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Mahmut

To live, to learn, to love... in the major key!

About Me

Hello readers of this thingymabob. I have been badgered by my friend for ages to get a myspace so here it is. Expect not much angst here, I'm generally a happy person, but not in a creepy cheerleader way. I'm heavily into music and will listen to pretty much all types, stick something in front of me thats any good and I'll start fanboying over it. Like a fanboy. Yeah.
I am currently at Uni studying Film-Making, no not because it's a 'soft option', but because I WANT to be a film-maker. Also, music is one of my passions, I'm trying to learn me synth but its quite tricky. I did some Radiohead shizzle though. BOOYAH.
Also, am not a scenester, some people think I am for some reason. I HAVE PICTURES OF BANDS CUZ I LOVE THEM, NOT TO LOOK COOL OR WHATEVER.
Best People Ever (In no particular order):

My Interests

Film-making, all things synth, music, film in general and talking with my phriends about anything from enviromental issues, politics, toast and puppys.

I'd like to meet:

I'll talk to anyone with a brain on them, they don't nessacarily have to agree with me, just be able to talk in a mature way about things and not resort to 'you suck' and whatnot.

Music:

Bloc Party, Sons and Daughters, Patrick Wolf, The Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Utada Hikaru, M.I.A, Death From Above 1979, Bright Eyes, Radiohead, Ladytron, Dresden Dolls, Muse, Final Fantasy, Metric, The Knife.
Kelis, The Cure, Blondie, Blur, The Smiths, Andre 3000, Portishead, Dizzee Rascal, Daft Punk, New Order, Joy Division, Eurythmics, Editors, The Departure, Goldfrapp, Gwen Stefani, Queens of the Stone Age, Tori Amos, The Futureheads, Battle, The Blood Arm, The Libertines, Babyshambles, Dirty Pretty Things, Le Tigre, Depeche Mode, Kate Bush, Kings of Leon, Do Me Bad Things, Fiona Apple, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs's, Scissor Sisters, India Arie, Shakespears Sisters, Norah Jones, t.A.T.u, The Distillers, Toni Braxton, Franz Ferdinand, Aaliyah, Bjork, David Bowie, Missy Elliott, No Doubt, The White Stripes, The Killers, Pretty Girls Make Graves, FischerSpooner, The Magic Numbers, The Faint, Sarah McLachlan, Clor, Tom Vek, The Mars Volta, The Coral, We Are Scientists, Sade, K-OS, Belle and Sebastian, Desaparecidos, Jeff Buckley, The Go! Team, Be Your Own Pet, Keren Ann, Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service, Forward Russia!, Joni Mitchell, KaitO, Noisettes, Keren Ann, Louis XIV, The Rakes, Regina Spektor, CocoRosie, Fields, Giant Drag, Jurrasic 5, Annie, DJ Shadow, Tilly and the Wall, Mystery Jets, Ladyfuzz, Sonic Youth, Voxtrot, Paris Motel, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Bobby Birdman, Jens Lekman, Moloko, Ben Folds Five, Soulwax, Emily Haines, MF Doom, Cadence Weapon, Asobi Seksu, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Sufjan Stevens, Julie London, Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy, Shiina Ringo, The Bird and the Bee, Air, Cloud Cult, Maria Taylor
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Movies:

Velvet Goldmine, The Pillow Book, This is England, Happy Endings, Mysterious Skin, The Rules of Attraction, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Syriana, The Dreamers, Goodbye Lenin!, Solaris, Brick, Hard Candy, Sommersturm, Mirrormask, Bubble, 21 Grams, Six Degrees of Seperation, Y Tu Mamá También, Lilja 4-ever, A Scanner Darkly, Bad Education, Battle Royale 1 and 2, Sin City, Mullholland Drive, 28 Days Later, Taxi Driver, Casshern, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Amelie, A Tale of Two Sisters, Girl Interrupted, My Beautiful Laundrette, Moulin Rouge, Frida, Akira, Chicago, Simone, Ghost in the Shell, The Others, Vanillia Sky, Closer, Pulp Fiction, Memento, Sliding Doors, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Birth, Before Night Falls, Abre Los Ojos, Children of Men, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Week End, Breathless, V for Vendetta, Gattaca, Requiem for a Dream, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, In The Mood For Love, A Life Less Ordinary, Brokeback Mountain, The Happiness of the Katakuris, Adaptation, Jesus Camp, Why We Fight, Europa, Babel, Three Colours Blue, Three Colours Red, Notes on a Scandal, City of God, Valerie a týden divu, Shortbus, Little Miss Sunshine, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Delicatessen, Far From Heaven
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Television:

