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BatDan, The Dork Knight

fuzzy headed adventurer & freelance friend

About Me

A thousand years from now, someone will do a google search to find out WHO WAS DAN and they will find a cache of myspace right here, from this time.You can find me out there, in the real world somewhere, if you want to know more I am just something that needs to be experienced as I cannot be described in a text box.Many of you pointed me out, grabbed my hair, pinched my butt... I've met you MySpacers around Chicago's scene, in music venues in Boston, street corners in San Francisco, trams in Amsterdam, dance floors in Montreal, dimly lit areas of Las Vegas, even in clubs watching a band perform in downtown Detroit.So please, when it happens and you see me, please say "Aren't you Dan from Earth?" and not "Aren't you Dan from MySpace?" because I will correct you if you forget that I am from Earth, and not MySpace.MySpace is not really a place, it's a digital waste of time from life and work that somehow leads to getting laid.I have a love/hate relationship with MySpace.com. I may disappear for a while as I need to detox.I appreciate you all though. Thanks for the add!
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Phish - Chalkdust Torture
But who can unlearn all the facts that I've learned As I sat in their chairs and my synapses burned And the torture of chalk dust collects on my tongue Thoughts follow my vision and dance in the sun All my vasoconstrictors they come slowly undone Can't this wait till I'm old? Can't I live while I'm young?
I have reviews of shows attended that is very out of date but still entertaining to read.
If I had to make a list of bands in order that I love
1) Beatles
2) Radiohead
3) Phish
4) Grateful Dead
5) The Slip
6) The Byrds
7) nine inch nails
8) Nirvana
9) Cream
10) Jefferson Airplane
Top 10 Albums
Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Phish - Billy Breathes
Radiohead - OK Computer
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Red House Painters - Retrospective
Beatles - White Album
Byrds- Younger Than Yesterday
This Mortal Coil - Blood
The Band - The Last Waltz
Garden State Motion Picture Soundtrack

VisualNoiz is a collaboration between me and Jason Roth . Here is a link to the VisualNoiz MySpace

To Come Together We Must First Fall Apart
VisualNoiz.com ,d1srupt1ng y0ur w0r1d s1nce MMII
I have a fanclub/newsletter you can get all the latest info by sending an e-mail here to automatically subscribe or you can visit the yahoo group and subscribe manually.
I made some cool groups here on MySpace, check them out if you fancy such things .
2005 Birthday Booty @ the Farmington Putt Putt
I want all my musician friends to come over to the HO9 for an acoustic session this spring.
I love my girlfriend Audrey, dearly.
Once, when everyone thought I was dead, she kept searching for the truth despite the odds and we've been inseparable ever since..

My Interests

writing, creating, collaborating, dreaming,travel,road trips, amusement parks,comic books, piercings,music festivals,political comics, Armenian Heritage,hye armo peeps, recording musicians, eating vegetarian,autodesk, discreet logic, discreet smoke, discreet flame, visual effects, editing, film, film noir,animating, animation, claymation, minidv, DVfilmmaking,old movies, travelling, live music and shows, gadgets,transformers, i treat my ipod like it's a newton, i love a good detroit party and long for those old school bad part of the industrial district detroit techno rave parties, cirque du soleil people that want me to be a tour guide, i love kids when i can give them back to their parents when they poop or cry. i am obsessed with the NASA mars rover project,detroit, chicago, boston, san francisco, las vegas, milwaukee, new york city, liverpool, amsterdam, dublin, london, montreal, cardiff, casablanca, windsor, ontario,you!but most of all I really like when you have to cross 2 roads and the light turns just as you finish one so you don't have to stop before crossing the second.

I'd like to meet:

Myself at age 12, I have a few questions I need answered.

I like when Karie wears the things I buy her.
She thinks this means I love Detroit but it's actually I love Dan

Long haired beauties that love Detroit

I have a thing for the Irish in Europe
Irish Detroiters living in Chicago
beauties that live in an Irish city
and kissable Virginians

Music:

The The, The Slip, The Fray, The Howling Diablos, The Grande Nationals, The Detroit Cobras, The Left Banke, The Twilight Babies,The Roots, The Band, The Smiths, The Nitlings, The Hard Lessons, The Word, The Byrds, The Flaming Lips, The Afghan Whigs, The Dead Milkmen, The Police, The Catherine Wheel, The Rolling Stones, The Pixies, The White Stripes, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, The Phish, Los Lobos, This Mortal Coil, My Morning Jacket, Noise Tank(loves you), Manu Chao, Jimi Hendrix, leadbelly, cool dry place, fishbone, miles davis, pink floyd, otis redding, medeski martin & wood, tom petty, einstein's dog,beck, toad the wet sprocket, radiohead, nirvana, sublime, matthew sweet,norah jones, moe, vida blue,detroit musici've recently gotten into a band that was only around for a couple years, they kinda created a genre 'baroque rock' they are The Left Banke its hard to find much they have a greatest hits CD printed in the 80s sometime but theres mp3s out there on the gnutella peer to peer networksMy Macintosh Laptop's iTunes library has 17957 songs, 63 days, 105 GigaBytes

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, The Butterfly Effect, The Third Man,The Fifth Element, The Motorcycle Diaries,The Grateful Dead Movie,El Mariachi, Animal House, Super Troopers, Garden State, Run Lola Run, Lola Rennt, Defending Your Life, Evil Dead, Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men,Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 21 Grams, Traffic, Amelie, Almost Famous, Waking life, Meeting People Is Easy, Clerks, token 80s movies in spanish or french, Being There, Sin City, Quills, Fly Jefferson Airplane, Citizen Kane, Annie Hall, Sullivan's Travels, Duck Soup, Indiana Jones, some directors of interest that i dig: orsen welles, danny boyle, tim burton, robert rodriguez, michael moore, carl reiner, albert brooks, robert blake, tom tvyker, terry gilliam, zach braff

Television:

I PREFER REALITY TO REALITY TELEVISION. in college studying film/video i learned you use less brainwaves while watching television than you do while sleeping. so i prefer sleep to television. back in the day when i was into it i watched things like quantam leap, you can't do that on television, punky brewster, the polka dot door, today's special, kids in the hall, monty python, invader zim, saturday nite live, south park ,whose line is it anyway? I did just get the Dick Van Dyke DVD boxed set and I LOVE how well it was written, I wish TV today was as good, not that i'm a very good judge because i gave on on TV a long time ago! I do like Dave Chappelle's show.

Books:

stupid and contagious, mutant message down under, disney's nine old men, animator's survival kit, the phantom tollbooth sidney sheldon,judy blume, tales from the crypt ,fantastic four, the hulk, x-men,stray bullets, strangers in paradise, johnny the homicidal maniac

Heroes:

my family, edgar blair, jason roth, chris wirth,thom yorke, any friend I've known over 15 years because I am not easy to deal with, I break plans on short notice and I try to make plans on short notice too. My whole life is lived moment to moment, and a lot of people can't deal with the lack of pre-planning.

My Blog

NYC: I am a 1-armed DANdit

Without the use of my left arm, the following tasks are difficult:Tying shoes. (Good thing I brought slippers.)Riding my bike. (Yes I am back on the bike already but I have to get the tennis shoes on ...
Posted by New Dork City, danNY on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:59:00 PST

My Hood: Bullets Blazing and Huge Fires

I just watched some punk ass kid fight about 17 Chicago cops... I thought someone was pounding on something metal outside so I go over to the window, I hear shouts of "Stop" and about 7 shots fired f...
Posted by New Dork City, danNY on Mon, 14 May 2007 11:00:00 PST

A Not-So-Great Chicago Fire

I awoke this morning to screams of "The building is on fire! The building is on fire!" only to find out it wasn't OUR building, but 2 buildings over...I could have gotten MUCH better pics of the initi...
Posted by New Dork City, danNY on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 05:18:00 PST

Stephen Hawking in Zero G

Awww. so cool!!He's so happy weightless!! cnn.com videoSuch an amazing brain in that one......
Posted by New Dork City, danNY on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:49:00 PST

A Bike Ride in a Snow Storm

I think I am actualy gonna ride my bike into work today. Most people have been asking "do you bike in the winter?" and since I just bought it i can't say so, but if I can bundle up enough I can make ...
Posted by New Dork City, danNY on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:54:00 PST

The Slip In Chicago 3.16.07 Pix / MP3s

I got to see my favorite band in Chicago on Friday night. I also got to hang out after the show with them in Wicker Park. An amazing bunch of individuals... so cool. Brad was a little under the weathe...
Posted by New Dork City, danNY on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:53:00 PST

Farewell 625 N Michigan Ave.

The last time I cleaned out my work desk / room it felt a lot different. It was 5 years of Detroit film memories to deal with. Not to mention about 1000 CDs and DVDs for my mentor and I to go through...
Posted by New Dork City, danNY on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:03:00 PST

Who's Bep? Why is your username "Dan Loves Bep" ?

Everybody keeps asking so here it is... WHO IS BEP?!I first met BEP right here in this very spot. On Myspace. She was really cute so I clicked on her and said something funny... it's MySpace.. that's ...
Posted by New Dork City, danNY on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:02:00 PST

HAPPY 170th BIRTHDAY CHICAGO!!

I thought it was the 6th.. but it was Sunday.. ah well.. Happy Birthday Sweet Home Chicago!!! Incorporated March 4th 1837and now.. some Chitown memories...Summer 1998 on the Chicago Riverfront Quake...
Posted by New Dork City, danNY on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:28:00 PST

Skynyrd Song - Marvin The Robot HO9 Sessions Chicago

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Posted by New Dork City, danNY on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:49:00 PST