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Alex

Not everything is fucked after all. Just some things.

About Me

I am a man with a plan, but sadly no canal panama. I'm a good egg, honest guv'nor. I play bass and make electronic noises in Sister Blades. If you want more than that, don't be afraid to ask me questions. I don't bite. I am nice. Really.

Currently reading:
Shalimar The Clown - Salman Rushdie

Currently playing:
Excite Truck - wii

Currently listening to:
These... (According to last.fm )

My Interests

Making music, watching films, sleeping, playing old video games, playing new video games, proselytizing to anyone who'll listen about how video games are a legitimate artform, science, philosophy, writing, eating cheese, dressing up as a pirate.... arrrr!

I'd like to meet:

People, robots, aliens, ants, artificial intelligences, artists, artisans, non-corporeal energy beings, deities, friendly bacteria, cyborg-ninjas, readers, writers, arithmaticians, anthropomorphic animals.

Music:

Tom Waits, Tindersticks, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Plaid, Neutral Milk Hotel, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Mogwai, Galaxie 500, American Analog Set, Buck 65, Sparklehorse, Smog, Low, Yo La Tengo, Arab Strap, Belle & Sebastian, Dirty Three, The Fall, The Flaming Stars, The Flaming Lips, Four Tet, Kraftwerk, LFO, Nick Cave, Movietone, Animal Collective, Pixies, Joanna Newsom, Devandra Banhart, Husker Du, LCD Soundsystem, Kraftwerk, Bjork, The Shins, Cloudead, Broadcast, Antony and the Johnsons, The Go! Team, Daniel Johnston, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Hot Chip, Alexander Tucker, etc

Movies:

Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Blade Runner, Fight Club, Grosse Point Blank, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Lost In Translation, The Empire Strikes Back, Alien, Withnail and I, The Big Lebowski, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Broken Flowers, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Rushmore, Play It Again Sam, Annie Hall, Forbidden Planet, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Godfather, Barton Fink, Dead Man's Shoes, Coffee and Cigarettes, Amelie, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie

Television:

Futurama, Father Ted, Brass Eye, The Day Today, Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Black Books, Spaced, The League of Gentlemen, The Mighty Boosh, Doctor Who, My Name Is Earl, Battlestar Galactica, Family Guy, The Prisoner, The Mighty Boosh, Never Mind The Full Stops, QI, Torchwood

Books:

Life of Pi (Yann Martel), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro), Oscar and Lucinda (Peter Carey), Margrave of the Marshes (John Peel), Head On (Julian Cope), 45 (Bill Drummond)

Heroes:

Jeff Minter, Tom Waits, Richard D. James, John Peel, Bob Moog, Ivor Cutler, Stephen Fry

My Blog

Up and Down

Like... I dunno... some kind of uppy-downy thing.  Must be the winter dark and the rain because I'm all over the place nowadays.  Not blogging much here any more.  I have another place ...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 03:07:00 PST

Finishing Things

I completed Pikmin the other night.  That's a rather feeble boast.  It's not exactly a lengthy or extra-challenging game, and I've had it for years.  But it's so rare for me to complete...
Posted by Alex on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:53:00 PST

Snow!

Just back from a very pleasant, very chilled weekend in Edinburgh to celebrate R's birthday.  My newly relaxed and mellow demeanour took a little bit of a dent when we returned to find Glasgow un...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:07:00 PST

Today

Today has been a sucky sucky day, partly due to extreme work stress, and partly because I found out that Ivor Cutler has snuffed his lid.  He was 82, so one can't complain too much - he had a goo...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:24:00 PST

Chile

Work has been stressy and busy these past couple of weeks, hence the lack of bloggage, neither here nor in the other place.  I'm feeling oddly positive today, though.  Went for a few nice po...
Posted by Alex on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:40:00 PST

Renewal

So I'm thinking of retiring my main blog and setting up shop somewhere more anonymous.  Posting personal stuff on the internet under your own full name is a stupid stupid stupid thing to do, but ...
Posted by Alex on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:30:00 PST

Man...

... it's been a sucky, sucky week.  Mostly work related.  Without wanting to go into detail, I managed to get myself into a situation whereby no matter what course of action I chose I was go...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:26:00 PST

Memetic Device

(Cross posted from my main blog, but it seems more appropriate here.)Seems like everyone's doing that "Four Things" meme.  I find it odd that it should have spread so far, it being virtually iden...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:12:00 PST

Meat

It's been a week of alcohol, too little sleep, and, yes, the consumption of animal parts, breaking with the new year's resolution to stay away from the consumption of meat.  Well, it was a Burns'...
Posted by Alex on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:43:00 PST

Spoo

I like it in here.  It's a tiny wee corner of the tinterweb within a huge, sprawling megasite, and as such there's less pressure to be interesting than at the other place.  Not that it was e...
Posted by Alex on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:13:00 PST