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ollie pound

ollie_tigermoth

About Me

i'm a big fan of jammie dodgers. i also like jaffa cakes and tea cakes. there are other kinds of cake that i like, but not as much.

My Interests

how did that bruise get there?

I'd like to meet:

someone with a glass bottle of irn bru, willing to give me at least a swig.

Music:

screaming ballerinas, crash convention, special needs, the rocks, art brut, the lost revue, past caring, the rakes, love, the stones, fleetwood mac, led zep, the concretes, the magic numbers, junkbox, the tailors, belle and sebastian, REM (before new adventures in hifi), blur (WITH graham coxon), the beastie boys, primal scream, talk talk, beatles, kinks, the who, radiohead, rufus wainwright, the moody blues, roxy music, pulp, hiem, fat truckers, plump dj's, orbital, the velvet underground, the eighties matchbox b-line disaster, the cramps, the subways, john spencer, art brut, rachel stevens, britney spears, annie, the b52's, the ronettes, the clash, martha reeves and the vandellas, snoop dog and pharrel williams, ole dirty, kelis, s club seven, fuzz townsend, bentley rythm ace, pink floyd, muddy waters, girls aloud, johnny cash, iggy and the stooges, the longpigs, tigermoth, coldplay, the libertines, whitey, dylan (i've been converted), the HEART STRINGS, robots in disguise, guillemots, johnny thunders and the heartbreakers, new york dolls, soho dolls, the svengalis, the longpigs, richard hawley, justice, arcade fire, switches, untitled musical project ...

Movies:

robocop, amelie, die hard, dead poets society, the big lebowski, pi, good morning vietnam, man on the moon, mallrats, ferris buellers day off, life is beautiful, team america,

Television:

judge judy is the new jerry springer.

Heroes:

keith floyd, keith moon and keith richards.

My Blog

the empty lanterns

the empty lanterns fly, lonely and lost fields swing below them, but they do not see. sparks of flames are all around them, in the other lanterns that think they're empty to.  ...
Posted by ollie pound on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:58:00 PST

snapshots

do you ever feel sad when you look at photos? get that eery sense, of peering back in time. gazing at times that were once, and now are lost. when people are lost, the rest of the picture is lost, a...
Posted by ollie pound on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 05:25:00 PST

flickr

<P>i've finally got meself a flickr account, i've been snapping with my mobile phone and putting them up for the last few weeks. its not the best resolution, but i think the limitations kind of ...
Posted by ollie pound on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:10:00 PST

and then

in the rain now, you walk like a vandal cold glass pane keeps our worlds apart quick flash images all that i've got left but please dont come back...
Posted by ollie pound on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 05:42:00 PST

popped into my head on the way to work

hold your tongue girl, you kiss like a vampire spit you out if you think that i care take the sofa, or get a taxi but please dont stay here.  ...
Posted by ollie pound on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:05:00 PST

some random girl i saw in the market the other day

big, sad eyes. it was as if it was taking all of her will to maintain the balance. if she slipped, the torment would trigger a cascade reaction that would disolve her eyes, and leak the hurt from her....
Posted by ollie pound on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:09:00 PST

up down and sideways, part two.

its been a while now since the last blog. and things are getting back to normal. well, nearly anyway. i'm now having to think about being in the same room as her again. why oh why am i making such a b...
Posted by ollie pound on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:12:00 PST

up, down and sideways part one.

well, the lines on my arm are still there. they're faint sure, but they are there. a constant reminder (for the time being anway) of how foolish one can be when getting wrapped up in the run away...
Posted by ollie pound on Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:02:00 PST

no gigs

well well well, here we are again. i'm worried at the moment, no gigs coming up... but i'll just see about that. el reeko should be back round these parts today. there might even be a gig this saturda...
Posted by ollie pound on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

fragile

i go around thinking, like everyone else that my body is pretty tough. going out of a weekend, with the sole intention of nailing myself with what ever cocktail i feel is right to injest on the spur o...
Posted by ollie pound on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST