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Kieran

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

About Me

My actual website: http://www.kemptown.org/kieran/
My humanitarian aid charity, Aid Convoy's website: http://www.aidconvoy.net/

People take me too seriously. And not seriously enough. At the same time; that's kinda me.

My Interests

Loving flickr right now. Photos here .

I'd like to meet:

You. People are a good thing.

Music:

Try these:

    Robyn Hitchcock Joan Baez Fall Out Boy Belle & Sebastian Leonard Cohen Nick Drake Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel Chris de Burgh (yeah, whatcha gonna do about it? ;) ColvinQuarmby

Movies:

A matter of life and death (with David Niven, by Powell & Pressburger)
Casablanca (sometimes, just sometimes, the most famous ones are also the best)
Run Lola Run (and everything Tom Tykwer's team have produced)
Dr Zhivago (you have watched it, haven't you?)
Diva (stunning photography)
The wicked lady (pray they never re-make it, but they will, they will...)
Some more for you... Les visiteurs; Black cat, white cat (Emir Kusturica); The man who copied; Life is all you get (yeah, I'm cheating, it's from Tykwer's gang); Y tu mama tambien; The red car

Television:

Too much of the stuff.
Favourites that you need to see?

    Secret army (BBC, 1977–79, about Belgian escape lines in WWII) Edge of darkness (BBC, 1985, about nuclear madness) Shooting the past (BBC, 1999, amazing Stephen Poliakoff play) The flipside of Dominic Hide (BBC, 1980, G&S-esque paradox) Blake's 7 (BBC, 1978–81, the ultimate in sci-fi and characterisation)

Books:

...and authors? Okay, try this assortment:

    Douglas Adams Douglas Hofstadter Neal Stephenson Brian Patten Ted Hughes Kahlil Gibran Richard Bach Danny Wallace and Mary Stewart for "Ludo & the star horse" which is just totally beautiful.

Heroes:

Heroes? Hmm. Maybe Don McCullin for his amazing photographs. My granparents for always being cool. People who love just once.

My Blog

Angels in disguise

Well, I had the most ridiculous time trying to get to a gig last night, and in the end, didn't. It wasn't so much the dodgy trains, as the fact that I didn't feel very much like being in public - just...
Posted by Kieran on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:44:00 PST

sunshine on a city day

Well, I would say the most significant event today was missing the BBC3 repeat of Doctor Who, but that's just the most recent event. It smarts. But I'll get it downloaded eventually I suppose. Had to ...
Posted by Kieran on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:07:00 PST

big skies

I've done well with this house. It has BIIIIIIG skies. The windows are really tall, the houses opposite are on the other side of the almost-disused railway (i.e. not too close) and they're short, unli...
Posted by Kieran on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:57:00 PST

Newsomeness!

So I'm in my new house. It's nice. It's bizarre; they've left almost everything. I mean, I knew they were going to leave the couches and the beds because I paid for those, but when I came in... there ...
Posted by Kieran on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 05:45:00 PST

Boom

Well, I don't often put out a begging bowl. But today - as you'll have read everywhere! - marks the 20th anniversary of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power reactor.There are still many many so...
Posted by Kieran on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:50:00 PST

bambi

Took my gran for a drive on Saturday; into the countryside to look for lambs. She's always loved them, but there's something so terribly poignant about a person whose life is being taken away - by c...
Posted by Kieran on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:03:00 PST

Weekend write-up

Well, it has to go somewhere, and I've just kinda decided that it's going to go here, my review of last weekend - "Good Good Friday 3".It's going here in the least-used and least-purposed of my blogs....
Posted by Kieran on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 02:30:00 PST

funny how...

Funny how horses smell so nice even though let's face it, if it was anything less pretty than a horse it'd be an awful smell. The old community blog I used to love has come back! So I'm neglecting th...
Posted by Kieran on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:38:00 PST

farewells

One of my best, closest and most loyal friends is lying curled up behind me. She often stops by to visit, but once I move house and leave this town in less than a week, I may never see her again. I'v...
Posted by Kieran on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:14:00 PST