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daniel.

life is how it is not how it was

About Me

I can be my own worst enemy. My greatest fear is of success. ----------------------------------------------------- I am an athlete, an intellectual, an artist, and an under-achiever at each of them. The clock on my nightstand says 5:58am - I'm stirring as the alarm is about to sound, awakening me to full conscious potential. You may not want to see me first thing in the morning... ------------------------------------------------------- There are days when I walk through the pouring rain to feel the chill of water dripping from my head and down my back as my feet squeeze the soles of my shoes between them and the ground like a sponge continually being rung out and resaturated...I walk barefoot in the snow to feel the cold sting and subsequent numbness...and subtle ache as feeling returns... -------------------------------------------------- Life is a sequence of interrupted dreams that somehow fit together like a certain-to-be-cancelled 1990's sitcom. It's brief continuation is as inevitable as it's melodramatic end... at times I've been known to sleep through some of the most important parts and occasionally awaken to rent the previous season on VHS and play catch up.
You Have a Choleric Temperament
You are a person of great enthusiasm - easily excited by many things.
Unsatisfied by the ordinary, you are reaching for an epic, extraordinary life.
You want the best. The best life. The best love. The best reputation.
You posses a sharp and keen intellect. Your mind is your primary weapon.
Strong willed, nothing can keep you down. Your energy can break down any wall.
You're an instantly passionate person - and this passion gives you an intoxicating power over others.
At your worst, you are a narcissist. Full of yourself and even proud of your faults.
Stubborn and opinionated, you know what you think is right. End of discussion.
A bit of a misanthrope, you often see others as weak, ignorant, and inferior. What Temperment Are You?I am 60% Metrosexual.
. I am styling. I may have a bunch of fashion sense, but my macho man side leaks out here and there (mainly out my nose, I should buy some nose hair trimmers for Christs sake!) Take the
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Your Seduction Style: Sweet Talker
Your seduction technique can be summed up with "charm"
You know that if you have the chance to talk to someone...
Well, you won't be talking for long! ;-)
You're great at telling potential lovers what they want to hear.
Partially, because you're a great reflective listener and good at complementing.
The other part of your formula? Focusing your conversation completely on the other person.
Your "sweet talking" ways have taken you far in romance - and in life.
You can finess your way through any difficult situation, with a smile on your face.
Speeding tickets, job interviews... bring it on! You truly live a *charmed life* What Kind of Seducer Are You?

My Interests

Playing music, working out, football, college football, sports in general, playing sports in general, reading books, writing words, speaking in incomplete sentences, awkward situations, paradoxical concepts, honest people with honest eyes, weathered faces, and weathered souls. Eight midday hours on deserted sundrenched beaches with nothing but my running shoes, a notepad, and a black pen. Strong voices speaking plainly in gentle tones about things that matter or that don't matter at all...Evening, morning and everything quiet that happens between. Four am stars in the dead of winter. Ideas.

Music:

Thievery Corporation, Stars of Track and Field, Snow Patrol, Rock Kills Kid, Saxon Shore, Imogean Heap, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Sunny Day Real Estate, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Reels of White Softly Flow, Sigur Ros, The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In, The Who, Bright Eyes, Cursive, The Appleseed Cast, Sufjan Stevens, The Rolling Stones, The Jimmi Hendrix Experience, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Enya, U2, Coldplay, Johnny Cash, Deathcab for Cutie, Dashboard Confessional, The Cure, Ben Folds, Belle & Sebastian, Dave Matthews, Embrace, The Velvet Underground, Tom Petty, Gavin Degraw, Robert Johnson, Taking Back Sunday.Oasis, Cave In, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Beatles, Damien Jurado, Mogwai, The Good Life, Jack Johnson, Tristeza, Andy Davis, The Indigo Girls, Converge, Elliot Smith, Bob Dylan, Doves, Josh Rouse, Mason Jennings, The Dismemberment Plan, Fugazi, Wilco, Ben Harper, Jimmy Eat World, John Mayer, Counting Crows, Zao (old school)...Handel, The Brad Mehldau Trio, Johann Sebastian Bach, Clint Mansel, Johnny Greenwood,

Movies:

Vanilla Sky, Vanilla Sky, Vanilla Sky, Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, Garden State, The Shining, It's a Wonderful Life, Magnolia, Meet Joe Black, The Virgin Suicides, Eyes Wide Shut, Knute Rockne All American, Office Space, Snatch, Pi, Requiem for A Dream, Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, Fight Club, Lock Stock and Two Smoking BarrelsAnything by Cameron Crowe, Quentin Tarantino, or Stanley Kubrick.

Television:

Between work, the beach, and my friends I really don't have much time for TV anymore.

Books:

Crime and Punishment, The Fountainhead, Seeing Things (and any other Poetry by Seamus Heaney), Beyond Good and Evil, Catacombs of Terror, Of Mice And Men, Everything That Rises Must Converge (and everything else by Flannery O'Connor), Raise High The Roofbeams Carpenters & Seymour an Introduction, The Catcher in The Rye, Twilight of The Idols, Slaughterhouse Five, Thoughts in Solitude, Blue Like Jazz, A Clockwork Orange, Till We Have Faces, Anthem, The Republic, LOTR trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia, Velvet Elvis

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Seamus Heaney, Jimmy Page, Ronald Reagan, Ayn Rand, Jeremy Enigk, Flannery O'Connor, Peyton Manning, Stanley Kubrick, Cameron Crowe, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Rob Bell, Thomas Merton.

My Blog

On Topic of Early Winter 2006

Dearest N____,  There are always two sides to every story.  Two windows on either side of a midnight drive home, two sides of the bed at sunrise,  two cars heading in opposite direction...
Posted by daniel. on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:48:00 PST

COLLEGE GAMEDAY DRINKING RULES (THANKS CARLY FROM TEXAS)

OK,  I totally ripped this off of someone else's MySpace profile (thanks Carly) because it's friggin' hilarious!!! If you watch college football, you'll understand the stereotypes, if not you pro...
Posted by daniel. on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:23:00 PST

long/short

Long sleeve t-shirts under short sleeve t-shirts.  does anyone remember this horrible trend!?damn, what were we thinking?
Posted by daniel. on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:48:00 PST

rumo(u)rs

thunder only happens when it's raining. players only love you when they're playing. say, women they will come and they will go.  when the rain washes you clean... ...you'll know (Stevie Nicks...
Posted by daniel. on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:23:00 PST

priorities or rubbing the sleep out of your eyes.

waking...To me, waking up involves the ability to vividly remember dreams and efficiently separate the recurring, meaningful ones from the fleeting and inconsequential ones.  It means sadly leavi...
Posted by daniel. on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:41:00 PST

change

Dear _____Good morning!Life is too short.  Seek change.          ;           ;    &n...
Posted by daniel. on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:00:00 PST

PHOTO BLOG 08/14/2006

THESE are in no particular order.  I tried to clump the majority of wedding photos together.  This represents about 1/4 of the pics I've taken over the last couple of weeks.  ENJOY!!!!S...
Posted by daniel. on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:28:00 PST

women? let me think this one out.

I do admittedly like girls. I do. Guys too.  In fact, you'd have difficulty listing more than a handful of people that I DON'T like to some degree.  Guys, girls, gay, straight, young, old, d...
Posted by daniel. on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 03:26:00 PST

Implode

Day 1.  On my way home last night I finally decided, after some weeks of debating, to open my eyes.  I stretched out in my seat, gazed out the window at the multi-coloured landscape flying p...
Posted by daniel. on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:51:00 PST

DEPENDABILITY

dependability : stop wasting your time.
Posted by daniel. on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:30:00 PST