Currently a little too obsessed with GORMENGHAST. Desperate Housewives is fun. Drawn Together is amazing. Odd comedys like Spaced, Arrested Development, Excel Saga, Dark Place, Monkey Dust and Green Wing rule. Erm Shameless too. Ugly Betty is camper than a row of tents, its brilliant. Lost! Oh and Sugar Rush is great. DOCUMENTARIES BECAUSE I AM BORING.
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Books:

Ash: A Secret History - Mary Gentle
1984 - George Orwell
His Dark Materials Trilogy - Phillip Pullman
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
Number9Dream - David Mitchell
Gender, Race and Class in the Media - Various Authors
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Island - Aldous Huxley
Why Do People Hate America? - Ziauddin Sardar & Merryl Wyn Davies
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Vera - Oscar Wilde
Salomé - Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

My Blog

Monoux!

Monoux! Add to My Profile | More VideosI finally got the bloody video on the interweb. Come one, come all and see Monovians in their twilight days!...
Posted by Mahmut on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:16:00 PST

Gates and Liberty

I have Insomnia so I decided to try and get myself to sleep by wriiting down some of my thoughts in this here blog. I read today they are building a wall in Iraq to try and stop the sectarian violence...
Posted by Mahmut on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:07:00 PST

Moogle Time

Yaaaaay, I am quite happy. Today I went to Trent Park, a great place I suggest everyone goes to. Trees and random ducks and all that business. I did go there for a reason though, was lo...
Posted by Mahmut on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:07:00 PST

Safe Breadbin

LUNAR ECLIPSE! Its so exciting, not as exciting as a solar one but beggars cant be choosers. BAH. FFXII is great, naysayers shush, FFVII is in the past, it was amazing, but move on, accept it. In non...
Posted by Mahmut on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:41:00 PST

Another year another stupidly titled blog entry

Hello people. In my 'Its Christmas!' induced boredom, I have decided to do a recap of 2006. It is likely to be unordered and a bit crap. Anywho, away we go! SOMETHINGS I HAVE LEARNT THIS YEAR: This ye...
Posted by Mahmut on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:48:00 PST

'A picked nit' Can I have that engraved?

I've started song-writing again today. I need some hardcore beats though, proper drum and bass. BRAP. Seriously, I ain't written a song in ageeeeees. Its about genetics or something. No I can't j...
Posted by Mahmut on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:27:00 PST

RE: Adverts for The Sun

Fuck off. What a crap paper, people who buy The Sun and The Daily Mail should not be allowed to have children. Hello kiddies, I'm quite bored again, so heres another blog that about 3 peopl...
Posted by Mahmut on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:03:00 PST

EMMMERRRRGENCYYYYY!!!!

Dear Interweb,Patrick Wolf was amazing, yes Koko is a shithole, BUT it was Patrick Wolf so it was still good. In fact it was amazing. The Stars remains thebestsongevercreatedomg and The Magic Position...
Posted by Mahmut on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:45:00 PST

No thats MAHMUT, not Muckmuck.

Hello my phriends. Today I decided to write about my first few weeks at Uni. Its fun people have started to be mad like in college, Im waiting for full-blown insanity (it'll come, I just know it). Als...
Posted by Mahmut on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:17:00 PST

Trackin sheets iz importent.

Greek? Anyway I just thought I'd blog as I havent in ages and Im bored right now. My course is over! Nearly, kinda. Anyway thought I'd just say some things I've learnt on my PRACTICAL (hah) course. T...
Posted by Mahmut on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:48:00 PST