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About Me

I'm Mike Smith Man of Action, Man about town, a Man for all ages with an eye for the Ladies and a taste for the Liquor. Mmmmmm, sweet, sweet whiskey. INTERESTING FACT - Mike Smith times Mikes Smith equals two Mike Smiths, which is just too much Mike Smith for any one person to handle. Am I espousing my own legend, bigging myself up, Blowing my own trumpet, Yeah but too much of that Kind of thing will make you go blind. Bartender, WHISKEY !!!!

My Interests

Whiskey, Bourbon, Gin, Beer, Cider, White Russians, Vodka, Tequila, Absinthe, Drain Cleaner. And other stuff.

I'd like to meet:

My Maker......oh wait, that's mum and dad. Oh...well....guess i'm good then. Sorry to bother you.

Music:

Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, GreenDay, CCR, Simon and Garfunkel, The Kings of Leon, The White Stripes, Miles Davis, The Boy Least Likely To, The Beatles, Kitsch music (Think Afternoon Delight), Huey Lewis and the News (who doesnt love the power of love).

Movies:

JUST.....TOO.....MANY....TO....LIST.....BRAIN....EXPLODING.. .AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

Television:

Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 15 Storeys High, Spaced, Black Books, Blackadder, Scrubs, Garth Marenghis Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley Brasseye, Snuff Box, The Armando Ianuccis shows. Anything with Chris Morris - but not the IT Crowd, The IT crowd was shit, real bad shit.Also, anything written by me. WATCH THIS SPACE PEOPLE.

Books:

Lies and the lying liars who tell them (a fair and balanced view of the right), Fast Food Nation, Louis Theroux and The call of the weird, 1984, Are you Dave Gorman?, Haunted, The Watchmen.

Heroes:

Bill Hicks, Charlie Kauffman, Mick Foley (if you don't know, don't ask), Garth Ennis, Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Spielberg, Tarantino, Wes Anderson, P. T. Anderson, Stan Lee, John Bonham.

My Blog

Transformers - the robots, not the electrical component.

I have a film degree. I know, many, if not all, of you are fully aware that I have a film degree, I just find it comforting to occasionally remind myself of this fact, for a myriad of reasons. One is ...
Posted by The Clown Prince Of Crime on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:15:00 PST

Dissatisfaction

Should it be that I, in no small way, have found myself in a quandry, a situation wrought by myself and the wildy schizophrenic synapses which fire around inside my head much like a small time warlord...
Posted by The Clown Prince Of Crime on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:15:00 PST

Jive Talkin'

In 1946 a 39 year old bakers assistant from Lowestoft, unable to face an unsatisfying life in the notoriously violent and underhanded bread trade, or 'the bunny cobbles' as it is known to those in the...
Posted by The Clown Prince Of Crime on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:07:00 PST

The Rat Race (or how Melvyn Bragg stole my pocket watch for flannels)

At what point did I become a part of The Rat Race, and for that matter, how? Is it due to my lack of effort, my lack of talent or simply because I am, in fact, a giant Rat in disguise, living as a hum...
Posted by The Clown Prince Of Crime on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:13:00 PST

I want my CGT

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have had my ire raised. Now I know what you are saying , "Why Smith, surely that isn't hard you moody, sarcastic bastard", and you would be right, it really doesn't take m...
Posted by The Clown Prince Of Crime on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:13:00 PST

And people say i'm downbeat.

And out of the darkness we emerge, bleary eyed and weary into the light. A fresh dawn, a beacon of hope to fill even the most jaded and downtrodden with an ebullience to lift them from their knees, re...
Posted by The Clown Prince Of Crime on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:55:00 PST