Simon - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I indie/alt/rock music a lot (especially Pixies and Frank Black and Pavement and Hefner), I like F1, I do IT things. I live on my own, which has it's upsides and downsides. I'm quite anal about music and generally dislike anything that is incredibly popular at the time, only to like it at a later date, pretending I never disliked it in the first place and that I was the first person to like the said band.
I'm allergic to everything, probably. And I called out 'young miss' to a girl not too long ago. The very fact that I would use such an awful phrase means I'm not only 25, I'm well on my way to 50. You can generally spot me when I'm out, I'll be the bloke sleeping / jumping up and down with child like enthusiasm / slurring / sulking. I'm not very good at handling my drink and should probably just stop. Now that I've sold myself, please feel free to look around and maybe check out some photos below...
Old photo's here
and here
the latter includes York, New York, Berlin, T in the Park and Budapest photos, so is generally a lot better.
newer photos...
Si-Fest Day 2
Si-Fest Day 1
Berlin

My Interests

Indie, sci-fi, drinking, indie clubs, guitar

Music:

Pixies, Frank Black, Hefner, Pavement, Stephen Malkmus, Modest Mouse, Supergrass, Blur, Wannadies, Built To Spill, Rilo Kiley, McLusky, Boy Least Likely To, Weakerthans, Beck, Ben Folds, Ben Kweller, Brendan Benson, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Clinic, Dandy Warhols, Eagles of Death Metal, Electric Six, Get Up Kids, Go-Kart Mozart, Jonathan Richman, Moldy Peaches, Adam Green, Now It's Overhead, Ooberman, Old 97's, Optiganally Yours, Pere Ubu, Pinback, Polyphonic Spree, Arcade Fire, Presidents of the USA, R.E.M., Radiohead, Robyn Hitchcock, Simple Kid, Slowreader, Sparklehorse, Spoon, Suede, Swell, Ten Benson, TMBG, Wolf Parade, David Devant and his Spirit Wife, Zuno Men, Joy Zipper, The Spinto Band, Islands.

Movies:

2001: A Space Odyssey, Truman Show, Planet of the Apes, Milwaukee Minnesota, donnie darko, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, wicker man, magnolia, brazil, apollo 13, AI

Television:

Father Ted, Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley, IT Crowd, Alan Partridge, Blackadder, Farscape, Angel, Firefly, Scrubs...

Books:

Space Odyssey series, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Death and the Penguin, Yes Man.

Heroes:

Gordo (Old Reliable)

My Blog

So...26...

Not done much to my Myspace for a little while, so added a few links and photos, it's mainly all going on over in Facebook world, but I don't want to bang on about that! Listening to that Tap Tap song...
Posted by Simon on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:31:00 PST

I'm not dead, I'm just pretending

[Emo message of the month about rubbish singer/songwriters removed]. Hey driving is going well, had 12 hours so far, will be 14 by end of today (Weds), hoping my target for passing before Christmas is...
Posted by Simon on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:07:00 PST

I'm the luckiest guy on the lower east side, 'cos I got wheels and you want to go for a ride

So, I thought to give myself extra motivation I'd start a diary of my learning to drive experiences, so if I don't post for a while people will know I'm not getting things sorted/getting closer to get...
Posted by Simon on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:27:00 PST

Magnetic Fields

Hurrah! Magnetic Fields have finally added one of my fave songs to their Myspace! 69 Love Songs, the most perfect album ever! 69 songs of pure joy & love! You wouldn't understand!...
Posted by Simon on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:39:00 PST

NY, NYYYYY!

got back from new york today, i don't normally like other cities, especially first time i go to them, but have completely fallen in love with new york, amazing place! i would really like to move there...
Posted by Simon on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:16:00 PST

Howard Moon!

So I'm pretty bored so thought I would yap in here a bit. Yap, who uses that anymore?! I'm bringing it back! Sorry, too much Boosh. Which brings me onto my boast, smooth. Saturday, was up in Edinburgh...
Posted by Simon on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:37:00 PST

Cool New People

Yeah I'm bored so I thought I'd write something, I can't use this too much as I gave Sarah a hard time about having a blog a while back... So... What's the deal with 'cool new people' - I keep on...
Posted by Simon on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:55:00 PST

Friends!

'You cannot add yourself as a friend.' - What kind of nonsense is that? If I can't be my friend then who can be my friend? "It's the wrong moon Gromit! It's the wrong mooooon!" How funny would that be...
Posted by Simon on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:32:00 PST