Dan Hirsch

Bard College, Attended 1996 - 2000, Class of 2000, Bachelor's Degree, Integrated Arts (Film/Music/Art)

concert programmer, curator

The Berwick (www.berwickinstitute.org), Non-Event (www.nonevent.org), WMBR 88.1 FM (www.wmbr.org), and Other Music (www.othermusic.com).

the color orange, swimming outside at night, in-between spaces, found images, late afternoon daylight, communal meals, shortwave radios, odd dreams, land art, sea nettles, paella, natural history museums, pinecones, palindromes, non-linear reading, the photography of Arnold Odermatt, things strange and familiar, coastal arcade towns, historic cemeteries, pinhole photography, "shuffle" mode, distant sounds, and wandering

Rings of Saturn, Norwegian Wood, Joan Didion's White Album, Auster's New York Trilogy, A Brief History of Everything, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Actual Air, Tropical Truth, Saramago, Calvino, essays by Luc Sante, interviews by Kristine Mckenna, short stories by George Saunders, writings by John Fahey, photo and art books, surrealist and automatic writing, Oulipo, Japanese fiction, and Arthur Magazine. Currently reading Alex Ross' And the Rest is Noise.

Badlands, Paris Texas, Chinatown, The Conversation, Vertigo, Sans Soleil, Mysterious Object at Noon, Me and My Brother, A Woman Under the Influence, Hana-Bi, Chungking Express, What Time is it There?, Henry Fool, The Celebration, Schizopolis, Rushmore, Talk to Her, Eternal Sunshine..., Tristram Shandy, Me and You and Everyone We Know, plus almost anything by Altman, Bresson, Tarkovsky, Roeg, Herzog, Malick or Lynch. In recent months: Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, and Zodiac

Without whom: The Band, Dylan, Bonnie Prince Billy, Judee Sill, Neil Young, Smog, The Staple Singers, Townes Van Zandt, Karen Dalton, Jack Rose, Six Organs, Daniel Higgs, Royal Trux, Tony Conrad, Velvet Underground, Nina Simone, The Dirty Three, Scout Niblett, Richard and Linda Thompson, Nebraska-era Springsteen, Company, Souled American, Michael Hurley, Willie Nelson, Stax/Volt, Studio One, Keith Hudson, Ethiopiques, Sam Cooke, Oum Kalthoum, rebetika, The Clipse, and anything on Sublime Frequencies... Current rotation: Beach House, Besnard Lakes, MV & EE, Phosphorescent, Grizzly Bear, Deerhunter, Arboretum, Cass McCombs, and Shocking Pinks

The Larry Sanders Show, The Office (BBC version), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Home Movies, Mr. Show, The Mighty Boosh...

I want to see the bright lights tonight.

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