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Dan

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

jazz and classical music, design, tree hugging, hiking, architecture, politicking, reading and/or sleeping in the grass, a good glass of scotch.

My Interests

republican bashing, the interwebs, ponging it the fuck out, keeping it real, etc

I'd like to meet:

mushroom people

Music:

Mahler, Bruckner, Hindemith, Beethoven, Kathleen Ferrier, Fischer-Dieskau, Pablo Casals, Bill Evans, Mingus, Coltrane

Movies:

You know, I'm really bad with movies.

Television:

none. Except for those rare and wonderful occasions I get the opportunity to watch Iron Chef (classic).

Books:

Goethe, Mann, Hesse, Malraux, Buchner, everything Hemingway, and Steinbeck. I hate Tolstoy and Ayn Rand (but only about half as much as I hate GW).

Heroes:

Jimmy Carter. Arundhati Roy. Hugo Chavez. Barack Obama (with whom I've been told I have a pseudo-erotic fascination)

My Blog

How difficult is it to teach a monkey how to say "Iraqi civil war"?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/23/iraq.main/index.ht ml
Posted by Dan on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:58:00 PST

currently listening

Currently listening to And I Thought About You- Johnny Hartman . If you like Hartman, you should also check out this album....
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Reagan: rich, white, bastard. And dead.

His Grace! impossible! what, dead? Of old age too, and in his bed! ... Twas time in conscience he should die! This world he cumberd long enough; He burnt his candle to the snuff; And thats the ...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

New favorite song....

Yep, that's right, a new favorite song. "Collecting my Father's Wealth" on Dreams and Secrets by Thomas Mapfumo and Wadada Leo Smith....
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

can't ... stop... listening...

This is a nerdy post, I know, but I'm doing it anyway... Kathleen Ferrier is one of the greatest contraltos in recorded music. Despite this fact, it's pretty difficult to come by some of her record...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Do you know this?

Who penned these lines? (One of my most favorite passages). If you answer correctly, you win a prize. " Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neit...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I gave Ashcroft gallstones...

I wish.
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

How come San Francisco RULES?

On the heels of the Mass. SC ruling on gay marriage, San Francisco decided to challenge a state law against gay marriage as unconstitutional under the California state constitution. The city has rece...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

can't... stop... watching...

If you don't think this is hilarious, you're lame. http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A friendship lost...

Rumsfeld and Saddam: When times were good. It seems the US military-industrial complex is the real long-term winner....
Posted by Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST