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calvin

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About Me

I'm calvin. or that guy from that rock n roll band you saw when you were drunk. or that guy you saw playing someone elses guitar upside down at a gig somewhere random. well, random to me, probably not to you, but you get the picture.
so about me? i play bass guitar in The Smoking Hearts. I love the band to peices, and it'd be cool if you check us out by following one of the links scattered around my page.
i do some work sometimes. work is boring tho, so we don't talk about that.
i live a drug free lifestyle. i used to drive an astra. it was red and it was great. although the brakes didn't work. the redmobile died an untimely death at the modest age of 93,000 miles. click here to sign the book of condolance . now i drive a car with flowers on. its name is donald.
my all time hero is Mike Patton. don't really need to explain why really, should be pretty obvious.
if anyone wants to buy me a drink, mines a cranberry juice, ta.
some people don't like me cos i'm never around. some people like me for the same reason. i can't sleep when the bus isn't moving. i don't like beards, i find them intimidating. i'm not very good at being subtle, thats potentially an understatement. i like adventures. and smiling.
if my ipod is on shuffle and finds one of my favourite songs, i say thank you. its only polite if you think about it.
if i'm not somewhere that you expect me to be, it probably means that i'm late. keep waiting. if you book them, they shall come. live to win.

My Interests

rock n roll, gigs, playing music, partying, great edge, tuning other peoples guitars, sleeping on floors, driving my flowery car, and being in the best band to ever come from george street.

I'd like to meet:

Elvis

Music:

woah where do i start on music, erm.... i loves rock n fucking roll music! ok, this is perhaps a bit embarrasing, but here are some bands i like: ACDC, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Alfy, American Nightmare, Anthrax, Andrew WK, Arch Enemy, At The Gates, Billy Bragg, Borderline, Brides of Destruction, The Break In, Buckcherry, Cannibal Corpse, Cassetteboy, Capdown, The Chariot, Clash, Converge, The Cramps, Death By Stereo, Deicide, Desa, Descendants, Dillenger Escape Plan, Dragonforce, Echelon, Europe, Faith No More, Filaments, Freaks Union, Fireapple Red, Foamers, Five Knuckle, Fear Factory, F-Minus, Give up the Ghost, Glitterati, God Forbid, Guns n Roses, Hatebreed, The Haunted, Howards Alias, Hope Conspiracy, Human Waste Project, Ignite, The Jellys, Kid Dynamite, Killswitch Engage, King Prawn, The Kramers, La Guns, Leftover Crack, Lostprophets, Lamb of God, Loveburger, Manowar, Minor Threat, Misfits, Monster Magnet, Motley Crue, Mouthwash, Mr Bungle, None More Black, Nerve Agents, NOFX, Pantera, The Peacocks, Peeping Tom, Poison, Propaghandi, Quireboys, Rancid, Ramones, Rob Zombie, Shai Hulud, Sick of it all, Skid Row, The Smoking Hearts, Slayer, The Smiths, Soilwork, Stretch Armstrong, Therapy?, Through the eyes of the fucking dead from north fucking carolina, Turbonegro, Unitus, WASP, Walls of Jericho, Wildhearts, Yngwie, Zeke and a few more that i forgot...

Movies:

Alfie (the original, not the fucking remake), Waynes World, Braindead, Donnie Darko, Spinal Tap, Ghostbusters, Seven, The Italian Job, Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead, Back to the future, Saw, Snatch, Lock Stock and other films with copious amounts of swearing and bad behaviour, Kindergarten Cop, most zombie films...

Television:

Takeshi's castle, Top Gear, Late Night Baseball on five, quizmania... fucking ace!

Books:

"the dirt" by motley crue, essential reading. Rancid News - greatest zine of them all the lemmy book was pretty good, and i liked fast food nation.

Heroes:



dimebag, Mike Patton, nikki sixx, robert flynn, Kunt and the Gang, People that can do good art, The other 4 Smoking Hearts...

the glorious mike patton in action

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My Blog

give em hell - out monday!

finally! the smoking hearts ep will make its appearance for download on various legal music download sites such as itunes, napster and emusic on monday 13th august 2007 be great if you'd make the effo...
Posted by calvin on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:08:00 PST

scream for me denmark

hello all. i'm sitting on the bus outside stengade in copenhagen, denmark. i'm writing you from the comforts of the back lounge on the tiger army tour bus amid the comforts of the pink seats, stealing...
Posted by calvin on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:54:00 PST

my weekend with Pull Tiger Tail

so i know its still technically the weekend, but for the most part, saturday night signals the highlight of the weekend, so i figured now would be a good time to tell ALL of you about my weekend. i'm ...
Posted by calvin on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:09:00 PST

time for the new blog me thinks...

hello folks... me again. so i'm back. early. haha. yes. for the first time in my whole life, i'm actually early! thanks to being woken up at 9am, to be fired, i've actually been home 6 days earlier th...
Posted by calvin on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:03:00 PST

one minute here and one minute there...

so, its that time again. 2.45am on saturday 11th november. i'm wasting down my remaining minutes at george street by writing this little blog for my many adorers. needless to say, this blog shares som...
Posted by calvin on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:22:00 PST

RIP The Redmobile - official book of condolance

On the 19th September, 2006, at approximately 1.30am, the Vauxhall Astra Estate, known affectionately as "The Redmobile" passed away. It died quickly in its sleep at the early age of 93,000 miles. Th...
Posted by calvin on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:45:00 PST

an interesting sunday evening...

so after watching my beloved chelsea narrowly struggle past Colchester in the FA cup, and falling out with someone i absolutely adore (the two events were not connected), i set about going to the dta ...
Posted by calvin on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:23:00 PST

23rd - 28th December 2005

eugh. friday 23rd December - so we had a show this night. The Smoking Hearts played in hitchin. quite a good show, although i wasn't really feeling it as much as normal. maybe the break from playing l...
Posted by calvin on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:33:00 PST

spin out, punk rock, parties...

so i had a reassuring weekend. after getting dumped like a piece of deseased meat in frankfurt, recieving a bill of 252 euros for medical care, and various other pieces of shitty luck, i had a good st...
Posted by calvin on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:13:00 PST

i've got a double ended sharpie and i'm not afraid to use it...

so last night, was frankly... the tits. we did a show in Dudley with The Misfits, and had a lot of fun. the crowd was a little distant (about half a mile between us and the crowd). still, we got a goo...
Posted by calvin on Wed, 07 Sep 2005 05:05:00 PST