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Byron

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About Me

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TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Byron Michael Athene
Birthday: 16th of April in the year of our Lord 1971
Birthplace: Huddersfield, Yorkshire
Current Location: London, England
Eye Color: Let me have a look...I can't see. I need a mirror, hold on. Okay, brown.
Hair Color: VERY dark brown (seemingly black)
Height: 6' 1" and three quarters
Right Handed or Left Handed: I think I've got both. Oh, sorry, erm, I use the right one more.
Your Heritage: To borrow a word made popular by Damian Marley, 'Jamrock'
The Shoes You Wore Today: I haven't worn any shoes yet as it's quite early. I'll probably put on my trainers though.
Your Weakness: Cherry bakewells and chocolate muffins
Your Fears: The only thing to fear is fear itself?
Your Perfect Pizza: I'm not that fussed, as long as it's got olives, beef, green peppers, red peppers, orange peppers, tandoori chicken, sweetcorn, I'll eat it. Fervently.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Getting published would be nice.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: Oh no!
Thoughts First Waking Up: I probably SHOULD close my curtains before going to bed
Your Best Physical Feature: It's by far my humility, I'm wicked at that.
Your Bedtime: Mmmmmmmmm bedtime. It's supposed to be half 11 but it's usually closer to half 1.
Your Most Missed Memory: I don't know, I probably forgot it years ago.
Pepsi or Coke: Coke all the way baby!
MacDonalds or Burger King: McDonalds all the way baby!
Single or Group Dates: Group dates al- wait, no, erm, single dates.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: I shall gratefully decline both.
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla.
Cappuccino or Coffee: I'm confused, isn't cappuccino a TYPE of coffee?
Do you Smoke: Not really, no
Do you Swear: Fuck no, I ain't no potty mouth motherfucka.
Do you Sing: Only if I'm really really drunk
Do you Shower Daily: Yes, what type of stinking non-swearing potty mouth motherfucka do you take me for?
Have you Been in Love: I'm not really sure. I thought so at the time but when I look back...
Do you want to go to College: Did that already. Didn't go to all the lessons obviously but aside from the teachers/lecturers, who did?
Do you want to get Married: I think marriage was a man-made device so that men could pretty much 'own' women so yes please. Kidding.
Do you belive in yourself: To quote Tallegeda Nights: "When I wake up in the morning, I PISS excellence..." Yeah I guess I do.
Do you get Motion Sickness: Only on rollercoasters?
Do you think you are Attractive: I'm not the most UNattractive person I've seen.
Are you a Health Freak: I've suspiciously started to become a lot more health conscious. I say 'suspiciously' because who knows what that subconscious of mine might be up to. It might be trying to lengthen my/its/our life or something sly like that.
Do you get along with your Parents: Can't praise my mum enough.
Do you like Thunderstorms: If I'm not outside in one, sure.
Do you play an Instrument: I used to play a recorder in school? That probably wasn't even worth mentioning was it.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Once or twice
In the past month have you Smoked: Not really, no - remember that answer from above? no?
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Well that depends what you constitute as 'drugs' does caffeine count?
In the past month have you gone on a Date: I don't think so. Though that might explain why it went so badly.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Nope but I have been to West Edmonton Mall fairly recently, which is the 2nd biggest mall in the world!!
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Nope but sweet sweet chocolate.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: If God wanted us to eat fish raw, she wouldn't have given us the intelligence to devise cookers.
In the past month have you been on Stage: Thank fuckfully no.
In the past month have you been Dumped: I don't think so.
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Because of my weight class, I don't think it would be called SKINNY dipping.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Nope.
Ever been Drunk: Mmmmmmaybe (hic)
Ever been called a Tease: Yeah but I think they were being sarcastic.
Ever been Beaten up: The macho in me is making me say, 'No' but I have lost a few fights.
Ever Shoplifted: Tried it once, almost put my back out.
How do you want to Die: I don't! I want to live on in immortality!
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Grow up? Yeah...right!!
What country would you most like to Visit: Africa
In a Boy/Girl..
Favorite Eye Color: A greeny, bluey, browny, grey'ey kinda affair
Favorite Hair Color: No preference. Come on, HOW shallow?
Short or Long Hair: Well to be honest, short hair is a bit more practical but long hair feels nice.
Height: Anything between 2 foot 8 and 7 foot 11 would be fine. What? We must cherish our height abnormal friends.
Weight: Anorexics or 30 stone juggernauts need not apply.
Best Clothing Style: Comfortable and classy.
Number of Drugs I have taken: Well in my previous life, LOADS **tries to reminisce** I THINK those were the days.
Number of CDs I own: Far too many to count.
Number of Piercings: No intentional ones.
Number of Tattoos: Two cubes on my upper inner forearms.
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Regret's for wimps.
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!I'll be brief in this typed bit because as you can see I can go on and on and on and on...I like watching music and listening to fil...let me start that again. I like LISTENING to music and WATCHING films, socialising, you know the usual.Slightly unusual though is I've just started sending out excerpts of the novel I've recently completed out to agents. THAT was really shit grammar but the book is tremendously well written, if I'm permitted to be so modest and humble about the whole thing.I started Yang style Tai Chi April 2003 and I like it SOOO much that I imagine I'll be doing it for the rest of my life. Wouldn't really feel confident using it in combat-type deal just yet. I'd probably have to do it for years more before I could confidently rain hides of Winged Crane terror on an unsuspecting punk ass. I also really like the more serene aspects of it, fluidity of motions and tranquility of mind and all that kind of stuff.I became a qualified massage therapist in February 2006. I'm quite chuffed about that to be absolutely honest. I think I'll be the massaging mercenary for now and will do massages as per request as opposed to leaving my job and starting up my own business.

