Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Dan's LiveJournal:

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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
2:00 pm	Blog I may still post more random personal stuff here but things that I feel worthy of being shared with the outside world are now going to dfan.org/blog. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
4:36 pm	I feel old No results found for "venus de milo thursday night". (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 4th, 2008
9:18 am	Married! Many thanks to everyone who came, and apologies to those who we couldn't fit.  It was pretty great. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizadaly/tags/dfalywedding/ (15 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
9:28 pm	Someone at Wizards of the Coast must be a Patriots fan (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
11:40 pm	And one more show! Saturday, May 24 Cantab Lounge, downstairs 11pm, $7, 21+ 738 Mass Ave in lovely Central Square http://honestbob.net http://myspace.com/honestbobandthefactorytodealerincentives http://www.facebook.com/pages/Honest-Bob-and-the-Factory-to-Dealer-Incentives/29965091328 (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
8:51 am	Honest Bob in NYC and Burlington VT Yeah, we're finally doing a "tour" (by which I mean leaving Massachusetts). Thu May 15: Sullivan Hall, New York (@ Sullivan & Bleecker) $10, we go on at 10pm http://www.sullivanhallnyc.com/index.htm Mon May 19: Nectar's, Burlington 21+ free, 18+ $5, we go on at 9pm http://www.liveatnectars.com/ http://www.myspace.com/honestbobandthefactorytodealerincentives (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
11:55 am	Another public service announcement for classical music geeks Found via Alex Ross's blog: Deutsche Grammophon is opening an online store with moderately-priced DRM-free super-high-quality (320k) MP3s of thousands of their albums, including hundreds of out-of-print ones. It'll be at http://www.dgwebshop.com/ soon, perhaps by the time you read this. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 29th, 2007
4:51 pm	Honest Bob at T.T.'s, Friday Nov 2 Like clockwork, or something. We play around 10:15. $8, 18+. Then Sunday we load into Q Division and start recording our third CD! http://ttthebears.com/ http://honestbob.net/ http://www.myspace.com/honestbobandthefactorytodealerincentives (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
1:18 pm	More fun with Google Results 1 - 2 of 2 for "m night shlayman". Results 1 - 5 of 5 for "m night shalamyan". Results 1 - 5 of 5 for "m night shalmayan". Results 1 - 10 of about 29 for "m night shalamayan". Results 1 - 10 of about 36 for "m night shalayaman". Results 1 - 10 of about 78 for "m night shalayman". Results 1 - 10 of about 104 for "m night shalyman". Results 1 - 10 of about 169 for "m night shalaman". Results 1 - 10 of about 514 for "m night shylaman". Results 1 - 10 of about 739 for "m night shamalayan". Results 1 - 10 of about 1,160 for "m night shamalamadingdong". (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
6:44 pm	Also another Honest Bob show - Saturday August 18 We're at T.T.'s again, going on at 9:45 or 10 or something. Splendid time guaranteed etc. http://ttthebears.com/ http://honestbob.net/ http://www.myspace.com/honestbobandthefactorytodealerincentives (5 Comments |Comment on this)
6:38 pm	If you are an Igor Stravinsky fan and have 23 pounds to spare amazon.co.uk (not .com, sadly) has a 22-CD set of pretty much Stravinsky's entire output, almost all conducted by Stravinsky himself, for the astonishing price of 23 pounds (shipping to the US was another 3). It is hard to imagine a better deal. I have been gorging myself all day. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
3:36 pm	Another boring Honest Bob show announcement The announcement is boring, that is, not the show. The show will be AWESOME? I can't remember the last time we played this often. Once a month! It's like we're pros or something. On Thursday June 7 we return to T.T.'s in Central Square for what ought to be a great show. We have a couple of swell new songs and lots of swell old ones. We're second at 9:45 but you may want to stay all night because all the bands sound pretty good: polarbaron (http://www.myspace.com/polarbaron) opening up, TAB (http://www.myspace.com/tabtheband) featuring two sons of Joe Perry from Aerosmith playing third, and eclectic popsters The Old Ceremony (http://www.myspace.com/theoldceremony) closing things out. We don't have another show scheduled after this one yet, so come see us before you have to wait your usual multiple months between shows! http://ttthebears.com/ http://honestbob.net/ http://www.myspace.com/honestbobandthefactorytodealerincentives (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
