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Sam

MORE PASSION, LESS FASHION!

About Me

"I don’t know why people expect art to make sense when they accept the fact that life does not make sense." - David Lynch, in explaination of his new film INLAND EMPIRE, 2006.
i am sam.
i am at kent uni.
i hail from the northern wastlands of lancaster.
i like fast.
i like slow.
i am very much into music (cast your eyes down the list on the left).
i am very much into films (i do film studies at uni)
i am very much into games (im very specific in my tastes though)
i am prone to be loud and very naughty...hehehe...
i can be a cunt sometimes.
i am a romantic at heart...although most of the time i wish i wasn't...
i get very excited about things.
i am prone to bouts of pretention.
i try to be nice. contary to my outward apperance i am the kind of person you should introduce to your parents.
here is my 360 gamertag - send me a message if you want me to add you!
My Wii friend code is:
5387-5815-2185-8316
send me yours if you want to be added!

My Interests

Music
Friends
Film
Love
Happiness
Games

I'd like to meet:

someone who cares as much as i do.

Music:

Sunn 0)))
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
Set Fire to Flames
Goatsnake
cpuwar
Drive Like Jehu
Unfold
5ive
Add N To (X)
CtrlAltDelete
Drudkh
Amanda Woodward
Dot(.)
The Apoplexy Twist Orchestra
Hjarnidaudi
That Fucking Tank
Beyond Black Void
Pink Floyd
Betercore
Catena Collapse
Guapo
Clutch
Doomsday 1999
Fantomas
Crestfallen
Mum
An Albatross
Watain
Raein
Grand Magus
Black Castle
Joanna Newsome
Comets on Fire
Burning Witch
Esoteric
Cursive
A Day in Black & White
Circle of Dead Children
Napalm Death
Corrupted
The Death Of Anna Karina
Yes
DJ Rabies
Cryptopsy
Wolf Eyes
A Fine Boat, that Coffin!
Grails
Electric Wizard
Bark Psycosis
Guttural Secrete
Witchcraft
Battles
Grief
Capricorns
Squarepusher
Combatwoundedveteran
Blut Aus Nord
Last Days of Humanity
Hammers of Misfortune
Koreich
Crom
Mare
Executive Distraction Tasks
thekevorkiansolution
The Residents
Old Man Gloom
Bueried at Sea
Mew
Kayo Dot
Lair of the Minator
Schizoid
Psyopus
Dystopia
Misty Dixon
Isis
The House of Low Culture
King Crimson
Tarantula Hawk
Leviethan
Melt Banana
Red Sparowes
The Mars Volta
The Melvins
Ramesses
Boards of Canada
Pink & Brown
Mindflayer
Thee Plague of Gentlemen
Dystopia
Ginnungagap
Ec8or
Current 93
Redlevel Terrorism
5ive's Continum Research Project
Neurosis
Zombi
Milemarker
Blueprint Human Being
Akron/Family
Jesu
Torche
The Mock Heroic
Battles
Om
Immortal
Watchmaker
Emperor
Brodequin
The Horror
His Hero is Gone
Pete the Pirate Squid
Palehorse
Trevor Dunn
Darkthrone
Watchmaker
Noothgrush
Ultra Dolphins
Knifehandchop
Taint
1349
Meshuggah
Saeita
Warhammer 48k
Atavist
Gonga
The Meads of Asphodel
Unearthly Trance
Khanate
Explosions in the Sky
Led Zeppelin
Mastodon
Enslaved
Refuzer
Blood Brothers
Shit & Shine
High on Fire
Earth
Cult of Luna
Vat of Fat
Mithras
Rwake
Calculon
Bjork
Discordance Axis
Red Stars Parade
Lotus Eaters
Curl Up & Die
The Red Chord
Amber Asylum
Daughters!
Ed Gein
Tigers!
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Black Sabbath
Joy Division
Nortt
Re:
Alec Empire
Ulver
Kid 606
Aphex Twin
Cursed
Origin
DJ 6666
My Bloody Valentine
Atomsmasher
Sofa
Eyehategod
Le Fly Pan Am
Orchid
A Silver Mount Zion
The Day Man Lost
Louise Cyphre
Planet AIDS
Army of Flying Robots
Botch
Snowblood
Circle Takes the Square
Burst
Metallica
Aereogramme
Charles Bronson
Opeth
Adam Green
Low
Throne Of Katarsis
Don Caballero
Day for Airstrikes
Angel Hair
Slint
Keelhaul
Fuck the Facts
Bucket Full of Teeth
Lazarus Blackstar
November 13th
Converge
Fuck on the Beach
Xasthur
Venetian Snares
Sigur Ros
Yacopsae
Skullflower
Capricorns
Ligtning Bolt
The Suicide Handbook
Bastards Unite
Jeniferever
Insult
The Locust
Orthrelm
Nostromo
The Holy Mountain
Origin
Radiohead
Super Furry Animals
Mono
Floor
Mithras
Brodequin
Cocorosie
Today is the Day
A Light in the Attic
The Ninth Plague
Swans
Jinn
Burst
As the Sun Sets
Asva
Graves at Sea
The Jesus Years
Silent Front
Reverend Bizarre
Beecher
Tusk
pg 99
Tragedy
Kid Koala
Technology Scum
Shitmat
Envy
Hellnation
Infest
Pelican
Black Castle
Blood and Time
Andy, Glenn & Ritch
Into the Moat
La Quiete
Autechre
Mayhem
Four Tet
Switchblade
Shikari
Belle & Sebastian
Noothgrush
Stop It!!
Meshuggah
Kaospilot
Axis of Advance
Snapcase
Ion Disonance
Modest Mouse

