It was a phenomena of sorts. It played in this tiny theater. It was awash in secrecy. It was conceptualized years ago, but took years to realize, both technologically and legally. Tickets were expensive. Really expensive. Four digit expensive. Show times were irregular and only finally known by ticket holders. It wasn�t until two British papers, ironically on either side of the socio-political spectrum, the Guardian and the Sun, broke the story of what Rob and the Dancer was really about, that the general public knew why the secrecy. But most of them disregarded it as either a falsehood cooked up for publicity or a product of some deviant underground culture of little relevance. I�m here to tell you it is neither. 76681744daniel millerFriday, May 17, 2002publish<a href="http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/412/andy_zipf.html">MP3.com - Andy Zipf</a> More songs to come once I upload them... 76656447daniel millerpublish'Lord lead us from a life divided, to a life united.' Eckhart Vaux this Sunday, 8pm. 'The hardest step in the global revolution is the personal revolution.' Look forward to seeing you, Cheers Vx [Only connect] -- ------------------------ << An electric communication from Vaux >> 'Where there is no gift, there is no art' Services 3rd Sunday of the month. 8pm St. Peter's 310 Kennington Lane London SE11 2002 Dates: 20.1 17.2 17.3 21.4 19.5 16.6 14.7 23-26.8 15.9 20.10 17.11 8.12 <a href="http://www.vaux.net">vaux</a> 76655407daniel millerpublish<img src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/playbill2.jpg"> 76631571daniel millerThursday, May 16, 2002publish But again I must apologize. Again I�m telling you more than I should, or you want to hear. I�m so embarrassed. I just don�t know when to shut up sometimes. So the daily grind continued, quite literally, for many years. Until I heard about this play. Rob and the Dancer it was called, and it was the biggest thing to hit New York theater since the turn of the millennium. 76630363daniel millerpublish<a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cn/20020514/tc_cn/apple__play_music_at_your_own_risk">Yahoo! News - Apple: Play music at your own risk</a> 76621863daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.eastgate.com/ReadingRoom/WhatFits/WhatFits.htm">What Fits, a hypertext novella by Adrienne Eisen</a> I've had this in my favorites to read for about 6 months, and upon starting it, I'm ashamed it took that long. This is great stuff. Can't read it in one sitting, but I think it maintains your place. Hypertext is so cul. Check out more at the <a href="http://www.eastgate.com/ReadingRoom">Eastgate reading room</a>. 76588563daniel millerWednesday, May 15, 2002publish<img height="45" width="45" src="http://www.bendpress.com/index_jan_01/bendsquare.gif" border="0"> <img height="45" width="45" src="http://www.bendpress.com/index_jan_01/movesquare7.gif" border="0"> <img height="45" width="45" src="http://www.bendpress.com/index_jan_01/movesquare4.gif" border="0"> <a href="http://www.bendpress.com/">Bend : 5/15/02</a> Duuuuude 76586118daniel millerpublishI'm sorry. I really do apologize. I haven't even introduced myself yet and I've shared way "too much information." My name is Timothy James Sutton. I know, it could be a black name, but it's not. I'm white. White as snow. Snow that's had the first three fingers of its right hand ground off. I'm 24 years old. I make 1500 dollars a month after taxes; I cancelled my dental insurance after the accident because after that shiny whites weren't going to overshadow my lack of complete digits. And I don't mean a phone number. Although I haven't had one of those for about 7 months. I never did have health. Unfortunately I never got around to <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_554000/554103.stm">insuring my ass for billions</a>. If I had I'd probly have three fingers all better than the other 7 originals. My rent is 1350. I live in one room. Kitchen is one corner, living another, bedroom another, entry the fourth. I could really use another corner for the den, but a fifth corner wouldn't leave any money for the generic corn flakes, Raman, and canned beans that make up my daily diet. See, utilities average around 100; more in the winter, less in the summer. AC? Yeah. You're joking. So this leaves 50 for food. Monday: Breakfast--corn flakes, with milk if I remembered to steal some from the coffee shop. Lunch--coffee. Dinner--Raman noodles. Tuesday: Breakfast--corn flakes, definitely forgot to steal some milk. Lunch--coffee. Dinner--canned beans. And so on. I live alone because no one would ever offer to be my roommate. They either 1. Would be confused and paranoid about my sexual orientation--and they wouldn't be the only one--and have nightmares about waking up with their anal sphincters gaping wide and covered in Vaseline or 2. Be driven away by "the smell." Yeah, 'cause after breakfast and dinner, $0 is left for clothes and cleaning products. 