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Spiral of Meow

Those scissors stopped him picking his nose...

About Me

All background artwork on this page by myself...
MyGen Profile Generator Illustrator and storyboard artist for the animation industry by trade, Ben "Squarejawhero" Bowen is often seen in public talking about himself in the third person. A fan, and hopefully soon creator, of movies, he spent his formative years quite literally glued to the television until his mother applied warm, soapy water. His greatest fears are testicular torsion and wasps, knowing that the chances of both happening at the same time are still higher than being hit by a meteor.He lives in North London surrounded by similarly likeminded weirdo's.

My Interests

Travelling, Asian movies, making movies, illustration and cartoons, Suicide Girls, gaming, working out "the gun show", pretending to be learning to speak Japanese. Des ka?

I'd like to meet:

Peeps who're Kooky without the Krazy. Kapiche?

Music:



Jazz flute, David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Ben Cyllus, The Spinto Band, The Rapture, Emiliana Torrini, early Faith No More, early Pearl Jam, Black Eyed Peas, Andrew Bird, Sigur Ros, Sting (yes, Sting, ok?), Ty, Manu Chao, Soundtracks, Ozomatli, Jurassic 5, The Mars Volta, DJ Shadow, Engineers, AIM, Nelly Furtado, Outkast, Magnet, various soundtracks, Akira Yamaoka, Bjork, Phoenix, GoldFrapp, The Screaming Trees (DUST), Groove Armada, Turin Brakes, Kelis, Shakira... and Paul Simon's Graceland.
Currently Listening To -
Nine Inch Nails; Year Zero, Ozomatli; Don't Mess With The Dragon, Ben Cyllus; Cinnamon Matinee, Andrew Bird; Armchair Apocrypha, David Bowie; Black Tie White Noise

Movies:

GHOSTBUSTERS, A Tale Of Two Sisters, Vengeance Trilogy, anything with Steve Carrell/Will Ferrell/Christopher Walken, The Host, Protege, Infernal Affairs, Labyrinth, Mirrormask, Sideways, About Schmidt, absolutely anything Studio Ghibli related, The Fast And The Furious; Tokyo Drift, Nightwatch, Silent Hill, The Mothman Prophecies, Napoleon Dynamite, Big Trouble In Little China, Akira, Ghost In The Shell: Innocence, Tokyo Godfathers, O Brother Where Art Thou, Lost In Translation, The Life Aquatic, Eternal Sunshine, Donnie Darko, Shaun Of The Dead, Serenity.
FAVOURITE DEATH SCENES
Stay Puft melting away in Ghostbusters, John Hurt having a bad case on indigestion in Aliens, The Doc's arm's being eaten in The Thing, being ripped apart in Hellraiser, Jude Law shooting the waiter in Existenz, the list goes on...

Television:

Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica.

Books:

Stephen King, Haruki Murakami, my various art and animation related hardbacks of lurve.

Heroes:

... is a great song by David Bowie. But fo' real, no real heroes. Except maybe Bill Murray. And David Bowie. Ehm, and maybe my pops for putting up with my shit as a teenager. ^_^

My Blog

Best Music of 2007 - The Bowen Picks

Here's my top from the ol' iTunes playlist - It's The Beat - Simian Mobile Disco None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock Thursday - Asobi Seksu 15 Step (basically the whole album) - Radiohead And from that top...
Posted by Spiral of Meow on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:27:00 PST

Writing stuff...

  Returning back to Myspace after being on Facebook is weird. Myspace is a kinda mishmash of visual information splooged into your retina, at best really quite punk and at worst similar to a baby...
Posted by Spiral of Meow on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:42:00 PST

Everyone's moving to Facebook...

Well, I succumbed as well, I guess. I love my Myspace, it feels like some kind of home on the internet - a punky mishmash of words, music and images thrown together on a slapdash page so basic that a ...
Posted by Spiral of Meow on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:56:00 PST

Apocalypto

If you've ever wanted to know what happens when a big cat gets attatched to a mans face, this is the film to watch.Apocalypto is one of those movies I've been looking forward to seeing for a while. Fo...
Posted by Spiral of Meow on Wed, 23 May 2007 03:32:00 PST

Recent friends cull... and stuff!

Just wanted to make a note just in case there's anyone passing over who I culled... apologies, but it needed to be done! I'm going to be doing some trimming over the next week, mainly as I get so clut...
Posted by Spiral of Meow on Mon, 21 May 2007 02:38:00 PST

Protégé

Just wanted to chime in some thoughts on Protégé, a canto-movie I brought back from HK starring the enigmatic Andy Lau. Much as I'd like to do a full review, I think talking less about it might get yo...
Posted by Spiral of Meow on Mon, 14 May 2007 02:08:00 PST

The Host

Finally got around to finishing The Host on DVD... and needed to write a quick pice on it. As usual, watch out for SPOILERS because I'm not going to hold back! No sir. There's too much stuff to expoun...
Posted by Spiral of Meow on Thu, 03 May 2007 04:47:00 PST

Music calms the... ah, what the crap!

Music is universal, yet talking about music is... often frustratingly difficult. Asking someone what they like is normally met with a confused look, inward stare and the usual answer -"A little bit of...
Posted by Spiral of Meow on Wed, 02 May 2007 02:42:00 PST

Modern Life Is Splendiforous

Starting to get over this flu bug and starting to come back out of my hole, so thought I'd placate my previous slightly depressing blog post with an upbeat and positive one.Thing is, I'm a narcissisti...
Posted by Spiral of Meow on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:32:00 PST

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Yes, Blur got it right all those years ago. For some reason lately, everything is irritating me, from the various complicated relationships in my life to the fact my HP laptop seems to decide to Quick...
Posted by Spiral of Meow on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:50:00 PST