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Swifty a-go-go

I am here for Friends

About Me


Swift. Hence swiftiness.
"Video games don't affect kids. If Pacman had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - CEO of Nintendo -1988

Please sponsor me to do the Great North Run - over thirteen miles of horrible running!! It's all for charity :)

My Interests

Dancing, skating, drinking, raving, prancing, eating, swaying, laying, sleeping.
And my mum's knitting.

I'd like to meet:


People who can give me good words. Or icecream. Or music. Or glitter. Or squirrels.
Anyone who can buy me one of these...

Music:

Top musical things that I can think of right now;
* Erol dropping 'Phantom' at wax:on...hands to the sky!
* Pretty much everything at Larmertree '07, but in particular SeasickSteve/Ozomatli/Dreadzone/EasyStarAllStars/NualaATAQ@s ocial/AlexRobertandtheGravamanSound/GlowGlobes
* My very small, very pink, dinky little iPod (of wonder).
* Ocean Colour Scene kicking off their V set with the Riverboat Song YEAH! * Erol + Digitalism @ plug.
* The Cat Empire in Liv.
* Pippa and her wooden saxaphone.
* Rodriguez y Gabriella @ V
* The song on the Muller adverts, in its very many versions
* Gogol Bordello @ halloween.
* Tea drinking with the Scruffster.

Movies:

Pulp Piction, Reservoir Dogs, Amelie, Delicatessen, City of God, Requiem for a Dream, Magnolia, The Pianist, Donny Darko, Amos Perros, American History X, Alfie (the original), Tremors, Dancer in the Dark, Weird Science, Fight Club, The Ring (original).....the usual indie shmindie type stuff.

Television:

DANGERMOUSE, Black Adder, BLACKBOOKS, The Young Ones, Midsomer Murders, Inspector Frost, Teachers, Look around you, Charlie Brown, Spaced, My Family, River Cottage, anything with Keith Floyd, Absolutely Fabulous, Only fools and horses, Parkinson...
ABSOLUTELY NOT NOT NOT NOT LITTLE BRITAIN. EVER.

Books:

'How to Loose Friends and Alienate People' - Toby Young
'Things my Girlfriend and I have Argued About' - Mil Millington
'Catch 22' - Joseph Heller,
'A big boy did it and ran away' - Christopher Brookmyre
'The Boy Who Kicked Pigs' - Tom Baker
'Nineteen-eighty-four' - George Orwell
'Red Dwarf' - Grant Naylor

Heroes:

The person who decided to make soup out of cheese. Genius.
Ms Amy Moran for telling me how to put spaces in between the lines on my profile.
Bernard Black.And dangermouse. definately dangermouse.

My Blog

oh deary deary dear.

The more [X]'s the dumber your are.[X] Gum has fallen out of your mouth when you were talking.[X] Gum has fallen out of your mouth when you were NOT talking.[X] You have ran into a glass/screen door.[...
Posted by Swifty a-go-go on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:49:00 PST

Amy is going down

Myself and Ms Hulse have come to the conclusion that the only reason people hang around with us is because we make them look good. We get a bit too battered, a bit too often, and end up in little indi...
Posted by Swifty a-go-go on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:23:00 PST

something's wrong....

with the world, when you get a kinder egg, and the toy inside turns out to be a build-it-yourself model smart car.....with the website address for smart cars on the little bit of paper that tells you ...
Posted by Swifty a-go-go on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:10:00 PST