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Steven Turk

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About Me


My restaurant is fucking special, okay?

Incidentally, I'm really bad at replying to peoples' messages, comments and stuff like that, so don't never go getting paranoid - I don't hate no-one, I'm just a busily forgetful sod...
Yeah, and I've well got issues recognising faces.

My Interests

Procrastination and whatnot. Disrespectination of the English language. The peculiar joys of being a Partick Thistle fan. Going to more gigs and things than is sensible. de-Basing it up (drinking in The Basement) - this is uninteresting. Managing bands who refuse to exist coherently .

"duck art"

All that jazz. But not Jazz. Soil & "Pimp" Sessions have changed things here.

I'd like to meet:

People. Ooh! Or robots!No cunts though...

Music:

an awful lot of rubbish

Mainly the genius of Mr. Cuomo

See also Messrs Smith , Byrne and Mothersbaugh

Movies:

Battle Royale, Strange Days, A Clockwork Orange, Kill Bill, Run Lola Run, Ghost World, Star Wars, Westworld, The Omen, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Zoolander...
all the Bond films, of course (especially oh oh woh oh The Living Daylights, it is brilliant)

Television:

Adventure Time!
Doctor Who, South Park, The Simpsons, The Prisoner, Monkey Dust, Futurama, Quantum Leap, Sealab 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The League of Gentlemen, Red Dwarf, Father Ted, Six Feet Under, Heroes, Shameless.

Books:

The Metro is a book...

Lately I've been all about Atomised by Michel Houellebecq.
Part disillusioned dissection of contemporary social values, part intellectualised smut.

Anyone who enjoys comics should read Scary-Go-Round , for it is pure dead brill.

Heroes:

"They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth... part of the whole exhilaration of admiring somebody for their artistic accomplishments is resenting 'em 'cause they never live up to your expectations... Fuck 'em!"
- Lester Bangs, 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves, or, How I Slugged It Out with Lou Reed and Stayed Awake', Creem, March 1975

My Blog

Connect 2007 - part one

Time has passed. The therapy has helped. I now think we can all safely reflect on the events of last August/September...     Basically... THREE GO MAD IN INVERARARARARARAY!!   But f...
Posted by Steven Turk on Sun, 18 May 2008 04:55:00 PST

We’ll come back for Indian Summer... v.2007

And so the time has come to chronicle the terrifying events of the weekend after the weekend of unbridled terror that was T in the Park...   Following the scandalous events of the previous w...
Posted by Steven Turk on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:15:00 PST

T in the Park 2007 - part three

Way, way, way back in July, a foolhardy gaggle of miscreants went to a field in Balado for some vaguely music and alcohol related activities. This is the sticky end of their story...    ...
Posted by Steven Turk on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:07:00 PST

T in the Park 2007 - part two

So, do we believe enough tension has built? I believe it has.   In July, some people went to a field to watch some bands. This is the second part of their story...     When we last ...
Posted by Steven Turk on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:50:00 PST

T in the Park 2007 - part one

Last weekend, some people went to a field to watch some bands. This is their story... Sadly, the big build up of anticipation was tempered somewhat by the 9 mile queue of traffic caused by flood...
Posted by Steven Turk on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:26:00 PST

Mark's 21st Birthday Party

(Famous last words)Back in November, a whole bunch of people got together to celebrate Mark's (above, right) 21st birthday.The occasion was marked bySmoking.And drinking.And laughing.And watching Ian ...
Posted by Steven Turk on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:13:00 PST

Indian Summer

So, at the weekend there I meandered along the road to Victoria Park's Indian Summer event.My personal highlights were the new Fall lineup (two bassists!!), the Yeah Yeah Yeahs restoring my faith in t...
Posted by Steven Turk on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:55:00 PST

Bukowski on Barfly

From 'Ham on Rye'..."We would stay in the Fun House three or four hours. We memorized that place. It really wasn't that good. People shit and pissed in there and the place was littered with empty bott...
Posted by Steven Turk on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:47:00 PST

2D easter and chocolate chicken cruelty

So, I'm in my local newsagent buying something or other when I see this abomination... It's just not right... I mean, how do you get the chocolate chickens (the only feasible explanation for Creme ...
Posted by Steven Turk on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 07:01:00 PST

MSN, seeing as everybody's oh-so keen to know

For all those of the inclination to hear me yatter on and on and on (and arriston), via MSN, [email protected] Don't try e-mailing it though. That would be silly.
Posted by Steven Turk on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:55:00 PST