9:37 am	Postminimalist music sampler For the few people reading this who might be interested, Kyle Gann, excellent composer and journalist, has a good post up on his blog about various types of postminimalism, along with five complete mp3s of pieces or movements, all of them good-to-excellent, all of them by composers I had never heard of. Now that I finally have a portable music player, it has become a lot more exciting to run across random mp3s I like. http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2007/05/postminimalism_chapter_one_met.html (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
10:38 pm	Honest Bob @ SkyBar on Thursday May 10 This time I'm posting a whole two days in advance! We're playing at the SkyBar in Somerville, just down the street from the Porter Square station, at the oh-so-rockin' time of 8:30. http://www.honestbob.net http://myspace.com/honestbobandthefactorytodealerincentives http://www.skybar.us (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
1:43 pm	Heroes hypotheses ( behind the cut ) (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
5:29 pm	Things you love and can't stand anymore I recently realized that there are a fair number of things that I think are totally awesome but never really want to see or hear again, largely through overexposure I guess. That is, any reference to them is more likely to make me roll my eyes and think "Not that again," rather than think "Oh yeah, I love that," even though I do. My off-the-top-of-my-head list is Monty Python Gilbert & Sullivan The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Hmm, all humorous, probably not a coincidence. Things that I would expect to be on this list but aren't (YET): Spinal Tap Lord of the Rings What's on your list? (21 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 14th, 2007
8:02 pm	Honest Bob playing at the Kirkland Cafe Thursday April 19 Our show will be nice and early (at 9pm), nice and cheap ($5), and nice and convenient (a short walk from the Harvard Square T). We will endeavor to make the performance itself as nice as possible. The Kirkland Cafe is at 425 Washington St in Somerville, right next to Dali. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
3:23 pm	My new favorite spelling mistake Results 1 - 10 of about 647 for "le nozzle di figaro". (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
12:27 pm	I have been tagged to answer questions about books. Hey, I can do that. One book that changed your life: I'll say Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson and Sussman. since it helped me decide to major in computer science. One book you have read more than once: I've read Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon, four or five times now. The Cyberiad, by Stanislaw Lem, is up there too. One book you would want on a desert island: The collected scores of the Bartok string quartets. I have this in one volume so it's okay! One book that made you laugh: The Code of the Woosters, by P.G. Wodehouse. One book that made you cry: A Very Long Engagement, by Sebastien Japrisot, before the movie came out. More recently I think I teared up at The Dream of Scipio, by Iain Pears. One book you wish had been written: A treatise on musical composition by Alban Berg. A second volune of annotated chess games by Bent Larsen. One book you wish had never been written: The Fermata, by Nicholson Baker. I loved his earlier books and then this was just embarrassing. One book you are currently reading: Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon. Also The Bloody Crown of Conan, by Robert E. Howard. One book you have been meaning to read: Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. Now I am supposed to tag other people but I don't like doing that, so just put up your own if you feel like it. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 10th, 2007
11:34 pm	Be careful what you wish for Liza and I were just watching an episode of The Wire on the DVD player. At around 56 minutes, just before the episode was going to end, the screen suddenly went black and the DVD player stopped. Shit, we missed the ending of the episode, which was probably some great cliffhanger! The display just said HOT. We tried ejecting and reinserting, no luck. Power cycling, nope. It just refused to play anything. Well, we said, maybe it thinks it overheated, and we should just try again in a bit. 15 minutes later, it does start up, and after a few frustrating minutes of accidentally fast-forwarding too far or too little, we finally get to see the end of the episode that we had been missing. Which consists of 30 seconds of a guy throwing up followed by the credits rolling. (1 Comment |Comment on this)