I untie knots in headphone wires and I like trying to fly...
... kites.
In 2008 I postgraduate-d half-ly from Mankytown uni ;)
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Illustration, proofreading, editing, writing sad as well as serious poems, making fun of lyrics and banging out senseless reviews.
Writers, my favourite artists, my friends.
Aaliyah, Adam Ant, AFI, A-ha 'Train of Thought', 'Living A Boy's Adventure Tale', 'Thought That It Was You', Alien Ant Farm, Alkaline Trio 'Take Lots with Alcohol', The Affiliates 'Cynical', Annie, Apex Theory, Aphex Twin, Arctic Monkeys, R. Ashcroft, The Automatic (winter '06), Babyshambles (for Chel - she really liked Grog's tattoo - enough to scrawl it on my arm on Pete-less night out), James Barry, Bassey covering Pink in the Xmas '07 M&S ad, Bat For Lashes, Bjork, Blur, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Bravery, Breeders, Buck Cherry, Kate Bush, Busta Rhymes, Cake, The Cardigans, Cassie 'Me and You', Clanaad, The Clash, Coal Chamber, Cubehopper (some music on that game has been sampled and is getting airplay. It gets me high! "it was acceptable at the time" - Calvin Harris), Client, Cradle of Filth, The Cure, Daft Punk, Darkstar 'Centrifugal' see headline for sample lyrix, Dead Can Dance, Death In Vegas, Deathstars, Deftones, Depeche Mode, Die So Fluid, Dimmu Borgir, Disturbed, Dizzee Rascal, DJ Shadow, Dream Evil, Drowning Pool, Dry The River, Dubstar, Duran Duran, Earthtone9, Elbow 'Powder Blue' is a favourite, Missy Elliott, Ensiferum, Enya, Era 'Ameno', Erland Oye's cover of George Michael(!), Eve (Have you watched her in The Woodsman with Kevin Flatliner Bacon? I wonder if he can sing as well being footloose!?), EXIT Ten, Fear Factory, Fierce ("remember when days were like that"), Finntroll, FischerSpooner, ForcaContra, Franz Ferdinand, Freezepop, Fugazi, Futureheads, Lisa Gerrard (of DCD & the Gladiator soundtrack), Girls With Spiders 4 Eyes, Glassjaw, Glow, Gorillaz, Groove Armada, Hairy Diamond, Helicoptors, Kristin Hirsh, Hitches, Hot Hot Heat, Mr Hudson and The Library (it's never too late to wash your face and hands...? :P), Idlewild, InMe, Instruments, Interpol, Chris Isaak, Jakobinarina, The Jam, JimmyEatWorld 'Salt Sweat, Sugar', Grace Jones' myspace profile is interesting, Kaiser Chiefs (the 1st alb), Katatonia, Kelis, Kent, The Killers, Kill Switch Engage 'Alive or Just Breathing' alb, Killing Joke 'Love Like Blood', King Adora 'Vibrate You' alb, Kings Of Leon, Kirk Kirkster and the Kirkettes 'Hometime Jimmy', Kittie 'Oracle' alb and 'Paper Doll', Klaxons 'Golden Skans', The Kooks - I can't help loving 'Naive', Ladyhawke, Late of the Pier, Legion of the Damned, Libertines, Lilygun's *armsocks*, Linear77 "Potato Music Machine", Loudermilk, Low Gold, Lynchrider Lulu, Mab, Madcon, Maj Karma, Maximo Park, McLusky 'To Hell With Good Intentions' reminds me of Orson for some reason (?), Medieval Babes, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, MOSS, Motorhead, Nemo, Neoplast, Joanna Newsom 'The Milk-Eyed Mender' alb, Nirvana, Octavia Sperati, Occupational Hazard, Orgone, A Perfect Circle, Pinback, Queen Adreena, Red Hot Chili Peppers 'The Other Side', Rival Schools 'Used for Glue', Robots In Disguise ('The Cycle Song' is a bit scaaaaaaaary but I like the male voice in it too), Kelly Rowland, Royksopp, Rubicks, Ruby Throat, RunDMC, Sanctum, Savoy, Scar Symmetry, Sentenced, Sick On The Bus, Sigur Ros, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Skinny, Soil, Sparta, The Specials, Spoon 'Everything Hits At Once', Gwen Stefani, Stone Temple Pilots, The Strokes, Supergrass, System of A Down, Timbaland, TOOL, Trollfest, Emiliana Torrini, Turisas, Velvet Revolver, Verve, Vex Red, My Vitriol, Weezer, White Rose Movement, Wiley, The X-Men theme-tune from the cartoon series, Susumu Yokota, The Young Parisians 'She Said'
Other stuff I like: Gregorian Chants work anti-gravity for me!
I love this poster and the official ones I took from the walls at the London NEGAHE Launch Party - search photobucket for pics I took at Manchester Academy 'grog eye' / 'grog doll' (- that I made by hand!)
visit: www.diesofluid.net or www.myspace.com/grogula
I watch them sometimes.
Hartbeat, Stop It Tidy Up, Itsa Bitsa, Green Claws, Jeopardy (teens go looking for aliens), The Mighty Boosh, Ovid's Video, C4 weird animation, Trapdoor, Pob, Little Miss Jocelyn, Up2u, IT Crowd, Galaxy High, Scrapheap Challenge - " ...it was raining and I was young".
Teletext - Zine C4 - I was Occhazard the Wizard :D
Sacred books, Folk / fairytales, Paul Jennings are far from "un-readable", Goscinny and Uderzo - I need some of Getafix's potion, Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis Hellblazer comics - 'Constantine' is just as good as the vintage issues.
Mums - see Iceland for confirmation ;)
Time travel *sigh*