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Jim

The secret ingredient is crime

About Me

I think these things are good: Belly laughing, dead Russian authors, pub crawls where you don't stop until you either find fifth Beatle George Best or die (sadly this is no longer possible since the inspirational hero/wife beating drunk died), Sarth Efrican accents, made up words like Confusement and fdpgkhjf, the R & B singer called Kleshay, the subtle innuendo in the name of Palm Springs "massage" parlour in Romford, that one of the Dagenham postcodes is RM8 (Aaaaaaah mate), the things that would happen if Stephen Hawking caught dyslexia and then Tourettes, when foreign people call me "my friend!", that John Barnes talks like he's rapping and raps like he's talking, that Dodo is Portuguese for "fool" - that's like chickens being called "idiots", that "Gav" is Russian for "woof" and the idea of Russian dogs walking around going "Gav! Gav! Gav!", that lisp has an S in it, playground insults like div and gom, old black blokes, the George Foreman grill, so good he put his name on it (everything he owns has his name on it and his wife has it tattooed on her forehead), that the guy who owns Max Factor is actually called Max Factor, the words "Gleet" (trust me, look it up) and "Wallop", a good ellipsis...
I think these things are bad: Brushing your teeth and then drinking orange juice, being little and biting soap because it looks like it should taste nice (and we've all done that more than once), the bleep test, that Michael Jackson's blonde haired, blue eyed, white milky bar kids are clearly not his children and nobody says anything about it, people who use the word "random!" to describe anything that's even slightly out of the ordinary, the Burger King advert with the cow that has a Burger King logo on it - that animal can not possibly comprehend how much it's having the piss taken out of it, Denver the last Paedosaur ("He's our friend and a whole lot more"? Nonce), love songs, kids singing, cartoons kissing (for some reason it makes me really uncomfortable and I never know where to look), that my parents won't grow up and move out, soapy pint glasses, The Daily Mail and particularly Richard LittleHitler, self consciously wacky people that stop you in the street and try and get you to give money to sick kids...Birmingham is bad, I lived there once, and Farnborough is even worse, I lived there for a year and it's like Groundhog Day in the Twilight Zone. In case you were wondering, like. The sound technician didn't have any ears. I mean come on...Anybody who's read this far gets a prize. ..This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet him...

Being interviewed/told off by him...

It'd be absolute chaos. I don't think I'd say anything, I'd just watch it play out as Jeremy told Mickey "King of Chavs" Carroll that he should be ashamed of himself and that if he was any kind of man he'd cut out the drinking and take some responsibility for himself. Mate. After that I'd team up with Jezza and we'd prove that Robert Downey Jr;

...and Hank Azaria;

...are the same person.

Music:

Bjork, DJ Shadow, Mos Def, Godspeed You! Black Emporer, The Smiths, New Order, The Stone Roses, Mogwai, Pixies, Massive Attack, Joy Division, Sigur Ros, The Clash, Beck, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, The Cure, Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, Interpol, Smashing Pumpkins, Primal Scream, Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age, Soundgarden, The Futureheads, The Mars Volta, At the Drive In, Husker Du, Sugar, Idlewild, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Postal Service, Electronic, Head Automatica, Nouvelle Vague, Radio 4, 141, Radio'ead, Jeff Buckley, Explosions in the Sky, Nada Surf, My Bloody Valentine, M83, Maps, The Most Serene Republic, Ride, Jurassic 5, Black Star, Common, Wolf Parade, Arcade Fire, Minus The Bear, The Stills, Editors, The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, Love, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Super Furry Animals, Ian Brown, Jimmy Eat World, Thrice, Sparta, black era Michael Jackson, pre-post-second album Oasis, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor (I bet they called her Vagina Inspector at school), Tricky, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Squarepusher, Air, Telepopmusik, Portishead, Leftfield, Les Rythmes Digital, 4Hero, Fischerspooner, Lamb, UNKLE, the theme song from Football Italia...Queen are the worst band ever and Neil Young doesn't know what century it is because mountains and horses are the only things he ever sings about.
The video below has to be seen to be believed. It's only the first five chapters (and twenty minutes) of R Kelly's "Hip Hopera" Trapped in the Closet, but you can find the rest on YouTube;

Movies:

City of God, I 24 Hour Party People, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Happiness, Lost in Translation, Broken Flowers, Amelie, City of the Lost Children, Delicatessen, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Requiem for a Dream, One Flew Over the Cuckoos' Nest, 25th Hour, American Splendor, American History X, Crouching Grunger, Hidden Weapon, Shaun of the Dead, The Princess Bride (Columbo reads a great book to Fred Savage. Brilliant.), Groundhog Day, Catch me if you Can, Kids, Leon, Dolomite, Spirited Away, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Trainspotting, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Napolean Dynamite, Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, A Bronx Tale, Sin City, The Usual Suspects, The King of Comedy, A Cock and Bull Story, Withnail & I, Drowning By Numbers, The Cook, the Thief and all that Palaver, Sexy Beast, Buffalo 66, the remake of Sliding Doors where Gwynny gets with Pete Doherty instead of Chris Martin...

