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About Me

Painter, Writer, Photographer, Singer / Songwriter, IT and Digital Photography teacher, Property Developer, Website Designer... well that's a lot of what I do but it ain't who I am. Who we are is hard to write about, we are after all Human Beings not Human Doings.I know, what a load of pretentious twaddle

Below is a playlist of songs I've written. It includes an assortment of finished songs, demos, song ideas. There's also a couple of Elvis covers near the end.
There's some slide shows lower down showing some of my drawings, paintings and photography. If you want to see more of what I do check out www.simonsdiary.com

Click here to visit my musical artist myspace page.

Find out more at my website www.simonsdiary.com

Sometimes Love Gets Gritty

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The video above is my one and only Pop Video... Yes you may well sigh a sigh of relief!
The video below is of a speech I made at the Microsoft Annual General Meeting in 2003 at The Dome in Brighton. Just so you don't get confused it starts off with an introduction by John Simpson, I then come on while being serenaded to by The Four Poofs. I hope you find it interesting.
Simon's speech to the Microsoft Annual General Meeting 2003

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The video above is of a man pretending to cook sound, it's worth a look but of course only after you've checked my stuff out first!

The video above is a video about a man with Jet propelled wings on his back

The video above is a feel good video about a hugging campaign

My Interests

Friends, Family, Art, Photography, IT, Music, Writing, Kyokushinkai Karate And Many Other Martial Arts, Shooting,- So Watch It! - Gadgets, Driving, Travel, Online Computer Games - In particular Unreal Tournament - And Writing Lines Where Every Word Except This one Starts With A Capital Letter.

I'd like to meet:

My Antecedents and my decendents. Loads of people... maybe everyone... you never know who's going to be on your wavelength.

Music:

See my I-pod for further details

Movies:

Local Hero, Big fish, Blade Runner and many many less

Television:

24, Sopranos, Lost, Fraser, Life on Mars, Big Brother,Peep Show, Green Wing and lots more... fortunately I never watch TV!

Books:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Time Traveler's Wife, Technological Device Manuals and To Be Or Not To Be - A Bee Keepers Hand Book -.

Heroes:

They're all flawed, best not to idealise anyone.

My Blog

Chapter 15

Chapter 15 notes <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />.. .. It's Over.... (words & music by Rodgers).... If time were not a moving thingAnd I coul...
Posted by Simon on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:16:00 PST

Autobiography Chapter 14

Chapter 14 I'm lying on the beach, just opposite where I live. There's a mermaid sitting next to me, she looks over her shoulder at me and stares in my eyes. "Come down here and cuddle up to...
Posted by Simon on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:49:00 PST

Autobiogrphy Chapter 13

Chapter 13 Sometimes a single moment can change your whole life. More commonly though it's a series of incidents that slowly have their effect. * * * August 9 th 2007 ...
Posted by Simon on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:48:00 PST

Autobiography Chapter 12

Chapter 12 Betrayal 1973 Roundshaw Something hit the ground. One of my toy soldiers was sprawled, gun in hand, across the lino. The friend I was saying goodbye to looked at ...
Posted by Simon on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:46:00 PST

Autobiography Chapter 11

Chapter 11 19/10/2006 Tonight I'm teaching web design at a local adult education college in Fulham. There's a football match on at the Chelsea Stadium which is nearby so there's heavy traff...
Posted by Simon on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:43:00 PST

Autobiography Chapter 10

Chapter 10 Pastens The night of December 21 2004 I was driving home to London from a dinner party in Kent . Monica had gone away on holiday and I was speeding along hard windy country road...
Posted by Simon on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:39:00 PST

Autobiography Chapter 10

Chapter 10 Pastens The night of December 21 2004 I was driving home to London from a dinner party in Kent . Monica had gone away on holiday and I was speeding along hard windy country roads...
Posted by Simon on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:41:00 PST

Autobiography Chapter 9

Chapter 9 During my years in care I would regularly stay with my mother in her mother's house in a suburb of London called Worcester Park . The main high street ran down a steep hill at the bottom ...
Posted by Simon on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:35:00 PST

Autobiography Chapter 8

Chapter 8 Barnardo's Background politics tend to have a far greater affect than those which are on show for all to see. So it was with the choice of where I was to live next. My mother lived in t...
Posted by Simon on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:31:00 PST

Autobiography Chapter 6

Chapter 6 Monica Part 1 I had just started a new job and was sitting in my office and Monica, the Welsh girl who works down stairs, came up to see how we were settling in. I was chatting to her but ...
Posted by Simon on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:29:00 PST