76583876daniel millerpublishmore for the collection. still working on how to best do <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/dealingwith">the merch</a>. i can only have one item each with one image the way i'm doing it now. plus i make diddly squat. oh well, we'll figure it out with time. feel free to snag these images for your own anticommercial use in the meantime. <img src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/djdc_brand2.gif"> <img src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/walmart2.gif"> 76581925daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002VF0/104-9343579-9672702">Amazon.com: buying info: Starfish</a> How cul. This album gets combo'd w/Mulholland Drive. Someone could <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/registry/wishlist/ref=cm_ups_view_wishlist/104-9343579-9672702">get this for me</a> used for 6 clams. I'm interpolating Under the Milky Way in my new version of ...Need a Chorus. I am Kazaa'ing it right now and listening to it right now. Ahh...memories!<a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/advert2/">Czehia Litomerice</a> 76578932daniel millerpublishOK. I'm averaging a Rob segment every other day, which might be a good goal since I doubt you all come here every day anyway, despite my daily content gems (but is it content Dan?) (no I'm not talking to myself) (or am I) (ok, a little bit). HOWEVER, this little nugget is very important. And I'm sharing it with you before I know the details. I've stumbled across <a href="http://www.cleave.com">a virtual entity</a> very much to my liking. I can't quite figure out where they stand, what they're doing. But they speak my language. First, a little history. A little while ago (I'd show you with a link but my archives are broken AGAIN) I posted <a href="http://www.metaphilm.com/philms/memento.html">this Chuck P piece</a> I had found through <a href="http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/">his website</a> (which isn't run by him, BTW, but he did write that piece). Today I was at <a href="http://www.regenerator.com/main73.html">regenerator</a> because I'd been informally contacted by someone from there based on danielsjourney being listed on alternativeworship.org. I found the article I just blogged (just look down) (no, not that far down) (although it is about that). I checked out the author and the link took me <a href="http://www.cleave.com">here</a>. Wow. So I hunt around that site and end up back at the Chuck P piece. I knew I recognized that site. So who is Read Mercer Schuchardt and how does he know Chuck? And what is Cleave, really? This could be cul or it could be nothing. But so far I like the obtuseness of it all. <a href="http://www.metaphilm.com/index.html"><img src="http://www.metaphilm.com/images/phrontpage/TreigningDay.jpg" width="200" height="242" border="0" alt="Training Day"></a> 76576989daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.regenerator.com/7.3/schuchardt.html">Play Boy!</a> In launching Playboy, perhaps the smartest thing Hugh Hefner did was in establishing his personality as that of a witty, urbane sophisticate who enjoyed the company of many, many young women. After all, who knows how many fewer copies the magazine might have sold, had he instead depicted himself as a solitary masturbator? �Tim Carvell, "History's Great Persons Reconsidered," on McSweeneys.net 76575097daniel millerpublishI need to back up a little bit. First, a few facts: I live in New York City. I moved here about three years ago to launch my acting "career." I spent the first three months soaking my savings in rent and espressos, then I started working at the <a href="http://www.portorico.com/">coffee house</a>*; I figured it would help on both counts. New York has been a funny town. I come from the Midwest, so I probably have a warped view, a skewed starting point. New York still has its scenes, its cliques. It still has its famous attitude; really it's just the collective urban survival skills of millions of closely packed human beings. I came to find fame and fortune, mostly fame, however I was realistic and hoped for anything--and I mean anything--to pop up. Something like off-off-off-off-Broadway. But it seems that since the Towers went down those five years ago, there has been a lurking depression and fatality to the place. That area of town, itself, is even more beautiful than ever, albeit significantly less distinct in the skyline. But it's not even just that area of town, really; the whole place just has got a case of the stinky shivers, a reality bite. <blockquote> Stinky Shivers: a slang term, highly localized to some unknown region of the Midwest, which refers to the fear and dread combination feeling that rises up in a person walking through a cow pasture who stops suddenly and realizes they just stepped squarely into a fresh <a href="http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2002/03/032502t_cowpower.jhtml">cow paddy</a>. Reality Bite: another highly localized slang term. Somewhat self explanatory, don't you think? It may or may not have anything to do with an <a href="http://www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/movie/171470">overly</a> <a href="http://www.allwatchers.com/topics/info_10358.asp">hyped</a> <a href="http://eserver.org/bs/19/Salzmann.html">film</a> <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1994/02/905421.html">of</a> <a href="http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/ddb5490109a79f598625623d0015f1e4/98c59177a584db218825677c0020391f?OpenDocument">the</a> <a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/film/pages/movies/1838.html">mid-1990's</a> later used, along with other films and books of the time and genre, to label a generation. </blockquote> As for me, work in my "real profession" has been scarce. I was cast in a passion play at the local Catholic church, but the entire thing had to be canned at the last minute when it was found out the actor who was to play Jesus was a homosexual pedophile. There was no understudy. That's the last time the church will make that mistake. Things became particularly hard for me when, after just four months at the coffee shop, I, for some reason, thought it would be ok for me to force some clogged beans into the grinder with my bare hand. I lost most of three fingers. There was no sewing those things back on. Here's your decaf hazelnut for a cone filter, sir. And from henceforth of that moment, I became one of this country's secret underclass: the deformed. You wouldn't think that just three one-half's of three fingers would be enough, but it is. You're auditioning for The Purple Dragon Gothic Playhouse�s �Dominance of Macbeth,� and you go to make that dramatic hand motion that perfectly accentuates the climax of your monologue, and, "Thanks. We'll be in touch." *this is really where I buy my coffee. it's really good 76562833daniel millerTuesday, May 14, 2002publishMiriam is blogging finally!!! whoo hoo! and of course it's *amazing* stuff! she's working on her memoirs and will bless you with regular updates from them to her blog. as well as unique and inspiring thoughts from her everyday minutia. here it is: <a href="http://miriamsjourney.blogspot.com">miriams:journey</a> 76538706daniel millerpublishDan and Dave: drove by a methodist church yesterday. its sign read: "axe the excess" and i thought of <a href="http://axxess.org">you guys</a>. 76537789daniel millerpublishKeith is a new friend and local musician. He's also an amazing songwriter. Check out his stuff with his band Maypop <a href="http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/387/maypop.html">here</a> and <a href="http://maypopmusic.com">here</a>. 76537380daniel millerpublishjust got back from having a blast at the Dada open mic. might have to do that one more often!!! thanks to Keith and Tom! 76523382daniel millerMonday, May 13, 2002publish<img src="http://home.san.rr.com/underbite/angus1.gif"> me when my jaw finally stops moving forward 76523364daniel millerpublish<img src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/ballerina2copy.jpg"> Please put this banner on your blog or site! <form name="theForm"> <textarea name="theArea" cols="50"><a href="http://dealingwith.blogspot.com"><img src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/ballerina2copy.jpg"></a></textarea> </form> <a href="#" onclick="copythisshit();">click here to copy this code to your clipboard</a> 76451514daniel millerSunday, May 12, 2002publishrealized i can't not write this stuff. it's just coming. it keeps me alive. hope you all like this one. hope i get some more readers! :) 76451076daniel millerpublishRob and the Dancer I remember the first time I saw the play. I knew I had to be in it. I knew I had to be a part of it. I knew that it was my destiny. Never again to be in the daily <a href="http://www.saeco.it/Eng/Cf_prof_man_ms85.asp">grind</a>. Literally. I worked at a coffee shop. When I first saw that play, my heart burned within my heart with such a fire that the flames got real high and singed my <a href="http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/C/CNS.html#medulla">medulla oblongata</a>. It took a while for my brain to reconnect; it took a couple days for my ears to again hear the voice of reason over the screaming of my soul. I just knew that that is what I had to do with my life. 76450854daniel millerpublish