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Tim Wells

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About Me

I live in East London and was a skinhead for time. These days I still follow London's top sound - Tighten Up. I listen to way too much reggae and am also a chronic scribbler. I write poems and am on tour doing readings a lot, mostly in the US. I edit a poetry 'zine which, I'm happy to say, has the best bad reputation in poetry. I'm a 'business consultant' and find that pubs get 'er done... Create your own video for free at www.onetruemedia.com

My Interests

reggae music, beer, poetry, old films, military history, Leyton Orient FC

I'd like to meet:

anyone up for a beer and a laugh, girls with pigtails and wearing berets

Music:

Eek A Mouse, Trinity, Dillinger, I Roy, Ranking Dread, General Echo - dancehall reggae, rocksteady, ska. Tighten Up crew - London's top sound! This week: Elijah Rockin' With Soul - Hank Jacobs, Bus Dem Shut - the Wailers, Keep On Keeping On - Curtis Mayfield, Fat Boy - Billy Stewart, Wicked a Fe Dress Back - Earth and Stone, Mother-in-Law - Nicodemus

Movies:

Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films, old time kung fu, Warren Oates, Babylon (Ital Lion gonna mash up Shaka feisty yout'), Das Boot, the Duellists, Night of the Demon, the Hustler, Cisco Pike, White Heat, Victim, Town on Trial, Welcome to Hard Times, the Sea Wolf, Hardcore (the George C. Scott film), The Good Die Young, The Million Pound Note

Television:

The Sweeney, the Old Grey Whistle Test, Jason King, Raffles, Oz, Jeeves and Wooster, Seinfeld, Phoenix Nights, Gangsters, Revolver, the Duchess of Duke Street, Helping Henry, Wrestling!!! Sgt Bilko....

Books:

Ernest Hemingway, Richard Brautigan, Flannery O'Connor, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Robinson Jeffers, Sei Shonagon, Frances Chung, Fred Voss, hard boiled poetry

Heroes:

We can be heroes, just for one day..
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My Blog

Check out this event: Tighten Up

Hosted By: Tighten Up CrewWhen: 02 May 2008, 21:00Where: Rhum Jungle 70 Exmouth MarketIslington, London and South East|66 EC1United KingdomDescription:Tighten Up Crew Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Tim Wells on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:13:00 PST

The 1980s Are A Long Time Dead

The books in the 'community' bookshop have gathered a lot of dust, despite being neatly divided into Black, Asian, Lesbian and Gay shelves. Opposite, Florjan is doing a roaring trade. Since buying the...
Posted by Tim Wells on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:05:00 PST

Magma

I'm happy to say my poem 'Coming a Dance' is in Magma 38. Even better is that there's also fine work from Tim Turnbull, Amy Key, Juila Bird and Matthew Sweeney therein. Sadly the comical Mario Petrucc...
Posted by Tim Wells on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:28:00 PST

Anna May Wong; Her First Kiss

The third hot day of the summer, walking barefoot through an orchard as an apple falls straight into hand. Biting the crisp flesh as juice runs down her cheek. Horses start to gallop. Shampoo finds ...
Posted by Tim Wells on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:25:00 PST

Saved

I happened to hear the Goth girl next door and had to yell 'Hello, can you open the door please?'. This she did. She had a laugh at the story, it makes up for me laughing when I walked past her flat a...
Posted by Tim Wells on Sun, 13 May 2007 05:12:00 PST

I'm stuck in

In was just about to go out to get the Sunday papers, whan as I grabbed the doorhandle to go out the damn thing snapped. So, the door is unlocked but I can't get out. It's snapped right off so I can't...
Posted by Tim Wells on Sun, 13 May 2007 04:43:00 PST

Fashion

What with this new 'This Is England' film out at the end of April this'll be the first summer I've been in fashion since the Blur had that 'Parklife' record out. Top drawer! I've a few festival readin...
Posted by Tim Wells on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:34:00 PST

The Language of Pornographic Pictures

One leg raised sweat running down her straining face means she is to be marked in this tryst. Sat upright, one in each hand, the press of advancing spears resembling the death of Patroclus at Troy;...
Posted by Tim Wells on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:26:00 PST

my pen is proud

haven't found the formula to measure my impress shiny pennies doesn't get any better bank holiday drinking stepping into the clinches don't hold on to what is not waiting for a gap in the conversation...
Posted by Tim Wells on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:12:00 PST

Snow Laughing Matter

Woke up with London several inches deep in snow this morning. I got to work eventually. I wasn't in too much of a rush to tell the truth. I got home to find my dvd of Cisco Pike has just made it here ...
Posted by Tim Wells on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:39:00 PST