Television:

Brass Eye, Jaaaaaaaaam, The League of Gentlemen, The Mighty Boosh, The Simpsons, Peep Show, Black Books, The Thick of It, The Office, Family Guy, South Park, The Young Ones, Nathan Barley, Green Wing, Lost, Funland, a show about finding people appropriate jobs called Very Tenable with Terry Venables, adverts for headache tablets where you get big, bald, grey blokes going "rrrrrargh!" in agony before the Nurofen or whatever kicks in and makes it all better, adverts for loans where stupid, mulletted, poor people are told to talk about how great whatever company are while having guns pointed at them off camera.

Books:

Mikhail Bulgakov - 'The Master and Margarita' will make your life better, as will The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, 'Catch 22' by Joseph Heller is the funniest book ever written, in my opinion, which I've always found to be right. I also likes Kurt Vonnegut, Will Self, Tom Wolfe, Hunter S Thompson, Irvine Welsh, John King, Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Craig Clevenger, Tom Robbins, Ken Kesey, William Goldman, Allessandro Boffa, John Kennedy Toole, Keith Waterhouse, Kilgore Trout, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, Truman Capote, F Scott Fitzgerald, Jonathan Coe, Salman Rushdie, Douglas Coupland, even though he's a bit irritating at times, Bret Easton Ellis, Hubert Selby Jr, Matt Beaumont, Hanif Kureishi, Umberto Eco, Luther Blissett, Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, Nikolay Gogol, Vladimir Nabakov, Jonathan Safran Foer, BEAR V SHARK -by Chris Bachelder (I reckon the shark...), Haruki Murakami, Jon Ronson, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, Nietzsche, 'The Jess Mayers Story/Colouring-In Book', "The Dirt" by Motley Crue and Neil Strauss...I probably read too much, yet not enough...Jack Kerouac is boring and massively overrated daddyo.

Heroes:

Dave Brooks, Top Cat, because he was a thief and a con artist, Officer Dibble was an idiot though, he spent all his time trying to arrest cats and still got out smarted. 15 year old Cesc Fabregas, swanning around the Bernabeu like he owns it.

My Blog

P.S. I Hate You

Recently a scientist by the name of J. Craig Venter successfully identified every one of the six billion genes in his body with the help of a system developed by himself and the team at his institutio...
Posted by Jim on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:02:00 PST

Snogging Madonna

Grinning through her picket fence mouth and clutching a pen with all the might of her steroid-addled-builder physique Madonna recently signed a new deal that will keep her releasing albums until she's...
Posted by Jim on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:26:00 PST

How Dare You Involuntarily Think Your Own Thoughts?!

Recently a friend and I hit on a theory as to the whereabouts of celebrity missing child Madeleine McCann. Within this same theory we've whittled down the list of suspects in the Rhys Jones murder cas...
Posted by Jim on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:34:00 PST

Jim Joins the Real World

It's tough out here in the world of post-grads. No more wide eyed anticipation of the future - because it is the future - which is why I've been pleased to start my first post-graduate job at ITV...
Posted by Jim on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:33:00 PST

Will Nobody Think of the Children?

It's fair to say that my hair is the source of much debate. "It's ginger" says pretty much everyone. "It's Autumn Breeze, or Copper Monsoon," I say. "It's a unique colour exclusive to my head and I ...
Posted by Jim on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:21:00 PST

OK...Now what?

At the third attempt of finishing a degree I've finally done it. It's been a long and geographically impractical road that led me at first to Birmingham, specifically Digbeth, which at the time had th...
Posted by Jim on Tue, 22 May 2007 07:34:00 PST

Cabin Fever and Genealogy

I've recently started a well paid and high powered job with lots of opportunities for promotion in Threshers in Upminster. At a massive eight hours a week it's putting a strain on my social life, but ...
Posted by Jim on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:23:00 PST

When I'm Rich...

Like all daydreamers I assume that one day I'll be extremely rich (this "one day" we're all hoping for is going to be an amazing 24 hours). I'm not sure how I'm going to get the money yet, but I will....
Posted by Jim on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:57:00 PST

Maniacs in Lakeside

I'm working part time in HMV in Lakeside at the moment and have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a normal person because the general public are all completely fucking in...
Posted by Jim on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:24:00 PST

Rainham in Crisis

Recently I've remembered that Rainham is right on the edge of Greater London, the border between civilisation and yokel country. This explains a lot, as clearly the redneck/ruder/rudeneck community of...
Posted by Jim on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:12:00 PST