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Pirate Phil

Web designer and part-time Pirate

About Me

A bit about me, i've got unkempt hair, I draw, love to take photos, I go to gigs far to much for my own good, try to live at the cinema and have a little known web comic www.ninja-bunny.com to name but a few things. I work as a webdesigner in Soho...with some pirateering in my free time. My current pet projects include running the Indie Meetup and working on my Alternative guide to London .



My Interests

Snowboarding, skateboarding, japanese/chinese culture, art, meeting new people, films, photography, london, retro, drawing, getting lost, nidendo 8bit fun, burlesque, gigs, dressing up, vintage, club nights out (Hellfire Club & Get in the Ring) *swooning* & being a pirate!!

I'd like to meet:

Someone that wont let me make the dreaded night bus home to zone 5 and will put me up for the night instead. :)

I also have a bit of a weakness for girl in vintage clothes, pokadot or frilly dresses...particuarly arty ones.

*also send me a message before adding me to your friends lists (its only polite after all) :P *

Music:

The abbreviated list is as follows: smashing pumpkins, eels, sigur ros, jesse james, rufus wainwright, wannadies, jonny cash, gomez, the polyphonic spree, british sea power, godspeed you black emperor, ladytron, the shins, arcade fire, yeah yeah yeah's, okgo, editors, sufjan stevens, clap your hands say yeah, the strokes, death cab for cutie, the bravery, forward russia, long blondes, leTigre, White Rose Movement, Metronomy, Finlay, Shy Child, CSS, Robot's in Disguise, Crystal Castles, YMCK, Brian Jonestown Massacre,

Movies:

Evil dead trilogy, bubba ho-tep, ran, oldboy, sin city, near dark, spirited away, battle royale, fight club (best ending to a movie ever), happiness of the katakuris, lost in translation, garden state, matrix, starwars, napolian dynamite, donnie darko, dear wendy, amelie, children of men, science of sleep (story of my life) +lots of 80's films.

Television:

Ahh..the glory of owning a 28" TV...its fantastic...now if only I owned a plasma!

    Mighty Boosh That Mitchell and Webb Look Takeshi's Castle Red Dwarf Doctor Who Eerie Indiana Futurama My name is Earl

Books:

Well, .. comics are books arnt they? ;)

    ctrl-alt-del exploading dog bunny patches white ninja creatures in my head Ninja Bunny (shamless self plug) Crump Life

Books I've read in 2006:

    Hitchickers Guide to the Galaxy (1-4) Harry Potter (1-6) Dune (1-4)

Books I've read in 2007:

    Dune (5-6) Digital Fortress Grimms' Fairy Tales

Heroes:

Jeffrey Brown & Tom Gauld (best artists ever)

My Blog

Interview from Webcomics in Print

A couple of weeks back I had a stand at The Thing webcomic exhibition. Mike from Webcomics in Print gave me an interview which you can all hear online..take a look/listen: Web comics in print intervie...
Posted by Pirate Phil on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:57:00 PST

old chinese proverbe: many pennies make rich man

Ever since uni i've been avoiding spending a penny (not in the toilet sense) but instead all my loose change has been stashed away in a jar....finally after about 3-5 years it's full (i've not idea ho...
Posted by Pirate Phil on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:18:00 PST

Graphics course

For the last 10 weeks my Saturdays have been spent getting up early and going off to the University of Arts London where I did a course in graphics skills....here's the finished result. Now I can get ...
Posted by Pirate Phil on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:10:00 PST

what happened to 2006?

Train tracks ToiletPaul Foot @ Dr.Dimaglios inspired young love @ Tales of the jakalope Drying off @ V festival Radiohead @ V festival />V festival ...
Posted by Pirate Phil on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:09:00 PST

The Sultans Elephant comes to town. - Sunday

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Posted by Pirate Phil on Sun, 28 May 2006 03:45:00 PST

The Sultans Elephant comes to town. - Friday.

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Posted by Pirate Phil on Sun, 28 May 2006 03:10:00 PST

The Away Day: day 2

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Posted by Pirate Phil on Sun, 28 May 2006 02:59:00 PST

The Away Day: day 1

The work away day. ...
Posted by Pirate Phil on Sun, 28 May 2006 02:53:00 PST

Photos from April

It's been a long time since i've done an update, though it's always around this time of year when I get all happy snappy with my camera again, so heres a whole host of photos from April.A kitty on my ...
Posted by Pirate Phil on Mon, 01 May 2006 09:52:00 PST

excitment

Some utterly cool things have happend to me in the last few days, yesterday was as followed:Pay day, yip! Not only in one fowl swoop i'm no longer in my overdraft, but take the total sum of my overdra...
Posted by Pirate Phil on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:59:00 PST