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Dan the Lotus Eater

hands up who wants to die

About Me

Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Hermann Hesse. Only a handful understood Albert Einstein. And nobody understood Emperor Norton.

Too tall for my own good. Too nice for my own good. Too smart for my own good. Too optimistic for my own good. Too cynical for my own good. Too romantic for my own good. Too pessimistic for my own good. Too lazy for my own good. Too busy for my own good.

I want to be in a band that dresses like bumblebees and rocks out for Jesus.

My Interests



They put angels in the electric chair
Straight-up angels in the electric chair

And no-one knew or no-one cared
But burning stars lit up their hair
And burning stars lit up their hair
And crawled to heaven on golden stairs

And oh! How we to and fro! To and fro! To and fro!

This is our torched estates
(and we are your sweet mistakes)

And all them vulgar kings on their dirty thrones
Who among us will avenge miss nina simone?

There's fresh meat in the club tonight
God bless our dead marines

Someone had an accident
Above the burning trees
While somewhere distant peacefully
Our vulgar princes sleep
Dead kids dont get photographed
God bless our dead marines

The hungry and the hanged
The damaged and the done
Striving 'long this spinning rock
Tumbling past the sun
Get through this life without killing anyone
And consider yourself golden

Lost a friend to cocaine
Couple friends to smack
Troubled hearts map deserts
And they rarely do come back
Lost a friend to oceans
Lost a friend to hills
Lost a friend to suicide
Lost a friend to pills
Lost a friend to monsters
Lost a friend to shame
Lost a friend to marriage
Lost a friend to blame
Lost a friend to worry and
Lost a friend to wealth
Lost a friend to stubborn pride
And then i lost myself

I love my dog and she loves me
The world's a mess and so are we
She tumbles long green muddy fields
Sick with joy and glee
And as she dreams sweet puppy dreams
Whimpering gently

There's fresh meat in the club tonight
God bless our dead marines
Someone had an accident
Above the burning trees
While somewhere distant peacefully
Our vulgar princes sleep
Dead kids dont get photographed
God bless this century

When the world is sick can't no one be well
But i dreamt we was all beautiful and strong

a silver mt. zion

I'd like to meet:

the dead men and the wanderers. Others. New friends and Old. .. width="425" height="350" ..
If you haven't seen this video yet, watch it now. If you have, watch it again, damnit.

Music:

mark lanegan, nick cave, leonard cohen, tom waits, a perfect circle, godspeed you! black emporer, dog fashion disco, the smiths (sometimes), tool, ministry, hansel und gretyl, strapping young lad, kmfdm, alice in chains, nirvana, nena, soundgarden, front 242, screaming trees, kyuss, queens of the stone age, my life with the thrill kill kult, placebo, the velvet underground, ozzy osbourne, black sabbath, cannibal corpse, sleep, mudhoney, joy division, new order, mother love bone, temple of the dog, radiohead, white zombie, gwar, napalm death, my dying bride, high on fire, monster magnet, mondo generator, butthole surfers, rammstein, johnny cash, mr. bungle, faith no more, lovage, bigod 20, berlin, dead or alive, men without hats, fear factory, pantera, men at work, mad season, and many many more.

Movies:

pi, the big lebowski, spun, the salton sea, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, being john malkovich, delicatessen, the city of lost children, requiem for a dream, coffee and cigarettes, ghost dog, dark city, human nature, the rock, heathers, say anything, harry potter, lord of the rings, how high, the whole nine yards, the whole ten yards, army of darkness, the evil dead, the evil dead 2, the night of the living dead, dawn of the dead, day of the dead, fargo, shawn of the dead, demons, wings of desire, etc.

Television:

...ok, i'll admit it. I LOVE VERONICA MARS. There, I said it.

Books:

hunter s. thompson, william gibson, neil stephenson, hubert selby jr., jean-paul sarte, terry prachett, douglas adams, j.r.r. tolkein, george carlin, karl marx, albert camus, dave eggers, franz kafka, david sedaris, dante alighieri, bret easton ellis, robert heinlein, j.k. rowling, chuck palahniuk, frank miller, kurt vonnegut, friedrich nietzsche, edgar allen poe, alan moore, neil gaiman, mary shelley, fyodor dostoevsky, henry james, lewis carroll, sir arthur conan doyle, joseph conrad, christopher durang, bill hicks, nicky silver

I read a lot.

Heroes:


Norton I, the first and last emperor of the united states, philip zimbardo, hunter s thompson, stanley milgram, nick cave, julia druk, darren aronofsky, the coen brothers, jack the ripper, leonard cohen.. all those who have done what i have always wanted to do, or just did it better.

My Blog

Remember Kids: Idle Hands do the devil's work.

..START BZOINK.COM SURVEY CODE>aThe Longest, Completly Random Survey []Time Started::4:58. Name::Daniel Pope. Do you like the name::Sure. Your Height::Taller than you. Wow your taller than me::I know,...
Posted by See the cat? See the cradle? on Wed, 09 May 2007 02:18:00 PST

per un pugno di dollari

Figured I might as well update this. It's been a while, I guess. The new apartment is shaping up quite well. Today I did some house-cleaning, so my room is no longer the biggest mess in the whole worl...
Posted by See the cat? See the cradle? on Sat, 05 May 2007 02:15:00 PST

New home.

Moved, we did. New apartment, we have.2:30 in the morning, start a new job tomorrow. wish me luck.other than that, life's pretty good. and off to bed i go.i found goodnight moon, at my mom's house....
Posted by See the cat? See the cradle? on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:42:00 PST

Noctambulist

The noun noctambulism has one meaning:Meaning #1: walking by a person who is asleepI prefer to think of it a little differently, and use the literal translation of said word, night walking. I don't th...
Posted by See the cat? See the cradle? on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:38:00 PST

Its been a while since I updated this one. (Is anyone still paying attention?)

Its late.And I'm really bored, its thanksgiving. (Not anymore, acually)I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to crew for someone tomorrow, but I don't know where or when.. So I guess I'll just have to wait for...
Posted by See the cat? See the cradle? on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:13:00 PST

Fingers deep within the borderline

Fingers deep within the borderlineShow me that you love me, and that we belong togetherrelax, turn around and take my handI got Tool tickets. 12 hours on the sidewalk, in the rain. (No hobo)but I got ...
Posted by See the cat? See the cradle? on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:17:00 PST

Amazingness awesomely METAL

I LOVE METAL. Black Dahlia Murder was fucking amazing. I'm so fucking tired from moshing for 3 hours straight. IT WAS THE PERSONIFICATION OF COOLNESS. 2 of the bands sucked, but BDM and The Red Cho...
Posted by See the cat? See the cradle? on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:53:00 PST

father says it, mother says it..

Babe, I'm on fire. SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW I love snow. (At least while its still snow... when it becomes slush, then it sucks.) We went sledding for a half hour yesterday, until we ...
Posted by See the cat? See the cradle? on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 04:30:00 PST

When I'm lonely, well I know I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you.

If only the world were a simpler place, and things were just easier. There are just sometimes, even when I have a million friends, all I really want to do is sit by myself, listen to depressing mus...
Posted by See the cat? See the cradle? on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 02:38:00 PST

new york is cold, but i like where i'm living....

...there's music on clinton street, all through the evening. leonard cohen always puts me in an interesting mood, i have to say. Hallelujah.
Posted by See the cat? See the cradle? on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 02:21:00 PST