green_wyvern

I'd like to meet:

People who can be bothered to read profiles; anyone interesting to chat to.

I am open to meeting most people. If you have something to say and want some intelligent or lower level conversations, I'll be happy to make friends.

I'd like to meet an attractive female for intimate interaction ;-) One who is also good company and will share in some of the things I do and have some compatability with interests and activities.

People, if your first language is English, make sure that you demonstrate it. I am very tolerant of bad grammar and spelling from people for whom English is not their native tongue as I teach foreign students. Abbreviations and colloquialisms are OK too. I am less tolerant of the lazy.

Please feel free to write, but if you do, make sure that you have read my profile and have something written in your profile or I'll presume you are a spammer. If you want to add me, please write a brief note why, cheers.

Music:

2007 was an interesting year for me with a wide array of gigs and festivals, covering several genres of music. Most of the music was good, some average and, of course, some crap. The biggest band I saw at their own gig was Nine Inch Nails; the worst attended was The Gershwin Warriors at The Tubman - a shame because they were really good. Arthur Brown deserves a mention for doing an amazing a capella version of Fire (accompanied by the audience), one of the few highlights of the otherwise disappointing Eastern Haze festival.

The bands that particularily impressed me were, in no particular order (and only the ones I remember):

Therion (one of the best gigs I have been to), The Gershwin Warriors, The Oysterband, Dark Tranquility, Kathryn Tickell, Within Temptation, Avarice Rising, The Damned, Gogol Bordello, Shooglenifty, The Levellers, Three Daft Monkeys, Bossk, Cult of Luna, Ephel Duath, New Model Army, Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull, The Demon Barber's Roadshow, Nine Inch Nails, Bossk, Hobo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs, Tim Hoyte, Novembre, OMT, Paradise Lost, The Dolmen, Show of Hands, Zoe Konez, Eddi Reader, Shooglenifty, RDF, Negura Bunget, Aten, Soilwork, Dirty Scarlet.

2008 has got off to a variable start. After seeing a return to form of Hobo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs early in January and watching a good performance on the last Sunday evening of January by Roger Hubbard, I travelled the next day to Brighton to see, what turned out to be, some really dire death metal bands, the only one being OK (and not more than that) was Misery Index. On Friday I saw Rumiko Jr. in a local pub, playing a good set. The Primordial gig on the first Saturday in February was really good, with excellent performances by Mael Mordha, Grand Magus and Primordial. Into March and Siouxsie at Oxford, a good gig, left me wishing I had seen Siouxsie and the Banshees back whenever. Her voice has deepened, probably through age but she still has sexy stage presence. Another good band in The Tubman, Loci from Bristol proving yet again that small bands in small venues are often better than larger ones.

Movies:

a wide range including Kagemusha, Shakespeare in Love, Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Cyrano, Shawshank Redemption, Animatrix, This is Spinal Tap, If.

Television:

I try to avoid it. Mine's stuck behind boxes of technical bits and pieces. The screen I'm looking at now provokes more thought and responses. I miss Top of the Pops, Robin of Sherwood, Not the Nine O'Clock News.

Books:

Love them and magazines - sci-fi, fantasy, history, psychology, philosophy, graphic novels, humour, classic fiction, horror, tech stuff.

Heroes:

we can be, just for one day