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Dan on fire

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything

About Me

I'm just trying' to get wise. "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it." --Albert Einstein Your results:
You are Superman Superman 85% Iron Man 80% Green Lantern 75% Spider-Man 70% The Flash 60% Hulk 55% Batman 50% Supergirl 50% Wonder Woman 50% Catwoman 50% Robin 45% You are mild-mannered, good,
strong and you love to help others.
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

My Interests

Film, animation, alcohol, games, puppetry and drunken animated puppet games on film

I'd like to meet:

the guy who invented masturbation, but I wouldn't shake his hand. a href="http://www.landauartwerx.com"

Music:

U2, Gorillaz, Pink Floyd, Blur, Barry White, pretty much any classic rock, James Brown, Caifanes, Jaguares, Cafe Tacuba, Maldita Vecindad, La Lupita, George Clinton, Parliment, Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan, The Crystal Method, Beatles, Wilson Pickett, Prodigy, The Ramones, Richard Cheese, Marvin Gaye, The Tragically Hip, and Beethoven's Symphony no.9 in D minor (truly his soul revealed).

Movies:

Clerks and/or any other piece of Kevin Smith...uh, I mean movie..damn that was gay, The Muppet Movie, The Usual Suspects, Escape from Alcatraz, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Citizen Kane, City Lights, Modren Times, The Great Dictator and pretty much anything that Charlie Chaplin ever made, The Secret of NIMH, The Magnificent Seven, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, V for Vendetta, any Jackie Chan movie is good for the afternoon, Thank You for Smoking, The Lord of the Rings trilogy (yeah, I'm a geek), Miyazaki & Kurosawa in general, Indy Jones and Indie films, Memento, Following, Sin City (but I really can't watch it often),The Empire Strikes Back, the sabre duel in Episode I, and about 30 minutes of Return of the Jedi (for as much as I love Muppets..), being an animation dude anything but cheap japanese animation...

Television:

MadTV wrote this jem...

Books:

Plays: Macbeth (if this doesn't kick you in the nuts then nothing will), Othello, Henry V, Death of a Salesman, 12 Angry Men, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (f'n awesome) Books/Novellas/Short Stories: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (still a geek), The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Fahrenheit 451 (censorship sucks), Confederacy of Dunces, Frankenstein, The Book of the Seven Rings, The Tao Te Ching, Siddhartha, any Kahil Gibran work is awesome, The Invisible Man, The Screwtape Letters, anything by Poe or Kafka , The Canterbury Tales, and Calvin and Hobbes

Heroes:

Currently...I'm shootin' for me

My Blog

The difference between Kermit & I is the hand up...

My life has always been like the Muppet Movie.  Sounds corny, huh?  The best part is that it's true.  I've always been Kermit, sitting on his lilly pad and then get bit with the idea of...
Posted by It's Dan-a-magic, baby! on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:28:00 PST

It's here it's here by Neptune's stars it's ITLAPD!

Ahoy land lubbers!  Today be the day.  Do we pillage & plunder?  Do we burn the fuses in our beards and cause chaos?  Do we down more rum than we're really really be needi...
Posted by It's Dan-a-magic, baby! on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:44:00 PST

Clerks II snootchie bootchie

It's been 12 years and worth every day of waiting.  Clerks II made me laugh so hard I almost spotted.  The laughs wouldn't stop.  The cast and crew did a great job at recapturing and ma...
Posted by It's Dan-a-magic, baby! on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:04:00 PST

Joe Rude In Passing

I was awoken early this morning by a man who is perhaps one of my best friends in his gravest time of need.  Ryan "Randy" Rude, who is one of the most sincere persons I've had the pleasure to mee...
Posted by It's Dan-a-magic, baby! on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:03:00 PST

The red eye

So either my wife punched me in the eye while I slept or like my doctor said, I have conjunctivitis.  That just sucks.  I lost a day of work at the hotel, because apparently I can't wear a d...
Posted by It's Dan-a-magic, baby! on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:33:00 PST

REDRUM REDRUM!!

I was watching cartoons today and had a thought. Okay, let me see if I get this right. Scatman Crothers is the old black man in Kubrick's "The Shining". He talks to the kid and shows him and the famil...
Posted by It's Dan-a-magic, baby! on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:53:00 PST

So you're going bald...Keep the faith, I have news

Hair is migratory.  As a child, most of us are born without hair.  As we grow, the hair begins to flow.  Nature loves to taunt men with thick fast growing hair and then take it away.&nb...
Posted by It's Dan-a-magic, baby! on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:30:00 PST

El Manana-New Gorillaz video

Holy crap it was good!  Noodle's room at Kong studios is packed up and empty.  The floating windmill is totalled.  I can't wait to see what happens next.  The song is El Manana, wh...
Posted by It's Dan-a-magic, baby! on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:01:00 PST

Things that piss me off

I was teaching today & one of my students (who I was yelling at) grumbled back, "you're pissin' me off, Dan".  It got me thinkin' there's plenty that pisses me off.  Picking the wro...
Posted by It's Dan-a-magic, baby! on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:42:00 PST

Model something real please..

I'm tired of models.  Skinny, fit, attractive, over-paid, talentless, uneducated, unopinionated who always look pissed off and what's worse...hungry.  Eat something for the love of pete.&nbs...
Posted by It's Dan-a-magic, baby! on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:18:00 PST