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ken bates is a cunt

It's not the despair, I can stand the despair. It's the hope...

About Me

seriously fucking unimpressed "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives...shit happens..."

My Interests

Next season in the third division ("league one", fuck off), lying in hospital with a drip in your arm, meat raffles, catholic guilt, spike milligan, adorno, dysfunctionality, blue skies, watching squirrels, surfing, empty french beaches with massive waves, pirates, otters, monkeys, penguins, gardening, good red wine, snooker, smoking, strong alcohol, original drowsy benylin, grrrls, supporting a fucking stupid football team, raving 1991-style, dennis potter, looking bored, sitting under tables on pills at hopeless local indie clubs, hard drive crashes, moaning, bitching, driving, cooking, writing, not writing, being late, the news, the seaside, Sean Paul's dancing, roof terraces, Gwen Stefani singles.

Music:

Bogdan Raczynski, Prolapse, Timbaland, Ceephax Acid Crew, Marvellous Cain, Sultans of Ping FC, The Monks, Venetian Snares, Sweep The Leg Johnny, Burial, Afghan Whigs, Missy Elliot, Brainiac, Prince, PiL, Dizzee Rascal, My Bloody Valentine, Amerie, Arab Strap, Altern-8, Quickspace, Faith No More, Tindersticks, Leila, The Gasman, Blur, Remarc, The Monsoon Bassoon, Pink And Brown, Penthouse, Ligament, Bong-Ra, Bardo Pond, Scout Niblett, DJ Rupture, Spacemen 3, Mudhoney, Anti-Pop, Dirty 3, LFO, Spiritualized, Wu-Tang, Shut Up & Dance, Pavement, Max Tundra, Radiohead, Carter USM, jungle, ardkore, old rave, grime before the ideas started to go, pop music, noisy old bollocks, the uncool, no busker-rock toss/Razorlight/bands full of poser cunts'n'wankers wearing stupid man-leggings and £100 purposely-amateurish-looking emo haircuts etc etc

Movies:

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Happiness, Misery, Caddyshack, Perfect Friday, Audition, Vera Drake, Trading Places, Scrooged, Shallow Grave, Requiem For a dream, Downfall, Tim Burton fillums, Heathers, Forklift Driver Klaus, driller killer, Big Lebowski, The Beyond, Dr. strangelove, pi, battle royal, naked, death race 2000, slap her she's french, lost highway, blue velvet, jacob's ladder, seven, rosemary's baby, full metal jacket, nil by mouth, faster pussycat kill kill, casino, spirited away, elephant man, adaptation, being john malkovich, gozu, ju-on, old films with strangely-scary badly-animated monsters that channel 4 would show during school holidays before they just endlessly repeated bloody Friends, Ghostbusters, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, old hallucinogenic Disney stuff, OLD Herbie films, Showgirls, Digby the Biggest Dog In The World

Television:

Trailer Park Boys, The Thick of it, Spongebob Squarepants, harry hill's tv burp, vic reeves' big night out, jeremy kyle, Twin peaks, Shameless, Q, QI, The Word, Peep Show, Fawlty Towers, sopranos, the day today, brasseye, Coronation Street, channel 4 art programmes Matthew Collings presents, Mark E Smith reading the classified football results, the young ones, The Championship, The Chart Show [rollercoaster intro era obviously innit], simpsons, Chockablock, That's My Dog, Ken Bates' Safestyle UK advert

Books:

45, 1984, Perfume, if this is a man, beneath the underdog, energy flash, catch 22, lord of the flies, as serious as your life, the hurricane, left foot forward, left foot in the grave, charlie & the chocolate factory, last exit to brooklyn, nausea, atomised, When saturday comes, stool pigeon, 101 Uses for a Dead Cat....er that really really good free mag that BarFly venues do with the amazing writing in it..yeah ok I'm taking the piss now i'm boring myself to tears typing this crap..

Heroes:

Mike Patton, Kim Deal, Billy Bremner, Basil Fawlty, Peel, Alex Higgins, Jenny RIP..