WHO COULD TURN DOWN A DANNY

Notre Dame marching band and OK Go? What a Great combination!

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:13:40 -0500

Notre Dame marching band and OK Go? What a Great combination!

Please do this it will blow your mind. Listen to this song and...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:12:49 -0500

Please do this it will blow your mind. Listen to this song and when you get to the outro 3 minutes in read and listen to the lyrics of Childish Gambino. Thier real, raw, and speak more truth then most rappers could even think of writing.

Thanks,

Danny

[Outro]
This is on a bus back from camp. I’m thirteen and so are you. Before I left for camp I imagined it would be me and three or four other dudes I hadn’t met yet, running around all summer, getting into trouble. It turned out it would be me and just one girl. That’s you. And we’re still at camp as long as we’re on the bus and not at the pickup point where our parents would be waiting for us. We’re still wearing our orange camp t-shirts. We still smell like pineneedles. I like you and you like me and I more-than-like you, but I don’t know if you do or don’t more-than-like me. You’ve never said, so I haven’t been saying anything all summer, content to enjoy the small miracle of a girl choosing to talk to me and choosing to do so again the next day and so on. A girl who’s smart and funny and who, if I say something dumb for a laugh, is willing to say something two or three times as dumb to make me laugh, but who also gets weird and wise sometimes in a way I could never be. A girl who reads books that no one’s assigned to her, whose curly brown hair has a line running through it from where she put a tie to hold it up while it was still wet

Back in the real world we don’t go to the same school, and unless one of our families moves to a dramatically different neighborhood, we won’t go to the same high school. So, this is kind of it for us. Unless I say something. And it might especially be it for us if I actually do say something. The sun’s gone down and the bus is quiet. A lot of kids are asleep. We’re talking in whispers about a tree we saw at a rest stop that looks like a kid we know. And then I’m like, “Can I tell you something?” And all of a sudden I’m telling you. And I keep telling you and it all comes out of me and it keeps coming and your face is there and gone and there and gone as we pass underneath the orange lamps that line the sides of the highway. And there’s no expression on it. And I think just after a point I’m just talking to lengthen the time where we live in a world where you haven’t said “yes” or “no” yet. And regrettably I end up using the word “destiny.” I don’t remember in what context. Doesn’t matter. Before long I’m out of stuff to say and you smile and say, “okay.” I don’t know exactly what you mean by it, but it seems vaguely positive and I would leave in order not to spoil the moment, but there’s nowhere to go because we’re are on a bus. So I pretend like I’m asleep and before long, I really am

I wake up, the bus isn’t moving anymore. The domed lights that line the center aisle are all on. I turn and you’re not there. Then again a lot of kids aren’t in their seats anymore. We’re parked at the pick-up point, which is in the parking lot of a Methodist church. The bus is half empty. You might be in your dad’s car by now, your bags and things piled high in the trunk. The girls in the back of the bus are shrieking and laughing and taking their sweet time disembarking as I swing my legs out into the aisle to get up off the bus, just as one of them reaches my row. It used to be our row, on our way off. It’s Michelle, a girl who got suspended from third grade for a week after throwing rocks at my head. Adolescence is doing her a ton of favors body-wise. She stops and looks down at me. And her head is blasted from behind by the dome light, so I can’t really see her face, but I can see her smile. And she says one word: “destiny.” Then her and the girls clogging the aisles behind her all laugh and then she turns and leads them off the bus. I didn’t know you were friends with them

I find my dad in the parking lot. He drives me back to our house and camp is over. So is summer, even though there’s two weeks until school starts. This isn’t a story about how girls are evil or how love is bad, this is a story about how I learned something and I’m not saying this thing is true or not, I’m just saying it’s what I learned. I told you something. It was just for you and you told everybody. So I learned cut out the middle man, make it all for everybody, always. Everybody can’t turn around and tell everybody, everybody already knows, I told them. But this means there isn’t a place in my life for you or someone like you. Is it sad? Sure. But it’s a sadness I chose. I wish I could say this was a story about how I got on the bus a boy and got off a man more cynical, hardened, and mature and shit. But that’s not true. The truth is I got on the bus a boy. And I never got off the bus. I still haven’t

This pretty much sums up what i wanna do in life :)

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:11:31 -0500

This pretty much sums up what i wanna do in life :)

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Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:09:38 -0500

Skiing in the Swiss Alps: My dream vacation.

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:44:25 -0500

Skiing in the Swiss Alps: My dream vacation.

Dove

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:23:26 -0500

Dove

Got a new cardigan as an early Christmas gift.

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:21:29 -0500

Got a new cardigan as an early Christmas gift.

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Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:14:14 -0500

If I have a kid of my own some day I hope I can afford to dress...

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:14:43 -0500

If I have a kid of my own some day I hope I can afford to dress him like this!

Harlem: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a...

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:15:00 -0500

Harlem:

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

— Langston Hughes

I took a Harlem Renaissance (which you think i would be able to spell without spell check by now haha) Lit class at school this year. This guy was one of my favorite writers we read.

"Astrophysics you’ll never be my closest friend. I find comfort in what my mind can’t..."

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:01:21 -0500

““Astrophysics you’ll never be my closest friend. I find comfort in what my mind can’t comprehend.””

- Vampires and Wolves by The Wombats

Fjords in Norway are just so sick. I really wanna go there some...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:43:38 -0500

Fjords in Norway are just so sick. I really wanna go there some day.

Well I just want to introduce myself… I’m Danny! I’m not as full of myself as my title might make...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:39:00 -0500

Well I just want to introduce myself… I’m Danny! I’m not as full of myself as my title might make you presume. I just think the urban dictionary definition is mad funny. I made this blog to be more sophisticated haha well… just less of a spewing of gifs and pop culture. I’m a music education major in undergrad and I play the euphonium (WHICH I LOVE). Hope you enjoy my humble blog with a not so humble name. :)

This is by far my favorite book! Hemingway paints such a...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:29:00 -0500

This is by far my favorite book! Hemingway paints such a beautiful picture of the struggle of a man to find love with very daunting odds. His realistic raw style is almost cinematic. Despite lengthy dialogue Hemingway writes in a way that allows one to connect with the protagonist particularly in this book.

Morceau Symphonique played by Dave Werden and the U.S. Coast...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:26:00 -0500

Morceau Symphonique played by Dave Werden and the U.S. Coast Guard Band :D

Mudslinging can be hilarious! Saw this in Newsweek hahaha. They...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:21:28 -0500

Mudslinging can be hilarious! Saw this in Newsweek hahaha. They just don’t leave Newt Gingrich alone.

This is my most current solo I’ve been learning it’s...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:16:00 -0500

This is my most current solo I’ve been learning it’s a beautiful romantic piece with plenty of tempo changes. Interesting minor key at the beginning then changing to Eb for the rest of the piece. Sounds great on Euphonium.

Most Have Only Read 6!

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:48:18 -0500

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Welp, I got 14. I guess that’s a lot better than 6 haha

"Danny An amazing guy. A danny can be defined by 5 words; funny, cute, unique, impressive, &..."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:14:00 -0500

“Danny
An amazing guy.
A danny can be defined by 5 words;
funny, cute, unique, impressive, & huggable.
Danny’s are people you can’t help but love.
& who could turn down a danny?”

- urbandictionary.com