Joshua Edward Welby Skinner

About Me

A SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE
A LIFE OF ONE PYRRHIC VICTORY AFTER ANOTHER

i don't drink bleach; i drink squash, and i drink it FAST.
suitable also outstanding as gift supplement and as small surprise. For amateur handicraftsmen with pronounced Feinmotorik!

My Interests

Seeing other countries and cultures is possibly one of the most amazing things around.....but on a more basic level: Music, Girls, Aircraft, Nintendo, Jack Daniels, Hoegarden, Dr. Pepper on tap, (Dr. Pepper and Whisky! oh yes). Bloody Mary's on a sunday, booting, wasting time, cooking home made Sunday Lunches, Old Skool Stuff- Computers, Casio, Choppers, Clothes, Cars, other things beginning with C...also playing Lock On with my home boys, whiling away the hours trying to be a Pokemaster.....all traditional persuits.

I'd like to meet:

old friends, new friends, it's all gravy.

Music:

Air, Beastie Boys, Beck, Bloc Party, Super Furry Animals, Mclusky, Pull Tiger Tail, The Rapture, Muse, Cooper Temple Clause, DJ Shadow, We are Scientists, Jurassic 5, Klaxons, Akira the Don, Cajun Dance Party, Gold Chains, Radiohead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Feaist, Gonzalez, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem, MC Pitman, Massive Attack, Soulwax, Deltron 3030, The Pixies, Girls Aloud, Bjork, Modest Mouse, Dan the Automator, Dr Octagon, The Strokes, Goldie Lookin Chain, Dizee Rascal, Roots Manuva, Buck 65, Harry Connick Jr., Buena Vista Social Club, N.E.R.D, The Faint, The Futureheads, DFA 1979, Zoot Woman, Automato, Ninja Tune stuff, old Wall of Sound etc...

Movies:

Star Wars, Watership Down, Donnie Darko, Animal Farm, Hot Shots, The Guns of Navarone, The Great Escape, Monty Python, Ferris Bueller, Top Gun, Shaun of the Dead, Goodbye Lennin

Television:

Adam and Joe, Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, 24, Stuff about WWII, Chris Morris Stuff, Brass Eye, Alan Patridge, The Office, The Day Today, People Like Us, 24, Band of Brothers, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Black Adder, The Mighty Boosh, Curb your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, commentating to Channel 5 porn, watching MTV in the hope of catching the latest Girls Aloud video.

Books:

L'Etranger, The Tesseract, Rainbow Six, Michael Moore stuff, Colditz Stories, Fighter Boys, Artemis Fowl, Love is an Uphill Thing: Jimmy Savile's Autobiography, Country Life (yes, a magazine I know, but I'm trying to beef up what is still a weak list).

Heroes:

Sir Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Sir Winston Churchill

R J Mitchell
Every single one of them flawed men.....but then, isn't everyone?
The Skinner Family Crest:

My Blog

Wanted : Flatshare in Surrey (Surbiton?) and Car

Hey y'all! I am moving to Surrey for a new job. I want to Flatshare somewhere in Surrey, any ideas? Ideally I am thinking Surbiton, but any leads would be grand. Let me know guys! Also, I gots to buy ...
Posted by Joshua Edward Welby Skinner on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:14:00 PST

Hip Hop Does Stop (apparently)

Yo!So I am listening to Cut Chemist's new album and it just reminded me how much I love Hip-Hop. I had really forgotten; I've been listening to alot of rock and whatnot recently and have got kinda bor...
Posted by Joshua Edward Welby Skinner on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:48:00 PST

Jo Skin Ya : Lesson 1

Now, as almost 40 people have been reading my blogs over the past week I have developped some kind of ego, an over inflated sense of my own self importance, and a habit of repeating the same point but...
Posted by Joshua Edward Welby Skinner on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:39:00 PST

JoshFACT 3 : something about goldfish

I'm feeling a bit generous today, so I have decided to do a "buy one get one free" on JoshFACTS....What's that you say? "Awesome! I love facts! I am literally awash with happiness at this news!"...I t...
Posted by Joshua Edward Welby Skinner on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:43:00 PST

Skinners Dinners: Bloody Amazing Baked Alaska

Bloody Amazing Baked Alaska. Hi there everyone, so I have finally come up with a new recipe idea&I don't know why Matt didn't think of it sooner, but now he has, you good folk have another recipe i...
Posted by Joshua Edward Welby Skinner on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 04:26:00 PST

Josh's Blog to Self-Improvement

Ok, so last night I wrote a moany blog about how shit I currently feel. I feel that I am not only a walking anti-climax to others, but to myself too. I realised that the only way to try and change thi...
Posted by Joshua Edward Welby Skinner on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:36:00 PST

SkinnersDinners I : Toastest with the Mostest

So, i have noticed recently that people on myspace love food....no, no, no...I am not calling your average myspace user fat! I am saying that I have noticed a surge in myspace foodblogs. Some of these...
Posted by Joshua Edward Welby Skinner on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:38:00 PST

JoshFACT 2 : something cool about Bananas

Ok, so after such a good start with JoshFACT I am guessing many of you thought I couldn't come up with a fact that is of equally high calibre as the previous one about coffee. Well, to all my doubters...
Posted by Joshua Edward Welby Skinner on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:53:00 PST

JoshFACT No. 1 (the first in a new series of FACTS)

Ok, so I like FACTS, who doesn't?? Not just any 'facts', I'm talking about amazing, brand new, no real way of proving me wrong; FACTS. Thats what I deal in. FACTS. I use them in barter like transition...
Posted by Joshua Edward Welby Skinner on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:36:00 PST

.2: thoughts of the day (light hearted reading for all the family)

now, oddly enough I have been doing a lot of thinking recently. Loads. It's crazy, for a person that used to be capable of hearing a pin drop inside the empty thoughtless confines of his head, m...
Posted by Joshua Edward Welby Skinner on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:27:00 PST