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I did a few fun things on stage:
Recited a portion of Jack Kerouac’s “The Railroad Earth” with the band Fellaheen as backup. I believe that was at the 12th Street Bar in the Village. It was filmed, but I have never seen the video.
Recited some Allen Ginsberg poetry, accompanied by Denise Barbarita on bowed guitar, C-Note, 2002. I have a photo on the Timeline page as evidence!

In front of the camera: I appear briefly in the beginning and end portions as an extra in a Bollywood film “Anjanna Anjanni” I wasthisclose to being in a shot with the future Ms. Jonas, Priyanka Chopra.
In 2016: Extra in the Adut Swim infomercial M.O.P.Z., directed by Todd Rohal.
2023: Contributed voice-over work to Matthew Broyles‘ dystopian radio play, Rewired.

Quotables from notables:

Thank you so much for your support. Honestly- I wish there were more like you.” – Garrison Starr, via Facebook, 6/29/2013

“According to the Old Media Outlets and miserable old so-and-so’s in general, the internet is keeping us all apart from each other, isolating people in their houses in front of glowing screens, connected only to machines and mediocrity. This is pretty much the opposite to what actually happens, thanks in part at least to people like Dan Herman and Radio Crystal Blue who have, for over a decade now, been connecting music makers and music lovers all over the globe with an ecletic and exciting range of music which you’d never hear anywhere else” – MJ Hibbett

“Dan’s love for, and knowledge of, music is obvious but never pushed onto his listeners. Rather, his free-form style is an invitation to explore the artists he spins. As a music lover who, like myself, doesn’t like to put walls around “genres” – not that the term really applies – he constructs extended sets of the kind you rarely ever hear any more on over-the-air radio.” – Roger Silverberg

Now that so much radio is corporatized and Clear Channelized, Dan Herman has struggled to help keep to the genre of free-form radio  alive and well at Radio Crystal Blue.  I am old enough to remember when DJs had actual personalities and played music THEY LIKED (see the  documentary “Save the Music” for more on this important topic) rather than what the the corporate machinery has dictated….fighting against  the cloud of terrible sameness that seems to have descended on the music world, shutting out the weird, the innovative and the daring.  For music creators like myself, it is crucial that there are stations  like RCB that recognize the importance of what we do, many of us against all odds. Wendy Griffiths of Changing Modes  

Jamie Barnett via Facebook: “Thank you for being a for real curator – reminds me of the old days of WFUV, when a thrilling mix of musicians filled the playlists, and the DJs actually knew something about those they chose to play. Bravo for keeping it going..”

Inspiring quotes for me, and maybe for you:

Debussy: “There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.”

Satie: “Postulez en vous-même. (wonder about yourself)”