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Nat

natswainston

About Me

I like taking photos. Although I definitely don't take them often enough. You can see some of the bad, good, old and new here: My Flickr Photostream.

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music. Photography. Films. Food. Wine. Travel. History. Politics. People. Pleasure. Digital Media.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who could enlighten me as to why i spend so much time on this damn site. And once I meet this person, we can go eat pancakes... I like people who like life who can keep an open mind, see outside the square, and like to take a trip around the world. To steal some of the words of Henry David Thoreau, anyone who wishes to suck all the marrow of the life, and see if they can learn what it has to teach.

Music:

Wesley Carr. Bob Dylan. The Beatles. John Lennon. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Ben Folds. The Shadowlands. Beth Orton. Fiona Apple. Billy Joel. Bright Eyes. Bruce Springsteen. RYAN ADAMS. Midlake. Bjork. Counting Crows (pre This Desert Life). Crowded House. Finn Brothers. Split Enz. Nick Drake. Josh Rouse. Damien Rice. Paddy Casey. Miles Davis. John Coletrane. Robert Johnson. Count Basie. Duke Ellington. Django Reinhardt. Bloc Party. Dave Matthews Band (pre Everyday). David Gray. The Doors. Ella Fitzgerald. Ray Charles. Francis Cabrel. End of Fashion. Tim Ireland. Paul Greene. Melanie Horsnell. Feeder. Foo Fighters. George. Gin Blossoms. Green Day. Interpol. MJE. James Taylor. Jesse Malin. Jeff Buckley. Kings of Leon. Lamb. The Weepies. Nina Simone. Neil Young. Nirvana. Pearl Jam. Pete Yorn. You Am I. Marching Room. Whiskeytown. The Wallflowers. U2. Peregrine. Tool. Something for Kate. Radiohead. Powderfinger. Supergrass. This is ridiculous. I like music. End of story.

Movies:

When Harry Met Sally. Pretty Woman. The Notebook. Amadeus. Stand By Me. Reality Bites. The Shawshank Redemption. Love Actually. Dead Poets Society. Zoolander. Almost Famous. Footloose. Steel Magnolias. Legends of the Fall. The Power of One. In the Name of the Father. A Few Good Men. The Scent of a Woman. Notting Hill. Crash. La Gloire de mon Père. La Haine. Gone with the Wind. To Kill a Mockingbird. Singing in the Rain. Many more no doubt...

Television:

The West Wing. The Sopranos. Frasier. Friends. House. Simpsons. Family Guy (Quick! To the Petercopter!). Seinfeld.

Books:

Mansfield Park. Pride & Prejudice. Persuasion. The Alchemist. To Kill a Mockingbird. The Phantom Tollbooth. The Catcher in the Rye. 9 Stories. On the Road. A Room of One's Own. Evelina. The Life of Pi. The Importance of Being Ernest. Slaughterhouse 5. The Last Empire and most other books and essays by Gore Vidal. Goodnight Mr Tom. Walden.

Heroes:

Too personal to answer really. But anyone who can make the best of a bad situation has my respect.