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dan

oaxaca_dan

About Me

I dig in the ground and look for old shit. i play bass. i role dice. i read. i watch funny shit on tv... I love the Mets... I have two super cool sisters, Michelle and Kathy. I work at a museum. Rolemaster is the best RPG system. i think about things. I try not to be "that guy." I mourned the death of coheed and cambria, josephine, and the twins. I stay up way too late. I speak spanish, but want to learn swedish. I've been to 30 states in the U.S., and 21 in Mexico. October is the best month. My love is A. I do stupid shit way too often. My favorite beer is Spaten Lager, and my favoite bar is the Lionheart. I've replaced over 10 flat tires in and around Chunchucmil as well as in southern Campeche, Palenque, on a highway in Veracruz at 2:30 am, and near Tampico. I actually really like Albany, cold weather, and snow. I rolled a truck in Mexico and almost died. I miss my Farmor, very very much...Jag älskar dig...Sleep well, my dear...

My Interests

I dig me my history, especially the history of the two world wars, the rise of dictatorships between them (those who don't know the past are doomed to repeat it), reading about dystopian societies.I play bass and some guitar, for myself (ahh.. self-therapy) and for bands... I've jammed with jam bands, jazz bands, prog-metal bands, bluegrass groups, blues, covers... you name it, i've played it.

Music:

The stuff i can't get enough of: coheed and cambria, iron and wine, pinback, the wrens, the forecast, built to spill, neutral milk hotel, modest mouse, sufjan stevens, low, yo la tengo, at the drive in/mars volta, bedroom heroes, andrew bird, john butler trio, zero 7, lamb, thievry corporationother likes: the roots, mana, la ley, the get up kids, badly drawn boywhen i'm down: bedhead, mogwai, sigur ros, black heart procession, red house painters, appleseed castmusic that made me what i am: uriah heep, blind melon, led zeppelin, jehtro tull, radiohead, sebadoh, sunny day real estate

Movies:

everything is illuminated, garden state, last of the mohicans, donnie darko, the machinist, the jacket (and other "mind-fuck" movies), 12 monkeys, gattaca, LoTR, Brazil, dark city

Television:

family guy, futurama, robot chicken, south park, the office (us & uk), how i met your mother (my guilty pleasure). Band of Brothers, entourage, sopranos.

Books:

Tolkien, Orwell, Huxley, Philip Dick, King, George R.R. Martin, TurtledoveSilmarillion, 1984, Brave New World, The Man in the High Castle, Dark Tower series, Song of Ice and Fire series, Southern Victory series.George R.R. Martin is brillanti think Orwell is one of the single-most important authors of the last 50+ years.