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Gareth

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About Me

i'm kind of like that actor tom cruise. wait - i'm a lot like tom cruise. i know you're like - "no you're not." you could probably shoot down my statement by citing some tabloid pics or some dvd's you've got at home. that's cool - i've taken some criticism before. hey - from what i understand i'm taller than he is and i don't have the same style haircut or same shaped head. that's okay - it's not a big deal. you can tell me that i don't look like tom cruise, but what will freak you out is that i act just like him. i totally act like him. ya know - the tom cruise that you see on oprah and msnbc and the one that you see in mi2 and rain man. it trips me out, too. yesterday - in fact - things got very queer. i was driving my wife and i to work and i just totally gunned it down delaware ave (big street in philly) - so much so that i stunk up the whole place with our burned rubber. and my wife was like: "what are you doing?" and i said 'i don't know. i really don't know what just came over me.' and then i told her: 'out of nowhere i felt the need for speed.' and in that moment i realized that i was both tom cruises in top gun and days of thunder simultaneously. shit like that happens to me all the time.

My Interests

spending time with my wife - playing with my bandmates - graphic design - photography - playing with my ipod - watching/reading about films - reading in general - watching my favorite philly teams

I'd like to meet:

to name a few: edwyn collins - dorothea dix - alton ellis - sun (from tv show lost)- al green - alec guiness - muriel spark - stanley kubrick - keith primeau -

Music:

orange juice - alton ellis - vashti bunyan - my bloody valentine - talking heads - stereolab - josef k - roots radics - sade - bohannon - al green - ron sexsmith - pastels - new order - mouse on mars - cat's miaow - curtis mayfield & the impressions - heavenly v. satan - bert jansch - the fall - otis redding - teenage fanclub - aztec camera - king tubby - dexy's - everything but the girl - jesus and mary chain - go-betweens - clientele - felt - carlton & the shoes - belle and sebastian - fairport convention - freddie mcgregor - scientist - sonic youth

Movies:

eastern promises - cache - conversation - who's afraid of virginia wolf - the end of august at the hotel ozone - y tu mama tambien - le boucher - big sleep - kind hearts and coronets - discreet charm of the bourgeousie - breathless - le samourai - blow up - l'avventura - the servant - fitzcaraldo - le trou - naked - badlands - come and see - band of outsiders - forbidden games - the mother and the whore - bedford incident - warriors - etc. etc,

Television:

office (us & uk) - wire - colbert report - lost - freaks and geeks - daily show - kids in the hall - arrested development -

Books:

lucky jim (kingsley amis) - red harvest (dashiel hammett) -saturday night and sunday morning (alan silitoe) - is sex necessary? (james thurber and e.b white), women in love by (d.h lawrence), the hothouse by the east river by (muriel spark), light in august (william faulkner)

Heroes:

stanley kubrick - lennon & mccartney - orson welles - keith primeau - louis malle - edwyn collins - antoine doinel - steven colbert - roald dahl