My name is Dan. And I'm a musicholic.
I am newer to the forum, because of my former utter disdain for them (hence the former screen name). I am quickly being won over to them. Drew still wants me to change my username. I don't want to. We'll see. {EDIT: I ended up having to change from "forumsareforsucks"... }
Anyway, I'm married to the most gorgeous fairy on the forum (and elsewhere). She makes sparklies, and I am a drug dealer. By "drug dealer," I mean I deal in the matter of "drugs." By "drugs," I mean that I analyze and pontificate on the debits, credits, budgets, and other realizations of a financial general ledger.
I'm a "row and columns" guy, she's a "color and sparkles splattered on the wall" gal. It all works well together, naturally. Probably because I'm more of the "artsy-fartsy, candle-loving, don't watch sports" kinda guy. And doing her taxes for free didn't hurt in wooing her over... ;-)
I write superfluously. Some of what I say makes sense, some of it is Josh.
I like to write far more than I like 1) to talk and 2) to read. I'm a smart-ass mostly, but can be serious. I think it's time to take Myers-Briggs again and see if I still get pigeonholed as an INTJ. I like taking tests like that, which means I bet I will be INTJ again.
I like... music (see below), movies (ditto), concerts, philosophy, yoga, good food, and... I'm a 1+ year vegetarian, a pasty-faced bearded African-American from Ohio, who will end up in the Pacific NW sometime in the next few years. Lord & job willing.
I'm a fan of Toyota (Corolla & Prius driver), I hate mowing the lawn, and I only read "books" if forced to by a syllabus (current MBA student at the Univ of Dayton) or a dire need for political-social conscience (Nader, Chomsky, or Mr Moore). Brad Pitt & Johnny Depp are yummy. So is Tori Amos and Franka Potente.
My favorite superhero is Spider-Man. My least favorite exoskeletal creature is the spider. It makes sense.
12 movies that I really like (alphabetically):
Almost Famous
Amelie
Back the Future Trilogy
Cannibal! The Musical
Good Will Hunting
High Fidelity
Life is Beautiful
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Office Space
Run Lola Run
Shawshank Redemption
This is Spinal Tap
(shifting daily)
15 artists (musical variety) that I couldn't live without (in no particular order):
Chroma Key
Radiohead
Pink Floyd
Tori Amos
any Mike Patton-related (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, Fantômas, Hemophiliac, Lovage... his list goes on forever)
The Beatles
Dream Theater
Silverchair
King's X (and the spin-offs: Ty Tabor, Poundhound, Supershine, Jughead, Platypus, Jelly Jam...)
Elliott Smith
any Nuno Bettencourt-related (Nuno, Mourning Widows, Population1, and Extreme)
U2
Tool & A Perfect Circle
Ani Difranco
Over the Rhine
7 Top Local (Cincinnati/Dayton) artists:
http://www.Kim-Taylor.net/
http://www.RicHordinski.com/ & Monk
http://www.AshleyPeacock.com/
http://www.RyanAdcock.com/
http://www.KatieReider.com/
http://www.MaeryLanahan.com/
http://www.JasonLudwig.com/ & http://www.Noctaluca.com/
100 artists that I also wouldn't want to live without:
Alice In Chains, Fiona Apple, Beastie Boys, Ben Folds Five (and solo), Björk, Buckethead, Caedmon's Call, George Carlin, Johnny Cash, Celldweller & Circle of Dust, Chagall Guevara, Eric Clapton, Coheed and Cambria, Coldplay, Alice Cooper, The Cranberries, downset., Dr. Dre, Drums & Tuba, echolyn, Eminem, Euphone, Fear Factory, Finger Eleven, Foo Fighters, Nelly Furtado, Galactic Cowboys, Heatmiser, Mitch Hedberg, I Mother Earth, Incubus, Sarah Jahn, Jars of Clay, Jude, Jurassic 5, Phil Keaggy, Michael Kelsey, Klank, Lenny Kravitz, Lapdog, Liquid Tension Experiment, +Live+, Madonna, Aimee Mann, Marilyn Manson, Sarah Masen, Dave Matthews & Band, Edwin McCain, Sarah McLachlan, Holly McNarland, Megadeth, Metallica, Alanis Morissette, Peter Mulvey, Nirvana, Bebo Norman, Oingo Boingo, On, Opeth, Outkast, Ozric Tentacles, Pearl Jam, Pedro the Lion, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Glen Phillips, Placebo, Poe, Precious Death, Prince, Puya, Queensrÿche, Rage Against the Machine, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers, Remy Zero P.O.D., Sade, Saviour Machine, Jerry Seinfeld, Sevendust, Shrug, Sigur Rós, Sixpence None the Richer, Sting & The Police, Sunny Day Real Estate, Steve Taylor, Tenacious D, Tesla, Testament, That1Guy and the Magic Pipe, The Fire Theft, Yann Tiersen, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Travis, Vigilantes of Love / Bill Mallonee, Waterdeep, Derek Webb, Stevie Wonder, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Frank Zappa.
