Danny began his lifelong love affair with music in the seventh grade when he formed an awful ska-punk band in order to learn how to play guitar (and talk to girls).

By sixteen, he was regularly DJing traditional Jamaican music in South Florida; before he was twenty, he ran two successful indie/Britpop nights in Manhattan.

At twenty-two, he co-founded and ran what was then the world's largest online retailer of independent music.

Now he enjoys loving on special records once a week in Aural Pleasure, as well as managing music content for the Neighborhoodies blog and the Donnybrook Writing Academy.

Danny likes very spicy food and the way snow looks when it falls in fluffy cotton ball-sized pieces.

email: danny@ampcamp.com

BOOKS: Alain de Botton; Lane; Joseph Heller, Philip Roth; Martin Amis; Julian Barnes; Slavoj Zizek; Vladimir Nabokov; Sedaris and Vowell; Anthony Burgess.

MUSIC: Most anything from Australia with a drum machine and everything fey from Sweden.

SOMETHING FUNNY: A vicar in a tutu.