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Ossie

" as quiet & restrained as a C&A tramp fight "

About Me


01-04-2008
yup, so i trashed my profile, replaced it with a couple of Pearl Jam videos, now i'm gonna do it all again.
though not tonight.
i'm also going to ressurect my long-forgotten myspace music profile, as it was suggested to me by someone tonight (thankyou!). just gotta remember which email address i signed up with, the password, and figure out how to record myself...
i may be some time...
just got back from seeing The Martin Harley Band at the Arts Centre, bloody brilliant! i've waited years for them to play here, finally got to see them. downside? i spent 2 hours cleaning up cat crap to pay for my ticket.
you can't have it all.
drove home slowly on the back roads, The Jamwagon making some thoroughly unholy noises (she sounds like the bowels of hell, with a twist of air-getting-through-somewhere-in-the-engine-it-shouldn't). i hope my family take pity on me this year, all chip in together & get me a safe car for my birthday... uncle stephen has 2 subaru legacy's... and a honda CRV... and an old subaru pickup. i'm sure he wouldn't miss one of them!
gotta be up by 8.15am to let the dogs out, and i have to sit with them while small dog eats her breakfast, otherwise big dog scoffs the lot. and it takes her 10 minutes to get through the same amount as big dog eats in 2...
so i'm gonna watch an episode of Black Books and crash now

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Likes

my pets - 6 ferrets (i also take in strays, and occasionally i'll take in a biter for re-training), 3 cats, 2 dogs, 1 snake. One of the cats and one of the dogs live with my parents. sex, drugs and Rock & Roll, (not necessarily in that order). Drinking tea. Drinking JD & Coke. Chopping wood with my big axe (insert joke about "Ossie's big chopper" here). this is a "like" and a necessity, i have a woodburner, and if i didn't chop wood, i'd freeze! Holkham & Wells beaches (a mile of beach before the sea when the tide is out). Making my own alcohol (got 2 gallons of plum wine in my landlords shed). Mountainboarding, powerkiting & kiteboarding. Singing. Playing guitar & bass. My living room entertainments set-up (got the pc, video, dvd, turntable & freeview wired through my amplifier. took ages to hook it all up right, but damn it sounds good!). Grungeness. Hock. Cooking. charity-shopping. mucky hands. walking Gyp, especially early on frosty misty mornings as the sun is coming up, or on moonlit nights. and i love taking him to Wells to run around on the beach. (if i won the lottery i'd just spend all day pottering about & walking with Gyp). Practical people. Rescuing toads from being run over (must have saved a few hundred this year, takes me hours to get home from the pub when it's rained, i stop & move every toad i see!i hope no one ever sees me...). My funky old tape answerphone. Getting people over to chill out, talk, watch videos... i love having people over, like in the Silver Street days. i get bored if i'm here on my own for too many days straight.Dislikes
losing Gyp when we go for walks at night. the thing you have to remember is that when he's going full-pelt, he can run at about 30mph - which means if he's out of site for 2 minutes, he could be a mile away...
Eating too much. my really annoying habit of always trying to be the centre of attention (can't help it, slight autistic tendancies!). Grit in my bed (i have the dog to thank for this!). Roisi bringing me little furry "presents" (the live rat she released into my living room really was a bit much, and i wasn't impressed with the dead mouse in my boot!). Running out of cheese. having no money.

good things you could trust me with your life. i don't cheat on boyfriends. i'm nice to animals, especially the ones i eat. i'm pretty handy with an axe. i'm good at washing up. i live for music. i am a loyal friend (even if i am a bit slack at keeping in touch). i can get you drunker than you've ever been in your life, for a fiver. there's always space to crash at Ossies! if i only had a pound left, and you really needed it, i'd lend it to you. i borrow stuff AND i give it back when you ask for it. i make the best damn spaghetti hoops-on-cheese-on-toast you ever tasted.

bad things
i'm very untidy. hamsters die after i go near them. i am a pain in the arse when i'm drunk (an amusing one, but a pain never the less). i will eat all your cheese and bread. i smoke too much. when i drink, i drink too much. i can be a moody bugger sometimes. i cry too easily when things get too much. i will always think of the most inappropriate thing to say in any given situation, then probably say it anyway (although that's how i met Kev, one of my best friends in the whole wide world!). i spend too much time dreaming about "what if"s, rather than doing something about it. i talk to much, but sometimes i don't say the things i need to say.