other artists that I enjoy (ie- the rest of my collection):
4-Track All-Stars, India.Aire, The Seth Alder Project, Jeffrey Altergott, Angeldust, Apocalyptica, Argyle Park, Arrested Development, Atomic Opera, Audioslave, Audiovent, The Awful Truth, bt (Brian Transeau), Baba, Suze DeMarchi & Baby Animals, Badly Drawn Boy, Beck, Black Crowes, Bon Jovi, Jonatha Brooke, Garett Buell, Burlap to Cashmere & Steven Delopoulos, Jerry Cantrell, Edie Carey, Cat Power, Chasing Furies, Chatterbox, Jeanne Cheral, Chevelle, Patsy Cline, Collective Soul, Don Conoscenti, Ellen Cross, Sheryl Crow, Crunchy, The Crystal Method, The Cure, Cut Chemist & Shortcut, Vanessa Daou, Howie Day, dc Talk, Claude Debussy, Deftones, Deliverance, Kris Delmhorst, Jason Dennie, Dido, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dirty Three, DJ Rap, DJ Shadow, DJ Spooky, Dog Named David, Drain STH, Duran Duran, Earshot, Eat Static, Susan Enan, Enya, Equation, Melissa Etheridge, Evanescence, Fates Warning, Fishbone, Five O'Clock People, The Flaming Lips, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Fleming & John, Freekbass, Marty Friedman, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Mike Georgin & Slant, Goo Goo Dolls, David Goodrich, Nina Gordon, Amy Grant, Green Day, Grits, Vince Guaraldi, Guided By Voices, Guns N' Roses, Lauryn Hill, Billie Holiday, Griffin House, Natalie Imbruglia, Indigo Girls, Iona, Iswhat?, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Etta James, Jewel, Billy Joel, Bob Johnson, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys, kid606, Chantal Kreviazuk, John Lennon, Zoë Lewis, Living Colour, Living Sacrifice, Peter Malick, Bob Marley, Maroon 5, Maximillian, Pepper McGowan, Natalie Merchant, Meshuggah, Michael Miller & Auragami, Milli Vanilli, Moby, Mohenjo Daro, Monsterus, Monty Python, The Moody Blues, Zak Morgan, Mouth Music, Mushroomhead, The Mustard Seeds, Nickelcreek, NIN, Offspring, Ozomatli, Paloalto, Paradigm Shift, PfR, The Pieces, P.M. Dawn, Damien Rice (even though his album is boring as hell), Rose Polenzani, Probot, Project Logic & DJ Logic, Reality Check, Lionel Richie, Rock A Teens, The Roots, Rush, Sarah Laughing, Joe Satriani, Savatage, Seal, Semi-Automatic, Send the Beggar, September 67, Set On Edge (Shannon Lewis), Joshua Seurkamp, Martin Sexton, Shadows Fall, Shelter, Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Skeleton Key, Kevin Max, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Spacehog, Spinal Tap, Stavesacre, Stray Cats, Stryper, Superior, System of a Down, 24-7 Spyz, Tait, Melvern Taylor, Tellus, 10,000 Maniacs, They Might Be Giants, 311, Ticklepenny Corner, Tourniquet, Tribe of Judah, Trump Dawgs, Unbelievable Truth, Unemployed in Greenland & DiJiT (that's me), Venus Mission, Veruca Salt, Wheat, The Who, Wild Colonials, Victor Wooten, Sherri Youngward, and Dweezil Zappa & Z.
As you can see, I have a music problem. There... now I don't have to type those lists anymore... or do I?
i could beat you up with my whole body tied behind my back,
~fafs
np: sunny day real estate - diary
