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About Me

As a child Kelham Island Museum's Bessemer Converter used to excite me. It still does.

My Interests

Making Movies, Singing in the shower, Lindy Hop

I'd like to meet:

bounders, rouges, fops, dandies and lushes

Music:

Steve Reich, Yoko Ono, The Ramones, Beach Boys, Glen Miller, Frank Sinatra, ELO, Kanye West, Cocteau Twins, Snoop Dogg, Ella Fitzgerald, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, John Lennon, N.E.R.D., James Brown, Public Enemy, Oscar Peterson, Thea Gilmore

Movies:

Last year at Marienbad, 2001: A Space Oddesy, Barry Lyndon, La Grande Illusion, Singing in the Rain, Donnie Darko, American Beauty, Taxi Driver, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Ratcatcher, Pi, Rushmore, West Side Story, Citizen Kane, A Touch of Evil, Rear Window

Television:

The Prisoner, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Spaced, The Kingdom (Lars Von Trier original series), Twin Peaks, Doctor Who confidential, The Avengers

Books:

The History of the world in 10 and a half chapters, Talking it over - Julian Barnes. Beyond good and evil - Friedrich Nietzsche. The Film Sense - Sergie Eisenstein. The works of E.E. Cummings

Heroes:

Patrick McGoohan, Robert Frank

My Blog

How not to get hurt

I have a confession. I have never had a real fight. Never thrown a punch. Never had one thrown at me. I tend to avoid situations which could lead to a serious duffing up and never really seem to attra...
Posted by Brails on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:40:00 PST

Brailsford vs. Kipling... The Result !

Dear Mr Brailsford Re: Mr Kipling 8/6 Cherry Bakewell Thank you for taking the time to email us about a problem you have had withone of our products. I was sorry to learn that you have had cause...
Posted by Brails on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:32:00 PST

The Glacier Cherry Misplacement Incident.

While staying at my folks this weekend, we took afternoon tea and treated ourselves to a Cherry Bakewell each. While Pa looked after the tea's I had to fetch and prepare the Cherry Bakewells for gener...
Posted by Brails on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:13:00 PST

The Fudge Present Fiasco

This defining childhood event happened the year previous to the Whitby Abbey misunderstanding and again, being the clean living Christian boy that I am, occured on a church weekend away.The weekend it...
Posted by Brails on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:16:00 PST

The Whitby Abbey misunderstanding

Due to overwhelming demand I have decided to share with you, dear reader, the original misunderstanding that sent the young Brails down the never ending road of confusion and mishap that is his life.P...
Posted by Brails on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:51:00 PST

My favourite misunderstandings

I have to admit to being a bit of a fan of misunderstandings, and last Friday one of my favourites in a long while occured. Certainly it ranks as one of the most odd, although it does not even come cl...
Posted by Brails on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:13:00 PST