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Ball-smoke

I don't waaaaant any brisket

About Me



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I love nothing more than seeing a happy dog. The theme tune to The Littlest Hobo is the most beautiful song ever written. My French is going OK. Just don't ask me to speak it to you. I prefer pain-au-chocolats to croissants. I wish I had Geoffrey Palmer's voice. And jowls, come to think of it...

My Interests

film, music, booze, shoplifting, Steve Carell, Charlotte Gainsbourg, beards, moustaches (NOT! goatees), French, travel, roller coasters, roadtrips with plenty of tunes and smokes, animals, Mario Kart, capsule hotels, photos

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Music:

Lily Allen, The Amps, Antony and The Johnsons, Fiona Apple, Arcade Fire, Beastie Boys, Beirut, Belly, David Bowie, The Breeders, Bjork, Bloc Party, Bright Eyes, Calexico, Camera Obscura, Johnny Cash, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, The Distillers, Elastica, The Flaming Lips, Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Serge Gainsbourg, Girls Aloud, Grandaddy, Grant Lee Buffalo, Har Mar Superstar, PJ Harvey, Richard Hawley, Interpol, Junior Senior, Jurassic 5, Kenickie, The Killers (for the drumming), The Kills, Kings Of Leon, Mark Lanegan, LCD Soundsystem, The Long Blondes, Low, The Magnetic Fields, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Michael Nyman, Pixies, Iggy Pop, Public Enemy, R.E.M., Radiohead, Royal Trux, Scissor Sisters (for the hairy instrumentation), Simon and Garfunkel, SLAYER!, Bruce Springsteen, Marnie Stern, Sufjan Stevens, The Stooges, Suede (Anderson/Butler), Supergrass, tapes 'n tapes, Talking Heads, Yann Tiersen, Tilly And The Wall, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, M Ward, We Are Scientists, Kanye West, Wilco, Amy Winehouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs etc

Movies:

Robert Altman (specifically Short Cuts, Nashville, McCabe & Mrs Miller, California Split, The Long Goodbye, M*A*S*H* - Elliott Gould is so cool), Wong Kar Wai, Kiarostami, 70s Scorsese, All About My Mother, Amadeus, Amelie, An Angel At My Table, The Apartment, Badlands, Bande Apart, Belle de Jour, Blue Velvet, A Bout de Souffle, Carandiru, The Cement Garden, Chinatown, Confessions Of A Trickbaby, The Conversation, Cry-Baby, Dog Day Afternoon, Les Enfants du Paradis, Etre Et Avoir, Far From Heaven, Fargo, Five Easy Pieces, The 400 Blows, The French Connection, Groundhog Day, Happiness, The House Of Mirth, The Ice Storm, Jesus' Son, Last Resort, Manhunter, Midnight Run, One False Move, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, The Piano, The Piano Teacher, Rear Window, Safe, Serial Mom, Show Me Love, Spirit Of The Beehive, The Sweet Hereafter, Talk To Her, Three Colours Trilogy, Together, Tremors, Zazie dans le Metro etc

Television:

Prisoner Cell Block H, The US Office, Six Feet Under, Strangers With Candy, Buffy, The Simpsons, Kath & Kim, Scrubs, Sports Night, Arrested Development, South Park, The West Wing, The Day Today, My Name Is Earl, Peep Show, Spaced, ER, The Simpsons, Kirstie and Phil... The Good Life, As Time Goes By, god bless BBC Prime!

Books:

Tolstoy, Capote, Orwell, Greene, Styron, Chabon, Garcia Marquez, Elmore Leonard, Flaubert etc. I have SUCH a long list of books I want to read it's ridiculous...

Heroes:

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My Blog

I hate the Top 4/8/12 etc option...

Now I know it sounds silly but I have really been anguished and tormented by this option where you choose which of your friends 'cut it', making it in to your Top 8 or Top 16 or whatever. In the ...
Posted by Harry on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:37:00 PST

In at the deep-end

Yesterday I went to the cinema for the first time here, to see a French film. Its biggest draw pour moi being the star, one Charlotte Gainsbourg. Regular readers will understand. Was it silly? Or was ...
Posted by Harry on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:02:00 PST

This is for me

No-one, I'm sure, is going to care one jot about what Babydaddy does 11 seconds in to this video, suffice to say that I find it wonderfully thrilling and that I am just posting this purely so I can co...
Posted by Harry on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:41:00 PST

Blog from France .2

I had my first French lesson today and, boy, I'd be fluent in no time (this is a joke) were it not for that pesky masculine/feminine type deal they have going on. What's more confusing is that no-one ...
Posted by Harry on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:30:00 PST

Blog from France .1

So I've gotten Dad into Scissor Sisters - he loves 70s Elton and is a little partial to the Bee Gees, Abba and Billy Joel so it's not that surprising (should I be worried at this point?!) and I'm sure...
Posted by Harry on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:25:00 PST

Fun for all the family (or Team Red)

Here is a lovely picture of me hard at work in my new office in France. But because I am surrounded by ten gifts I received on my birthday, I am finding it very hard to concentrate. Which eagle-eyed v...
Posted by Harry on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:30:00 PST

Birthday, booze and electronic Sudoku

Oh, I really have the best friends. Yesterday was a mighty one, in terms of attendence, booze intake and incredible generosity. The trouble was that (if I can call it trouble!) is that too many people...
Posted by Harry on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:07:00 PST

eBay

Oh so I just won an item off eBay and that makes me TRèS happy, but I can't help feeling as if I was a little sneaky about it. It is a beautiful poster-sized portrait of my love, Charlotte G...
Posted by Harry on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:12:00 PST

Leeds Festival 2006

So it's taken me a while to post this up but hey, whaddagonnado? I think Chong had the right idea, so here, dear reader, follow a couple of memorable moments, which you will see I have bullet-po...
Posted by Harry on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:38:00 PST

Wed 23rd August 2006

This is going to be a busy day. For 1) at 11:30am it is the day of my debut tat appointment. There was much debate with the talented inksman where exactly the porkchop (we concluded it was a porkchop,...
Posted by Harry on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:04:00 PST