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benedict

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About Me

I still wear pyjamas
I wish anyone with over 1000 'friends' would just... fuck... off.

My Interests

fruit smoothies. figuring out when the right time was. semantics. prolonged dishabille. vacillating. prevaricating. reactionary lifestyle choices that isolate me thousands of miles from my own bed.

I'd like to meet:



the female version of me.
people who accidently say what they mean at dinner parties. people who have dinner parties. people who have dinner. epistemologists

I got lost in myspace and stumbled upon someone who liked the same bands and movies as me. i tried to add them as a friend before i realised it was my profile. true story.

Music:

thrice, blindside, hundred reasons, beck, alexisonfire, underoath, hell is for heros, REM, skirtbox, the shins, mahumodo, the bled, sikth, funeral for a friend, janes addiction, isis, throwing muses, weezer, billy talent, bloodhound gang, foo fighters, incubus, slipknot, stevie wonder, lost prophets, nirvana, bombjacks, pixies, pearl jam, queens of the stoneage, the kinison, static X, modest mouse, postal service, all-american rejects, the spazmatics, underoath, 18 visions, the bled, metallica, jimmy eat world, the mars volta, cky.

lately I have driven around new zealand listening to: coheed and cambria, rival schools, led zeppelin, death from above 1979, 50 cent, revolution smile, miles davis, damien rice, john coltrane. Then for some reason I realised I was also listening to a lot of bands beginning with the same letter. sick of it all, shinedown, seven mary three, senses fail, shadows fall, superjoint ritual. weird.

I love mclusky - thanks josh.

Movies:

anything by kevin smith (eh..jersey girl?), akira kurasawa, vim wenders or the coen or marx brothers. Most Paul Newman films, particularly the hustler and cool hand luke. fight club, american history X, blade runner, amelie, the goonies, traffic, city of god, I.D., usual suspects, things to do in denver when you're dead, emperors new groove, the pianist, immortal beloved, grosse point blank, point break, old surf movies, happy gilmore, time bandits, back to the future 1, E.T., apocalypse now (not that redux shit), swingers, made, the pledge, withnail & I, garden state, napoleon dynamite.

Television:

spaced, dark place, scrubs, black books, frasier, old x-files, northern exposure, futurama, simpsons, family guy, peep show, twin peaks, the pjs, the day today, brass eye, the fast show, monty python, fawlty towers, Aqua teen hunger force, Chapelle.

Books:

anything by kerouac, tolkein, milligan, kundera, palahniuk, le guin, salinger, grisham, milne, h s thompson, Self or Vonnegut. I loved reading: Catch 22, The Secret Of Nimh, To kill a mockingbird, The Fantastic Mr Fox, lovely bones, catcher in the rye, last exit to brooklyn, the great gatsby, life of pi, zen and the art of motorcycle repair, sophie's world, the dubliners, the old man and the sea.

Heroes:

chris pirsig

My Blog

Images from India

Delhi, India Hanuman temple, Shimla Himachal Pradesh, India   So I'm home. Who needs a drink? ...
Posted by benedict on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:03:00 PST

My passage to india

With nothing better to do with november, I packed my bag once more and flew to Delhi. And why not I hear you cry. I'm staying in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. It's a sprawling town busily creeping down a ...
Posted by benedict on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:02:00 PST

the news thats fit to print

being home has been a strange experience. I can't get past the feeling that I have been in a curious kind of stasis for the last year. My clothes are a year older, the batteries in all my electrical e...
Posted by benedict on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 05:08:00 PST

one more flight

I'm leaving bangkok. I arrive back in london friday morning at 7am. I dont know how long i'll be there or what on earth i'm going to do, but when I get there I hope you and I can meet. call me on my b...
Posted by benedict on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:11:00 PST

finding it hard to leave

Well I dont have to be back in europe until july as the dates of the burial have changed, so I have prolonged my stay here on the island. I've moved into an incredible bungalow with a beautiful view o...
Posted by benedict on Sat, 27 May 2006 11:21:00 PST

running barefoot for the burmese border

thailand is a curious country with too many idiosyncratic practices and customs. bureaucracy is rife here, and never more evident than the border run. Once you reach the end of your visa you are,...
Posted by benedict on Thu, 11 May 2006 11:51:00 PST

songkran and full moon

thailand has gone nuts. old women and little kids armed with super soakers prowl the streets dowsing everything in sight. every single person on the street is wet through. I love it. Today is the firs...
Posted by benedict on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:24:00 PST

living in brisbane

its been a while since we talked, and I'm sure we have so much to catch up on. This chapter of my little jaunt around the globe sees me ensconced in sunny brisbane, and by sunny I mean stupidly hot an...
Posted by benedict on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:14:00 PST

hobbit hunting update, 20/9/5

hello north-hemispherians, hows the weather up there? hobbitmobile alpha has run into trouble. cosmic radiation reflected from a passing comet caused momentary geographical anomaly that can be the onl...
Posted by benedict on Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:27:00 PST

my house on wheels

yes I've achieved the unimaginable feat, I've rented a campervan in new zealand. yes yes how tired and cliched. You go to work if you must, I'm off hunting hobbits.
Posted by benedict on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:42:00 PST