DIY Danna

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  • Danna Marrón Williams

  • 36 / Female
  • The Boondocks of Austin, Texas, US
  • Last Login: Private

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Interests

  • General

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    Writer (poet, fiction author, entertainment journalist, PR copywriter and blogger), talent booking & promotions agent, avid reader and do-it-yourself enthusiast into almost everything d-i-y - art, crafts, music, theater, comedy, performance art and film.

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  • Music

    Melodic and noisy, classic and experimental, smooth and edgy, sometimes hard and sometimes soft, probably in the same song, and probably not on the (commercial) radio.

    Favorite Local Artists/Bands (A-M):.. Adrian and The Sickness - Alright Tonight - Amplified Heat - And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Ryan Anderson - The Ape Shits - The Applicators - ASSACRE - Attack Formation - Attic Ted - Aunt's Analog - Awesome Cool Dudes - Baby Robots - BASIC - Belaire - Best Fwends - The Black and White Years - The Black Angels - Black Lipstick - Maya Bond - T.W. Bond - Brazos - The Bronze Age (formerly Quiet, Lovely) - Brothers and Sisters - Cari Music (a.k.a. Fancy Feast) - The Carrots - Cat Scientist - Cavedweller - The Catfish Hunters - Charles Potts' Magic Windmill Band - Suzanne Choffel - The Cocker Spaniels - Coma in Algiers - Count Dracula's Weed Smuggling Jam Engine - Kacy Crowley - Cry Blood Apache - CSTOCK - The Dandy Lyons - Darling New Neighbors - Destroyed for Comfort - Diagonals - Daniel Francis Doyle - Erodgenator - EZ Snaps - Jad Fair - Finally Punk - Fine Fifteen - Follow That Bird! - Foot Foot - Foot Patrol - For Those Who Know (R.I.P.?) - Ruthie Foster - GALS PANIC - Ghostland Observatory - The Government - Grupo Fantasma - Horse+donkey - The Hot As Shits - HUG - The Hunnies - ivision - Omari Kamau - Lalaland - La Snacks - Lick Lick - Li'l Cap'n Travis - The Lonesome Heroes - The Lovely Sparrows - Low Red Center - Loxsly - Manager's Choice - Masonic - Midori Umi - Moonlight Towers - Moses and the Burning Bush - Mutating Meltdown - MVSCLZ......... (N-Z):..Willie Nelson - Nervous Exits - Night Viking - O:A - The Oblong Boys - Oh,Beast! - Oh No! Oh My! - Old Mason Road Sons of Liberty - The Old-Timerz - One-Eyed Doll - One Umbrella - Pataphysics - Peel - Pinetop Perkins - Peter and the Wolf - Pink Nasty - Possessed by Paul James - Quartershackle - Quebron - Red Book Audio - Red Leaves - Renée - Reverse X Rays - Ringo Deathstarr - Rubble - Schatzi - The Seas - Secular End - Seela - She Craves - She, Sir - Sheboygan - Silver Pines - Single Frame - Smoke Detector - The Strange Boys - Tacks, The Boy Disaster - Talk Means Trouble - TeenageDogg - Things That Go Pop (R.I.P.) - Those Peabodys - Tia Carrera - Til We're Blue or Destroy - Toof - The Total Foxes - Transmography - The TunaHelpers - Tuxedo Killers - The Ugly Beats - The Van Buren Boys - Voxtrot - The Weird Weeds - What Made Milwaukee Famous - When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth - White Denim - White Ghost Shivers - The Word Association - The Wyndyms - Yellow Fever - Youngmond Grand - ZEALE - ZEEGRASS - Zest of Yore - Zom Zoms will be missed - Zookeeper - Zykos.......
    Some of my favorite indie record labels include: ..Absolutely Kosher, ATO, Bunkhaus, Business Deal, Cash Cow, Fat Possum, Furniture, Happy Happy Birthday To Me, Hugpatch, Indierect, Instincto, K, Kill Rock Stars, Light In The Attic, Matador, Merge, Peek-A-Boo, Phono, Retard Disco, s.a.f., Slender Means Society, Sub Pop, and Yep Roc.....
  • Movies

    An Angel at My Table, Marty, The Color Purple, Being There, The Science of Sleep, Monsoon Wedding, Read My Lips, Harold & Maude, Breaking Away, Breaking The Waves, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Cinema Paradiso, Kiss of The Spiderwoman, Brazil, La Vie Est Belle, Sounder, Daughters of the Dust, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Marx Brothers Movies, Movies by - Luis Buñuel, John Waters, Pedro Almodóvar, and too many other classic, underground, cult, and independent flicks to list...

  • Television


    When I remember to watch? Ugly Betty, The Closer, Grey's Anatomy, Veronica Mars, Lost, The Office (UK and US versions), My Name Is Earl, Everybody Hates Chris, Monk, House, Adult Swim, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mad Men, The New Adventures of Old Christine, TCM, and a lot of PBS (documentaries like American Masters, Frontline, British Comedies). Oh- R.I.P. ABsolutely FABulous, Stella, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, My So Called Life, Daria, Frank's Place... To be continued...

  • Books

    Anything by: Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Those Wacky Brontë Sisters - Anne, Charlotte and Emily, Octavia E. Butler, Albert Camus, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens (not Bukowski - mock me), Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Eliot, William Faulkner, Janet Frame, Nick Hornby, Zora Neale Hurston, Terry McMillan, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Ruth Rendell (a.k.a. Barbara Vine), John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, John Welter, Eudora Welty, Virginia Woolfe, Richard Wright.
    I also adore John Kennedy Toole's ..A Confederacy of Dunces.., one of the funniest books ever written.

  • Heroes

    James Thomas Williams, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Paul Robeson, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Nelson Mandela, Stephen Bantu Biko, Albert Einstein, Dr. Benjamin Carson, John Peel, Eric Reed Boucher, Wesley Willis, Don Cheadle, Damon Gough, Barack Hussein Obama, Noam Chomsky, Studs Terkel, Gore Vidal...
    Now what about Heroines? Mary Valmont Williams, Patricia Ann Workey, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Betty Shabazz, Coretta Scott King, Nikki Giovanni, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gloria Steinem, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Simone de Beauvoir, Toni Morrison, Julie Dash, Kasi Lemmons, Golda Meir, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards, Molly Ivins, Benazir Bhutto, Wangari Maathai...

Blurbs

About me:

I interview artists and entertainers:

Artist & Musician Ben Aqua in Decider Austin | photo by Victoria Renard

I edit this webzine:

New Art & Lit! - July 23, 2009


Cover Photo: Big Star Burlesque by Spork.

And I book local and touring music events:

Who I'd like to meet:

People who still read books for fun, authors, poets, editors, publishers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, actors, comedians, freaks and geeks, lovers and friends, people who want a peaceful revolution, and


Leslie Hall/Leslie & The LY's

Leslie Hall is the BBW with the most amazing sweater collection - and one of the oddest musical acts. Or so I've seen and heard online. Leslie has also been romantically linked to Dan Deacon. In my fantasies... I missed her at the Beauty Bar on Thursday, February 28, 2008. Damn you, influenza! One day...

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