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Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com / Love & peace
Free Pre Made Myspace LayoutsIt started with 'What's the Story Morning Glory?' I was 12 and heading off to the Gaeltacht for three weeks of unsupervised tom foolery in Donegal. Mum thought it was a big deal so she bought me a walk man and gave me 20 quid (a fortune to a boy of 12) to get myself a couple of Albums to bring with me. I got Alanis Moirsette's Jagged Little Pill and Whats the Story (Also got the single of Seal's Kiss from a Rose). It took the blinkers off. Oasis were the rebels of the 1990's, not caring if they broke America or not (apparently). I bought into it. Three weeks with two albums and I was hooked. Soon after it was Blur and Pulp and Radiohead... listening to American Music like Bon Jovi, Green Day, The Offspring.. then later Blink 182. I found out who inspired what I listened to... then it was The Who, The Kinks, The Animals, The Beatles... Elvis, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, The Stone Roses! Listening to the Roses led me down another path of Dance Music... Jules, Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyk... I would listen to anything once, Jazz, Blues, Classical, early Hip Hop like The Sugarhill Gang and Jurassic Five. My Music defined my personality throughout my teenage years. I remember falling in love with not only Sadie Frost in the video to Common People but with the song itself. Musical expression led to Movies, which I have always loved... still refusing to ditch my video collection as it has served me so well... Being lost in movies, committing myself to their truth led me to the stage in school. There I could express myself and once I got the bug it hasn't left me yet. I love the stage and studied Drama at A Level and University. Now that I have realised there is no point in acting professionally as many people do it better than me I have an urge to write... Inspired by my Music, Films, Sport - everything is being filtered into my writing. I love football... speaking of which, I support Aston Villa in the English League but my real love in sport is Gaelic Football. I love to play, I love to watch, I love to criticise, I live to analyse. My Friends are very important to me and whether it's sitting around the house smoking or going on camping trips to the hills I love it all equally. My uncle told me once that a true friend is someone you would take a kick in the face for... Loyalty is very important to me... so are the good times... I love good times.
Maybe the reason why I am here is because I don't know who I'd like to meet. I guess I'd like to meet friends, people who like to have 'the craic'. I'd just like to meet people... if I get bogged down in who I want to meet specifically this becomes less a model for broadening my horizons and more a bad episode of Blind Date (with Cilla Black obviously). I just want people to give me a chance, talk to me, see what I have to say and who knows, maybe I could end up making a few friends along the way.
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I don't watch television quite as much as I did when I was younger. Good times where had watching The Den after school everyday, back then it was The Turtles and The Ghostbusters... Does anyone remember Simon and the Witch? Or the Gummi Bears? Or He-Man? Nowadays it's grown up programmes like The West Wing and Lost. I loved Buffy and Angel... the world seems slightly smaller without them. I still like cartoons, I watch The OC and Smallville from time to time. Never bought into watching soaps apart from Eastenders occasionally, I loathe Hollyoaks sorry to say. I love Scrubs and Family Guy "You don't so much speak the language as chew it up and spit it out". I like Arrested Development and CSI. The News is good to watch too... Neighbours is great, so is Countdown, I miss 15 to 1. I also like cheese like Big Brother, The X-Factor and Strictly Come Dancing (well, I watched it once). I miss Father Ted also, and Alan Partridge... and The Office "I don't give out sh*@ty jobs".
I love to read... I especially love to read while travelling, it adds a great backdrop to a book - like The Catcher in the Rye in the South of Italy. I love the works of (chronologically) Beatrix Potter (Peter and Benjamin), Roald Dahl (Fox, Tortoise, Danny, Wonka), Douglas Adams (Zaphod, Arthur, Ford, Marvin), Tolkien (Aaragon, Gandalf, Sam, Legolas), Nick Hornby (Fever, Fidelity, About a Boy), Dan Brown (Langdon, Sophie, Teabing). I love Histories (especially Irish History)... I hold the work of Shakespeare above all... All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, Taming of the Shrew, Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV, Part II, Henry V, King John, Pericles, Richard II, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus and Troilus and Cressida. I am an Irish Writing enthuaist and enjoy the works of Yeats, Synge, Gregory, Friel, Murphy and Carr. Yeats' work is profound, forever reminding me of my status as one of the 'Indomniable Irishry'
Hero is a very strong word - I have people who have inspired me for one reason or another. Personally I have those who encourage me, like my Mum, My Aunt Helen, My friends of whom there are too many to list but I also have those who challenge me... try to break me to make me stronger, such as many teachers over the years... a couple of ex girlfriends. None of the above I would classify as heroes though. A Hero is someone who 'fights the good fight'. I have been inspired by many things in my life... many people. William Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, my Uncle Frankie (who had a liver transplant), my under 14 football coach Eunan Brolly who gave me confidence and an ability to have fun playing sports, Edward Despard, Michael Collins, Steve Mc Queen, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Paul Murphy to whom I will always be a padawan learner, Melissa Sihra (the foxiest lady in Queens)... Anyone who has made me think twice about them, John Francis Quinn for that time in History class, Peter Canavan, Paul Mc Grath, My Dad... the man I want to be.