Take hot baths, trouble my brain, read, watch a movie, or two, or three, and a season of a good TV show, preferably in one sitting, read again, in a hot bath, contemplate while watching the forest at the end of the field, getting depressed about humanity, take a hot bath, watch another season, trying to get through another day without crying in public, wasting another ten minutes of my short life updating the "interests" section on myspace, read again.
All of the above preferably while having sex...
Music
Jeff Buckley, The Beatles, Faith No More, Tori Amos, Simon & Garfunkel...
But I'm more of a song/album kind of guy than a band/artist kind of guy to be honest. So, in closer detail: Jesus Christ Superstar, the Etanol album by URGA, the ULTRA album by Depeche Mode, Ritual's first album, "Mission Earth" by ELO, the Eye in the Sky album by The Alan Parsons Project, "Life on Mars" by David Bowie, "The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou" by Frank Zappa, Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt", the California album by Mr. Bungle, "Bright Eyes" by Art Garfunkel, Chess, "The Winner Takes it All" and "Happy New Year" with ABBA, the Whore album by Dalbello, the Beautiful Freaks album by Eels, "Complainte pour Ste-Catherine" and "Swimming Song" by Kate and Ann McGarrigle, "He's My Brother" with the Hollies, "Farm on the Freeway" by Jethro Tull, "Lo Chiamavano Trinità" from the first Trinity movie, "Suicide is Painless" from the M*A*S*H movie, "Nature Boy" with Nat King Cole (the Bowie version is great too), "Summer Wine" with Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood, the Ten album (and "Indifference") by Pearl Jam, most of the songs on Limp Bizkits' Chocolate Starfish album, "Jolene" with Dolly Parton (Olivia Newton John's version is good too - the one I grew up with actually), "Mutter" and "Man Gegen Man" by Rammstein, "Yellow Raven" by Scorpions, the music from The Dark Crystal, War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne...
Well, the list could go on forever, but those are some nice handfuls. Add a few pinches of Sting and Queen and early Elton John and you're set to go.
KISS was a big part of my life when I grew up, so it would feel weird to leave them out. However, few are the days when I listen to them nowadays. I vote for The Elder and Unmasked rather than "Strutter" and "Black Diamond" any day of the week too, so I guess that sets me apart from most "real" KISS fans.
Movies
The Big Lebowski
Being John Malkovich
The Hours
Adaptation
Fisher King
Citizen Kane
Star Wars
Underground
Delicatessen
Elling
Black Cat White Cat
The Matrix (1)
I Kina Spiser De Hunde
Snow Falling on Cedars
Circus
City of Lost Children
A Fish Called Wanda
Jesus Christ Superstar
Big Fish
Silent Earth
What Happened Was
Television
I prefer DVD but I get the point...
Seinfeld, Monty Python's Flying Circus, M*A*S*H, Office (UK version of course), Lost, Friends, Myth Busters, probing documentaries (thank god for Public Service)...
Books
Off the top of my already troubled head...
"Billions & Billions" and "The Dragons of Eden" by Marl Magan ;).
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.
"Slaughterhouse Five" and "Galapagos" by Kurt Vonnegut.
Most books by Douglas Coupland.
"A Spot of Bother" by Mark Haddon.
"The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger.
"A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson.
"Waiting for the Barbarians" by J.M. Coetzee.
[painfully incomplete]
About me: Dualistic gemini Peter Pan with slight mano depressive tendencies, always on a tightrope of ambivalence between Want and Need. Life in full view but out of reach.
Who I'd like to meet: I'd like to have a dinner with the following people and see if we would manage to get any food between the discussions: Mahatma Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, the biblical Jesus, the real Jesus, Carl Sagan, Tage Danielsson, John Lennon, Hatchepsut and Astrid Lindgren.
I would also like to meet Audrey Hepburn (maybe just a little kiss?), Gene Kelly, Sammy Davis Jr, Elvis, Paul McCartney, Charlie Chaplin, Nefertiti and every scientist that devoted his/her entire life to investigate or prove something that he/she found irresistible.
Then, if I could just have dinner one on one with every one of my dead grand parents. To be honest, that would be my first hand choice...
Daniel am a great admirer of her music and arrangements, as drummer always had curiosity in how you do the arrangements and recordings. I think the way we apply the 7 /? or 5 /? very interesting.
Many Congratulations Happiness and the success recognized. The World Thanks.
Hi Daniel! Thanks for accepting my friendship request! I'm a big admirer of yours. First of all I want to say thank you for all the things that you do and for all the inspiration that you give to me to change myself as an human being. It's very difficult for me to summarize in words all the difference and the impact that Pain of Salvation caused in me since the first time I've heard it, so all I will say here is just a big THANK YOU, your music really changed my life. Well, I live in Brazil and nearly four years has passed since the last time that Pain of Salvation were here, I wish to know if there is any hope to see you again!
Oh oh and i promise you that I'll buy you a Darth vader figure when you'll come to Greece. If I can't give it to you hand-to-hand I 'll throw it on the stage.That's a promise man. NO crap Peace ALEXANDER-IMAGO
Wow I'm so f*cking jealous that some people are about to enjoy your concert in just a few days... I hope that everything will be brilliant for you guys out there, though!!! :)
hey daniel, haven't gotten the time 'til now to leave you a comment, but I figured I should at least give you my gratitude and appreciation, since your music has given me so much...so here goes:
I think you are an extremely brilliant man, who has the rare gift of seeing the world as it truly is and giving others(myself included) this vision...because of your music, I learned how to view the world objectively and learned alot about myself and the people that surround me, in too many ways to number. You seem like a truly "pure" person, in the sense that you really stick to what you believe, a trait that is a burden to most of us...but anyways, I better stop posting random praises and just thank you for your music and encourage you to never stop, and that you reach someone new everyday.
ahah...!! i should try having sex while reading a book! ;) see you at evolution festival! Daniel, your music helped me a lot of times and still it does... THANKS A LOT!
Hello my new friend! I was reading your "interests" section and I was wondering if you were really capable of taking hot baths, reading and watching movies at the same time...this seems quite incredible but please avoid taking baths while changing a light bulb otherwise you'd run the risk of ending up like Claude François... Well,in the second part of this amazing monologue of mine I should flatter you concerning your wonderful voice and music ( which take my breath away..)..but I won't :D I need to know you better for that ;) have a nice day dear Daniel! K.
Hi,Daniel) I wish you all to have a good trip=) Ans i wish you to have no problems with equipment during the gig) Enjoy the time at the sea and warm weather) Kisses and hugs, Vic)
