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mister2b - Tobi

Mechanical Cabaret

About Me

On the 1st of September 2006, I found out that I have primary bone cancer. Ewing's scarcoma to be exact. I dicided to use my blog to let people know about my experiences as I go through this episode of my life so that my friends and other people who might also be affected by cancer can read how other people are coping. Luckily, I am one of the fortunate people who made a recovery and since July 2007 I have been in remission.


I love music and used to play lead synthesiser in Mechanical Cabaret . I was sad to leave the band but things in my life made it awkward and a breakdown in communication was the ultimate decision maker.
No Matter! I have started the new long road myself writing music under my own project "Secret Society". More news as and when it's available!
I also like 50's Pin-Ups, Hod Rods and Custom Cars. I'm just me!
If the pictures on the main page of my profile aren't working, it's because my server currently isn't running. Shall see what I can do about that soon! If everything is working, it's a sure sign that my server is operational!
"I like to see Psychobillies, Hardcore Kids, Punk Rockers and Goths all having a good time in the same place, that's what The Tiger Army is all about" - Nick 13, 01/06/06
I really love kite sports and have recently taken up Ten Pin Bowling, we used to go every week, but problems with my leg has stopped that for now. Hopefully I'll be able to get back into it once I've recovered. My best score so far has been 197, but recently I got a Bagger! (4 strikes in a row).
I used to organise a Goth/Industrial/wave/electro/80s club night called Disassembly
My next plan for setting up a club/DJing will be a predominently electroclash indie type of affair. watch this space for further service announcements!!
My latest project is Second State, an internet based radio station that only ever has live sets - Second State myspace profile
My mate, Mike, sent this to me. It brilliant!
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Adam do you read me over? I am going down the shop to buy 10 fags, do you need a drink or some crisps?
You fuckin can't go down the shop like that man, you got fuckin tin foil wrapped round your 'ead
It's not tin foil, it's my new skin, i am a robot, i have interfaced with my spectrum - behold!
You're fuckin nuts man, stop talkin like that!
What do you mean? This is my normal voice. my computer intergrated voice circuit is making me speak like this.
Stop talkin like that you fuckin bellend! okay i'm gettin a bit worried now i think i might...
I AM A ROBOT! I AM A ROBOT! HAHAHA
Fuck it! Inject him man! Inject Him! Fuckin get him down, ah fuckin hell...


My Interests



Here are just a few of my main interests:
Hot Rods, Street Rods, Custom Cars, ,Kustom Cars, Ten Pin Bowling, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Greaser, Kite Surfing, Power Kiting, Land Boarding, Blading, Pin-Ups, Cheesecake Pin-Up, Burlesque, DJing, Circus, Acrobatics (I was once South-West Floor and Vault gymnastics champion, when I was 12) writing music, playing in a band (Mechanical Cabaret or profile ). Piercings, Tattoos, Suspension, Body Modification (I have a split tongue! Simple Scarification and I used to have implants, but had to remove them due to an MRI scan.) SonyEricsson P910i, W850i, Coventry Jets American Football Team, England Football Team.
I have also recently been diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma a type of bone cancer.

I'd like to meet:

Interesing people who have similar interests to me. Age and looks don't matter, as long as you have your head screwed on, are a good person and fun. People in Milan who want to hang out.Cheers! Tobi.

Music:

Corr Blimey, where do I start??? My music taste is soooo varied but my all-time favourite is Front Line Assembly, which I started listening to about 12 years ago. Following their last album (which is fantastic!) I decided to start trying to collect every one of their releases!!
So, what else do I like? Let me just list artists of which I own at least one of their Albums:
In no particular order:

White Rose Movement, Interpol, Horrorpops, The Vincent Razor Backs, Dragster, Tiger Army, The Meteors, Guana Batz, Griswalds, Johnny Cash, Apoptygma Berzerk, Atari Teenage Riot, Aphex Twin, Aqua, Consolidated, Covenant, The Chemical Brothers, Beborn Beton, The Crystal Method, C-Tec, Cyber-Tec Project, IAMX, Converter, Electronicat, Tarmvred, Needle Sharing, Panacea, Suicide Commando, Tumor, Funker Vogt, Terminal Choice, Project Pitchfork, Dive, Blutengel, Diatribe, Die Form, Die Krupps, Delirium, Eco, Evils Toy, In Strict Confidence, Melotron, Abcess, VNV Nation, Dark Illumination, Cat Rapes Dog, Sonar, Fiendflug, Hypnoskull, Front 242, Frontline Assembly, Empirion, Ultraviolence, Foetus, Heavy Water Factory, Genital A-Tech, Klinik, The KLF, Laibach, Leather Strip, Mesh, Ministry (Twitch), Meat Beat Manifesto, Maruta Kommand, Consumed, Nekromantik, Nine Inch Nails, ,Nurse with Wound, Noisex, Nitzer Ebb, Orb, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Prodigy, Rob Zombie, Ravenous, Spahn Ranch, Sheep on Drugs, Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Haujobb, Steril, 16 Volt, Mentallo and the Fixer, Unit 187, Velvet Acid Christ, Will, The Young Gods, Run DMC, William Orbit, Traci Lords, Sperminator, Armegeddon, Tokyo Ghetto Pussy, Fad Gadget, Rammstein, Wilt, Magwheels, Merzbow, Combat Astronomy, Kate Mosh, Somatic Responses, Ativ, Darude, Dana International!!, Squid, 616 Abortions, They Might be Giants, Weird Al Yankovic, The Human League, Frankie goes to Hollywood, The stranglers, A-Ha, Black Box, Erasure, Yazoo, Ultravox, OMD, Hawkwind, Space Ritual, Led Zepplin, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, A-Ha, David Bowie, Nick Cave and the Badseeds, New Model Army, The Mission, Christian Death, Cure, Bauhaus, Girls Under Glass, Japan, The Cult, Killing Joke, Das Ich, Joy Division, Soft Cell, Type O Negative, TV on the Radio, Clan of Xymox, Silke Bischoff, Suspiria, Sopor Aeturnus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Manuskript, The Merry Thoughts, My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult, Lords of Acid, Ladytron, London after Midnight, Libitina, The Smiths, Morrissey Killing Miranda, The Horatii, Faithful Dawn, Fields of the Nephilim, Emma Conquest, Dream Disciples, Creaming Jesus, Transvision Vamp, Katscan, Alien Sex Fiend, Terence Fixmer, Peaches, Tiga and Zyntherius, Dot Allison, Basement Jaxx, Zombie Nation, Fischer Spooner, glc (Goldie Lookin Chain), Greenhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Doppler Effekt, ABC, Spandau Ballet, Ultravox, Visage...
many, many more which I will add when I get time...
Oh, and of course - Mechanical Cabaret ;)

