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darius

About Me

A daydreamer, but not quite a daydream believer.

My Interests

Everything.

I'd like to meet:

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster; Sitting Bull.

Music:

The Kinks.

Movies:

Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, Batman Begins, and Doctor Zhivago.

Television:

Wires and lights in a box (except for Arrested Development, the X-Files, Six Feet Under, The Office [foreign and domestic], Firefly, Smallville, and Doctor Who).

Books:

Watership Down, Cat's Cradle, The Once and Future King, the Maltese Falcon, Cold Mountain, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, It, Beowulf, Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dark Knight Returns, Hamlet, A People's History of the United States, To Kill A Mockingbird, Killing Mister Watson trilogy, others too numerous to mention.

Heroes:

John Proctor; Lou Reed.

My Blog

Axl Rose is out of control.

I finally relented, abandoning my personal discipline, and downloaded a bunch of demos (of wildly varying sound quality) and live versions of songs rumored to constitute the "upcoming" Guns N' Roses a...
Posted by darius on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:52:00 PST

Ten great songs and one bad one.

I spend an abnormal amount of time thinking about music: what songs I like, what songs I don't like, why I like them or why I don't, what songs I like that I shouldn't, what songs I don't like that I ...
Posted by darius on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:29:00 PST

The best line on the new Who album...

"There comes a time in every little punk's life/when he has to write a song for his common-law wife." HA!  
Posted by darius on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:10:00 PST

Rock and Roll Lives...

...But we're doing our part to effect its demise.  Hammerhead Kid is opening for Gerudo along with Salmon; Beastman at the Kraftbrau Brewery on Saturday, August 12.  The show starts at 10 pm...
Posted by darius on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:01:00 PST