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Michael

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me Can you give me a lift? I said, Sure, you lo

About Me

Hey, what to say? Right well, the three least irrelevant things about myself I can think are:
1. I really like playing the violin despite being bad at it, but I'm a bit sick of the guitar except I'm really rather good at it as I've been doing it since I was 11.
2. My family has horses, we aren't rich or anything, but I feel like I ought to get that one out of the way because I was friends with Mark for 5 or 6 years before I mentioned them in conversation and it took hours to convince him I was telling the truth. There are two of them, Buster and Monarch. Monarch's the biggest, and Buster nearly killed my dad by being an arse and trying to headbutt him.3. I love rock climbing (which has a negative impact on the violin playing) and at one point was even allowed to run a climbing club here at UCLAN, but I didn't bother running for reelection as it is more hassle than it was worth. That wasn't particularly interesting was it? Now you know what it's like to talk to me.Oh, anyone fancy a game of Scrabble or Mornington Crescent?

My Interests

Music, Climbing, the Outdoors, Film, errr... the cyanide capacity of Hapalemur aureus (the golden bamboo eating lemur of madagascar)... Wacky Waving Inflatable arm flailing tube men.

I'd like to meet:

My maker, so I can say: "Hey!! My mate Lorna asked WHAT THE FUCK!? and you didn't answer!"This is Neil Hannon pointing at Mark Deas, after pointing his Mic at me, this is effectively the moment after the highlight of my entire life. .. width="425" height="350" ..

Music:

The Divine Comedy, Belle & Sebastian, Mulligan & O'Hare, Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, Scott Walker, Elliott Smith, Harry Nilsson, Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Air, Pavement, Yann Tiersen, The Smiths, Björk, Talking Heads, and Jacques Brel. Etc.

Movies:

Serpico, Rushmore, Fargo, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Jerk, The Royal Tenenbaums, Serenity, Amelie, City of God, Star Wars Eps IV-VI, Amores Perros.

Television:

Life On Mars, Morse, Silent Witness, Spaced, Monk, Lead Balloon, Teachers, Dr Who, Firefly, Peep Show, Father Ted, Black Books,Scrubs, Ed, ER, Mythbusters, Top Gear, Michael Palin's Travel Documentaries, err... mainly hour long thingys.

Books:

I like a lot of books... erm... quite obvious names really... "A Room With A View" E.M. Forster, "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth" Leo Tolstoy, "The Great Gatsby" - Fitzgerald, and for some reason even though at times it's simply a confusing list of names: "All The Presidents Men" By Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, as it's actually true.

Heroes:

Neil Hannon, Scott Walker, Steve Mann, Stuart Murdoch, and Davey Tennant!

My Blog

Caligula would have blushed...

I've been in the flat too long! Though, I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour last night. Not sure what I think of Steve inducing me to play "A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left" in a pub...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:11:00 PST