Danny
2 years old
Cambridge, UK
Male
About
Je suis une hefferlump Je habite en Hogwarts.
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Jan 11, 2007
I'm going to try this (again)
I have started at least two blogs and they always grind to a halt because I get all high-falootin' and attempt to disguise my shallow and unremittingly dull existence with some sham attempt at profound insight. (or rather a profound attempt at sham insight) The point …
Films
agnes varda, alphaville, michelangelo antonioni, bergman, carax, charles laughton, chris marker, cleo from 5 to 7, come and see, elim klimov, david lynch, derek jarman, fellini, jean-luc godard, gold diggers of 1933, goodbye lenin, groundhog day, hanna schygulla, henry jaglom (i love him and I hate him...), hiroshima mon amour, jim jarmusch, kubrick, la jetee, mauvais sang, kenzo mizoguchi, la jetee, la luna, lenny bruce, lindsay anderson, louis malle, night of the hunter, pasolini, rainer werner fassbinder, ren and stimpy, robert bresson, roman polanski, sam fuller, scorcese, sunday bloody sunday, truffaut, andrei tarkovsky, werner herzog, wim wenders, wong kar wai, yasujiro ozu
Music and Artists
abdullah ibrahim, art tatum, avro pärt, j.s. bach, beatles, brian eno, bruch, chet baker, blixa bargeld, bartok, charlie parker, coil, crass, david hockney, dead can dance, dead kennedys, diamanda galas, django reinhardt, early david bowie, eric dolphy, erik satie, francis bacon, ben webster, georges brassens, jacques brel, janos starker, jimi hendrix, john coltrane, horace silver, leonard cohen, marc rothko, mahler, mccoy tyner, miles davis, mingus, miro, thelonius monk, morton feldman, nick cave, nick drake, otto dix, paul klee, pan sonic, klezmer, herbie hancock, lester young, robert wyatt, sonny rollins, steve reich, the missa luba, wayne shorter, xenakis, zoviet france
Television
Book Lernin' and High Falootin' Words
adorno, a j p taylor, asturias, bataille, beckett, habermas, henri bergson, blaise pascal, boethius, bourdieu, braudel, brecht, coetzee, de landa, deleuze, dorothy parker, dostoyevsky, dylan thomas, ee cummings, f r leavis, franz kafka, friedrich nietzsche, gadamer, georg trakl, gilles deleuze, gogol, graham greene, graham swift, habermas, haruki murakami, hegel, heidegger, heinrich heine, heinrich von kleist, helene cixous, italo calvino, italo svevo, jorge luis borges, j h prynne, karl marx, karl polanyi, kenzaburo oë, kuhn, lacan, lukacs, malcolm lowry, marcuse, mikhail bakhtin, mikhail bulgakov, paul auster, paul celan, slavoj zizek, thom gunn, thomas mann, thomas pynchon, walter benjamin, w g sebald, willa cather, william blake, william faulkner, william gibson, william s burroughs, wittgenstein, yevgeny zamyatin, yasunari kawabata, yukio mishima
Interests
aardvarks, bbc world service, boats, cameras, camping, candles, cello, chess, chinese food, cigarettes (trying to give up), cinema, coffee, conversation, courage, critical theory, exakta, Go, india, hedgehogs, hermeneutics, kites, second hand books, modernism, shingle beaches, situationalists, sleeping, soup, the suffolk coast, summer, sunflower seeds, the sea, the shipping forecast, writing notes to myself, lots and lots of stuff..., The social possibility of human happiness, good cheese.
Photography
Exakta, Pentacon Six TL, Medium format, Film, Zeiss, Tri-X, Balck and White
Jonathan, May 11, 2007:
Awesome profile! The rounded corners are really nice :)
Matan Rubinstein, Apr 30, 2007:
hehe. You look like a Rabbi in this picture.
moo - giving it another go, Apr 24, 2007:
Thanks for adding me to your friends - now you really must come and join my group (Word Association) and bring your friends too! We're going for the record (whatever it may be) number of posts.
Cheer up!
A
Matan Rubinstein, Apr 9, 2007:
Daniel! Holy sammolies! It must have been at LEAST 7 years, no?
I am so very touched you remembered... did you end up using the music for anything?
You have the very best tags I've seen on virb, btw. (except Adorno, whom I ignore pointedly. Well, would have were he still alive.)
Danny, Dec 25, 2006:
I have a T-shirt with it all on.
Jessica, Dec 25, 2006:
you just copied all this from your facebook myspace friendster orkut profile, right?