David - [noun] - A person with a taste for acorns
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"I'll laugh until my head comes off."
A Human Geography post graduate with little option but to take on a crappy temping job whilst figuring out exactly what the hell to do with his life. Right now I'm thinking along the lines of the Police force. It is no coincidence that this career choice appealled to me around the same time that I went to see the film "Hot Fuzz". None whatsoever.
Fundamentally then I'm a 22 year old who has little clue as to what direction to take. Once I was a 19 year old with very similar issues. My answer then was to go to Nottingham Trent University to study Human Geography, a decision which will probably go down as my finest one of all time. Naturally it wasn't the academic side of the experience that shaped my opinion of those three years; rather it was the general lifestyle that i led, the lazing around doing so very little, sleeping for a ridiculous number of hours, deciding to "fuck uni off", watching Neighbours twice a day, drinking copious amounts of tea & cider, playing football and/or Pro Evo just about every day, hitting the local convienience store 'Jassups' more frequently than hitting the books, plotting the mental and physical demise of our Slovakian housemates, launching hoovers down the stairs, etc. This is the lifestyle that I so yearn for today but know is lost. I'm just very thankful for the memories. Cheers to Matthew, Dan, Nigel, Andrew, Murtaza, Frankie, Lee, Big Dave, Mr Allam ,Mrs Jassups, Fitim, Sideshow Bob, and the rest for making it such a great fucking time.
Before university I was born and raised in a village called Oakley just outside the town of Bedford. Oakley is a pretty little village with a nice and friendly community. Bedford on the other hand is so wonderfully horrific that it is almost enchanting. I beleive I once saw it voted as the 33rd worst town in the UK. This is quite simply its only notable achievement.
In essence I share a love/hate relationship with my hometown; hating it when I'm stuck there, and loving it when I'm a safe distance away. Of course I'm destined to spend the rest of my life here.
Thankfully though I shall not be spending the rest of my life in Bedford working in GAME, despite what some people may think. You could argue that this was a perfectly reasonable assumption given that I have worked in this store on five seperate occassions. Indeed I have been refered to as the 'Game Guy' way too frequently, most notably by my wonderful girlfriend Samantha Dixon. When this happens you know it's time to get out.
It should also be noted that this store helped to create my other less well known identity; that of 'Jim'. Essentially this name was given to me based on a frankly ridiculous claim that I look like the character 'Jim' from the film American Pie. I must strongly emphasise that this name was not given to me based on the belief that I frequently fornicate with warm apple pies.
Working at Game therefore has not been all bad, in fact I have a lot of happy memories there and have met a load of really cool people over the numerous times I have served as a poorly paid Sales Assistant. Special mention to some of the old-skool and new: Samantha, Coxy, Liam (& Kylie despite her lack of 'Game-ness'-Loser), Tim, Colin, Anthony, Ben, Jenny, Chris, Andrew Caley, Simon Kent, Wenlock, Daf, Martyn, et al. However it must be said that I do not want to work there again as I fear I shall never escape from this 'Jim' person.
Thankfully my family are more or less oblivious to 'Jim' and for that I am eternally greateful...to them I am just David. It must be said that they are indeed awesome...every member of the clan. But I must give a special mention to my sister Lauren who is a proper legendary Munchkino. We are essentially the same person and I do believe that this is why we get on so damn well. Furthermore we both share an unhealthy obsession with The Sopranos. "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh".
As for me, well I guess you could say I'm just someone who likes to laugh and not take life too seriously. In other words I'm a lazy sarcastic bastard who strongly dislikes most of society.
I'm massively into sport, especially football...I love this game, and more specifically, Tottenham Hotspur.
Other than this I'm into music, films, travel, reading, the pub, and a cup of fucking tea.
Cheers... Music:
RADIOHEAD pretty much covers it...Beyond that I'm partial to a little Arctic Monkeys, Babyshambles, Bloc Party, The Bravery, British Sea Power, Coldplay, Editors, Eminem, Feeder, Gorillaz, Kasabian, Keane, The Killers, Kings of Convenience, The Longcut, Morrissey, Muse, The Music, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nine Black Alps, Paddingtons, Panic! At The Disco, Plan B, Poison The Well, Razorlight, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sigur Ros, The Smiths, Snow Patrol, The Strokes, The Subways, Tapes 'n Tapes, Thom Yorke, We Are Scientists, Wolfmother.
Films:
Shawshank Redemption, Scent of a Woman, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, City of God, Man on Fire, Collateral, Kill Bill vol 1&2, Snatch, Clerks 2.
Television:
THE SOPRANOS is pretty much all I need in my life.
Books:
Angela's Ashes and 'Tis by Frank McCourt, A monk swimming by Malachy McCourt, His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman.
Heroes
The British Servicemen and women, Ledley King, Martin Jol, Gary Lineker, Bret Hart, Lauren, my girlfriend and of course Kylie.