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Distracted

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My Interests

Tea, music, tea, films, tea, books, tea.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

My favourite album at the moment is Everything All The Time by Band Of Horses.My favourite album of all time is Psychocandy by The Jesus And Mary Chain.My favourite song of all time is Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack.Music I'm currently enjoying includes Melt-Banana, Pissed Jeans, Nebula, Thurston Moore, Prince and Super Furry Animals.All time favourites are The Jesus And Mary Chain, Mudhoney, The Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Primal Scream, Spiritualized, Loop, Spectrum, Sonic Boom, The Small Faces, My Bloody Valentine, Prince, ZZ Top, Sonic Youth, The Black Keys, The Sonics, Teenage Fanclub and KISS.



Other music I like and will never tire of includes stuff by ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, AC Acoustics, Aphex Twin, The Arrogants, Ash, Awesome Color, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Chuck Berry, The Black Angels, The Black Crowes, Black Helicopter, Black Mountain, Black Sabbath, The Boo Radleys, Boris, David Bowie, The Brogues, James Brown, Can, The Charlatans, Clutch, Codeine, Comets On Fire, Julian Cope, Crowbar, CSS, The Cult, The Cure, The Damned, Deep Purple, Detroit Cobras, Bo Diddley, Dinosaur Jr, The Divine Comedy, DJ Shadow, Down, Dungen, Erase Errata, Eric B & Rakim, Explosions In The Sky, The Faces, The Fall, Aretha Franklin, The Futureheads, Philip Glass, Howlin' Wolf, Keith Hudson, Inspiral Carpets, Iron Maiden, Elmore James, J Mascis & The Fog, Jamiroquai, Joan As Police Woman, Jurassic 5, Lafaro, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Liars, Lightning Bolt, Little Richard, Lords, Madrugada, Massive Attack, Jimmy McGriff, Memphis Slim, Motorhead, The National, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Pantera, Pavement, Pet Shop Boys, Pissed Jeans, Pixies, Pond, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Pop Will Eat Itself, Quasi, Otis Redding, REM, Steve Reich, Renegade Soundwave, Ride, The Rolling Stones, Saint Etienne, Scorn, Seaweed, Jimmy Smith, Rod Stewart, The Stooges, Sunn O))), Superchunk, Super Furry Animals, Irma Thomas, Throwing Muses, Tracer AMC, The Undertones, The United States Of America, The Wailers (the 60s US band), Weezer, The White Stripes, Wire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yellow Swans, The Zutons, and many many more.

Movies:

The last film I watched was The Ninth Gate, an entertainingly daft slice of supernatural horror, kinda.My favourite film of all time is The Rocky Horror Picture Show.Other films I rank highly include GoodFellas, Swingers, Clerks, Fargo, Taxi Driver, Seven, and Raging Bull.

Television:

Rugby World Cup is all I can be bothered watching at the moment, and that'll be over tomorrow. I'm also enjoying Heroes and The Riches though.

Books:

I'm currently reading Stand And Deliver: The Autobiography by Adam Ant and Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History Of The Hip Hop Generation by Jeff Chang.My two favourite books of all time are Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

Heroes:

Tea. More tea. Preferably Yorkshire Tea. Proper brown tea.

My Blog

Super Furry Animals, Queens University, Belfast 17/10/07

One of my all-time favourite bands playing in Belfast can't be missed, so I headed on down to the university last night and caught a little bit of the support, Jim Noir, who wasn't my cup of tea. And ...
Posted by Distracted on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:39:00 PST

September purchases

Getting back to normal, with another bumper month of music...plenty of vinyl this month too.The Locust - Flight Of The Wounded Locust 7" EPDJ Scotch Egg - Scotch Hausen CDHeavy Winged - Lost Forever/C...
Posted by Distracted on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:51:00 PST

August Purchases

Hmmm, I'm typing this on a Mac and for some reason, Myspace doesn't like its OS, so I can't use the proper editor, so who know what this will end up looking like, but here goes:The National - Boxer Me...
Posted by Distracted on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:08:00 PST

Vital Festival (Day 1), Ormeau Park, Belfast, 21/08/07

It's not really a festival, there's no camping or anything, it's more of an event held in a big park in Belfast.One main stage and a tent, and I saw:Nice 'n' Sleezy - local band taking their lead from...
Posted by Distracted on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:55:00 PST

July purchases

That's better, I'm a bit more back to normal. I think I went slightly bananas this month... Blade DVD Melt-Banana - 666 6" vinyl Area C - Trick With A Knife 7" and CD single The National - Cherry Tree...
Posted by Distracted on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:34:00 PST

The Thrills, The Flaws - Spring & Airbrake, Belfast 27/07/07

The Thrills, The Flaws - Spring & Airbrake, Belfast 27/07/07 Now, here's a gig I'd been looking forward to for ages. One of my favourite bands of the last few years playing Belfast&and it was p...
Posted by Distracted on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:06:00 PST

FOR SALE: LEEDS FESTIVAL & SONIC YOUTH (LONDON 1/9) TICKETS

I'm selling some gig tickets on ebay at the moment as I can't go to either one of these gigs anymore becuse of a change of plans.Take a look, maybe stick a bid on if you fancy it?You can find them her...
Posted by Distracted on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:01:00 PST

Oxegen 2007, Punchestown Racecourse, Co Kildare, Ireland

Awfully wet and atrociously muddy. Good fun all the same. If you tried to rely on the weather in Ireland you'd never leave the house.So, on Saturday, saw:Cherry Ghost (very pleasant stuff)Polytechnic ...
Posted by Distracted on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:32:00 PST

June Purchases

As The Simpsons' Comic Book Guy might say, "Shortest. Blog. Ever."The White Stripes - Icky ThumpMarnie Stern - In Advance Of The Broken ArmFear & Loathing In Las Vegas DVDYep, that's it...what hap...
Posted by Distracted on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:02:00 PST

Ahhh, Weezer!

Oh, thank you Aversion.com, and thank you Weezer. Oh how I adore this band.   http://www.aversion.com/news/news_article.cfm?news_id=8869 Weezer Just Won't Go Away, Starts New AlbumJun 27, 2007 W...
Posted by Distracted on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:58:00 PST