My Interests

I think the 'About me' section covers my interests fairly thoroughly. I could've also said that I discovered the art of lucid dreaming a little while ago (the ability to be conscious of dreams and then possibly controlling them). Now THAT's a trip, actually it's whatever you want it to be.

I'd like to meet:

Well for friends and general conversation, I'd like to meet anyone who's chilled, relaxed, easy-going, sensible...Oh I wouldn't be too averse to meeting anyone who can teach me how to make cherry bakewells. It's not an obsession! It's just...dammit you know what I mean!

Music:

Hip Hop will always be my main love but I like all different types of music. Well maybe not the Pantera-like THRASH metal that still just sounds like noise to me but most kinds of music. Favourite groups, well at the moment, I listen to who comes to mind when I think about how many songs I've got on my MP3 player. Historically, Wu-Tang, De La Soul, Outkast, KMD, 3rd Bass, Nappy Roots, Tupac, Geto Boyz, Mos Def, The Beastie Boys, Kool G Rap...and too many others to name here. Non Hip Hop faves include The Eels, The Flaming Lips, The Beautiful South, Smashing Pumpkins, Primal Scream, Van Morrison, The Breeders...Kim Deal, you goddess!! (sorry, sometimes my fingers just sometimes sorta kinda take over), Janis Joplin, Catatonia, Texas, Morcheeba, Sade, Lemon Jelly, Zero 7, St Etienne, Mazzy Star ('Fade Into You' has to be one of my all-time favourite songs) Gorillaz, Sheryl Crow, Snow Patrol, Beth Orton, Sarah McLachlan, Chemical Brothers, Cowboy Junkies. I've listed loads already and I could list a lot more but the list shall end here. Though if any groups read this, could you not try to add me as your friend please. I appreciate you just wanna be heard but please bear in mind 3,984,701 bands also just wanna be heard so friendship requests are often sent in rapid, if not relentless succession. So...do not attempt to add me. It'd be far more worth your while adding someone who's likely to look at your profile and then take an auditory peek at the songs contained within. So hopefully we've got that clear: DO NOT TRY to add me. Well unless you sound Mazzy Star like and one of your songs has a remarkable if not plagiaristic resemblance to 'Fade Into You'. Thank you!

Movies:

In no discernible order...Devil's Advocate, The Matrix Trilogy (especially '...Reloaded'), Back to the Future I + II, Lawnmower Man, The Man with Two Brains, The Jerk, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Pink Panther, Stars Wars II + VI, Brazil, Starship Troopers, Memento, Groundhog Day, Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow is just genius GENIUS I tell ya!) the Hellraiser series and is it me or is myspace completely addictive?? A colleague, who stumbled across it and has been hooked ever since analogised it with crack. I just laughed in agreement because I didn't really want to detail the extent of my 'crack' addiction. The day before I left my front door WIDE open because I was thinking about logging on as soon as I came inside. I cut that convo short by telling this guy that I had work to do as I wanted to go to the toilet and cry. Wait, men don't cry do we? We weep, I wanted to go into the toilet and weep, much like a little girl might because my level of addiction was so severe I evidently didn't even feel comfortable talking about it. I may start a support group if the condition worsens because I continue to meet more beautiful and intelligent people on this and become even more dependent. Anyway, what is this Oprah Winfrey?? Where the hell was I again? I'm ALWAYS doing that. Films?...what else do I like? Shawshank Redemption, Stargate, Swingers, The Game, Xzistence, Serenity, Police Academy, Blade I - III, Top Gun, Mulholland Drive (and not just for that relatively hardcore lesbian sex scene - how the hell did David Lynch get away with that? Well I'm not one to look a gifthorse in the mouth...), 2010, Human Traffic and probably lots of others since I do enjoy a DVD or cinema experience.

