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About Me

Life Highlights:*Beating Leon in a dance-off *Around the back flick-pass to Bunting to set up the winning try in the last play of the game, Dorm Sport semi-final 2004Pet Hates:*People taking too long at ATMs *The lady from the NRMA Insurance ad

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My Interests

Sport, geography, current affairs, obscure stuff, the 90s

I'd like to meet:

Stefan Edberg, Richie Benaud, Billy Corgan, John Farnham, Les Murray, Ricky Gervais, Milli Vanilli and the Bundy Bear (I reckon I would be really popular if he was one of my friends and no doubt I'd find myself getting into all sorts of crazy situations)

Music:

Smashing Pumpkins, John Farnham, Silverchair, Something for Kate, Coldplay, Grinspoon, Living End, Limp Bizkit, Michael Jackson, Midnight Oil, Butterfingers, Beastie Boys, Presidents of the USA, general rock, dance that makes me believe I can dance after a few drinks, 90s pop!!! such as Real McCoy, Take That, Pet Shop Boys, CDB, Scatman John, Snow, Bryan Adams, Yothu Yindi, D:Ream, Mr Bianca, Vanilla Ice, Roxette, Alex Party & Bon Jovi ..... and The Young Divas

Movies:

Forrest Gump, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, The Castle, Old School, Point Break, Chopper, Scarface, Zoolander, Ghostbusters, Philadelphia, Muffy the Vampire Layer, Sixth Sense, Boogie Nights, Fight Club, Home Alone, Four Weddings & a Funeral, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Ten Things I Hate About You & Big.Oh and anything on SBS after about 10pm...

Television:

Seinfeld, The Office, Blue Heelers, Full Frontal, Hey Dad, Perfect Strangers, Hey Hey it's Saturday, Big Train, Spicks & Specks, We Can Be Heroes, Family Guy, Wheel of Fortune, Now You See It, A*mazing, Price is Right, South Park, Paradise Hotel, All Saints, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Brides of Christ, Da Ali G Show, Big Brother, Idol, The Mole, Ready Steady Cook (when Nick was host and I didn't have a job..), Uplate Gameshow with Hotdogs, Rage/Video Hits/So Fresh/the one on Ch 7, any sports coverage/show including the Bowls on ABC, and although not anymore Home & Away.

Books:

Brave New World, Othello, In the Firing Line, Waugh Declared, My Side, Yakking Around the World, Alligators & A..eholes, actually pretty much any sporting biography or autobiography unless it's about someone boring like Petria Thomas

Heroes:

Stefan Edberg, Andre Agassi, Shane Warne, Michael Slater, Richie Benaud, Ricky Ponting, Glenn McGrath, Billy Birmingham, Geoff Toovey, Cliff Lyons, Steve Menzies, Ben Kennedy, Ray Warren, Laurie Daley, Brad Clyde, Andrew Johns, Mark Gasnier, Les Murray, Johnny Warren, Tim Cahill, Lucas Neill, Marco Bresciano, Ryan Giggs, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Eric Cantona, Guus Hiddink, Patrick Kluivert, Steve Larkham, Steve Glasson, Bruce McAvaney, Billy Corgan, John Farnham, Peter Garrett (not for his politics, but for his epileptic dancing), Vanilla Ice, Tom Hanks, Eric Bana, PJ Hasham, George Costanza, Shaun Micallef, Ozzie Ostrich, Larry Emdur, Mike Mead, Phil Olivetti, Ricky Wong, Ja'mie King, Daniel & Nathan Sims, Pat Mullins and Borat Sagdiyev.

My Blog

Contiki part 2

Hey guys,Well as some of you know I have now returned to London after 37 of the best days of my life. There's so much I could write about it but to keep it simple I will list the highlights from each ...
Posted by John John on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:05:00 PST

Contiki

Ok guys this is gonna be really brief as I don't have long.Basically for all those thinking about doing a Contiki but worried that it might be only a big piss-up and lacking culturally I'd highly reco...
Posted by John John on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:13:00 PST

Widnes and my birthday

Hey guys, The last of the trilogy.... After my 10 days in London which certainly took it's toll on my body and my wallet I met back with Sam in Widnes, a place near Liverpool where Elaine's from, just...
Posted by John John on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:24:00 PST

London

Hello again, After my week in Edinburgh I decided to catch the bus down to London to get a taste of the really big city. On my second day there I had one of the best days of my life at Wimbledon. I co...
Posted by John John on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:59:00 PST

Edinburgh

Hey guys, Well the second part of my trip moved on to Edinburgh where I was greeted at the airport by Sam Mulligan, a man many thought had dropped off the face of the earth. The first thing you notice...
Posted by John John on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:39:00 PST

The worst thing about the UK

What's the worst thing about the UK? Many would say the weather, some might even say the people, however I believe it's their version of "Deal or No Deal". It's shite, bollocks, absolute roobish....
Posted by John John on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:16:00 PST

Telford

Hey guys, ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Well I've survived the first little bit of my trip and it's been a blast! The flight over to London wa...
Posted by John John on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:23:00 PST

Chronicles of Wisdom Teeth Removal: Part One

The only times I'd ever been to hospital before it was to the emergency ward, that actually sounded like a pretty cool claim (to a 16-year-old) until I revealed that I was admitted for doing my best i...
Posted by John John on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:53:00 PST

Why coverage of womens sport on television is sexist against men

Yes that's right, you didn't misread the title. Coverage of women's sport on television is blatantly sexist against men, or perhaps more accurately, a blatant case of positive discrimination towards w...
Posted by John John on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:57:00 PST

My quest to find the most cricket-watchable pub

Over the past couple of weeks, with my workload having eased dramatically (gotta love that pre-Christmas period!), it has become a priority of mine to witness as much of the 2006/07 Ashes series as po...
Posted by John John on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:47:00 PST