I'd like to meet:

been pissing myself laughing over this all day:
FROM MSN NEWS

A man in New Zealand has been charged with the unlikely crime of using a hedgehog as a weapon.

The spiny creature was allegedly launched at a 15-year-old boy by William Singalargh, 27, inflicting several puncture wounds and a large gash to his leg. It is not known whether the hedgehog was alive when it was thrown.
full story
hedgehogs have historically been used as weapons in England:

ooooh, she's gonna get it!

Music:

Music
Pearl Jam. Led Zeppelin. Then, (in alphabetical order) - Alice in Chains. Tori Amos. Alter Bridge. Aerosmith. Jeff Buckley. Syd Barrett. Black Sabbath. Blind Melon. Bad Company. Bad Radio. Butthole Surfers. Black Crowes. Bush. Johnny Cash. The Clash. Crystal Method. Alice Cooper. Collective Soul. The Cult. Vanessa Carlton.Nick Drake. Sandy Denny. The Dubliners. Ani DiFranco. Dinosaur Jr. Deep Purple. The Darkness. Duran Duran. The Fens. Flogging Molly. Free. Fairport Convention. Four Non-Blondes. The Fureys. Fuel. Green River. Guns N' Roses. Gin Blossoms. The Goats. Gruntruck. Ben Harper. Billie Holiday. Roy Harper. Jimi Hendrix.
INXS. Ice-T. Janis Joplin. Jethro Tull. Judas Priest. Jane's Addiction. Kraul. The Kinks. Kyuss. L7. Lynyrd Skynyrd. The Lemonheads. Ministry. Mother Love Bone. Malfunkshun. Mötley Crüe. Mystery Jets. Ned's Atomic Dustbin. Nine Inch Nails. Old Crow. Pink Floyd. Prodigy. Robert Plant. Pansy Division. P.A.I.N. Terry Reid (his version of "Stay With Me Baby" pisses all over every other version in my opinion). The Replacements. Royal Trux. Rolling Stones. The Raincoats. Soundgarden. The Slits. Bessie Smith. Stone Temple Pilots. Nina Simone. Steeleye Span. Sex Pistols. Skid Row. The Sonics. Sandy Shaw. Soul Asylum. Screaming Trees. Michelle Shocked. Serpent Sins. The Stranglers. T Rex. Tyrannosaurus Rex. Temple of the Dog. Thin Lizzy. Toadies. Ten Foot Dolls. Tool. U2. Ugly Kid Joe. Uriah Heep. The Wildhearts. The Who. Wishbone Ash. Whitesnake. The Zombies. Sure i've forgotten someone....

Best Gigs
Tool @ Brixton Academy 2001; Rage Against The Machine, Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, At The Drive-In, Muse, Foo Fighters, all at Reading 2000; Symposium @ the Waterfront 1997; Idlewild @ Fat Paulys 1998; The Levellers @ The UEA 2005... more when i remember them!


this is rather deceptive, because most of the music i listen to is on vinyl, and there's no way for Last.Fm to track it!

"What Kind Of Fool" - Kira J Haslam

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Movies:

Films
Withnail & I. Le Fabuleax Destin d'Amelie Poulain. Chocolat. Airheads. Brief Encounter. Still Crazy. Dirty Harry, most Clint Eastwood films actually (my mum is a huge Clint fan, i kinda had to absorb some of that). Quadrophenia. Killing Zoe. Almost Famous. Natural Born Killers. A clockwork Orange. Evolution. Baseketball. Wilt. Anything with "Kevin Smith" written on the case. Idle Hands. Performance. Taxi (french original!). Dazed & Confused. Happy Texas. A Bucket of Blood. What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Belleville Rendezvous. Dead Man. Pirates of the Caribbean (1, 2, and i should imagine 3). Chopper. Buffalo Soldiers. Anything with Terry Thomas. The Wicker Man. Straw Dogs. Go. The Thing. High Fidelity. Bill & Teds Bogus Journey. Nuns on the Run. Uncle Buck. Joes Appartment. Saving Grace. Spinal Tap. Drugstore Cowboy. Singles. Leon. Coffee & Cigarettes.

Television:

Telly
i don't really watch much telly, usually just videos & DVDs. i have a friend who is trying to convince me that vegging in front of the telly is a valid use of your leisure time. but if i do watch: Life on Mars (damn, that was a good series! the last thing i managed to watch a whole series of. must buy the DVD). Bottom. Men Behaving Badly. Family Guy. South Park. Time Team. 80's Kids Shows (Stopit & Tidyup! Trapdoor!). Blackadder. Red Dwarf. documentaries, natural history, anything that satisfies my brain's desire to absorb information. Top Gear. Monty Python...

Books:

Books
Hideous Kinky. Groupie. Anything by Spike Milligan. Through Gypsy Eyes. Philip Larkin. Oscar Wilde. Just finished reading "Travels With My Aunt" by Grahame Greene. Currently reading "Confessions of an English opium-eater" by Thomas de Quincey

Heroes:

from the first moment i saw you, i knew we were meant to be together.... brought together by necessity, a deep love developed between us, a love that saw us travel the length & breadth of the country, sharing many new & wonderful experiences, meeting amazing people, and having so much fun.
maybe i didn't look after you as i should have. spending a few hundred pounds on you every february really wasn't enough.... and i'm sorry.
and now the time has come to part company. it's been a rollercoaster of emotion, and i'm feeling pretty weird about it all now. tomorrow i'll be with another, and i've committed to a new relationship already. i feel dirty. i feel like i'm cheating on my faithful girl.
i shall miss you terribly. i'll never forget the times we shared, through the good & the bad, the sun & the snow, and the River Tas (i'm really sorry about that).

Jamwagon, Old Girl, you've been the best car a young woman could have wished for. your memory will live on in the hearts of all those who travelled in you. your engine will live on in their living rooms, as uniquely-crafted knick-knacks.

R.I.P. Jamwagon, Rest In Pieces, my white escort-y angel : (

My Blog

the zen of sarcasm

1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me alone.2. The journey of a thousand miles begins wit...
Posted by Ossie on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:44:00 PST

much backness!

after a lengthy hiatus, i am now back online, lovely lovely broadband! so, what's happened since i was last here? well, i didn't go to ireland (too many reasons to list, most of you know them). i...
Posted by Ossie on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:44:00 PST

just an update...

not that anyone actually reads this, but i thought i'd post anyway... back at mums, sleeping on the sofa in the spare room. Gyp is in their kennels, Rois & the kittens are in the cattery, Barry ha...
Posted by Ossie on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:14:00 PST

the most shat-on person in england?

i am fast becoming one angry little person. it has come to my attention how much the current government & their subsiduaries (i.e. breckand district council!) are, metaphorically, "shitting in my ...
Posted by Ossie on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:57:00 PST

stuff, bollocks, the usual shite...

it's been a while, so here goes... girlie, my faithful Jamwagon, is coming off the road on thursday. she will be much missed, a faithful old friend! if anyone is interested, i'm selling her for £100 o...
Posted by Ossie on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 07:51:00 PST

ah...

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Posted by Ossie on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:36:00 PST

dentists

so, i went to the dentist this morning, cos my gums at the front were sore... got poked, prodded, x-rayed... diagnosis - i'm so stressed i'm grinding my teeth in my sleep, and turning my gums to mush...
Posted by Ossie on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:36:00 PST

i wanna

cut my hair off! someone take these scissors away!
Posted by Ossie on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:55:00 PST

Kevin Smith

found this posted as a comment on jason mewe's page, i thought it was funny... things YOU should know about Kevin Smith. Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Kevin Smith pajamas. Simpl...
Posted by Ossie on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:34:00 PST

more plans...

i have been watching way too many french films recently... so, an update on my travel plans: cornwall this summer, yep. back for autumn. then, i'm gonna save up like crazy over the winter, get myself ...
Posted by Ossie on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:25:00 PST