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Relentless Optimist

A crash is only a landing with the brakes on...

About Me


"THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE
WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A
LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD
HAPPENS."
Name: David / Dave
Birthday: Mid July - Barbecue time
Birthplace: Shotley Bridge
Current Location: Good old County Durham, Sometimes Cumbria, oh, and Viking B, The North Sea
Eye Color: No idea
Hair Color: Brownish
Height: 6'2"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Annfield Plain Scrap Mafia
The Shoes You Wore Today: Fat Face Offroaders with missing laces / Rigger Boots
Your Weakness: Decision Making
Your Fears: Scorpions
Your Perfect Pizza: Just a bit spicy, fresh baked in a clay oven
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: More of the same - only better
Your Most Overused Phrase: Yes, but it is true..
Thoughts First Waking Up: It ought not to be light...
Your Best Physical Feature: It's all good, I'm sure
Your Bedtime: round midnight
www.green-view-lodges.com - It's my baby
Your Most Missed Memory: Usually all the missing information between midnight and 3am
Pepsi or Coke: Diet Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: burger king, bacon double cheesebuger, but only in dire circumstances
Single or Group Dates: Surely you can't go on a date by yourself? I might have to try that...
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Does it matter?, let fresh tea go cold
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla, with chocolate chips
Cappuccino or Coffee: Cappuchino is coffee, surely, one is a breakfast drink
Do you Smoke: sometimes
Do you Swear: far too much, but apparently with a posh accent
Do you Sing: badly,
Do you Shower Daily: at least every other day
Have you Been in Love: yes
Do you want to go to College: I Ocassionally go to Uni
Do you want to get Married: maybe, eventually
Do you belive in yourself: depends what's testing my faith
Do you get Motion Sickness: no, but I'd be interested to have long enough to see if I get standing still sickness
Do you think you are Attractive: Only to those of my species
Are you a Health Freak: not really, moreso recently
Do you get along with your Parents: Yep, don't see them so much since they moved out
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes, best one I ever saw was in Weardale...
Fog however - not so much. Do you play an Instrument: No, no aptitude
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yep
In the past month have you Smoked: nope
In the past month have you been on Drugs: nope
In the past month have you gone on a Date: that's a yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: yes, unfortunatley
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: certainly the equivalent, probably chocolate orange hob nobs
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: no
In the past month have you been on Stage: karaoke?
In the past month have you been Dumped: nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: that's not recomended off of an oil rig
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No, I misappropriate things..
Ever been Drunk: I don't remember...
Ever been called a Tease: Wouldn't you like to know
Ever been Beaten up: I go set upon by a gang of chavs in broad daylight, never dress hard unless you have good backup
Ever Shoplifted: Didn't pay full price for a comic once, and never paid back the checkout lady who put the extra 12p in for me
How do you want to Die: Suddenly, before bits start to break
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: honest
What country would you most like to Visit: Canada, Thailand (I'm Thai curious), Iceland, South America, Oh anf France, again and again and again
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: i dont mind.
Favourite Hair Color: shiny
Short or Long Hair: yes
Height: not as tall as me
Weight: Healthy
Best Clothing Style: anything that fits, but doesn't take hours to choose
Number of CDs I own: c. 300
Number of Piercings: none, 1 retired
Number of Tattoos: none, would have one if only I could find something I like enough
Number of things in my Past I Regret: There are choices I may have made differently, but I don't worry about them.
Cute Myspace Layouts

My Interests


Mountain Bikes
Snowboarding
The photographic chronicalling of such events.
Bad Observational comedy,
Music, the listening to of,
Cooking, mainly with chillies,
Travel,
Web Design,
Dreadfully put together mix CD's

"God is on our side, because we invented him.
And if he wavers,
we'll invent another one"

I'd like to meet:

Timmy Mallet again
Johnny Briggs' big sister
People with exceptional and wonderful powers, and without, I'm not fussy.

Heiresses and potential Heiresses
Nice ones
With a sense of Humour

I do not want to meet you if you are called Natasha, and you live in Minsk, Unless you moved to Minsk from Ponteland to escape the humdrum.

I also would quite like to meet a sentient lingerie mannequin with a good story to tell.

