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Daniel

Trading life for wisdom

About Me

I think my life got drunk and took the wrong person home from the party, it’s hard to avoid drama and conflict, when she keeps inviting them back in for free drinks. For someone who works from home, I have crossed more paths and had more strange encounters than I ever would have dreamed of as a child living on a rural farm in Indiana where all the animals were pets and my father was a rocket scientist blasting the family off to Sweden to live just long enough to learn the language and the golden rule, people hate people who are different, (good times) unless you are in New York in which case being different is the only thing we all have in common, we are the human equivalent of Times Square, which is where I first worked as a Creative Director designing the signs there, until I officially stepped off the grid as a freelance illustrator, before starting my own design company (partnership) working for eight years in advertising and publishing, it was then that my life started being the life of the party, and we have been at odds ever since.
www.danielmather.com

My Interests

Witty wordsmiths. Talking to animals, listening to people. Laughing at things that aren't funny. Chocolate. Telling strangers why High Fructose Corn Syrup will kill them. Drawing naked people with strangers. Good friends. Late night conversations. Balencing intelect with spirituality. Ugly shoes. Love ugly shoes.

Music:

Metric, The Honorary Title, The Postal Service, Snow Patrol, Portishead, Ani, Denali, Eisley, Elliott Smith, Broken Social Scene, Air, The Curve, Imogene Heap, Mazzy Star, Interpol, Juluka, Kitchens of Distinction, The Shins, TV on the Radio, Zero 7, Over the Rhine, Deadboy and the Elephantmen

Movies:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The swimming pool, The Princess Bride, Anything with subtitles...

Television:

It seems like there is only one show, and it's alwasy on.

Books:

The Essential Kierkegaard, The Soul of Rumi, The Fabric of the Cosmos (Brian Greene), Sylvia Plath, Aldus Huxley,

My Blog

D.C. Fringe Fest

Washington D.C. home of buttoned up shirts and free museums, now has something else to put on its resume. They just had their first Fringe Festival. My roommate and I jumped on the first train down ...
Posted by Daniel on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:41:00 PST