Watch the cupids fly above,
Two hearts so sweet in love,
If the arrow strikes upon,
Then there shall fly a turtle dove 
That's a poem by Dr. Dan Dringle. 
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Interests: 
video games, computers, hula hooping, strange, twisted and surreal movies, photography, Photoshop, filmmaking, video editing, playing piano/guitar, dumpster diving, extreme street walking, cats, sushi, zombies 
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Favourite Music: 
folk, indie pop, indie rock, jazz, big band, post/space/drone-rock, downtempo, ambient, drone/field recordings, experimental electronica, glitch, acoustic, blues, reggae, experimental dub, instrumental hip hop, punk, shoegaze, trip-hop, experimental rock, classic pop/rock and IDM. 
Favourite Bands: 
1 Mile North, Air, Andrew Bird, The Andrews Sisters, Art Pepper, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, The Antlers, Arcade Fire, Badly Drawn Boy, The Beach Boys, Beach House, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beirut, Belle & Sebastian, Bill Frisell, Billie Holiday, The Bird and The Bee, Bjork, The Black Keys, Black Mountain, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Blur, Bob Marley, Bon Iver, The Books, Boris, Broken Social Scene, Bukka White, Burial, Cab Calloway, Calexico, Camera Obscura, Cat Power, Cat Stevens, Caribou, The Cars, Charles Mingus, Charley Patton, Cities in Dust, The Clash, The Cure, David Bazan, David Bowie, Dead Man's Bones, The Dead Texan, The Dead Weather, The Delfonics, Deerhoof, The Detroit Cobras, Devendra Banhart, The Dirtbombs, The Distillers, Django Reinhardt, Doris Day, Doves, Édith Piaf, Ella Fitzgerald, Elliott Smith, The Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Fats Waller, Feist, The Flaming Lips, Fleet Foxes, Flogging Molly, Frank Sinatra, Furry Lewis, The Go! Team, Great Lake Swimmers, Grizzly Bear, Guided by Voices, Harry Belafonte, Heatmiser, The Hives, The Horrors, The Ink Spots, Interpol, Iron & Wine, James Brown, Jeff Buckley, Joel Plaskett, Jolie Holland, Joy Division, Kathryn Calder, Ken Nordine, Kings of Convenience, The Kinks, The Kooks, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Laura Marling, LCD Soundsystem, Leadbelly, Leonard Cohen, Leroy Carr, Les Breastfeeders, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lou Reed, Lykki Li, The Magnetic Fields, Massive Attack, Metric, Miles Davis, Mirah, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Mississippi John Hurt, M.Ward, Modest Mouse, Morrissey, My Bloody Valentine, NIN, Neil Young, The New Pornographers, Nick Drake, Nina Simone, Ours, Pearl Jam, Petula Clark, Pinback, Pink Floyd, Pixies, The Pogues, Portishead, Queen, RJD2, RL Burnside, Rachel's, The Radio Dept., Radiohead, The Raveonettes, Refused, The Rezillos, Richard Hawley, Rilo Kiley, Rocket From the Crypt, The Rolling Stones, Rosemary Clooney, Roxy Music, Sam Roberts, Sarah Harmer, Sarah Vaughan, Scrapper Blackwell, Shuggie Otis, Sigur Ros, Simon and Garfunkel, The Shins, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Skip James, Sly & The Family Stone, The Smiths, Spoon, Stars, Stars of the Lid, Stereolab, The Strokes, T-Bone Walker, Tears for Fears, Teenage Head, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Thelonius Monk, Tim Hecker, Tom Waits, Toro Y Moi, Tortoise, The Tragically Hip, Tujiko Noriko, Tunng, Two Hours Traffic, Vampire Weekend, Vashti Bunyan, The Velvet Underground, Viva Voce, Washed Out, White Rose Movement, The White Stripes, Wilco, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo, The Zombies 
vintage bachelor pad music: 
Alan Hawkshaw, Andre Popp, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Arthur Lyman, Astrud Gilberto, Dick Hyman, Don Tiki, Enoch Light, Ethel Smith, Ferrante & Teicher, Henry Mancini, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Hugo Montenegro, Jack Costanzo, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Joe Meek, Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Perrey & Kingsley, Ray Barretto, Raymond Scott, Raymond Scott, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, Syd Dale 
I listen to Illinois St. Lounge on http://somafm.com, which plays nothing but exotica, bachelor pad music and space pop.  
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Favourite TV Shows: 
Freaks & Geeks, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Arrested Development, Community, Parks and Recreation, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Twin Peaks, Cowboy Bebop, Six Feet Under, Lost, The Office, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Futurama, Seinfeld, Clone High, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Firefly, Supernatural, Dexter, Californication, True Blood, Dead Set, Pride and Prejudice, 30 Rock, Planet Earth, Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, Band of Brothers, The L Word, Red Dwarf, Curb Your Enthusiasm 
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Favourite Films: 
Brazil, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Harold and Maude, Lost in Translation, L'illusionniste, Amelie, The Royal Tenenbaums, Mr. Nobody, The Big Lebowski, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Some Like It Hot, Mulholland Drive, Jackie Brown, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Boogie Nights, The Iron Giant, Spirited Away, Blade Runner, Edward Scissorhands, Blue Spring, Annie Hall, The Shining, American Psycho, High Fidelity, Shaun of the Dead, Goodfellas, How to Train Your Dragon, (500) Days of Summer, Rushmore, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Barton Fink, Groundhog Day, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Wet Hot American Summer, Up, Noroi: The Curse, Gattaca, The Princess Bride, Ghost World, The Wicker Man (original), REC, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Woman in Black, Solaris, Hot Fuzz, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Fantasia, Sunset Boulevard., Benny & Joon, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Control, Brokeback Mountain, The Vanishing (original), The Shawshank Redemption, Full Metal Jacket, Best in Show, Lars and the Real Girl, Never Let Me Go, There Will Be Blood, The Shape of Things, Triangle, Bug, Far From Heaven, The Pianist, A Scanner Darkly, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Apocalypse Now, Office Space, Baraka, The Empire Strikes Back, Pan's Labyrinth, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tootsie, Memento, Fight Club, Adaptation, Happiness, Donnie Darko, Open Your Eyes, The Matrix, Almost Famous, Children of Men, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Inglourious Basterds, The Graduate, Dear Zachary, A Single Man, Primer, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Inception, Hanna, Grave of the Fireflies, The Incredibles, Grindhouse, Cast Away, Magnolia, Let the Right One In, Requiem for a Dream, Glengarry Glen Ross, Beauty and the Beast, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring, Pride and Prejudice, Finding Nemo, Videodrome, The Echo, The Truman Show, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Napoleon Dynamite, Wall-E, Coraline, My Neighbor Totoro, The Others, Repulsion, City of God, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Thing, Kill Bill 1, Hairspray, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Total Recall, Natural Born Killers, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck, Punch-Drunk Love, The Sixth Sense, A Clockwork Orange, The Road, Tampopo, Pulp Fiction, Ratatouille, Your Friends and Neighbors, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Children, Black Swan, Zodiac, Seven, Pi, 1408, Reservoir Dogs, Toy Story 3, The Last Waltz, Heima: a film by Sigur Ros, Up in the Air, Being John Malkovich, No Country for Old Men, Saving Private Ryan, The Handmaid's Tale, The King's Speech, Waiting for Guffman, The Holy Mountain, Princess Mononoke, Thirst, The Tenant, American Beauty, Interview with the Vampire, Alien, The Descent, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, A Tale of Two Sisters, Dolls, About a Boy, Dazed and Confused, Blue Velvet, Clerks, 9 Souls, 12 Monkeys, Rear Window, Series 7 - The Contenders, Eraserhead, Trainspotting, Paranoia 1.0, The Virgin Suicides, Seven Samurai, Ed Wood, Alice (Neco z Alenky)  
camp: 
The Room, Deadly Prey, Robot Jox, Silent Night Deadly Night 2, Cyborg, The Rock, Face/Off, Drive Angry 3D  
Directors: 
Terry Gilliam, Toshiaki Toyada, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Neil LaBute, Wes Anderson, David Lynch, Akira Kurosawa, Paul Thomas Anderson, Terry Zwigoff, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Jim Jarmusch, Alfred Hitchcock, Todd Haynes, Russ Meyer, The Coen Brothers, Yasujiro Ozu, Richard Linklater, Roman Polanski, Tim Burton, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Jonze, Todd Solondz, Dario Argento, David Cronenburg, Henry Selick, Jan Svankmajer, The Brothers Quay, Hayao Miyazaki 
Here's my DVD collection: 
http://downtown11.dvdaf.com/owned 
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Favourite Books: 
High Fidelity, I Am Legend, The Dark Tower series, The Stand, Good Omens, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, Neverwhere, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Coraline, The Graveyard Book, The Walking Dead, Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey 
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Favourite Quotations: 
Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey 
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. 
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Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaught on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man."
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If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.
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Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.
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He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, "Dust to dust," some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, "I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun."
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Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.  
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Favourite Beers: 
Unibroue Blanche de Chambly
Red Seal Ale
Stella Artois
Granville Island Raspberry Ale
Red Racer Pale Ale
Beck's
McAuslan St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout
Phillips Ale
Pilsner Urquell
Guiness Pub Draught
R&B Raven Cream Ale
McAuslan St Ambroise Pale Ale
Schneider Weisse
Post Road Pumpkin Ale
zobot
Kamloops, BC, Canada