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D is for Damien

Cranking it at the IMAX

About Me


Lies 24 frames per second

Currently studying and teaching on a PGCE (Post-graduate certificate in education) College level teacher training course in Film/Media Studies.

Film, T.V, newspapers, magazines, adverts, cinema, sound, audience, editing, lighting. mise-en-scene, narrative, genre, semiotics, meaning, ideology, ...you get the general idea....

My Interests



Fine Food, Drink, Film and Music. Rinse and repeat.
Or anthing covered in this

I'd like to meet:


Jacob from Lost

100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers

Music:

Beastie Boys, DJ Shadow, 2 Many DJs, Archie Bronson Outfit, Tapes 'n' Tapes, Gossip, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Datarock, Radiohead, QOTSA, Mr Scruff, ¡Forward, Russia!, Tilly And The Wall, Peaches, Tom Vek, Primal Scream, Jurassic 5, Portishead, The Go! Team, MSTRKRFT, Air, M.I.A, White Stripes, !!!, Metronomy, Prince, AC/DC, The Specials, The Futureheads, Eels, Fiery Furnaces, Beck, Weezer, The Smiths, Noisettes, Hot Chip, David Holmes, Spiritualized, Cornelius, The Rogers Sisters, Elle Milano, The Rapture, Jeff Buckley, Good Shoes, Black Wire, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, Arcade Fire, Test Icicles, The Concretes, Gang Of Four, The Beta Band, RHCP, We Are Scientists, The Long Blondes, Belle & Sebastian, The Jam, Foo Fighters, The Kills, Felix Da Housecat, CSS, The Doors, Editors, Playgroup, Led Zepplin, DJ Yoda, De La Soul, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Daft Punk, Outkast, Kings Of Leon, Aphex Twin, Super Furry Animals, The Rakes, Pulp, Marvin Gaye, The Clash, A Tribe Called Quest, Underworld, Jimi Hendrix, Ben Folds Five, Handsome Boy Modeling School, The Chap, LCD Soundsystem, The Stooges. Yada, Yada, Yada.......

Movies:

Brick, Run Lola Run, Boogie Nights, Hard Boiled, American Psycho, Blue Velvet, Unforgiven, Double Indemnity, Clerks, Don't Look Now, Se7en, Ichi The Killer, Sin City, Cool Hand Luke, Vertigo, The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three, Do The Right Thing, Manhunter, Goodfellas, Dawn Of The Dead (1978), Swingers, Napoleon Dynamite, Shaun Of The Dead, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Leon, The Goonies, Airplane!, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Lost In Translation, The Warriors, True Romance, Oldboy, Dead Man's Shoes, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Blues Brothers, La Haine, The Killer, Jaws, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Once Upon A Time In The West, Die Hard, Requiem For A Dream, Kung Fu Hustle, The Apartment, Night Of The Hunter, Grosse Point Blank, The Thing, This Is Spinal Tap, Blade Runner, The French Connection, The Big Lebowski, JFK, Memento, The Odd Couple, Rushmore, Videodrome, North By Northwest, Being John Malkovich, Almost Famous

Television:

Reeves & Mortimer, Family Guy, Curb Your Enthusiam, Peep Show, The League Of Gentleman, Spaced, The Mighty Boosh, I'm Alan Partridge, American Dad, Seinfeld, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Simpsons, Futurama, Scrubs, The Sopranos, 24, The Shield, Lost, Heroes

Books:

To do (around June time methinks..)

Heroes:



Larry David - he tells it like it is.

My Blog

Cornelius @ Leeds Cockpit (with pics & video)

Last night I was lucky enough to see Cornelius live at one of only three UK shows him and his band are playing this year.Dreamy electronica, kooky pop and frenzied rock together with amazing surreal v...
Posted by D is for Damien on Sat, 19 May 2007 06:24:00 PST

AND Spinal Tap are reforming

The day gets better!Spoof rockers SPINAL TAP are to reunite for a special performance at the Londonleg of this year's (07) Live Earth concert series, joining the likes of Madonna, Red Hot Chili P...
Posted by D is for Damien on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:15:00 PST

New Beastie Boys album in June

Ah yeah!Beastie Boys have revealed exclusively to NME.COM that their new album will be called 'The Mix Up' and will be released in June. Bandmember Mike D said the follow-up to 2004's 'To The 5 Boroug...
Posted by D is for Damien on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:58:00 PST

Unexpected presents....

.....are always welcomePretty much sums me up......
Posted by D is for Damien on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:37:00 PST

Grindhouse UK release date delayed

It's not out until June the fickin' 1st!Gutted.Way to encourage internet downloading and piracy.Due to it's shitty box office takings this weekend (seems American cinema goers prefer lame a...
Posted by D is for Damien on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:58:00 PST

MSTRKRFT album 'The Looks'

Bleep, bleep, squeltch, squeltch, boom, boomFilthy, funky, dirty, dirty electro at it's finest. This needs playing loud.Stupid grin on your face, head a nodding.Soundtrack to the summer sorted then......
Posted by D is for Damien on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:57:00 PST

The new Kings of Leon album

Those sons of a preacher man are back back back - and this time they brought some even heavier dirty southern rock 'n' roll. 'Because of the Times' has leaked online ahead of it's April release.Track ...
Posted by D is for Damien on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:48:00 PST

My top 10 films of 2006....in no particular order

As a newly appointed Film/Media lecturer I should be watching more films (I have a DVD stack of this years stuff waiting to be watched). No thanks to Cineworld Hull - whoever is their film buyer needs...
Posted by D is for Damien on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:29:00 PST

My top 10 albums of 2006....in no particular order

As up until recently I worked full time in a major chain record store I really should have bought/listened to more music this year.The list is rather an obvious one, so if you lovely people want to st...
Posted by D is for Damien on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:19:00 PST

The best film I've seen in a long time...

...isn't the supremely awful "Hostel". What Quentin Tarantino is doing producing and putting his name to such garbage is beyond me.Hostel has an intriguing premise. American students travel and party ...
Posted by D is for Damien on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 02:26:00 PST