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Al

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About Me



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Refusing to grow old gracefully, smiley 53 year old bloke who usually tries to see the bright side of life and the nice side ofpeople (as I said, usually!)
Computer and technology fanatic. If I haven't already bought it, then it's either too expensive or they haven't invented it yet.;-)

I'm a physics teacher in a large secondary education Academy. I kid myself it keeps me young!

Music enthusiast with an eclectic taste in bands and music styles. Check out my music interests list. Sadly, I don't play aninstrument myself which is one of my very few regrets.

I have a love of the countryside and Wales in particular. Cymru Am Byth! (that's about it for the Welsh language though, apart from afew other phrases).

Massive fan of cult 60's television shows, especially the series 'The Prisoner', starring Patrick McGoohan. "The Village" in theseries was filmed at Portmeirion, North Wales and it's still one of my favourite places to be on the planet.

I'm on quite a few web forums since I like to chat as my "real life " friends could tell you!I'm also fond of cars and love driving my small but perfectly formed Thunder Grey Toyota Yaris - 'youki' ('ghost' in Japanese).




My Interests

computers
technology
motorsport
music
nature
countryside
photography

I'd like to meet:

Jackie Stewart, Sarah McLachlan, Myleene Klass, Evanescence, Bono, Michael Stipe, Joe Satriani, Michael Schumacher, Patrick McGoohan, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Katherine Jenkins, Tori Amos, Devon Aoki, ANUBIS (oh, done that, okay... AN ANUBIS GIG!)








The Groundhogs & Tony McPhee

The Unmutual

CIRCA:

Joe Satirani

ANUBIS

Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash

Jim Barber

Abandoned Children

Music:



Tony Kaye, Billy Sherwood, Alan White, Jimmy Haun

Groundhogs
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Ed Alleyne-Johnson
The Beatles
U2
R.E.M.
Wishbone Ash
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
Evanescence
Aerosmith
Allman Brothers Band
Grateful Dead
Mansun
Jimi Hendrix
The Hamsters
The Doors
Fleetwood Mac
Free
Oasis
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Tori Amos
P!nk
Myleene Klass
Sarah McLachlan
Heather Nova
Jewel
Janis Joplin
Joni Mitchell
Kate Walsh
Katie Melua
Manic Street Preachers
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Nice
Yes
Genesis
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Def Leppard
Curved Air
Radiohead
Within Temptation
Enya
Nicola Benedetti
Mussorgsky
Tchaikovsky
Vivaldi
Elgar
Bizet

Movies:

Sin City
Godzilla (Japanese)
Matrix trilogy
Lord of the Rings
Spider Man
Casablanca
Star Wars
Star Trek
James Bond

Television:

The Prisoner
CSI
Top Gear
Friends
Life on Mars
Doctor Who
Corrie!

Books:

Mainly reference books on motor racing, Wales and Portmeirion.
Siddhartha, The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
Under Milkwood - Dylan Thomas
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House - H.P. Lovecraft

Heroes:

Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Jackie Stewart

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My Blog

THE SKY ABOUT TO RAIN - SCARS album review

A while ago now, I was fortunate to receive a friend request from The Sky About to Rain. I was hoping that the music would be as inspired as the name...On first listening, I was hooked. I suppose you ...
Posted by Al on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:55:00 PST

TEMTRIS - MASQUERADE album review

Since I joined MySpace in April 2007 (yeah, I know, it seems longer!) I've 'met' many people, albeit mostly in the virtual sense. Some of these have requested an add, left a "thanks for the add" comme...
Posted by Al on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:37:00 PST

ANUBIS - SIBUNA album review

I joined MySpace in April, last year with a particular view to finding new music. A month later, ANUBIS was added to my list of friends. It was obvious to many, including myself, that this band was go...
Posted by Al on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:11:00 PST

MySpace music I recommend - no.1 - ANUBIS

Every now and again, I recommend  to you, my dear friends, music that I think you may enjoy. I hope that it's not too pretentious of me but I thought it's about time that I pointed out some of th...
Posted by Al on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:52:00 PST

MySpace addict?

I thought this might be of interest to some of you (thanks, Carol!).I am 53% addicted to MySpace!!More Fun Quizzes at QuizPox.comOnly 53%? I thought I was going to get a higher score than that. Seems ...
Posted by Al on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:26:00 PST

A moments thought for John

Spare a moment today, if you will, for an icon and a human being, whose life was tragically cut short.Today is the 27th anniversary of the death of John Lennon. RIP John. This 'dreamer' thanks you for...
Posted by Al on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:09:00 PST

Tori Beaumont

Anyone who knows me personally or through the weird and wonderful place that is MySpace will realise that my music tastes are somewhat eclectic, ranging from The Beatles to Bach via Blind Melon, Manic...
Posted by Al on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:48:00 PST

Thinking of John Lennon

Had he lived, John Winston Lennon would have been 67 years old, today. On October 9th 1940, during an air raid, John was born to Julia Stanley and Alfred Lennon at Oxford Street Maternity Hospital, Li...
Posted by Al on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:34:00 PST

My celebrity lookalikes

Yeah right!I had to laugh when I tried this so I thought I'd give you all a chuckle too!Try it, it's great fun. ...
Posted by Al on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:18:00 PST

CIRCA:2007 the review

Well it's been a while since my last blog extolling the virtues of new band CIRCA: and with over 67,000 visits to their MySpace page and more than 11,000 friends, you could say that many others have a...
Posted by Al on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:08:00 PST