Blog:Danimatian

is this even called leap day? an extra day every 4 years.. pretty cool. i'm glad it's sunday. I was thinking this should be a holiday when it falls on a weekend. i mean come on, everyone needs an extra day to get their shit together, right?

i've spent my day cleaning my room. cleaning my room means really making a big laundry pile and throwing old shit away.

i came upon a crate full of cassette tapes from the 80s. I thought the crate would be the only useful thing so i started throwing away cassettes: the fat boys, fresh prince, young guns sound track, over the top sound track, van halen 1984, madonna.. lots of madonna.. i always loved madonna (pre-immaculate collection)

well i came upon a tape labelled 'dan 1' wow my first mix tape. it was of course stuff recorded off the radio. from when 96.3 was still WHYT. I also recorded a bunch of 1980s computer games off my adlib sound card circa 1988. i can't wait to make those into mp3s. Sierra games like Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, King's Quest, Quest for Glory (when it was still Hero's Quest) and I think that was it.. nothing else stands out.. I also found Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy" single which Amanda has been looking for. She wants to edit something to it I think. Hopefully she can read a cassette tape at Mad River Post where she works. If not I'll get GoldSound on it, those cats love it when I pull shit out of the attic and make them convert it for me.. ha..

Got my phish tickets! Well 2 nights of the 3 anyways. VEGAS BABY!

Hello to all of you -

I hope you are well.

Below is a letter Mike D sent me the day before you guys came back from Christmas Vacation. Some of you have heard it. I wanted to share it with the rest f you.

Take care. You are all in my thoughts.
Love
mel


Well baby,

It's Sunday night, the last night of vacation, so sad. I miss you very much and can't wait to see you this week. My love for you has grown each and every day since I last gazed upon your eyes of blue. However, with that being said, where have you been baby? I don't want to go back to Doner. I don't want to waste my time there anymore. I'm dreading tomorrow morning my sweet dove.
Why can't it be a week away? Why? WHY? But again it will be time to see Sappienza's anger, B. West's cunnning, Jayson's dashing good looks, Stu's ever present love and Joe. Joe is the light that guides me through the dark times. I miss the U.I. gang and I am looking forward to seeing everybody. But I can't help to feel that somehow everything feels different than it did before I left for vacation. Life has superseeded work and poked it's head through the clouds once again as if to take a look around and say...

"What the hell have you been doign with me Mike D?"

"Life." I say. "I am sorry for ignoring you for so long. For actually getting swept up in the grind of being an art director. I apologize life. I will not foresake you in the future I promise."

"That's BS!" life says back to me. Pay more attention to what is
really important. Me!"

"I know life. I will try."

"Get out of advertising you ahole!"

"OK life. Calm down."

"I will calm down when you do something to make yourself happy!"

"OK life. I will."

"Will what? Tell them you quit! Tell them you cannot be bought for pennies and used up like an old dog with three legs who humps inananimate objects. Take some pride in me for godsakes!"

"I will try life. I will make things easier for both of us." -mike d

well, despite the obviously depressing nature of the last week, i had a decent weekend.

Friday night we hit up Detroit, I found a great loft location to use to shoot The Next Breath I met some really cool thesbian types. The whole thing was a fluke really. Erich had been trying to get me to meet these Abreact kids for at least a year. He left for California about a month ago, and I remembered his description of this loft and thought it might work. So I call up Amy Hubbarth because SHE KNOWS EVERYONE and asked if she knew about this loft and these actors etc etc and of course she did. So she invited me to come on Friday because it was a party for her brothers Birthday. So I call Amanda to ask what she's doing: a possible party and then clubbing. Where's her party? THE ABREACT. So we go together, I hob nob with creative types, she goes dancing downstairs (theres a club under the lofts) Then we end up taking off about 1 because they want to hit up the Post and do some real dancing. Well her roomate passes out on the drive there so Amanda says lets just go home. We hung out for a while and I love talking to that girl, we've got a real good connection. It was really the first late night I gotten to hang out with her, we were up till 4am and then I went home. I just have a blast with that girl no matter what we do.

