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Alex

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About Me

I was raised by wolves on the vast, rolling steppes of South Cheshire, which has given me a lifelong fear of loud bangs and habit of scratching behind my ears incessantly. At just under 2 metres tall I am a near-giant according to medical science, as well as a sullen myopic recluse. I'm also an insomniac, which helps me get a lot of reading done. Oh, and my Mum once saw David Beckham in a pub.

My Interests

Martial Arts, sleeping, writing and brooding. And, most of all, chocolate hobnobs dunked in tea. Yum.

I'd like to meet:

Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, for I too am moody, sullen, vaguely Celtic and overqualified. Him or Robert Fisk, I'm not fussed.

Music:

Flaming Lips, Super Furry Animals, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, Faith No More, Scott Walker, The Doors, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Led Zep, Bowie, Radiohead, Johnny Cash, Muse, Hendrix etc etc. Oh, and the theme tune from BBC's 'Newsnight'. All together now: "Dun dun DURN! Dun durn, dun durn..."

Movies:

Many, including non-crap westerns (I like the scenery), Don Siegel, Martin Scorcese, Peter Weir, Michael Mann, Francis Ford Coppola, Kurosawa.

Television:

Lost, Porridge, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Alan Partridge, Yes (Prime) Minister, Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, American Dad, Brass Eye, The Day Today, South Park. And the new Battlestar Galactica- it's fracking good.

Books:

The Great Gatsby, Dubliners, anything by Tim Moore, Jonathan Kellerman, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, PJ O'Rourke, Mark Steel, John Le Carre. Anything from those nice folks at 'The Onion'. George Orwell, Francis Wheen, Robert Fisk

Heroes:

Wilfred Burchett, James Cameron (NOT the director), Seymour Hersh, Anna Politovskaya.

My Blog

Warning

I feel the time has come to deliver a warning to the denziens of myspace, or at least the ones who have nothing better to do than read my blog.My warning is this: be careful what you write.  You ...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:11:00 PST

Through the looking glass

Next week I start two weeks on a newspaper in the north west.  I only get paid for the second week.The Labour and Tory party conferences were strange beasts, though I manged to avoid being bitten...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:58:00 PST

Laboured

First real hoo-hah as a budding political journalist kicks off tomorrow, which sees striding off to the Labour party conference in Manchester.  I even get my own laptop and dictaphone.  Too ...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:34:00 PST

Fun & Games

Go to your myspace page, and open up all the links to your 'friends', and the links to their friends that have streaming music on their pages in separate windows or tabs.  You will find the frank...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:56:00 PST

panic

Job interview tomorrow at a law journal.  Fear crawling up spine, knocking on door to brain.  I don't think it wants to sell me a vacuum cleaner, so I'm going to turn off the TV and lights a...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:04:00 PST

useful advice

I have a good tip for you all out there, especially those seeking work. If you go for a job interview, don't fall ill and collapse in your would-be boss' office.  It really doesn't help. Trust ...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:07:00 PST

return

Hi there, myspace fans. I know its been a while, but I have been hellishly busy what with exams, moving, job hunting, mental breakdowns...etc etc For those of you who at least pretend to give a fuck...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 07:36:00 PST

part-tay

No real personal news to report.  Job hunt in progress.  Not going particluarly well.  Shorthand doing better. I have, however, realised that journalism is no more o...
Posted by Alex on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 03:01:00 PST

busybusybusy

Bless me, myspace for I have sinned.  Alas I am far too busy to be much cop at blogging. Got the results back of two of my recent exams yesterday- double credit, public affairs and law. Must&nbs...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:38:00 PST

giss a job mate

In the Middle Ages they used to think being able to do shorthand made you a witch. I would therefore estimate that I am now about 9/10ths witch, because I am now relatively confident at 90 w...
Posted by Alex on Sat, 20 May 2006 02:49:00 PST