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Andy

I am never going to understand David Lynch (except for the Straight Story)

About Me

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My Interests

i enjoy all things almond, banksy, chicago (the place! though i did see marti pellow in the musical. very random), dvds in alphabetical order, energy saving light bulbs, fruit smoothies, guacamole, hestitant horse riding, ice for polar bears to live on , jumping off ledges into canyons, karaoke on singstar (badly), lists, movies, new zealand, observer (the), palace (crystal - footy), quenching thirst with gin, R, S, triple word scores on scrabble, ucsb, videoing tv on my new pvr gadget (all very exciting), weiss bier (zwei bitter), X Y Z

Music:

In an approximate-alphabetical-off-the-top-of-my-head order - Ryan Adams * Ash * Art Brut * Afghan Whigs * Air * Beastie Boys * Beach Boys * Beatles * Beta Band * BECK * Belle and Sebastian * Bowie * The Band * Blur * Brmc * Bjork * Blondie * Charlatans * The Chalets * Calexico * Cat Power * The Clash * Ray Charles * Clor * Graham Coxon * Sam Cooke * Nick Cave * Johnny Cash * Chemical Brothers * Dilated Peoples * Dizzee Rascal * Eels * Editors * Fatboy Slim * Foo Fighters * Franz Ferdinand * Flaming Lips * Fingathing * Futureheads * Marvin Gaye * Go! Team * PJ Harvey * Hendrix * Hot Chip * David Holmes * Jurassic 5 * Kings of Leon * Kasabian * Kaiser Chiefs * KENICKIE * Led Zepplin * John Legend * Libertines * Louis XIV * LE TIGRE * Nirvana * New Order * Pharrell * Prince * Pulp * QOTSA * Razorlight * Radiohead * The Rapture * REM * The Rakes * Rolling Stones * Sahara Hotnights * Super Furry Animals * Elliot Smith * Spiritualized * Supergrass * Sufjan Stevens * The Strokes * Symposium * Tom Vek * Jim White * The White Stripes * Yeah Yeah Yeahs * The Zutons *

Movies:

Anchorman, Sunrise, East of Eden, Transformers the Movie, Go!, The Limey, Citizen Kane, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sherlock Jr, Wayne's World, The Third Man, Fight Club, Amelie, The Royal Tennenbaums, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Talk to Her, Dodgeball, Barry Lyndon, Crash, Sideways, Shaun of the Dead, Memento, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Big, Intolerable Cruelty, Road to Perdition, Singing in the Rain, Trainspotting, Kill Bill, Casablanca, Harvey, A Fistful of Dollars.

Television:

24, Shameless, Lost, State of Play, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiam, Family Guy, Futurama, The Thick of It, The Mighty Boosh, Spiral.

Books:

The Secret History * Native Son * The Princess Bride * Catch 22 * Great Gatsby * Are you Dave Gorman? * The True History of the Kelly Gang * Rosa Lee * Master and Marguerita * The Things They Carried * Carter Beats the Devil * Ragtime * John Irving * Douglass Copeland * Remains of the Day * danish woman, writes about Iraq, Afghanistan etc

Heroes:

Atillio Lombardo!!

My Blog

Gigs, movies and books 2007

Right, so I'll update this as I go along throughout the year...  And this is really for me, so don't complain if you've subscribed and expecting something interesting.  Its not.  I'm ju...
Posted by Andy on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:41:00 PST

Coming to America

Yoso its nearly all over.back in Syndey for a few days before heading to LA and Santa Barbara for 5 days, taking advantage of the week dollar to buy a new wardrobe. So, if you want anything from the U...
Posted by Andy on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:07:00 PST

A Dingo Ate My Baby

G'day The east coast of Australia.  Cairns.  Too many backpackers.  Not a fan.   Found Nemo on the reef.  Phone went in a swimming pool and broke (3rd ti...
Posted by Andy on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:10:00 PST

Syndey, Tas and Melbourne

hey kids quick update on last few weeks.   had my first in flight celeb spottings on the way over from Auckland - Chris Issak and Marshall from hit US tv show Alias!  Though they were ...
Posted by Andy on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:25:00 PST

Bye Bye NZ, hello sunshine...

Hello!! This is a bit of a marathon one here.  Brace yourselves. After the excesses and adventure sports of the South Island, the North Island has been a more subdued couple of weeks.  Heade...
Posted by Andy on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:02:00 PST

NZ part 2

Just a quick one here. So, after my skydive in Wanaka, I said bye to Dan and Jen and headed to Queenstown - the action / party capital of NZ apparently.  Met up again with Anndra and Ali (from Ka...
Posted by Andy on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:37:00 PST

NZ part 1

So i'm two weeks into New Zealand now, and a month away already!!  time flies.  Though I'm sure for all of you its dragging horribly without me ;-) Again, I'll try and keep this brief, but i...
Posted by Andy on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:32:00 PST

Fiji Time

Hey everyone, So i've just got to Christchurch in New Zealand and finally got around to writing something here.  (This has turned out very long so i doubt you'll read it all!) Stayed with my...
Posted by Andy on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:36:00 PST

last gigs of the year :(

Ok a few more gigs.  to be honest i just cut and pasted this off steve's profile.  Didn't actually bother to watch most of them. Sat 29th July - Badly Drawn Boy Echo & The Bunnymen Larri...
Posted by Andy on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:16:00 PST

gigs in the sun!!

Stevie reminded me to update my gig blog or else I'd forget. so.... May - Editors - Brixton Academy June 17th - Foo Fighters, QOTSA, Juliet and the Licks - Hyde Park June 21st - Strokes, Belle and Seb...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:27:00 PST