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About Me

Hey everyone, I'm Chris, I graduated from Nottingham University last year with a History and Politics degree and decided to spend the last year of my life travelling the globe. It's been the best decision I've ever made and i've been able to see some amazing sights, meet awesome people and learn a lot of stuff bout myself n others. We visited Thailand, Laos, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and both coasts of the USA over 5 months from feb-july. If you ever think about travelling don't question it n just do it cos u gota live not just work all your life! Next up I wanna inter-rail around Europe and visit all 6 continents before im 30! Peru is probably the country I most wanna see at the mo.Apart from travel I can't live without music - it means a lot to me and I'm currently working as a part time journalist for Gigwise.com and Virtual Festivals among others reviewing gigs and cds and doing interviews. I'll listen to plenty from heavy metal to rock, indie, punk, hip hop, pop...whatever really if it sounds good I'll listen to it!I'm quite into my Politics since studying it and understanding the world a bit better n how it works. N sport is always something I follow but I'm all about travel at the mo after my trip...a travel writer would be a sweet job for me now i guess!I've just moved to london, south to be exact in tooting - im now starting a year long course studying to be a newspaper journalist so hopefully in a years time I'll be writing - i've also recently covered Reading festival 2007 and did V Festival 2006 so things are looking up, come say hello MyGen Profile Generator
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My Interests

Travelling our little globe, Music in all forms, Politics especially the American system, Sport including Football, Cricket and the like, Journalism.

I'd like to meet:

People passionate about music, live gig goers and people into a good mix of music too. Journalists, reviewers, photographers anyone into that sort of stuff. Also anyone who's been travelling or is interested in travel, its one of my main interests at the mo, can't wait to see the world more than what i've seen already!

Music:

Indie, Rock, Metal, Punk, Hip Hop, Pop, Emo - most stuff really. I really respect bands who have longevity and don't just use hype to survive. I also love bands for quite simply being the best at what they do! A few of my faves are: Arctic Monkeys, Biffy Clyro, Bloc Party, Capdown , DJ Format, Get Cape, Glassjaw, Green Day, Hell is for Heroes, Jurassic 5, Kings of Leon, The Libertines, My Chemical Romance, Oasis, Pantera, Rancid, RATM, Reuben, RHCP, Rival Schools, Slipknot, The Streets, Tool n Wolfmother...so there you have it.

Movies:

LOTR, Star wars, Casino, Goodfellas, Goodbye Lenin, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Descent, For a Few Dollars More, Halloween, Downfall, Donnie Darko, Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 but i'm not hugely up on my films to be honest.....

Television:

I love comedy like Peep show, Alan Partridge, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Office, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Bo selecta, The Simpsons, The Mighty Boosh, Futurama but music tv is cool - live gigs etc. Oh and Lost - so addictive!

Books:

Michael Moore (although he is crazy), Stanley Williams, Bill Bryson, Bill Clinton, Autobiogs of people I respect/interest me

Heroes:

Family n friends

My Blog

Home time...

Hey everyone, I did state on my last blog that I would blog again soon but shit happens and internet rates are high in America and non-existant in Fiji so there ya go ;) We have exactly 4 days left no...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:41:00 PST

Day 100

Well its now day 100/150 and we're still in NZ. Since I last wrote we drove all the way to Aoraki/Mt. Cook national park and went walking through the valleys there so we could get a view of the mounta...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 23 May 2007 06:50:00 PST

New Zealand and the dangers of campervanning...

Alrite folks, I'm in New Zealand now and enjoying the unbelievable scenery. it's kinda like home in a lot of ways, loadsa sheep n rolling hills but lots less people. 4m live here in the same space as ...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 07 May 2007 07:15:00 PST

Leaving Australia

Well its finally time for us to leave Australia after nearly 7 weeks. it's been absolutely stunning throughout n we're managed to go from where the roads end in the North right down to the extreme coa...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:07:00 PST

Byron Bay, Nimbin the home of drugs and Sydney

G'day again folks, After leaving Brisbane we headed further south to Byron Bay - livid that when we showed up I discovered there was a music festival on. It sounded really good - had Wolfmother, ...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:58:00 PST

Fraser Island and Brisbane

Hey everyone, Thought I'd write a lil update as to what we've been upto in the last few weeks. Fraser island was just unbelievable! Its the worlds biggest sand island so we had to get a 4WD truck, ten...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:21:00 PST

Down Under...

Hey everyone from down under! Having an unbelievable time so far - just thought i'd update everyone a little n remind u how hot it is here... We flew to Cairns to start and stayed at a hostel called A...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:45:00 PST

Sunburn and Kayaking...

Hey everyone, Hope you're all well - been a little while since I wrote so here's an update of what i've been doing. Well Luang Prabang was stunning - a real oasis in the middle of nowhere but the bus...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:38:00 PST

Sawadi....

Hey everyone, Have had a hectic last week here in south east Asia. Started by going trekking in Chiang Mai - not to be missed if ur ever there. Rode an elephant (ill put the pics up asap) trekk...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:33:00 PST

Chiang Mai

Yo, Arrived in Chiang Mai today after a 12 hour train journey. It was actually alright - they gave us free curry and blankets to get us to bed - saved on a nights accomodation. We're staying in a tiny...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:43:00 PST