BIRTH NAME: Daniel Blum
AGE: 93 (looks late twenties)
HEIGHT: 180cm/6' WEIGHT: 72Kg/160lbs
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BIRTH NAME: Daniel Blum AGE: 93 (looks late twenties) HEIGHT: 180cm/6' WEIGHT: 72Kg/160lbs |
INSPIRATION FOR DANIEL:
Daniel Ash (pictured above). Sorry, he's just gorgeous and
striking and charismatic and fabulous. I've been into Dan Ash for a
very long time, since I saw the "Ball of Confusion" video in... God,
it must have been 1985, when I was thirteen. I was more into the
sound of Love and Rockets at the time than the sickly, wan
deathrockers who performed it; I preferred my pop gods a little more
sophisticated-looking (see Duran
Duran). Love and Rockets was about SOUND and listening to their
music, my levels of music appreciation went up another several
notches all at once. You might say Love and Rockets took my rock
virginity (except of course you can thank Men at Work for that); my
goth virginity, anyway. It's happened to millions of people; they
wake up suddenly and the world makes a terribly bitter sense, and
they go buy their first box of black hair dye. Anyway, although I
maintain that Kevin
Haskins is the best-looking member of Love and Rockets (hence my
objective description of Daniel Blum as "not beautiful", but gorgeous
in movement, as Daniel Ash is), my love of the band blossomed into
lust. I wanted more. This, of course, brought me to Bauhaus, and then
to Tones on Tail and
Dali's
Car, both projects which, despite the opinions of the bands, are
my favorite output of any of them. So, yeah, thanks for everything,
Daniel.
In addition to the outer shell (and inner artistic leanings) of Dan
Ash, there's a lot of other people I've known inside Daniel.
Courtney
Taylor is one of them. If I was God I would have Courtney play
Daniel in the movie. CT-T's too old, technically, but there's no such
thing as too old when it comes to Courtney's unnatural sexual
charisma. I've rarely ever experienced anything like it. Only
Courtney has the juice to really make it work. If they don't get him,
I'll insist that whatever actor they get spends a week with Courtney,
absorbing that delicious rock star aroma.
There are various other charismatic sociopaths that I have
encountered in my travels. Some of them bit me.
SECRETS ABOUT DANIEL: He is
claustrophobic.
-His grades in art school were so bad he barely avoided flunking out
altogether. His desperate letters to such Dada luminaries as Hugo
Ball, Paul Eluard and Tristan Tzara were returned without having been
opened. Their rejection only served to fuel his passion for the
by-then passé art movement, and he later correspondended
regularly with Kurt Schwitters, trading sketches. Schwitters remains
Daniel's primary influence. Daniel's carefully timed sales of pieces
of his collection to the Schwitters Archive in Hanover comprise
most of his income; he has them sold by agents, so as not to be
seen.
-Daniel fell in love with Ricari because of the latter's watercolour
paintings.
-Daniel's father had been born Jewish, but his wife convinced him to
become an atheist, and Daniel only learned that his father was Jewish
when he was being insulted in the schoolyard.
-Daniel wears Manic Panic lipstick, usually well matte, but
occasionally disturbingly shiny. He has been wearing makeup
regularly, if not daily, since he was a teenager and theatre
encouraged his outrageous side.
-Daniel is the focus of the next book, WOUNDS.
SONG FOR DANIEL: Oh, God, there are an infinite amount of them...
WHO WOULD I CAST AS DANIEL? The aforementioned Courtney Taylor-Taylor. I'd like to see what Johnny Depp would do with this role, but Johnny's too dark-skinned to really pull it off -- he'd have to avoid the sun for a year and be covered entirely with white makeup. However, we know from Edward Scissorhands that he can handle prosthetic fingers and looks good all gothed up.
