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Standish

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About Me

Guitar and/or organ in: The Speed Of Sound, The Stripchords, London Dirthole Company, The Garden City Project, The Super Snipes and Armitage Shanks. Constructor and operator of the infamous 'wheeliebag tribute' device – The TeaBag.
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

ends make

Music:

Garage punk, raw R&B, outsider DIY indie, creepy folk, Medway trash, The Kinks, Link Wray, Country Teasers, Thee Midniters, The Monks and The Fall...

Movies:

Laurel & Hardy, Ealing comedies, Point Blank, super 8 striptease, Wicker Man, Bullitt, Bedazzled, '40s Noir, early documentaries, American Graffiti, Billy Liar, The London Nobody Knows, She-Wolves Of The SS, Holiday On The Buses...

Television:

The Sky At Night, Catweazle, Horizon, Noggin The Nog, Randall & Hopkirk, Stingray, The Herbs, Twilight Zone, Bulman, Strangers, Sir Alec Clifton Taylor's English Towns, Road Runner, Open University, Batman, The Sweeney, Tom and Jerry, Worker and Parasite...

Books:

Chandler, Greene, Peace, Perec, Sillitoe, Saki, Dixon-Carr, Canetti, Raymond, Akunin, O'Connor, Sayers, Fante, Spick & Span, Wodehouse, Allingham, Bagge, Blyton, Bukowski...

Heroes:

Ivor Cutler, Oliver Postgate, Jungle Jim Liberman

My Blog

Today's Strategy

Don't be frightened of clichés.
Posted by Standish on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:54:00 PST

Today's strategy

Trust in the you of now.
Posted by Standish on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:21:00 PST

Today's Strategy

A line has two sides.
Posted by Standish on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:48:00 PST

Today's Strategy

Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do.
Posted by Standish on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:25:00 PST

Today's Strategy

Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them
Posted by Standish on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:04:00 PST

Today's Strategy

Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)
Posted by Standish on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:58:00 PST

Today's Strategy

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
Posted by Standish on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:43:00 PST

Today's Strategy

Emphasise repetitions.
Posted by Standish on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:51:00 PST

Today's Strategy

Be dirty
Posted by Standish on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:26:00 PST

Today's Strategy

Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance
Posted by Standish on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:12:00 PST