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daren

on a clear day... you can see forever

About Me

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law. Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. - Immanuel Kant ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ I am often of two minds about things, and sometimes that's on purpose. - me

My Interests

music, music, music. oh and music then problem dissolving, nurturing my nomadic tendencies, bitch&hitch-hiking, quasi-cooking, wailing and string skipping on my guitar, romancing the keys, spelunking for collector record vinyl, ransacking music stores, verbal parrying and jousting, waxing neuroanatomy and psychology, digital audio looping, adobe photoshopping, expanding my 3000 plus cd and vinyl collection, supporting my caffiene addiction (no fancy stuff please), turning tables and spinning the black circle, aural assaulting, grass horticulture, skyscraping, creating sounds in the key of life ... and my eternal quest for that elusive guitar tone in head.

I'd like to meet:

all shapes, sizes and colors ... from the exotic to the mundane

Music:

chillout, acid jazz, naked music, lounge, downtempo, southern rock, trippy stuff, mod rock, brit rock, bossa nova, paul weller, led zeppelin, pink floyd, ambient music, cocteau twins, black crowes, stevie ray vaughn, reef, muse, tony bennet, astrud gilberto, dmb, cast, style council, dmb, cafe del mar stuff, classic rock, mr. joshua, chicane, fantastic plastic machine, thievery corp, hansome boy modelling school, 45 dip, lazybatusu, daft punk, air, john martyn, urbandub, billie holiday, nina simone, ella fitzgerald, thelonious monk, miles davis, groove armada, portishead, cibo matto, bob marley, cry of love, telepopmusik, prefab sprout, jai, roddy frame, jeff buckley .... and this is just the nano-tip of my audio galaxy....

Movies:

the professional, the usual suspects, lock, stock and 2 smoking barrels, the return of the pink panther, high fidelity, office space, fight club, crime spree, y tu mama tambien, beautiful girls, let it ride, indie films, blow, fear and loathing in las vegas, reservoir dogs, amelie, snatch, trainspotting, almost famous, lost in translation, 24 hour party people, this is spinal tap, monty python's life of brian and meaning of life... (to be continued)

Books:

einstein's dream, neil geiman's smoke and mirrors, slaughterhous five by vonnegut, screwtape letters, griffin and sabine, j.d. slainger books, high fidelity, 31 songs, pablo neruda, catch 22, nightmares and daydreams, hitchikers' guide to the universe, on the road by jack kerouac , sophie's world, any neuroanatomy textbook, carl jung, immanuel kant, c.s.lewis, and nietzsche

Heroes:

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. - samuel butler

My Blog

strangers with candy

i wrote this for someone eons ago. i just felt like posting it. no apparent reason whatsoever. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- stranger...
Posted by daren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

If I Don't Meet You In This Life, Let Me Feel The Lack.

Now there is almost no sound and at night I am not afraid. The next world will be made of paper and everything will have the capacity to fly. Promise me it will be there as it is here -? the raspberri...
Posted by daren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

my first and last H-A-T-E blog

Please skip this mess if you are grounded and have a meaningful life, move on to my real litany at the bottom but if you think youre a surrealistic pillow, mad poet read on& (moron) -----------------...
Posted by daren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

tonight i raise a glass to those who couldn't make it

BEING SINGLE BEINGby D.Judith in the spring and I drove up the West Coast, trying to get used to being alone. I was newly, truly single for the first time in eight years. On a beach I watched New Age ...
Posted by daren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

glad to know i still have a life

I scored an 11% on the "how myspace are you?" Quiz What">http://www.quizie.com/test.php?testid=476856&rn=r>Wha t about you?...
Posted by daren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

San Nicomedes

Ang Huling Lagitik Ng Tansan Tahimik ang kupas na asul mong makinilya na nagbigay tinig sa iyong mga kaisipan Tahimik ang labi ng mga nakinig sa bawat lagitik ng titik sa mga iyong narandaman ...
Posted by daren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

excerpt

this is an excerpt of a poem i wrote for ms. virgie moreno's birthday: nais kong hagkan ang pisngi ng mga ulap na dumadaan sa aking mga paningin at humiwalay sa bigkis ng mundo. nais kong mara...
Posted by daren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

http://mypornname.com

i shall now be introduced as COLT GUNN. try it out guys. it might be the break you're looking for...
Posted by daren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i'm a lighthouse

i'm a lighthouse, you're the ocean you're a chemist and i'm you're potion i'm bitter almond, you're sugar-coated you're invisibe, i never noticed i'm a spaceship, you're a planet you're a new d...
Posted by daren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Nothing is .... Something

This is a about nothing. Actually, it is about something, but the something is nothing. This is because nothing is more important than most people give it credit for. Generally, people feel guilty abo...
Posted by daren on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST