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clancy

whaddya mean you don't sell CurlyWurly's?

About Me

I now live & work in Tokyo which is amazing. I love to play out in the sunshine with my friends. I'm dead friendly really and a little bit daft.Strange things always seem to 'happen' to me. I laugh lots. I also think I'm a bit psychic (or insane?) I am learning to play guitar and can now play three Rammstein songs (albeit very slowly and not very well - but now Richard is off with Emigrate - there may be an opening sooooooooon!)I am mad about judo and when not doing it, I'm thinking about it lots, currently I train at the Kodokan Judo Institute, Tokyo. My ambition is to finish a crossword all by myself.Click here to take a peek at my photos of fun & travels MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Pottery, Judo, reading, playing out with friends lots, eating chocolate, travelling to fab places and meeting people. Roasting vegetables, learning Japanese, making paper, L.A.M.B. clothing, people watching, collecting petals and leaves, being nosey, juicing, learning to play guitar, Benefit cosmetics. CurlyWurlys are my favourite chocolate bars They don't sell them in evey shop like Mars Bars. Lavender. Karaoke. Also have amazing shopping stanima, for everything apart from electrical goods or shoes. Domino toppling contests. Words which contain lots of vowels. I am a chronic myspace quiz filler-inner.

I'd like to meet:

Julie Andrews & Till!

My Friend Space
I have a squillion friends.

caroline fishcake

joolie

chantelle

asmundo

mara

curley clur

deany beany

wakako

rob rob

caroline B

steve

Lovely Stevo Hill

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Music:

RAMMSTEIN!!! (Ever so slightly Rammstein obsessed !). Plus SOAD, QOTSA, A Perfect Circle, Tool, PJ Harvey, The Smiths, Rush, Kings of Convenience, Jeff Buckley, The Arcade Fire, Trivium, Depeche Mode, Magic Numbers, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, The Sounds, Cradle of Filth, Bloc Party, Neutral Milk Hotel, Peaches, Peter, Bjorn & John, Red House Painters, Janes Addiction, Stray's Don't Sleep, Auf der Maur, Pixies, Calla, Bloodhound Gang, Madonna, Smashing Pumpkins, The Go! Team, Dream Theatre, Denki Groove, Massive Attack, At The Drive In, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead, The Shins, King, Jethro Tull, Porcupine Tree, Black Flag, Hole, Weather Report, Killing Joke, Dinosour Jr, Manu Chao, Luscious Jackson, Half Man Half Biscuit, Sleater-Kinney, Fuzzbox, Yeay Yeah Yeahs, Katastrophy Wife, Yes, Violent Femmes, X-Ray Spex, etc etc

Movies:

BBC version of Pride and Predjuce( my favouite film to watch when hungover - all six hours in a 1er) any cheezy chick flick, martial arts films, The Cider House Rules, Where The Heart Is, Crying Freeman, The Departed, Art School Confidential, Heat, Godfather 1&2, Amilie, Rushmore, Run Lola Run, The English Patient, Cassandra Crossing, Strange Days, The Sound of Music, One Upon A Time in America, Leon, Me Without You, Life Without Me, Dancer in The Dark, Mystic Pizza, The Goonies, The Poseidon Adventure, Go, Pitch Black, Pretty In Pink, The Towering Inferno, Beaches, Underworld, Hope Floats, Goodbye Lenin, Funny Face, Mermaids, Napoleon Dynamite, Serenity, My Life as a House, Walk the Line, You,Me and Everyone We Know, What To Do In Case of Fire ...

Television:

Battlestar Galactica (old and fantabulus new series), Buffy, Angel, Firefly, B5, Time Team, The L Word, cheezy US teen series (very addictive), all time favoute though that I can watch over and over is My So Called Life. The X Factor, Jeremiah, Heroes, The Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, Coast, QVC, Dune, Children of Dune, Little Angels, Frasier, Dark Angel, Shameless, Greys's Anatomy, Witchblade, America's / Britain's Next Top Model, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Project Catwalk, Little Angels, Prison Break ...

Books:

Favourite writers are Amy Tan, John Irving, Donna Tart, Anais Nin, Audery Niffenenger, Jane Austin, Janet Evanovich, Sebastian Faulkes, Ernest Hemingway, Enid Blyton. Phillip Pullman. I also like atlas's and glossy books about art and architecture. Judo manuals.

Heroes:

Kate Howie, my Nanan, Greyfairs Bobby (coz he was a really loyal dog). Anna Wintour.Mark Twain: 'Travel is fatal to predjudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be aquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime'.

My Blog

Check out this event: My 30th and Dunbars 40th Birthday Celebration

Hosted By: Caroline FisherWhen: 15 Dec 2007, 19:30Where: Riff's11 Station RoadBlackpool, Northwest|70 FY41BEUnited KingdomDescription:Click Here To View Event Doors 7:30pmUntil 1:00amJohn MausNeil Sc...
Posted by clancy on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:57:00 PST

19th International Budo Seminar, Katsuura, Japan

I had a fantastico weekend at the Nippon Budokan and International Budo University in Katsuura, Japan for the International Budo Seminar last weeked. Basically, it is an opportunity for gaijin martial...
Posted by clancy on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:31:00 PST

Embrace your inner geek!

Frackin Toaster!!!!   Guess which fantastical show this is from! Yeay!
Posted by clancy on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:40:00 PST

Double super yeay!

Urm... got the letter today from the Kodokan that I've been waiting for: I passed my Shodan exam! yeay! I now have my black belt! I'm super excited and can't believe it was a little over a year ago w...
Posted by clancy on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:52:00 PST

Clancy's adventures in Taipei!

I got just got back from a fantastical holiday in Taipei, Taiwan with my freind Daniella. It was slightly mentalist and here are a few of the hightlights: 'The day I lost 5 hours of my life in a hair ...
Posted by clancy on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:57:00 PST

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can you see it?   ..
Posted by clancy on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:09:00 PST

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can you see it? .. (edit:) Thank you Dean and Christian for your comments - I was being very blonde with trying to put some pictures into my blog! Dean: thanks for coaching me through it! It worked!...
Posted by clancy on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:09:00 PST

Tokyo chololate fondue and possibly the most expensive grapes in the whole wide world???

....At Grace's chocolate fondue party last night, one of the guest's brought along the most amazing grape's. So, the Japanese value anything visually perfect, and fruit is no exception. I have seen b...
Posted by clancy on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:26:00 PST

J-combo covering the Smiths - yeay!

I went to a super ace bar last night for drinks and they had a japanese jazz combo doing covers of The Smiths. It was surreal. (Sorry, I forgot my camera) but personal faves were 'Girlfreind in a Coma...
Posted by clancy on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:59:00 PST

Tokyo: 3 months down

Tokyo is still really shiny. I love it here. I never seem to sleep here, but it's ok, I don't really to need as much. So, I've been thinking a lot about my move here recently. Intially I just wan...
Posted by clancy on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:50:00 PST