Saturday started with Mike's funeral, low and behold its across the street a little down the road from Amanda's apt. After that I had lunch with her and her roomate, then did some errands with them.

In the evening we went out to Pontiac, by way of: Pontiac, Then Royal Oak to get her license, then Birmingham to see Mary Ronan and hear the story how how Mars Advertising had a huge fire on Friday, then BACK to Pontiac WITH LICENSE.

We hit up Tiki Bob's for lots of dancing. Lots of girls all over me. Some lesbian action on the floor. Actually a lot of lesbian action on the floor. Her roomate found this hottie and they were all over each other. once security had enough of them, the girls got kicked out after being warned like 5 times to stop humping on the ground.

And then outside in the cold as we waited for the rest of our friends to file out, I just stood there holding Amanda and we both realized that we really dig each other. I've said that I don't want a girlfriend for as long as I can remember but she's so damn cute and extremely REAL that whatever we grow into, I am totally down with. So much for 4 years of *ME* time, but it's cool, she's totally my style. Plus she basically has my job at another post house so I would never hear anything like "what do you mean you have to work late and cancel plans with me?"

today has been hectic. i was looking forward to my sushi lunch which can always brighten my day and put a smile on my face... however shortly before lunch i found out that my friend and client Mike Dominic died early this morning. He had worked late last night and didn't show up for work and his coworkers at Doner Advertising found him on the couch.. we really don't know what happened yet but it was probably diabetes related.. so sad... i am gonna miss him a bunch, especially at the upcoming dylan concert i had the company buy us tickets for. he was a great guy and theres really nothing you could ever say bad about him, he was fun and smart and creative... a wonderful human being...

well i wrote another song last night. it was pretty cool. i'll have to play them for bryan and see if he can write me some lyrics for the movie.

i played guitar as a voicemail for rachel because she played me the same song earlier in the day and went on an anti-hippie rant. so i had to show her what for.

then today she leaves me a voicemail of her rapping. an anti-hippie rap. it was hilarious to say the least.

well i never made it to see stacey pullen at centre st. i went to a party within an art gallery. it was not the dirty show, but we were pretty close to it.

israel nordin and his crew were all over that scene. artsy types and plenty of riff raff danced to some 80s / new age DJ music.

it was a fun time, i'm glad i spent my time with them.

i am goin to vegas!

went out to 5th ave novi to meet joe desanto last night. dragged my little sister out of the house and managed to get her totally lit. it takes about 3 drinks for my sister to not be able to hold her head up. it's pretty funny.

we found out the twilight babies were playing upstairs so we went to go watch the shows and low and behold alison doesn't hate me. i deleted her phone # because she didn't call me back after like 10 messages i left so i felt like i was stalking her. i just wanted my mic stand back which i will probably never see.

however, i did find my $600 mic i thought i had lost which is a very good thing. it was in a bag with some film equipment in my damn closet. i guess when we finished shooting that scene for Ones and Zeroes i threw it in the bag, it wasn't where it was SUPPOSED to be and i thought i lost it on Devils Night after recording Gypsy Dog but apparently i didn't even take it with me that night, i must have misplaced it in August.

tonight i will hit up detroit, center street pub to see stacey pullen and eat sushi. sounds like a blast to me!
it's valentine's day but i'm anti-social lately when it comes to women so i'll just spend it with friends. i have far too much to do with my own life to worry about dating someone right now.

# posted by Dan B. @ 12:59:00 PM

well i typed something in wrong yesterday so instead of breaking apart 30 GB to 4.7GB partitions so i could burn them to DVDs, I somehow created 37,000 files of about 1k each.... clogging up the network and pissing everyone off.

well i am definately awake at strange hours lately.

my thoughts racing, trying to outdo the last thought. trying to come up with something tangible and meaningful.

dialogue whipping off my tongue, bringing me out of a state of nearly falling asleep back to the computer screen, glaring so bright to my tired eyes.

how much of my life has been spent this way? glaring back at a computer screen while my mind leads my fingers to create new ideas i may read at the moment of conception without falling over my tongue which could never keep up with my inner voice