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A. Dan

a new morning, and I'm still dreaming

About Me


(spoken in the 3rd Person):
He is a generally friendly and fun-loving person. He is right handed and an asthmatic. He can be cheeky, sarcastic and cynical. He plays better games of Pool and Snooker when drunk. He enjoys having uberlong phone conversations. He is surgically attached to his iPod. He could be classified as being part weird, part strange, part odd, or possibly all three. He prefers face-to-face contact over conversations via emails, instant messaging and SMS. He is passionate about music in which originality and creativity reigns supreme over image. He likes the usage of grammar, punctuation and multi-syllabic words. He dislikes the usage of Antipodean slang and SMS speak. (Don't worry if you're that way inclined: he's not harsh on friends who use it. Just himself.) He has the potential to be highly restless and fidgety. He works fulltime for a State Government department. He couldn't breakdance to save his life, although he wishes he could. He is addicted to Sudoku puzzles and jigsaw puzzles. He is a fully qualified radio broadcaster/DJ. He is a near-obsessive listmaker. He likes to prove to the world that chivalry isn't dead. He has the tendency of being shy and quiet around new people and in big groups. He blurts out Black Books quotes at the most random of times; much to the confusement of those around him. He leans more towards the left-wing side of the political spectrum. He is a part-time mixtape maker, spreading the gospel of his musical soundtrack to life to others. He occasionally plays drums and other percussion instruments, minus the routine and hassle of being in a band. He frequently overuses (in written works) parentheses, and exclamation marks! He loves the sound of tenpins being knocked over in a bowling alley; airplanes and helicopters flying above him; and heavy downpours of rain tapping against a tin roof first thing in the morning. He is a nocturnal creature and, as a consequence, a late riser. (Thank goodness for flexible hours at my workplace.) He abhors liars/cheaters, bullies, governments that use fear campaigns over their people and bad customer service. He suffers from clumsiness and indecisiveness at times. He is allergic to dust, pollen and bananas. (Yes. Bananas.) He is fond of frequenting airports, despite not having a plane to catch most of the time. He has nothing more to add to this section.

My Interests

Air Hockey, Airplanes, Airports, Ambience, Architecture, Art, Arthouse Films, Astronomy, Backpacks, Band T-Shirts, Beards, Bicycles, Big Day Out, Board Games, Books, British Accents, Bubble Wrap, Canada, Card Games, Chelsea FC, Concerts, Cowboys, Creativity, CSS, Cults, Dice, Documentaries, Driving, Drums, Dusk, DVDs, DVD Commentaries, Film Scores, Food, Foxtel, Foreign Language Films, Freecell, Fruit Juices, Fuzzy Logic, Girls, Glasgow Celtic, Golden Retrievers, Good Manners, Grammar, Hospitals, HTML, Instrumental Music, iPods, Jaywalking, Jigsaw Puzzles, Labrador Retrievers, Late Nights, Laughing, Lightning, Lists, Live Music, London, Mixtapes, Mockumentaries, MP3s, Multisyllabic Words, Music Magazines, National Geographic, Natural Hazards, Neon Lights, Nighttime, Ninjas, Noise, Nonsense, Originality, Overcast Weather, Percussion Instruments, Photography, Pinball, Post-It Notes, Punctuation, Punk Rock Ethos, Quirky Comedies, Radio Broadcasting, Rain, Record Stores, Red Cordial, Road Trips, Sleeping, Soccer, Statistics, Sudoku Puzzles, Sunrises, Sunsets, Sydney, Tall Buildings, Tenpin Bowling, Thesaurus, Thunder, Tokyo, Travel Literature, Travelling, Tunnels, Uncommon Sense, Underground Stations, Vancouver, Walking, Warp Records, Webpage Design, Weekends

I'd like to meet:

Individuals with friendly/quirky personalities and/or like-minded interests; and musical bands/artists. Don't be afraid to add me. Chances are, I will add you right back.

Also, the mysterious man in the picture above. For the unenlightened, click here , here and here to get edumacated and that. Alright?

Music:

Adam Said Galore, Animal Collective, Antony And The Johnsons, Aphex Twin, Apparat, Astrobotnia, At The Drive In, Augie March, Autechre, Belong, Bjork, Black Dice, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bluebottle Kiss, Blue States, Boards Of Canada, Bonobo, The Books, Brian Eno, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Can, Caribou/Manitoba, Clark, Clue To Kalo, Colditz Glider, Comets On Fire, Corker/Conboy, The Cure, Damo Suzuki, The Dandy Warhols, Dave Miller, Dead Meadow, The Dead Texan, Death Cab For Cutie, Death In Vegas, Devendra Banhart, DeVotchKa, Dirty Three, DJ Shadow, Editors, Engineers, Fennesz, The Flaming Lips, Fontanelle, Four Tet, Fridge, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Gustavo Santaolalla, Interpol, Jaga Jazzist, Jan Jelinek, Jose Gonzalez, Kid 606, Kid Koala, Konono No 1, Led Zeppelin, Liars, M Craft, The Mars Volta, Maserati, Massive Attack, The Mercury Program, Mercury Rev, Mice Parade, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mukaizake, My Bloody Valentine, New Order, Okkervil River, The Orb, Pelican, Pivot, PJ Harvey, Polaroid Ghost, Polmo Polpo, The Polyphonic Spree, Prefuse 73, Purdy, Qua, Radiohead, Red Sparrowes, RJD2, Savath And Savalas, The Shins, Sigur Rós, The Smiths, Spoon, Squarepusher, Sufjan Stevens, Tarentel, Telefon Tel Aviv, The Tigers, Tom Waits, Tortoise, Triosk, Tristeza, TV On The Radio, Tycho, Ukiyo-E, Ulrich Schnauss, Wilco, Yann Tiersen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Movies:

