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[lunalovegoodrules]

Name:  Dan

Also known as: tbernhard, darkthirty, lunalovegoodrules, the BIC 
LIGHTER guy, the boy in the closet guy

Age/Sex: 43/Male

Birthplace/Livingplace and feelings about same: Born in Waterloo, 
Ontario, moved to Vancouver BC in 1990. Where I live is, uh, 
interesting.

Family Life: Single, have 7 year old son, who loves the Potter books. 
Sometimes I have him here daily, other times, only a day a week.

Personality: friendly, generally speaking, but I loathe dishonesty, 
talk to avoid silence, silence to avoid talk, pseudo-intellectualism, 
pseudo-naivete

Words friends have used to describe you: impatient, brilliant

Words you have used to describe you: "How can I go out of my way for 
anything? Where I am IS my way."

Things you do when not staring at the computer: read, mostly very 
intense stuff (see book list), computer music (gigasampler rocks), 
write, floor hockey, soccer

Comfort foods: macaroni and cheese, half a box of multi-grain 
cheerios, curried chicken at the Indian restaurant across the road

Education/Work: Some post-secondary, never seriously a student, 
though. I work in admin, clerically, at a community centre in the 
Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. You might have heard of this area. I 
am a city employee, right now on contract to a group putting together 
a community play. This is fun, compared to my usual clerical duties.

Language skills: read some Chinese, Latin, ASL, speak only English

Technical know-how: I can put a computer together from parts in 20 
minutes, set-up a small network, learn a proggie in an hour – I'm one 
of the people other people call. (Last stop before the shop.)

Favourite HP book: OOP, of course

Favourite HP character(s): Luna, Severus, Parvati

Favourite HP line "Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher, except for 
that little drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the 
back of his head."

Watching/Avoiding the HP movies?: Indifferent to Columbus, to put it 
mildly. For the rest, we'll see.

Into HP fanfiction?  Very selectively. I even so-called write it.

Books you'd recommend to just about anyone: Yes, and Correction by 
Thomas Bernhard. The Fall, by Camus. Discipline and Punish, by Michel 
Foucault, Death in the Barren Ground, Edgar Christian (rare), 
anything by Sir Thomas Browne, Jose Saramago, Robert Musil, The Worst 
Journey in the World, Feminist Philosophy and the Theories of Man, OOP

Favorite TV shows: English Premier League, Serie A (or any soccer, 
especially men's or women's internationals, Champions League etc.), 
Brett's Sherlock Holmes, Columbo, A Touch of Frost

Favorite Movies: Sacrifice, Andrei Rublev, Nostalghia, Stalker (all 
Tarkovsky), Landscape in the Mist, Ulysses' Gaze (both Theo 
Angelopoulis), Dreams, Derzu Uzala, Dodes'kaden, Rashomon (all Akira 
Kurosawa), Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr), Do the Right Thing 
(The Great American Movie, Spike Lee), Jupiter's Wife (Michael 
Negroponte), The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda), Ballad of Narayama 
(Shohei Imamura), Strozek, Fitzcarraldo (both Werner Herzog), any 
Fassbinder, and Whale Rider!!!

Favorite Musical Artists: Louis Andreissen, Arvo Part, Sandy Denny, 
Michael Smith (the American folk singer who wrote The Dutchman), 
William Mundy, Thomas Tallis, John Sheppard, Heinrich Isaac, Veljo 
Tormis, Wim Mertens, John Cage, Gavin Bryars, Glen Branca, Tan Dun, 
Guillaume Dufay, Eleni Karaindrou, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 
Nocturnal Emissions, SPK, Penitent, Stephen Montague (The White Edge 
of Phrygia is fantastic), 4AD stuff, Magazine, Buzzcocks

One thing about your life you'd change if you could (sorry, but you 
may not say "lose weight"): live in New Zealand on the coast

One thing about your life you wouldn't change even for an advance
copy of Book 7: Mindfulness.

Philosophy for an easy life: No philosophy.

How you found HPfGU: Looked for a place to expostulate. Found it.

Active at other HP sites: yeah

Your most rock solid Book 6 or Book 7 prediction: book 6, Harry runs 
away, planning to confront Voldemort on his own. Book 7, Harry falls 
in love with Luna and she dies. (Well, not rock solid, eh
)

Take a moment to wave to members of the fandom you have personally 
met: No one, but thanks for the kind words from those who emailed me 
about BIC LIGHTER and the boy in the closet stuff.

ADD A QUESTION OF YOUR OWN AND ANSWER IT: What does it all mean? 
Answer: see the movies I mentioned, or just Andrei Rublev, Landscape 
in the Mist, or Whale Rider, read the books I mentioned, or just 
Correction, or listen to the music I listed, or just Sandy Denny.

dan