Would I like to meet you? Probably. We are after all, just social primates with untold pretensions and good PR

Music:

This Week I have mostly being Listening to:
Nirvana (Old School, huh?)
Depeche Mode
The Pixies,
Beck,
Massive Attack,
ATDI,
Radiohead,
Bowie,
Alkaline Trio,
Misfits,
Cub,
Tuscadero,
Travis Cut,
Dimestore Haloes,
Descendants,
Stereolab,
Soulwax,
QOTSA,
Ninja Tune,
Portishead,
The Smiths
Patrik Fitzgerald,
Old School Hip Hop
The Today Program..

+44 have been on heavy rotation this week
Lots and Lots of MP3's and counting...

Movies:

Roam
The Hudsucker Proxy
Short Circuit 1&2,
Back to the Future Trilogy,
Batman Returns,
Goodfellas,
Fargo,
Withnail and I,
Carlito's Way,
Star Wars IV-VI,
Akira,
La Haine
Les Amants de Pont Neuf,
Amelie,
Harrison Bergeron,
Ghost Dog,
The Descent,
Resident Evil,
28 Days Later
Two Lane Blacktop
Nightbreed
Dazed and Confused
Big Lebowski
The Tarantino Ouvere...
Two-Lane Blacktop
Ginger Snaps
Ooh, and lots of stuff,

I just wish someone would make me sit still and watch some more films...

Television:

Sopranos,
Ray Mears,
"And They Walked Away",

Old ER,
River Cottage,
Mighty Boosh, "You've gone Wrong"
Peepshow,
My name is Earl
Spaced,
Red & Blue,
Outlaws,
Harry Hill,
"Props BMX videos" gotta love the Props
Phil, Kirsty, and Sarah Beennie... They all want me

Books:

Anything by

Kurt Vonegutt,
James Ellroy,
Douglas Coupland,
Hunter S Thompson,
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - Robert M. Pirsig
Some Classic stuff,

I have crates of books, so there must be more.

But not biographies (yawn)

Heroes:

Hunter S Thompson,
Henry Rollins,
George Orwell,
Starscream,
Joey Ramone,
"Howlin Mad" Murdoch,

My Blog

Somebody googled me...

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Posted by Relentless Optimist on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 02:09:00 PST

In the interests of prosperity

I threw out about 4500 pages of old paperwork from college etc. today among which I found these nuggets of my old poetry..Perhaps they should have joined the rest of the garbage... 1. I want YOU 'c...
Posted by Relentless Optimist on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:42:00 PST

*taps mike* "is this thing on?"

Haven't done one of these for a bit .. so here goes...Well.. I'm just about acclimatised to Scotland now.. and I have a little flat which is going along quite nicelly thank you...Next week I will be t...
Posted by Relentless Optimist on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:18:00 PST

Chase me home

This is just a little note to thanks to all the well wishers It's been one crazy weekend, and I'm sure that the fact that I'm leaving in an hour or two realy reallyt hasn't sunk in. (I certainlly hav...
Posted by Relentless Optimist on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:17:00 PST

Is it so wrong?

To watch "Back to the Future" with a Harvey Wallbanger, when the only fruit you have to float the umbrella in is a cherry tomato?"That's the power of love!"
Posted by Relentless Optimist on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:19:00 PST

Celebrity Strip Club

OkThis is especially for all you blog subscribers and heavy browsers...(From an original concept by Chuclk Palaniuk)Imagine you find yourself tipsy and immobile in a seedy roadside strip joint. We are...
Posted by Relentless Optimist on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:38:00 PST

More France

Ok Gave up the writing, just too time consuming So feast your eyes on some photographic goodness. Feel free to compliment/ask questions/take the piss..   Shaving? Smiling?  The Jedi seeks no...
Posted by Relentless Optimist on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:22:00 PST

France.. Part 2 - Marmottes, Madness and Mechanical Music

(This is my second attempt to tell the tale of our journey to the Haute Savoie. I managed to lose the first due to tiredness) I suppose it is best to start at the beginning... The previous blog didn't...
Posted by Relentless Optimist on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:01:00 PST

A salute to a fallen comrade. with Photos

There is a certain calm which descends when you realise your momentum and traction are not in the correct proportion. Once you remove physics from the situation, you should realise you are operating s...
Posted by Relentless Optimist on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:43:00 PST

If only it were simple

Ok.. so a lot is happening this week I wish it happened last week when I was off work For those of you who don't know... I had a job interview in Aberdeen last Monday. They have said they are going ...
Posted by Relentless Optimist on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:22:00 PST