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KNOCK HARD - LIFE IS DEAF!

About Me

I try to go through life with the minimum of stress possible, an approach which often catches up with me in the long run. I am clumsy. I eat poorly. I am 6'5'' (196cm). I like the French language. People think I'm witty. Hello! MySpace Profile Photo Editor

My Interests

Yo Yo i done a video for Slow Club. If you are a hot shot down at MTV etc feel free to send me a big wodge of cash to show it on the telly box.. Here's a video I've just finished for Letters and Colours: and this

I'd like to meet:

Tom Waits, Michel Gondry, Ricky Gervais and Keith Richards

Music:

Tom Waits, Sufjan Stevens, The Beatles, The White Stripes, Hoagy Carmichael, The Knife, Bob Dylan, Interpol, The Moldy Peaches, Flaming Lips, The Shins, Nick Drake, Feist, Syd Barrett, The Yell, Sparks, The Stooges, RRRRRotary Ten, Regina Spektor, The Pogues, Edith Piaf, Joan As Police Woman, Anotny & The Johnsons, Patrick Wolf, The Creation, Arcade Fire, Jarvis Cocker, The Kinks, The Gossip, Miles Davis, Cat Power, Velvets, Talking Heads, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, David Bowie, Joy Division, Stereolab, Bjork, M. Ward, The Smiths and so on and so on and so on and so on.....

Movies:

anything Kaufman/Gondry/Jonze affiliated, same goes for Jim Jarmusch, some German expressionist stuff, classic noirs, Spinal Tap, Lift To The Scaffold (coolest thing you'll ever see, honest), Stranger Than Fiction, For Your Consideration, Sideways, The Squid And The Whale, Butch & Sundance, Kramer vs Predator...

Television:

Pete and Dud, Brit comedy stuff, Boosh, Marenghi, Office, Peep Show, Barley, Brasseye/The Day Today, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Futurama. In fact all these are watched on DVD not live, does that count?

Books:

G, Enduring Love, Chronicles, On The Road, Down And Out In Paris And London, Jude The Obscure, The Guinness Book of World Records

Heroes:

Gemma Young

My Blog

questionnaire

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was your first thought?"brush your hair you scruffy get..."2. When's the next time you will have sex?how much simpler would life be if on...
Posted by Nicholas Shaw" on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:20:00 PST

another tom waits nugget

  Tom Waits: I have friends who are builders who make instruments. "Alternative sound sources" is the technical way of saying it, which could really be anything-- maybe something you found along ...
Posted by Nicholas Shaw" on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:06:00 PST