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About Me

Hello. Im Billy. Im doing illustration at Southampton uni at the moment. My main interests at the moment are socialism, art and music, and any combination of the three. I think its important to have some kind of ideaology being anything creative you do.

My Interests

Making music. Comic Books. Illustrating. History. Nintendo.

I'd like to meet:

I tend to like those who question themselves and their surroundings, and are blatently honest with themselves. Passionate people.

Music:

Pavement. Desaparacidos. Deftones. Minus the Bear. From Monument To Masses. Yourcodenameis:milo. and you will know us by the trail of dead. Broken Social Scene.

Jazz. Swing. Motown.

Movies:

The Edukators. Garden State. V for Vendetta. Etre Et Avoir. Annhi Hall. Manhattan. Bananas. The Motorcycle Diaries. In The Soup. American Splendor. Man On the Moon. Big Fish. Eternal Sunhine of the Spotless Mind. Goodbye Lenin! Punch Drunk Love. Kikujiro.

Television:

Alan Partridge. Nevermind the Buzzcocks. Shooting Stars. Father Ted. Brittas Empire. Fawlty Towers. Black Books. Whos line is it anyway.

Books:

Its a good life if you dont weaken (Seth).
Things are meaningless. (Al Burian)
Clyde Fans/Palookaville (Seth).
Bannock, Beans and Black Tea (Seth).
Wimbledon Green (Seth).
Ghost World (Daniel Clowes)
V for Vendetta. (Alan Moore/David Lloyd)
Principles of Communism. (Frederick Engels)
American Splendor (Harvey Pekar)

My Blog

Fireworks

I took these pictures before I went out tonight... Im sure youll agree its a pretty amazing view. I think to myself now what a waste of time it was going out to a club drinking, when I could ha...
Posted by Billy Bear on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 08:03:00 PST

Secondary Wales trip .

I get the feeling there will be quite a few of these type blogs over the summer, every time I go to Wales I just cant wait to go back again and the feeling that I should live there grows. So muc...
Posted by Billy Bear on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Lost In Translation - a review of sorts.

I watched Lost In Translation the other day. If you can relate to the feeling of loneliness even in the most crowded and busy of environments then this is the film for you. The film is bea...
Posted by Billy Bear on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Wales - Boys day out

Yesterday I went on a miniature road trip with Will, Tom and Dave. We first went to Betws Y Coed in north wales, it's quite a small town/village but its fairly touristy. It has a really wi...
Posted by Billy Bear on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Comic Strips

Here are a few comic strips I did in college when I was a little bored. ...
Posted by Billy Bear on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST