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About Me

Left home (Dorset) at 18 to go to Aberystwyth Uni. Lasted 3 months. Started Surrey Uni a year later and spent 5 years to eventually end up with a BSc. Was in a few bands: Ultravelvet, Chromatic Desent, House Atriedes, Superimpozed. Also spent a year (2003) in Vancouver (Canada) working for a nuclear astrophysics lab. Cheers. Moved to Oxfordshire in the summer of 2004 and lived in oxford, abingdon and witney. Had a few jobs, the last of which was working in a blood lab for a diabetes comp for a 1.5 years. Formed a band called RubiX which lasted till Summer 2006 when i moved back to Guildford to start a MSc at Surrey Uni.
2007. A new year - a new life. I'm in a band now "Monkey Militia" and i'm really hoping we make a name for ourselves and gig loads. I've taking up snowboarding at the dryslope at Aldershot and i'm fucking well hooked!! Plus, i've started weight training properly. 2007 - a new me!
Transformers (UK release 27th July 07)
probably the best film ever!!!
Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater)
The best drummer in the world!
finally, a music video with the drummer only!!
"Systematic Chaos" - new album by Dream Theater (out June 2007)

My Interests

Drumming (of course) / Music (listening to and playing) / Photography (Taking and editing) / Keeping fit (trying to) / Playing racket sports / Reading sci-fi books / Watching movies / Guinness

I'd like to meet:

Myself in ten years time. Old college and uni mates. And new and interesting people, like you....!!!

Music:

30 Seconds To Mars / Alexisonfire / Alter Bridge / Arctic Monkeys / Black Stone Cherry / Bloc Party / Bullet For My Valentine / Creed / Default / Disturbed / Dream Theater / Evanescence / Fall Out Boy / Feeder / Fightstar / Foo Fighters / Fuel / Green Day / Goo Goo Dolls / Guns N Roses / Hinder / Iron Maiden / Joe Satriani / Linkin Park / Liquid Tension Experiment / Meatloaf / Metallica / Muse / Nightwish / Nirvana / Offspring / Papa Roach / Pearl Jam / Queen / Red Hot Chili Peppers / Reef / Saliva / Seether / Smashing Pumpkins / Silverchair / Shinedown / Spineshank / Sum 41 / Within Temptation / Without Grace /to name but a few.....

THE BEST EVER ROCK VIDEO!!! Palahniuk's Laughter by Fightstar

My fav local band "WITHOUT GRACE". -This is their first single "20 Yards"
-This is their second single "Money In Your Hands"

QTTTU by Superimpozed - My band from 2004. (Warning! i want through a bad bleaching hair experience!!!)

Movies:

X-Men Trilogy, Matrix Trilogy, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Back To The Future Trilogy, Batman Begins, basically big special FX films and comic book movies

Awesome films still to be released in 2007 :

Transformers (UK release 27Jul07)

Fantastic Four II (15Jun07)

Die Hard 4.0 (UK release 06Jul07)

Awesome films for 2008 :

The Dark Knight (UK release 25Jul08)

Iron Man (02May08)

Television:

Comedies: Scrubs, Spaced, Family Guy, Green Wing, Game On, Two Pints, The Office, Alan Partridge, etc
Murder Mysteries: Inspector Morse, A Touch Of Frost, Waking The Dead, etc
Documentries

Books:

Michael Crichton books (especially Timeline, State of Fear, Prey, Airframe, Sphere) / Dan Brown books (especially Angels & Demons, Deception Point) / Michael Cordy's The Miracle Strain / Lord Of The Rings /

Heroes:

- Dave Grohl (The Godfather of Rock!)

- Mike Portnoy (drummer extraordinaire)

- Lee Evans (comic legend)

....and Wolverine!!!

My Blog

Exams are over!!! (Thank fuck!)

Jeez that was hard, not using myspace/facebook/MSN for a whole month, but i done it.I'll briefly mention the shity exams. Revison sucked ass. Two exams i should've passed, the other two, well..let's j...
Posted by dRúMmË®ßõ¥ on Wed, 30 May 2007 06:18:00 PST

Myspace/Facebook/MSN ban

Hey all! I know i've been a tad quiet recently, but the ol' internet has been down for two weeks - router probs. Now that it's back up, i see that i've been missed - hahaha! Seroiusly though, i've don...
Posted by dRúMmË®ßõ¥ on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:32:00 PST

'Roll on Easter' Quiz

1. Is your default picture your natural hair color?Yep, light brown 2. Where was your default pic taken?in my hallway 3. What is your middle name?Matthew 4. Your current relationship status?attached ...
Posted by dRúMmË®ßõ¥ on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:03:00 PST

Brand new Spiderman 3 posters - AWESOME!!!!!

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Posted by dRúMmË®ßõ¥ on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:40:00 PST

New TRANSFORMERS movie footage

Two new TV spots (titled "Hidden" and "Destiny") have hit the screens in America for this summer's Transformers movie, and they confirm that this film is gonna be fucking AMAZING!!!! (Click here for t...
Posted by dRúMmË®ßõ¥ on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:34:00 PST

hectic 2 weeks

What a hectic fortnight!!! Busy, busy, busy. Four gigs and a uni deadline. Luckily for me, i got an extension of my deadline till Monday morning cos i aint done much of my spring project write-up (i'v...
Posted by dRúMmË®ßõ¥ on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:29:00 PST

Spiderman 3 - FINAL TRAILER!!!!

Bloody hell!! This final trailer for Spiderman 3 is FUCKING AMAZING!!! It could quite easily blow Transformers out of the water, and be a fantastic ending to the Spiderman trilogy. Of course, there's ...
Posted by dRúMmË®ßõ¥ on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:38:00 PST

GHOST RIDER

OMG!!! how fucking amazing was Ghost Rider!?! Extremely fucking amazing is the answer!!I'm so glad that it was delayed while they redone the CGI effects, because i'll have to admit, the first trailer ...
Posted by dRúMmË®ßõ¥ on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:28:00 PST

My baby is back!!!!

Woahoo!!! Finally all this car business is over.Finally got the money off my solictor, the Mazda went back, and my Clio has been fixed.It was in a worse condition than we first thought - turns out the...
Posted by dRúMmË®ßõ¥ on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:43:00 PST