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About Me

I'm me. As Chesney Hawkes put it, ''...no one can be myself like I can...'' *sigh* true words Chesney, true words. Sadly, I'm nowhere near as cool as the Ches. Likes: Music, Comedy, Film, Generic Lists. Dislikes: Intollerance, West Street Clubs and thier clientel, Expanding on generic lists.
Lately I have:
1) Moved house - yep, I've moved in with my wonderful, gorgeous, lovely lady and her wee one and am doing the 'family' thing. And yes, it's great thanks!
2) Been through tough times moourning the loss of two very dear friends.
3) Made a lovely video for lovely My Litttle Problem. The vid is on my Videos page. Have a look why don't-cha! (or it MIGHT be on this page if I can find out how to stuff 2 vids on together.
4) Helped out on a video for the freakinly funkingly Bad Sandwich - them boys gonna go far I tells ya.
5) Played a cover of Ice Ice Baby at my friend Jamm's gig at the Joogleberry - the results can be seen below.

My Interests

Kinda done a bit of that already, but also...Playing guitar, playing trumpet, making films / music videos, making the funny type comedy, playing Tony Hawks Skateboard games, drinking the alcohol, cuddling my lovely friends, trampolining, (ok I made that one up - but it IS fun isn't it!) more stuff too, but I'm bored now, so I expect you are too... move along!

I'd like to meet:

If I could meet anyone in the world; I'd meet Colourbus the crab... he's brill'yant.

Things you should check out
Peculiana (my website - films n' that)
Homestar Runner - it's funny
Sheep Films - my friend Dave's site - genius!

Music:

Anything fun. (but not exclusively). I dig : Cake, Presidents Of The USA, Queen, Weezer, PJ Harvey, Adam and the Ants, Tori Amos, Led Zeppelin, The Go! Team, Mazzy Star, G.Love & Special Sauce, Mandingo, Madness, Lipstick Conspiracy, Geno Washington, The Raveonettes, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, No Doubt (before they went rubbish), anything Phil Spector produced in the 60's, The Doors, Lou Reed, David Bowie, B.R.M.C, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Elvis and the Presleys, Beastie Boys, Air, Aerosmith, Youngblood Brass Band, The Tiger Lilies, Phonoficton, Run DMC, 80's Electro, My Little Problem, and so much more - sweet heavens yes. And the fantacular-listic WONKY BEAK!!

Movies:

First up, directors I dig: Kevin Smith, Cameron Crowe, Baz Lurhman, Tim Burton. So aside from all the films that they've made, here are just a few of the other important films in my life... Star Wars eps IV - VI, Highlander, Velvet Goldmine, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, Lord of the Rings, Napoleon Dynamite, Mannequin (DON'T JUDGE ME!!!!! *sniffle*), The Furry Lady, Dancing Cow (last two are very cool shorts) AND GRANNY TURISMO

Television:

Spaced, Buffy, My Name Is Earl, Deadwood, Carnivale, The Mighty Boosh, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica
Testthis is a test section.. check me out! Awww yeah - I could put anything I want here... The world is mine... I have broken free of the conformity of myspace...

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Books:

I love Neil Gaiman, Jean Cocteau, loved Justine by Lawrence Durell and am looking forward to reading the rest of the Alexandria Quartet. Lots of books on film. Currently reading: The path to great directing

Heroes:

Orphelia, Morticia Addams, Vince Noir, Chewbacca

My Blog

Cup Of Brown Joy - Elemental

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Posted by the moog on Mon, 19 May 2008 03:48:00 PST

Livin' on the edge...

...is not really what I've been doing. I just wanted a catchy blog title and for some reason I had Aerosmith in my head. So sorry in advance for the discord between title and content. I have been enco...
Posted by the moog on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:14:00 PST

Blowing my own trumpet

Hi kids and kittens, Head on over to the FROCK myspace. Primarily because they're great - but also, they have just put up a track called 'Magic Carpets' on which I play a tiny bit of trumpet. You k...
Posted by the moog on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:07:00 PST

im about to fall over...

why? well, because I've just had a very very busy, mental and fun weekend. My weekend really started thursday night when, after film school I dropped by to see my friend Ela sing jazz. She's dead good...
Posted by the moog on Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:06:00 PST

Whirlwind times

FUCK...MY...ASS..... (as Jack Black might put it) Things are damn hectic here. But you know... good hectic, not bad hectic. As you know, I just did the Beak gig - and theres been more practices there,...
Posted by the moog on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:09:00 PST

Wonky Moog

YAY. This weekend, I played my first gig with hot and sexy Brighton band Wonky Beak. (www.wonkybeak.co.uk) and boy-howdy! did I have fun. (um.. yes, i DID, that wasn't a question. Just thought I'd cl...
Posted by the moog on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:12:00 PST