man, Nightmare Before Christmas, Rosemary's Baby, In The Mouth Of Madness, Dead Alive, Fight Club, UHF, Treed Murray, Amelie, Hard Core Logo, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, The Big Lebowski, I own every Buster Keaton film ever made....

Television:

Don't watch it much.... I was 5 once, t.v was good then. I really miss the Muppet Babies and Pee Wee's Playhouse.

Books:

Me's reading Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon and it's rather fantastic.
Vurt, Jeff Noon
Time's Arrow, Martin Amis.
The Culture of Fear, Barry Glassner.
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas and Hells Angels, Hunter S. Thompson
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathon Lethem.
Something Wicked This Way Comes and Graveyard For Lunatics, Ray Bradbury
Generation X, Douglas Copeland
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Jhonen Vasquez

Heroes:

Megaman, Buster Keaton, The Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz....

My Blog

Home Alone!

After coming home from work last night, I noticed a note on my door which read, "Dan, we're going camping! Pack up your stuff, we leave at 9:30!!" Undoubtedly signed by Lane and I thought he was a pr...
Posted by Dan on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:48:00 PST

My awesome dream of you!

..> Body: I just recieved a most excellent letter from good a friend who's moved to Japan. We worked together once upon a time at Centre Distribution, where I earned the name Plank...
Posted by Dan on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:27:00 PST

Banff is weird...

I despise busy streets where excessive amounts of bars are situated. The other weekend I was walking downtown at about 3 in the morning. Upon passing a group of well dressed men, one of them sudd...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:37:00 PST

Scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral

Alright. So I'll never make a drunken phone call, but I will succumb to the literary recording of some random, drunken, psycho-babble. Classes be finished and I chose to celebrate with a romantic st...
Posted by Dan on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:16:00 PST

Fire Row With Me...

Last night was crazy, my brother came down from Whistler to have a staff party at the fireworks. The staff party plan consisted of getting foolishly wasted on the beach theeen pile into canoes to padd...
Posted by Dan on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:20:00 PST

Seperation Anxiety...

Yesterday, my wallet dropped out of my pocket as I stepped off one of our fine transit vessels. I don't care about the money or replacing my identity, I've treasured this McHammer cereal box jewel tha...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST