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Alex

The Better You Look, The More You See

About Me

I thought I would update this as the other one was kinda getting like a little confused and old school and what not!Soooooo erm, umm, err, hmmmI currently live in londonium with my scrumptious girlfriend anna in Morden. Work up in Victoria for a Ski company who i have been with for the past 2 and bit years which has been fun and stressful and all the other things that jobs in the travel industry are! (Perk was going to Colorado in November and getting to ski in Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone)..... Other than that I like to spend some time watching far too much television fulfilling my obession with Six Feet Under, Russell Brand, Peep Show (get your tanks off my lawn!), Dr.Statham in Green Wing.... (god bless his soul).... and so on.Gigging is great fun if the money is there, travelling also (if there money is there) but chill out time in Greece is favourite past (along with consuming lots of AMSTEL BEER)....I LOVE sitting underwater in the sea for as long as i can, if you are ever in the sea with me you might find iam probably one of the most anti-social pricks in the world!Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I love random things too, watch out for hopefully a Podcast Iam working on, maybe picking my guitar up and again and getting some tunes done - and some other kinda of craziness!

My Interests

Music, movies, randomness........ I love randomness, iam random..... cider too! I like to go on tangents, get on my soapbox and also act like a ten year old on ten pints of red bull and vodka!

I'd like to meet:

Here comes a massive long list.....Barry Norman for movie chat and how he got me obessessed with M&S jumpers and saying - 'And Why Not?'Oasis - they crack me up - Liam has me in stitches everytime and Noel is a wise man!Peter Griffin - the guy is a goddamn legend - imagine having a piss-up with him and Barney from theSimpsons with Peggy Mitchell serving up tha 'Sampagne All Round'??!!!Helena Christensen - just so I could say - 'I Love You' and walk away blushing (to put it politely).Zane Lowe and Jo Whiley, being great music guides and all that in the past (with John Peel in like some kinda Obi Wan Kenobi glow chilling with us too)I'd love to also meet Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro and play swingball for a bit........ and then follow that with a mushroom session with the boys from the Boosh.... that could be incredibly interesting.Finally, I think a week's work experience at the Fisher & Diaz would be very fulfilling if not completly mind bendingI would love to be an intern in the Green Wing with Dr.Statham as my teacher............... and have a pint down at Phoenix Nights

Music:

Iam a complete musichead - so I do not know where to begin..... the list will be never ever ending......... but there is a start: Elbow, Arcade Fire, Damien Rice, Sia, South, Doves, UNKLE, DJ Shadow, Artic Monkeys, Hard-Fi, Smashing Pumpkins, Chemical Brothers, Ryan Adams, Beth Orton, Faithless, Interpol, Morning Runner, Coldplay, Massive Attack, Oasis, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Verve, Willy Mason, Clor, Bloc Party, Turin Brakes, Moby, Moloko, Stephen Fretwell, The Longcut, Blur, Gorillaz, Tom Vek, Muse, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, Primal Scream, Nirvana, U2, Tricky, Radiohead, Lamb, Stereo Sushi, Hedkandi Records, Ghosts, Emilianni Torrini, Imogen Heap, The National, Racine, Fall Around Here, Anvil Chorus, Sonic Youth, The Breeders, Madonna, Kaisers, Maximo Park, Liam Frost, Jamie T, Lily, The Kooks, Rage Against The Machine, Bjork, Zero7, Sleater Kinney, Rilo Kiley, Guillemots, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Boy Least Likely Too, Belle & Sebastien, Pavement, Bonobo, The Crimea, Dungen, Delays, Scott Walker, Stateless, The Rifles, Bombay Bicycle Club...... the list goes on... so I must stop there.... but am trying to add every band I like on my list....

Movies:

Anything by Cameron Crowe (though I haven't seen Elizabethtown yet!), Luc Besson, Spielberg, Sodenburg (am I the only person on this planet who LOVES Solaris????)...... Garden State, Leon, Battle Royale, Ghost World, The Virgin Suicides, Rules of Attraction, Magnolia, The Brotherhood of the Wolf, Point Break, Strange Days, Say Anything, Jerry Maquire, Jaws, Stealing Beauty, The Green Mile, Stand By Me, Donnie Darko, The Big Blue, Fifth Element, The Sweet Hearafter, Star Wars, The Warriors, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead........ blah blah blah blah................ recent additions would be Big Fish, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, and how could I forget Amelie.......... newbies - Brick, The Squid and the Whale.... Shaun of the Dead, City of God...

Television:

Family Guy all the way - good damnit - Iam thin Peter Griffin and Iam proud!! Six Feet Under - the best show on earth! The Mighty Booooooooooooooooosh, Without A Trace, ER, Coupling, Peep Show, Spaced, Recently Prison Break (roll on series 2 - run boys RUN), Green Wing, Happy Tree Friends, Ugly Betty, 24, Black Books, Phoenix Nights.........

Books:

Prozac Nation (Elizabeth Wurtzel), Girlfriend In A Coma/Generation X/Life After God/All Families Are Psychotic/Hey Nostradamus/Microserfs/Miss Wyoming(Douglas Coupland), International Gooseberry (Ben Hatch), The Life and Death of Charlie St.Cloud (Ben Sherwood), Lovely Bones, Glamourama (Bret Easton Ellis), The Virgin Suicides (Brian Eugeniedes) and The Magus (John Fowles) and The Time Travellers Wife (thingy ma jig), The Poet (Michael Connelly), Junk (Melvin Burgess), and the text section of London Lite (fucking hiliarious!)

Heroes:

Peter Griffin (no seriously!), Kurt Cobain, Douglas Coupland, Evil Burt, John Peel, Zane Lowe, Damien Rice,Napoloen Dynamite, the lad from Brick and his mate Brain (fecking hell these gus are genius'!), Mitchell & Webb, the Boosh boys, Karen O, River Phoenix, have a smoke with Nate and Claire Fisher, and then go out clubbing with the buys from Spaced... now that would be a night out!

My Blog

New Year, New Year, New Things, New Bands, New Blog.............27 Years Old in 19days....!!

Okay, so its 440pm on the afternoon of New Years Day - Iam currently watching Krull on Ch5 - an old classic that is shite but genius - contradictionary i know - but what the hell! Whilst I do this Ia...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:13:00 PST

An Interview with Tensheds

    First things first - you've got some gigs coming up in London - are you looking forward to them?   Yeah should be good. Only played a few times down here and it's always good to pl...
Posted by Alex on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:32:00 PST

Giant Drag + We Start Fires @ TheBorderline......

That was one really top notch gig............ I was most impressed (a lil less impressed with the prices of Pints around us though - but thats the west end) - though it is Happy Hour for awhile in the...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:13:00 PST

An Interview with RACINE

RACINE have had a successful start to their musical domination. A number of gigs have already been played up North and Racine are only just out of the starting gates, 2006 looms and theyre ready for ...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:20:00 PST

An Interview with SIA!

SIA INTERVIEW Sia is a hidden gem, shes a secret sitting in your CD collection, a super talented musician who youve probably heard a lot more than you realise! Over the year you might of caught her se...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 03:19:00 PST