Television:

I don't really watch much TV but when I do, it'll be Arrested Development (COME on!!), Scrubs, Heroes, Firefly, Family Guy, American Dad, Simpsons, Star Trek, even a bit of CSI(Miami: New York: what's next Denver?: Boise? Cinci-fucking-natti? There are too many CSI's out now it's spinning out of control!) Sorry, a madness took me but it has passed...Anyway again where the hell was I? Oh yeah, yeah CSI is all right I suppose. Malcolm in the Middle is usually hilarious and Futurama growed on me.

Books:

Call me lazy, or SOMETHING but since I finished mine I consider it a hassle to read anyone elses'. I'll illustrate the main reason why by verbatim'ly reconstructing a segment of a conversation I had with someone about it. "Well since my book is about someone actually finding PARADISE, I don't really want to read someone elses' to get to the end only to discover it was merely about someone's obsession for their late uncle's sideboard." I also don't really wanna read about a teenage wizard's fight against malevolent forces. To be honest. The books I read now have to be hilarious ventures, like the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle G.E. Challenger books, or Douglas Adams or Red Dwarf. I also like reading books that provide an alternative perspective on reality, such as the Carlos Casteneda books or books by Don Miguel Luis. Also, I'd also recommend people read 'Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and it's ALL Small Stuff, which has lots of practical little hints of not getting pissed off by life's small and sometimes unavoidable 'inconveniences'. Also, 'The Secret'? Anyone? Anyone?

Heroes:

There are far too many, I suppose I should name a couple at least so it doesn't look like I'm cheating or being lazy. Who was the guy who worked out the Earth wasn't the centre of the universe? Gallileo or Copernicus or whoever it was. Definitely him. Yeah. Well he's definitely in my top 5. This is gonna sound too sickly sweet probably but suck it up as it's true, one of my biggest heroes will always be my mum. Not just for the nurturing, love and protection she gave during the early years. It must've been REALLY hard for a lone, black, young woman to raise three very young boys in a 'strange' country that let's say, was on the surface welcoming but underneath...

My Blog

Tagged?? What the fuck??

COPY AND PASTED: "The rules are: Once you've been tagged, write a blog with 10 weird or random things, facts or habits about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names. D...
Posted by Byron on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:32:00 PST

I just posted a bulletin...

...but then figured the event was so significant that it actually warranted a more permanent chronicling:Some of you may know that I've been trying to lose weight. I don't gauge how much weight I've l...
Posted by Byron on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:18:00 PST

MySpace.romcom

To say Douglas had lazy moments is an understatement of near criminal proportions. One of the crowning gems of lazy momentia was an occasion where he watched two and a half episodes of Brookside back ...
Posted by Byron on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:07:00 PST

Powerful Presentations

I attended a one day presentation course today. It was called, as the title of this says: Powerful Presentations. It started off really well. I should start this again by re-iterating that I am not at...
Posted by Byron on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:42:00 PST

The start of my book.

Monday 14th August - 12.00am - Bedroom  "YOU ARE SUCH A WARM AND BEAUTIFUL PERSON." Douglas thought about telling his girlfriend. The bedroom was dark but he was still able to clearly see how w...
Posted by Byron on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:41:00 PST

Oh what the hell...

1) How old do you wish you were ?30 - it's a nice a round number as any.2) Where were you when 9/11 happened ?At work, doing some really boring database stuff but hey, it could've been worse.3) What d...
Posted by Byron on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:04:00 PST

I ALMOST forgot to say...

...that, without exception, ALL of my blogs will be really really long. 
Posted by Byron on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:12:00 PST

A new blog anyone?

There was a question posted in a friends blog that I'm sure wasn't directed at me (I wonder why some people don't do write blogs?) but I figured I'd exercise the egocentric part of my brain, use the q...
Posted by Byron on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 05:34:00 PST