Danny Caes (or Danny J. Caes), explorer, investigator, and collector of the nomenclature of deepsky objects and stars, the history of electronic and electro-acoustic music, optical phenomena in and outside Earth's atmosphere.
°28-2-1964 (somewhere around 19:00), Ghent - East Flanders - Belgium, the same birthday as Djamolidine Abdoujaparov.
- Disaster
At school, he daydreamed his days away (daydreaming of astronomy, space, spaceflight, spaceships, the space age, electronic music and special visual effects in sci-fi space movies). The cause: mankind's first manned lunar landing during the summer of 1969 (watching television, age 4 and a half, between his parents, on a mattress which was transported via the stairway from the second floor to the first floor, from the bedroom of his parents to the room where the black-and-white television set was waiting to show a nocturnal transmission of two ghostlike beings on another world).
- Nowadays...
Blue-Collar Worker during daylight hours (indeed, wearing indigo-blue / orange work clothes), amateur astronomer during the nocturnal hours (wearing pajamas).
Dedicated investigator of Dreyer's New General Catalogue (NGC) and Index Catalogue (IC), and also of the many non-NGC and non-IC astronomical catalogs.
- Mjouzick
Has a very unusual kind of musical Long-term memory. He has still hundreds of musical memories from the days when he was a toddler, because during the mid-sixties he heard a lot of Rock-n-Roll music from his parents. Both were admirers of Rock-n-Roll (his mother: especially the young Elvis Aaron Presley in his "brutal" or "delinquent" years) and electric guitar music from his father: the Spotnicks, the Shadows, and Les Paul. Nowadays, their son (Danny) is always trying to detect the names, the composers, and the performers of, for example, movie scores and tiny bits of mysterious musics which his sensitive little ears received from the radio, from television, and from other audio-sources. Most of these enigmatic musics are still adrift somewhere in his brain. His lucky days are those when his adult-ears detect "lost" movie scores and other mysterious musics on YouTube (always hunting for the musical AHA-erlebnis!!!). He is always in the mood when he's listening to music which has a certain degree of SWING or WIT in it (!!!). Also a dedicated admirer of Ska, Boss-Reggae, Dub-Reggae, Romanian Cymbalom music (Toni Iordache), Manouche Jazz (Django Reinhardt), and music which has totally unexpected chords in it! (music to activate the working of the brain). He can't stand the sort of rhythm-less songs which have the terrible and dreadful Tell-Me-How-Am-I-Supposed-To-Live-Without-You syndrome in them.
- Great admirer of the sci-fi paintings made by Simon Stålenhag (very STRANGE mood!).
- Active contributor in lots of Dutch science-related articles, almost each one of them related to optical phenomena, the Moon, the Apollo program, the 88 constellations.
- Very active contributor in the article Transient lunar phenomenon.
- Occasional contributor in the article List of Mellotron recordings.
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