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Renniks

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About Me

Watch out for bikers when you are driving - a cool ad from the States

My Interests

Motorbikes, old Irish GM locos

I'd like to meet:

+++++The guy that came up with the whole 'Crazy Frog' thing, so I could punch him in the face.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++Maddox (www.maddox.xmission.com)

Music:

Punk rock, Hardcore, Metal, Irish Trad, Thin Lizzy, Primus, Slayer, Megadeth, Roy Harper, Frank Zappa, Planxty, Christy Moore, Horslips, Subhumans, Rancid, Nomeansno, NOFX

Movies:

Das Boot, Cross of Iron, Apocalypse Now, Copkiller, Aliens, original Star Wars trilogy, Repo Man, Up in Smoke, Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns, Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, Akira, Ghost in the Shell 1 & 2, and pretty much all Manga releases, Cheesy '80s horror flicks

Television:

Trailer Park Boys. Oz. Anything by David Attenborough. Deadliest Catch (Captain Sig rocks!) Equinox, Horizon

Books:

Anything by Dan Abnett, all Sven Hassel books, 'The Forgotten Soldier' by Guy Sajer, JRR Tolkien, Howard Marks 'Mr Nice', 'Preacher' graphic novels by Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon

Heroes:

Chuck Norris; Maddox; Padraig Nally; Mark Brandon Read (aka 'Chopper')

My Blog

To catch a rat...

Since I moved in to the house I'm renting, last August, there has been a rat in the back garden. I saw it for the first time on the second day in the house. Since then, I kinda let it slide, but a cou...
Posted by Renniks on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:30:00 PST

Chainsaw dreams

Over the last few months, I have had a desire to have a chainsaw of my very own. Over the last couple of weeks, this desire has grown stonger, driven by the proximity of a source of felled wood in the...
Posted by Renniks on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:52:00 PST

The 'Wilhelm Scream'

In 1951, a sound designer on a Gary Cooper western called Distant Drums needed to overdub a scream onto a scene in which a man is killed by an alligator. He brought a contract actor into his studio an...
Posted by Renniks on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:38:00 PST