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Ally Burton

Believing that all dreams are made to burn is just like setting fire to your own. (burtonalistair@ho

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Masthead Banner Made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!I did education. Highers, degree........i have several bits of paper stating that i am able to memorise information and spew it back up in exams. Truth be told, I am not interested in that stuff at all. I love music. I play drums in a Glasgow based band called Servant. I do my best to write my own songs too but I am far from a good singer, but I enjoy it and that's what counts. Means my singning can only get better right?More recently I have taken a more serious interest in photography, and I am studying it at college. Quite fancy being a war photographer some day, but I aint too sure what my girlfriend would have to say on that subject!! I also like to paint crazy colours and shapes on canvas and try to pass it off as art.....so if anyone wants a painting done just drop me a line (see photo albums for examples). Below is the most valuable piece of advice that I have ever been given.'Remember not to lose sight of the fact that only a lack of imagination, self belief and determination can separate dreams from reality, and in our dreams we can do whatever the fuck we please!!!'I believe this. I want everyone to believe in themselves and their dreams, because believing that all dreams are made to burn is just like setting fire to your own.Life is too fucking short to wear a suit every day and worry about your bank balance. There is no reason why you can't do what you REALLY want. Don't be scared to fail trying, coz when your old and dieing you can't start again. Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda are indeed the last words of a fool. It's a cliche, but it's true. I detest narrow mindedness. I adore those that seek contentment in their passion and not in £$£$£$£$£$....for those who make £$£$£$£$£$£$£$ from their passion, i admire you. My respect goes to all those who are going nuts working a shit job while trying to be a ballet dancer, football player, photographer, musician, artist, designer, pro surfer, skater, boarder, politician, writer, producer, film maker, porn star, poet, inventor, astronaut, chess champion, pro video game player, pilot, magician or whatever else beyond 9-5 in rat race hell takes your fancy.That doesn't mean i don't respect people that are happy in their job........but those of you out there that are dieing in crowds of suits, and drowning in frapaccino but have a passion for something risky and aint trying........your soul will die and you will be bitter when you are old. Whether it's to be the managing director of the company you work for, to start your own company, to run a marathon....if you don't try it will eat you forever. Failure? Afraid? Isn't not knowing worse. Sure, you have to pay the mortgage while you go, but there are night classes, distance learning, weekends.......there is a whole world out there to see. LIVE your life. Don't just exist. Have a purpose every day in the bigger picture and you will find contentment in life, love and work. Contentment makes each day worth it, and when everything goes wrong, and the shit hits the fan, I believe that as long as you have a vision of the way back, you are capable of making it happen. I'll end on another cliche that is an undeniable fact. This is not a rehearsal, and to quote Winston Churchill,"If you are going through hell.....Keep going".Remember to savour life, coz the minute you start to take things for granted, the world can become a very unhappy place, very fast.(As touched upon in the lyrics of Simon Neil in the song Machines - Biffy Clyro, and how true it is.) Below is the myspace address for Servant, the band I am in.www.myspace.com/servantnoise Please visit, listen, add and let us know what you think, be it good or bad. thanks....THESE ONES ARE MINE... Hope. One thing that keeps each and every one of us moving onwards to the future,Regardless of how things may be today.Without hope we would be nothing, nor could we see our way.It is perhaps the single most important thing to see us through our pain,That one single common factor that sees us step onward,And on and on again. Again.Without hope, nothing we long for would ever become what we have,And those things that challenge us and ask questions of our hearts,Could never be laid to rest in the comfort of our past.If ever you are troubled and whatever our lives bring,You must know you needn't face tough times alone,For I will be here, so pass to me your fallen hopeAnd i will pick it up again.(For Frankie x)

My Interests

music, playing drums in Servant, trying to play guitar, writing, drawing, taking pictures, having a beer with me mates, travelling (despite not havein the time or the cash to do much of it right now), good food, good wine (although i confess to not knowing a great deal bout this. like the red stuff!), goin' walks with franki and her crazy dog jez n ma wee dug Archie, driving ma neeew motor, cooking, quantum theory and generally any crazy ass 'life purpose' philosophy banter.

I'd like to meet:

bruce lee, jimmy hendrix, pamela anderson, ghandi, john bonham, kurt cobain, tony blair and george bush at the same time coz the chat would just be hilarious!! Nelson Mandella, Jenna Jameson, Magz Thatch, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Neve Campbell, Jennifer Anniston, Mao, Stalin, John Lennon, Napoleon, Tim Burton and loads of others that i will probably add in time.

Music:

fwooooooooooowf. Loads and loads and loads of bands. Top few all time would include Led Zep, Pearl Jam, GNR, Iron Maiden, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Deftones, Rage Against the machine, Nirvana, Metallica, Kill Switch Engage, Pantera, Funeral For A Friend (early stuff), biffy clyro, In flames, 65 days of static, pelican, Hundred Reasons (mainly the first two albums), Sepultura, As i lay dieing, Every time i die, Converge, Death from above 1979..erm.....also like not so heavy stuff like idlewild, greenday, King Creosote, lemonheads, red sparrows, sigur ros, slint, black mountain, liars, oh, reuben....forgot them. They are pretty heavy right enough. Ehm, Incubus, ballboy, Mastadon(very heavy!), Justin Timberlake, oasis (those that say they don't are kiddin on eh?). Right now I am listening to Incubus - Light Grenades on repeat. Once you get past the whiney American voice, the songs are class.

