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James

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About Me

I'm quite a quiet yet thoughtful person. I can usually be found stuck into long conversations with friends (or strangers). I'm a good listener, I love hearing people tell me about their life. I love music and surfing... oh, the odd drink (alcoholic drink I mean) is pretty good too! =)


My Interests

Surfing the South West coast (Woolacombe, Croyde and Newquay), playing guitar, snowboarding and having a good time! I love going to Festivals too, I've been going to Glastonbury since 1999, also been to Roskilde '01 (Denmark) and again this year ('06), Leeds Carling '02, The Essential Festival '01, The Big Chill's '01&'02, and also (even though it's not exactly a festival), the annual Pilton Party! (Locals will know what I mean).

I also love art, although I can't name any artists in particular, I like Lichtenstein, Jamie Hewlett (famous for Gorillaz characters) etc.

I'd like to meet:

I'd love to hear from anyone that loves music, surfing, drinking and having fun! (and going to gigs! - That's concerts in case you don't know =P).

Music:

The Cedar Falls : The Secret Machines : Rodrigo y Gabriela : We Are Scientists : Death Cab for Cutie : .. Cream : Finley Quaye : Bob Marley : Miles Davis : Ben Harper : John Mayer : Donavan Frankenreiter : G Love & Special Sauce : Jack Johnson : The Clash : The Cure : Morrissey : Led Zepellin : Yellowcard : Bonobo : Tool : Audioslave : Hundred Reasons : Reef : Roots Manuva : Feeder : MSP : Primal Scream : Hexstatic : The Music : N*E*R*D : The Charlatans: Green Day : Counting Crows : QOTSA : Sum41 : Kruder&Dorfmeister : RATM : Coldplay : Red Hot Chili Peppers : REM : Incubus : Muse : Mr Scruff : Deftones : The Beautiful Girls : John Butler Trio : Blink 182 : Radiohead : Biffy Clyro : Dashboard Confessional : Smashing Pumpkins : Foo Fighters : Nirvana : The Smiths : Blur : Prodigy : koRn : Massive Attack : Hendrix : David Gray : Metallica : Norah Jones... I can go on forever! I don't have a particular genre that I go for. I love rock, indie/alternative/emo, ska-punk, breakbeat, d'n'b, jazz...

Movies:

Endless Summer 1&2 : Big Wednesday : Point Break : Dog Town and Z-Boys : Jay and Silent Bob strikes back : Monty Python - Holy Grail, Life of Brian : Donnie Darko : Super Troopers : Gremlins : Amistad : The Big Lebowski : PulpFiction : Reservoir Dogs : Finding Nemo : Ice Age : Kill Bill : The Wedding Singer......

Television:

Black Books, Spaced, The Mighty Boosh, Extras, The Office (UK Version obviously!)...

Books:

Charles Bukowski (Post Office, Factotum) : Henry Miller (Nexus, Tropic of Capricorn) : Mr Nice (Howard Marks) : 'Heavier Than Heaven', The Kurt Cobain biography : 'Porno' by Irvine Welsh (the sequel to Trainspotting!) : 1984 : Sport auto/biographies

Heroes:

My bestest friend Yasamin for always being there for me at times when the stresses of life have been too much for me to cope with alone, Peter Webb for being such a good friend too. I've far too many fantastic friends to list and thank them all individually... you're in my thoughts I promise! My sport and music buddies: Kelly Slater, Eddie Akiau, 'Rabbit' Barthelomew, Nat Young, Kurt Cobain and Karen Rigoroso for her positive outlook on life!

My Blog

First update for 2007!

My dear friends! It's February but still never too late to wish you all a Happy New Year if I haven't done so already!! I may repeat myself from some of the things I told you about in my last blog, bu...
Posted by James on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:45:00 PST

10 THINGS IDIOTS DO ON MYSPACE

10 THINGS IDIOTS DO ON MYSPACEONEThere is NO SUCH THING as a myspace tracker. it does NOT exist. so quit posting stupid bulletins like "OH-MY-GOD this WORKS!!!".No, it doesnt.TWOTo the people who have...
Posted by James on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:07:00 PST

An update

Well well well, it's been a while since I last offered a blog update (April if I remembr correctly), and so much as happened since then, here's a brief lowdown: April 15th (for one week) - a wek snowb...
Posted by James on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:32:00 PST

Glastonbury - The Film (With the Levellers)

I was lucky enough to get a ticket for the Bristol premiere of the Glastonbury film on Thursday 13th April (official release on April 16th). It's not exactly a film, but more of a documentar...
Posted by James on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:13:00 PST

Jet Lag

Here I am yet again! I'm writing this at about 4:15am as I can't sleep! Although, I did go to bed at 8pm and slept through till about 1am, but I can't get back to sleep now! Incase you're wondering wh...
Posted by James on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:52:00 PST

Rodrigo y Gabriela and The Secret Machines

Yet some music has been brightening up my life! And some bloody fantastic bands they were too! Woo hoo!! I may appear full of joy and energy (I definately still have the joy) but I'm actually quite ti...
Posted by James on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:13:00 PST

Yet another update

Well well well! Everything has been too exciting recently and I guess so much has happened since I posted my last update! So where do I start?The Foo Fighters were amazing back in December! Supergrass...
Posted by James on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:56:00 PST

The Update (Part 2)

Ok sorry about having to continue my update on another page, I was writing the first part during my lunch break whilst at work and my 30mins was up, but I'll continue from where I left off! At least I...
Posted by James on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:20:00 PST

The Update (Part 1)

I guess it's been a while since I posted a blog on here, so I thought I'd add a brief update. I'm trying to think what haven't I been up to, so much has happened over the past few months. Back in Octo...
Posted by James on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 05:32:00 PST

A lifetime of Newquay... in just 4 days!

What a splendid weekend it was! So sad that it's all over now and I have to return to normality Since Thursday I have clocked probably over 1000 miles in my car... and that was just driving to Newqua...
Posted by James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST