Location

Chicago-ish-kinda-sorta-somewheres…..I don't want you crazies knowing where I live! :P

Life Philosophy

Life's about making yourself and having fun. Live and let live, and don't sit on the sidelines of life! You're as old as you feel of course, but at the same time you only get one youth so don't waste it thinking badly of yourself, living in denial, or being scared – chances are, nothing's coming to get you so don't worry. You only get to come this way once!

I am...

a creative, passionate, romantic daydreamer, a new believer in my own potential to do well and be who I want to be. Looking back fondly on the pleasant, carefree times that were, but keeping the inner child alive. Interested in some real world stuff like history, vehicles, and animals, but also flights of the imagination like writing fiction, creating characters and worlds. Currently working on a sci-fi series, I'd tell you what it's about but that'll have to wait ;) Also interested in guitar-driven rock – one of my dreams is to be in a band and write original songs that capture the essence of feeling infinite, though I don't know what style I favor most. I like punk and ska because it's energy, motion, young at heart and the spirit of the unquenchable self. But I also like psychedelia because it's so "other", so dreamy, cerebral, introspective. I'm an occasional psychonaut. Also just looking for some adventurous things to do with my time, looking for some new things to think about, new memories to make.

I want to make the kind of life for myself that it would be fun to read about, turning over every stone and leaving no regrets.

Quotes

"I grow up too slow, I don't wanna go…but now I'm working just like everyone else…but I'll get out, I'll get out of here!" – Operation Ivy

Website

http://www.bonsaitreeproductions.com

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/#!/dan.popp.92

Books

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dandelion Wine, Tales of the Jedi series, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Undiscovered Self, The Rum Diary, Transmetropolitan series, anything by Aaron Cometbus, Factotum, Pleasures of the Damned and other works by Bukowski, On the Road, Dharma Bums, Catcher in the Rye, the Alchemist, the Doors of Perception

Music

A mix of a lot of different styles, mostly punk, ska, psychedelic, and just rock. For instance:

Operation Ivy, Rancid, old Green Day, Crimpshrine, Fifteen, Slapstick, the Broadways, Face to Face, Good Riddance, 7 Seconds, Gorilla Biscuits, Millencolin, NOFX, Less Than Jake, Sublime, Slightly Stoopid, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Smashing Pumpkins, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Templars, Magic Castles, Tame Impala

Film & TV

G1-2 Transformers, Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Father Ted, Silver Surfer, Star Wars, Trailer Park Boys, Lord of the Rings, Oliver Stone's "The Doors", Wayne's World, The Life Aquatic, Star Trek, Quantum Leap