Movies:

Since i study films i don't think writing indervidual films i like here would be much help, suffice to say directors i admire are: Alfred Hitchcock
Francois Truffaut
Hayao Miyazaki
David Lynch
Thomas Vinterberg
Christopher Nolan
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Federico Fellini
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Francis Ford Coppola
Quintain Tarantino
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Gus Van Sant
Samira Makhmalbaf
Jean-Luc Godard
Takashi Miike
Michelangelo Antonioni
Pedro Almodóvar
Dennis Hopper
Chan-wook Park
Danny Boyle
Yasujiro Ozu
David Fincher
Krysztof Kieslowski
Martin Scorsese
Sergio Leone
Kar Wai Wong
Paul Thomas Anderson
Andrei Tarkovsky
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Takeshi Kitano
Gregg Araki
Lars von Trier
i've forgotten loads and will add more when i remember...

Television:

The Armando Ianucci Show
Lost
Nathern Barley
The Office
Nadescio
Futurama
House
Fruits Basket
Boys From the Blackstuff
Jam
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Alan Partridge
Heroes
Six Feet Under
Chobits
The Day Today
The League of Gentlemen
The X Files
Prison Break
Elfen Lied
Nighty Night
Evangelion
Family Guy
Bleach
Queer as Folk
Six Feet Under
24
Frasier
Rahxephon
Twin Peaks
The Sopranos
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman Beyond
Red Dwarf
Shameless
Justice League Unlimited
The Prisoner

Books:

i dont read as much as i should.

i do read however:
lots of film books
some novels
-at the moment im looking to buy the Lost tie in "Bad Twin"
a lot of graphic novels
-at the moment currently rereading "Top 10" by Alan Moore

Heroes:

Ryu Hoshi
Jesse Custer
Bill Hicks
Dr. Gregory House Hayato Miyazaki
Optimus Prime
Yoda
Chris Morris
Dr. Samuel Beckett
David Lynch
Steve Rodgers
Dan Smith
Hiro Nakamura
Tony Stark
Special Agent Dale Cooper
Mike Patton
FPS Doug

My Blog

the ends support the means

on sunday i went out and did some filming fo rmy exploring the frame seminar and i can truly say that it was on of the best things i have ever shot. it sort of sums up how my life is at the moment, i ...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:51:00 PST

mistakes & regrets

mistakes & regrets. i have a lot. if i think about the mistakes i have made in my life for more than a few hours i wish there was something i could do to change things...but i know tha...
Posted by Sam on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:49:00 PST

...and so it begins

the first month of 2006 is almost over. thats 1/12 of the way through the year. in this month i truly believe i have exceeded myself with not only the first proper period of depression ive ever had, b...
Posted by Sam on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:44:00 PST

the end

you can tell it has been a good day when the only decision you have had to make was wether to listen to fast or slow... basically the christmas period has been all go for me with work at game, then ch...
Posted by Sam on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:48:00 PST

it took the night to believe...

realisation is a sad thing. when you do realise something you always wonder if your better off knowing it, or if ignorance was bliss. as you can probably guess i realised something today. i just hope ...
Posted by Sam on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 03:48:00 PST

the hunt, the follow - that's what i love....

the last weekend was amazing, on fri cerian and i got stoned and even went to one of my lectures whilst oput of it, afterwards we felt so christmassy it was needed to have a christmas presen...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:53:00 PST

smile smile smile

i have just had two of the wickest days for a while. on tusday night i went and saw the darling cerian who was a bit ill, and being the fantastic gentleperson taht i am i took her some fodder and ente...
Posted by Sam on Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:12:00 PST

down

i jsut finished cahtting to some friends from back home online and i feel really fucking down. anyone who knows me knows how much of a part music plays in my life, and to be honest i just feel like im...
Posted by Sam on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:55:00 PST

milk run

yesterday i had the wickest time ive had in quite a while, in short i went to explosions in the sky in london with cerian. looked at in further detail though it was a lot more than that... the day sta...
Posted by Sam on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:18:00 PST

cry/kiss/cry/kiss scenario

i don't know what to type but i just feel things are so special at the moment. i wake up in the morning and days seem to be there for the taking, wether i choose to work relax or do nothing doesn't se...
Posted by Sam on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:15:00 PST