Movies:

Star Wars, LOTR, Willy Wonka, Leon, Pirates of the Caribbean, Death Race 2000, Happy Gilmore, Nightmare Before Christmas, Van Helsing, Rushmore, Ed Wood, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Bride of the Monster, Dracula, Dark Star, Big Fish, Chocolat, Open your Eyes (Abre los ojos), American Pyscho, Beetlejuice, Batman, Taxi Driver, Big Daddy, Run Lola Run, Blade Runner, Indiana Jones, Logan's Run, Blake's 7, Seven, Fight Club, Interview with a Vampire, Preaching to the Perverted, Drunken Master, The Gift, Flatliners, A Clockwork Orange, Twelve Monkeys, Gremlins, Amadeus, Edward Scissorhands, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mary Poppins, House on Haunted Hill, Shaft, Labyrinth, Legend, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue, Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet, Uncle Buck, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells, Snatch, The Usual Suspects, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Saw, The Island, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Witches of Eastwick, Pan's Labyrinth, Basquiat, Amelie...

Television:

Mysterious Cities of Gold, Ulysses 31, Battle of the Planets, G-Force, Scrubs, Malcomb in the Middle, Peep Show, Brass Eye, The Day Today, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Monty Python, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I got News for You, King of Queens, Everybody Love Raymond, Playing it Straight, Dennis Pennis, League of Gentlemen, Little Britain, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Green Wing, My Name is Earl, Captain Harlock (Catpain Herlock), Battlestar Gallactica BSG...

Books:

The Hobbit, LOTR, Hitch Hikers guide to the Galaxy, The Breeders Box, Kidnapped, The Savage Garden... er, there must be more but just can't think now...

Heroes:

Tim Burton, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Matsumoto, Studio Ghibli

My Blog

Chemo - It's all over!!

Before I launch into writing my blog, I'd just like to ask if anyone has concidered rounding up two of every animal? Ok, on with the show...  I had meant to mention this ages ago but I forgot.&nb...
Posted by mister2b - Tobi on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:18:00 PST

on blood transfusions - line infections and aircast boots

I know, I know, it's been far too long since an update on my blog - well I've been busy visiting Flo and not been very close to an internet connection.  I've had two lots of chemo since my last b...
Posted by mister2b - Tobi on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:35:00 PST

The saga continues... and we're supporting FLA!

Ok Ok...  One Two...  Whipcrack Whipcrack... Ah, what news!  Firstly, some of you will be wondering why it's been an unual amount of time since my last update.  Well, that's b...
Posted by mister2b - Tobi on Mon, 21 May 2007 07:48:00 PST

An Easter recovery.

So, last week was another session of Chemo.  Not much more to report on, the sessions are becoming more and more the same.  Just the sickness and fatigue to contend with really.  My na...
Posted by mister2b - Tobi on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:30:00 PST

Only 6 more lots of chemo to go!

It's spring time and also British Summer Time, won't be long until it's summer, but the longer days are certainly welcome! So my last lot of chemo was just over a week ago, nothing really exciting to...
Posted by mister2b - Tobi on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:40:00 PST

Puberty... again? Started Phase 2 of Chemo

Haha!  So, it's been about 6 weeks since I last had chemo.  The first phase ended before I had my operation and last Monday I started on my 8 sessions of VAI.  The night before I went ...
Posted by mister2b - Tobi on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:58:00 PST

Staples Removed.

Yesterday, Valentine's Day, I had a date...  at the  hospital.  It was two weeks since the date of my operation and so it was time to have the staples removed and the dressing removed f...
Posted by mister2b - Tobi on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:45:00 PST

The Operation...

Right, well firstly, some of you will notice that i haven't blogged for a while...  sorry about that.  I woke up this morning to find Wales thick with snow (for those of you that don't know...
Posted by mister2b - Tobi on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:26:00 PST

Returned from Milan...

...  in the night having headlined to 1700 people at a Depeche Mode Party.  We flew out early on Thursday morning, the doors opened at the Alcatraz Club at 10:00 and we played at about 0:30....
Posted by mister2b - Tobi on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 05:17:00 PST

Belated Entry - Chemo No. 3 Down...

Okay - sorry I've not written here for a while - I don't know where the time has gone since this update should have been written about 2 weeks ago! So, my last lot of Chemo has been the best so far. (...
Posted by mister2b - Tobi on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:52:00 PST