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Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary.You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.Whatever!

My Interests

Travel, reading, Scottish Rugby, food, music, movies, Cricket,Baseball, Golf, fine wine and cheap beer.

I'd like to meet:

Mr E, Harper Lee, C S Lewis,, William Dalrymple, Bill Bryson, Charley Boorman, Michael Wood, Louis Theroux, , Kevin Smith, Homer (not that Homer) , Pytheas the Greek (A man before his time, Heinrich Schlieman (another man before his time), Paris and the person who figured out that peanut butter and jam worked together..

Music:

The Eels, Sigur Ros, Weezer, The Decemberists, New Order, The Smiths, Massive Attack, A Certain Ratio, The Beach Boys, The Who, Pink Floyd, Johnny Cash, Mozart,The Happy Mondays, Dead Can Dance, Lemon Jelly,Duritti Column, Gregorian Chant,Systems of a Down, Brian Eno, Ambient, Leftfield, We Are Scientists, Craig Armstrong, Union of Knives, Radiohead (especially the non plinkey-plonkey stuff, more Sigur Ros, Beck, Lamb, 4Hero, Cocteau Twins, Beta Band, Lisa Gerard, The Guillimots, Arcade Fire.

Movies:

To Kill A Mockingbird, LOTR, Star Wars (all of them), Serenity, Garden State, Once Upon A Time In America, Where Eagles Dare, Indiana Jones (all of them too), The Goonies, The Big Blue, Betty Blue, Layer Cake, The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, Cinema Paradiso, Mediterraneo, Quadrophenia, The Kid's Are Alright, Spirited Away, Jean De Florette, Manon De Source, Clerks, Princess Mononoke, Napoleon Dynamite.

Television:

Scrubs, 24, Spooks, Prison Break, Ugly Betty, CSI, History Channel, Louis Thereoux, The Long Way Around, American Chopper, A Band of Brothers, Firefly,

Books:

To Kill A Mockingbird, Bill Bryson's Books, Philip Pullman Novels, LOTR, The Hobbit, Fried Green Tomatoes, William Dalyrmple's Books, Kidnapped, David Gemmell, Marley and Me, The Chronicles of Narnia, Sunset Song, The Illiad, No 44 Scotland Street Stories, Rebus, Morse.

Heroes:

Good friends

My Blog

We’ll be coming, we’ll be...

Oh ya wee beauty.Still buzzing after the win tonight in Paris - Thanks guys for a brilliant effort (although can I ask someone at the SFA to consider paying for the repair to my sofa - seemed to have ...
Posted by Phil on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:41:00 PST

Just to get me through the week

Well another week of commuting is about start - bad times.But I have planned out my new playlist to help me through the interminable commute - good times:The Ice Storm - The Go!TeamIf you were there, ...
Posted by Phil on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:13:00 PST

This is just genius - mind you Phil Collins seems to have let himself go a bit

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Posted by Phil on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:18:00 PST

Anthony H Wilson - RIP

I woke today to hear the devestatingly sad news that Tony Wilson had died of cancer.Tony Wilson was the man responsible for Factory Records and, along with New Order and late the Rob Gretton, the worl...
Posted by Phil on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:03:00 PST

Bill Hicks at the Edinburgh festival - Shame he can’t come back

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Posted by Phil on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:16:00 PST

Lemon Jelly

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Posted by Phil on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:53:00 PST

Lemon Jelly - 68 aka Only Time

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Posted by Phil on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:58:00 PST

T in the Park

So here I sit on Monday evening, tired but happy after a fantastic weekend at T in the Park.Despite the initial signs the weather was great (sun burnt), the bands were great and the atmosphere fantast...
Posted by Phil on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:07:00 PST

New Eels track added - just how I feel today

It is odd how you always find music that expresses how you feel - the Eels do it for me more than most.  It's a Motherfucker says it better than any but I can't add that as a tune. ...
Posted by Phil on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:16:00 PST

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Posted by Phil on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:01:00 PST