Movies:

Shaw Shank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, Teen wolf, Lost Boys, Old black and white ones you see on tv that you think are gauna be shit n turn out to be class. Serpico, Once Upon a time In America, The one with brad pitt and kevin bacon in it....you know the one. They are little boys n get sent to a correctional facility for young offenders for wrecking a hotdog stand or summat. Good movie. Fight clubs pretty good, Anything connected to Quentin Tarantino, matrix trilogy is decent entertainment. The one when the 4 wee guys decide to go camping and find a body and one of em gets a leach on his willy. Am terrible at remembering names. American History X, I've liked quite a few french and spannish movies that I have seen but can only remember any apart fae amelie by name. I should really write things down more. Amelie is an excellent film. All them cartoon ones like toy story, ice age, finding nemo, monsters inc n' that. I'll think of some more another day...oh here we go, some new ones - The Secret, What the bleep do we know, animal factory, nacho libre, davinchi code......

Television:

24, scrubs, eastenders, the A team, dragons den, x factor for the first few episodes when all the folk that can't sing go on. Am a shite shite singer myself, but atleast i know that n don't go on tv. How can them people think they are good. Class. friends re-runs......ross is the best but i don't think anyone realised until long after it was finnished???hmnnnnn. i passionately detest buffy the vampire slayer and any other sci-fi vampire alien related bollocks. Yes that includes star wars(anaw that is a film but i got on to the subject, and it has been on telly). IT IS SHIT. Ahem. Back to tv..........deal or no deal, blockbuster, telly addicts, red shoe diaries, bargain hunt, cash in the attic, wildlife programmes.....specially ones with sharks in...and my guilty secret is that i love pish like dawsons creek and the O.C too...HAHA....
Which O.C. Character Are You? Find out @ She's Crafty

Books:

Just read teacher man, by Frank McCourt who wrote Angelas Ashes and Tis. Read a zillion dean koontz books. They are pretty cool but he tends to follow a bit of a pattern and take the detail a lil too far sometimes. To kill a mocking bird, One flew over the cuckoos nest, espedair street, crowe road, i like arthur millers plays................Death of a salesman and The crucible in particular......mostly coz that is the only two that i have read. I like reading, but don't do enough of it. Time time time.............tap me some??? I actually like Shakespeare tae. It's mad patter man. Tim Burtons biography, The God dilusion...

Heroes:

wow. Tough question. Hero is a strong word. Think the dictionary defines it as having to do with being a very brave man or boy!!!! thats how old and non pc my dictionary is.......infact naw it izny, coz the female is heroine(obviously when i say i think the dictionary.....that means i have it open beside me at the page with hero on it). i'll come back to this one coz we canni be throwin the likes of hero about just like that. Right i have had a good old think. He-Man, Mr T, Jack Bauer, Harold from neighbours.....a man of flawless integrity who is genuinely noble and loaded with the qualities of honesty, compassion, careing(and i bet he can spell real good too, and never has to guess if he has spelt it right or not), bruce lee, michael jackson(purely for his musical contribution to this earth and in no way related to his tie-die flesh or dissapearing afro....the other stuff i won't even mention. Did he? Didn't he? fuck knows but what a fuckin tune billy jean is???), ian beale from eastenders, coz no matter how many times a half decent lookin las(by his standards) shits all over him, he gets up....dabs his cold sore......dusts down his polyester slacks and starts boffing another one. A man genuinely dedicated to his primary purposes in life. Procreation and misery. Go on my son. Probably will be able to think of some more later for this bit too...heros i mean, not half decent lookin lassies that have made ian beale bubble............awwwwwwwwwww. Ah well it happens to all of us eh;0D

My Blog

chopping block

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Posted by Ally Burton on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:35:00 PST

flickr photostream

this is the web address for my flickr photo account for anyone who would like to have a look.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/fate-by-force/...
Posted by Ally Burton on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:42:00 PST

HEYO...

how’s it going everyone?   For n e one interested I shall post the south america pics up at some point soon.  Was a class trip.    In terms of band stuff, we just uploaded a...
Posted by Ally Burton on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:41:00 PST

HOPE

Hope. One thing that keeps each and every one of us moving onwards to the future,Regardless of how things may be today. Without hope we would be nothing, nor could we see our way. It is perhaps the si...
Posted by Ally Burton on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:29:00 PST

http://www.xfmuploaded.co.uk/servant - xfm uploaded TONIGHT...PLEASE VOTE

http://www.xfmuploaded.co.uk/servant - xfm uploaded TONIGHT...PLEASE VOTE Alritey,   We are just bout to be played on xfm scotland at 106fm.  Right after the wombats.   Please vote f...
Posted by Ally Burton on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:45:00 PST

friday this week 21.03.08

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Posted by Ally Burton on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:55:00 PST

TONIGHT - A Little bit of Radio play in our own country...WOOHOO

..TR id=blog-1> ..TR> Helloo,   We are going to get a little spin on Xfm Scotland tonight - 106fm - between half nine n ten pm. This is our first proper radio play in Scotland so it is a pre...
Posted by Ally Burton on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:54:00 PST

KING TUTS TONIGHT FOLKS

So who still needs to get a ticket?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????
Posted by Ally Burton on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:32:00 PST

ok, so i moaned about moany moanersonz...

...but in order to state my case against moanin it is essential that I speak of moanin using derogitory descriptive words. In so doing it is perhaps conceiveable that I too am moaning, but I merely wi...
Posted by Ally Burton on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:56:00 PST

The fact that...(not aimed at n e 1 in particular...just moaners in general)

...the sun is shinging outside doesn't really matter worth a fuck does it.  It's still rotten n baltic?  Is that what you are looking outside and thinking?  Are you always a moaning whi...
Posted by Ally Burton on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:07:00 PST