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Jake

When you've got a jet of white-hot aviation fuel firing at you: You can either burn up in the heat,

About Me

Here's how it goes with me:
I play music with the piano/keyboard and guitar and throat assembly, I play other instruments too, but badly....well, badly relative to a proficient player of the given instrument...
compared to, say, a crab or a viaduct; I'm pretty damn good!
It's more than entirely likely that you will be hearing one of my tunes as you read this. To hear more, look at my two top friends (top two below m'bird that is, so 2nd 3rd ones really)...who are also me!
Below is my favourite comedy sketch of all time, and has been ever since I first saw it 7 years ago. I hope you like it too, because if you do end up liking it as much as I do then that'll make me ever so slightly less alone than I was before, which can never do any harm:

My Interests

My Interests? 4.5% AER with my savings account and 12.9% APR on my credit card. Seriously though, my favourite past time is getting drunk and playing with my power tools (I'm not joking...ask Jerry).

I'd like to meet:

Brian/May (If there's a difference!)

Music:

Here they are!
Eels
Elliott Smith
Nick Cave
The Beatles
The Kinks
The Animals
Mercury Rev
Belle and Sebastian
Tim Buckley
Family
Love
Danny Elfman
Debussy
Dvorak
George Harrison
Holst
Brian Eno
Queen
Freddie
Brian May
Eels again 'cos they're the best band in the world aren't they?(It's a statement, not a question, but I had to include the question mark for the purposes of correctitude)

Movies:

Edward Scissorhands
Watership Down
A Fistful of Dollars (Just how can it be so good?)
The Hammer Horror Series
Spinal Tap
Eraserhead
Salad Fingers
The Proposition
The Big Lebowski
Twelve Monkeys
The Prestige
Hot Fuzz
Fluke
Terminators 1 & 2 (Have yet to see the 3rd one)
The Indiana Joneses
Stop Making Sense
Eels Live at Town Hall
Muriel's Wedding
24 Hour Party People
The Predator
Ellie Parker
Bad Taste
Quadrophenia
Star Treks II & VI (not the others, they make me fart)
True Stories
Star Wars
The Life of Brian

Television:

The Simpsons
Spaced
The Day Today
Brass Eye
Twin Peaks
Blake's 7
Fry and Laurie
Look Around You
The Mighty Boosh
The Fast Show
Cheburashka
The Clangers

Naturally, these would all have to be on DVD as I don't actually own a TV and don't intend to own one for the foreseeable future (they make evenings disappear)

Books:

Anne Rice's Vampire ones
The Truckers Trilogy
Everything Douglas Adams did
Fluke by James Herbert
Dune by Frank Herbert
Sherbert Herbert
Herbert
Herbert
Herbert
Sorry about that
Literally anything by Clifford Simack
Fortean Times
Viz
The Fat Man on Game Audio

Heroes:

...is a song by David Bowie and, when miniature, a chocolate.

My Blog

Oh Crikey! This is like, soooo like, weird-like....like!

       My birthday is like, 22nd February 1984 like, so like, that, like, makes, like it 22-2-1984 like...and what do you, like, get if you add up all the digits of 1984 ...
Posted by Jake on Tue, 22 May 2007 05:37:00 PST