24 Hour Party People, 28 Days Later, Adaptation, Almost Famous, Amelie, American Movie, American Splendor, Amores Perros, Anchorman, Battle Royale, Being John Malkovich, Bend It Like Beckham, Bowling For Columbine, Bringing Out The Dead, Capturing The Friedmans, City Of God, The City Of Lost Children, Crumb, Dawn Of The Dead (1978), The Devil And Daniel Johnston, Dig!, The Dinner Game, Donnie Darko, Dr. Strangelove, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, The Fearless Freaks, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fight Club, Garden State, Gimme Shelter, Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai, Gremlins, High Fidelity, Hot Fuzz, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Jandek On Corwood, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost In Translation, Memento, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life Of Brian, The Motorcycle Diaries, Nurse Betty, One Day In September, Roadside Prophets, Shaun Of The Dead, The Shining, Star Wars (Episodes 4 to 6), The Station Agent, Talk To Her, The Usual Suspects, Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, The Weather Underground

Television:

Alf, Arrested Development, Blackadder, Black Books, Cowboy Bebop, Cromartie High School, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment, Doctor Katz, Family Guy, Freaks & Geeks, Futurama, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Goodies, Grumpy Old Men, House, Iron Chef, John Safran's Music Jamboree, John Safran Versus God, Liquid Television, Lost, The Mighty Boosh, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mythbusters, The Office (UK), The Osbornes, Perfect Strangers, Prison Break, Red Dwarf, Scrubs, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Sopranos, Spaced, Top Gear, Wallace & Gromit

Books:

I enjoy reading anything written by Charles Bukowski, Nick Hornby, Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Moore, Dave Gorman, Danny Wallace, Gideon Defoe, Lynne Truss and Jeremy Clarkson. Books of preference from other authors: 1984, The Culture Of Fear, Fast Food Nation, Guinness Book Of Records, How To Survive A Robot Uprising, If Chins Could Kill (Bruce Campbell), Innocent When You Dream (Tom Waits), The Lonely Planet Guide To Experimental Travel, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Promoters, This Diary Will Change Your Life, The World Of Karl Pilkington, The Zombie Survival Guide et cetera. I also ardently read travel guides, National Geographic magazine, and books filled with random and useless trivia.

Heroes:

Karl Pilkington, Monty Python (John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam), Dylan Moran, Kevin Eldon, Simon Pegg, Ricky Gervais, Mike Wilmot, Graham Linehan, Bill Bailey, Stephen Merchant, The Goodies (Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie), John Safran, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Dave Gorman, Danny Wallace, Jonathan Katz, Des Mangan, Larry David, Charlie Kaufman

My Blog

Some Thoughts By Karl Pilkington (Re-Dux Post. Now with added Ramblings!)

[Unfortunately, the YouTube police had deleted the video files from my original post on this topic last year, hence this reprised blog entry. And besides, I'm sure you're all in need of a good laugh!]...
Posted by A. Dan on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:56:00 PST

Mogwai Wish Death Upon Keith Richards

The following regards an amusing journal entry from Barry Burns (Mogwai guitarist/wordsmith), found on that band's official website, in response to recent reports that Keith Richards (Rolling Sto...
Posted by A. Dan on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:05:00 PST

The Easter Holidays Lethargy Club: In Session!

Don't fear, fellow readers. My Incredible Hulk antics of my last blog posting won't be revisited this time. My mood is a much more mellow one this time around, especially due to the few days unchained...
Posted by A. Dan on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:57:00 PST

Another year, another entry.... (That's satire! Did you get it?)

Hello world! I'm not dead!!!! :) Take 2 on this blog posting: my first attempt was eaten up whole by this damn machine of gloom! For once, the dog wasn't to blame. Good boy, Ben! Tonight has been a ve...
Posted by A. Dan on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:13:00 PST

Lyrical Treats: The Dead Flag Blues

"The car's on fire.And there's no driver at the wheel. And the sewers are all muddied. With a thousand lonely suicides.And a dark wind blows. The government is corrupt. And we're on so many drugs. Wi...
Posted by A. Dan on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:24:00 PST

Lyrical Treats: Be Good To Them Always

"You know, I simply cannot understand people. Oh, how sadly we mortals are decieved by our own imagination. This is not real life. This is for us. Aleatoric television.A mixed consort of soft instrume...
Posted by A. Dan on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:25:00 PST

OMG, IT'S T3H FIRST POST!!!

Greetings and nachos to one and all, Well then, this would be the first transmission from the Robot Mafia Society to the outside world (or MySpace to everybody else) - another outlet to lure in pot...
Posted by A. Dan on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST