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Shagagiraffe

About Me

Speccy four eyed whisky scoofing tweed bashing
bottle smashing bike crashing hoochter tiuchdair
dancing prancing chancing belter from Skye!!!!

Freelence camera assistant/operator by day.
Guitarist with Injuns and Graham McGeoch by night.

Below are some recent promo shots I have taken.
Do get in touch if you likee and want sum dun.

[email protected]/photos/magnusgraham:

My Interests

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things I like: magners on ice, telecasters, pentax cameras, night biking, when cash machines 'purrrr', solid architecure, wild women, moody skies, fresh mackrel, getting smashed, the savoy centre, red wine, getting lost, gaidhlig song, drunken nights in stornoway, peat fires, wearing a suit, vintage port, scimming stones, christmas, sailing boats, barcelona, lagavulin, speakers' corner, cheese sarbenis, making noise, mugs of tea, travelling by train, sun lollies, spanish scooter girls, home baking, glasgow pubs, harris beaches, wild parties, the bath, my bed!

things I dislike: peaches, rain, supermarkets, loudmouths, political ignorance, bad remixes, linda barker, being tickled in public, tabloid press, property prices, local radio adverts, the whole megabus thing, these hardass-teenage-brown-speccled seagulls, tony blair, earwigs, bono, hens and stags and brits abroad, arrogant drivers, tvs in bars, irresponsible multinational corporations, winter, mushrooms, 12 string guitars, very small dogs, most bands that start with 'the', baggage handlers, sleb culture, bananas, midges, noisy eaters, the american neo-conservative movement, bin juice.

I'd like to meet:



I would really like to meet this George Logan chap...

My Music Calendar

21st August: An Tobar, Tobermory, Isle of Mull

28th September: Duncelt festival, Dunvegan, Isle of Skye

29th September: John Lennon Northern lights festival, Durness

Music:


The new INJUNS album 'Lionel It's a Complicated World' is out now!

radiohead, bjork, mew, sigur ros, groove armada, jeff buckley, faithless, shooglenifty, aberfeldy, basement jaxx, guillemots, scott matthews, stevie wonder, rufus wainwright, massive attack, stevie ray vaughn, cardigans, aereogramme, the police, lunasa, miles davis, sam cooke, curved air, paul weller, bruce springsteen, rage against the machine, pink floyd, calum kennedy, doves, frank zappa, nina simone, tears for fears, muse, guns n' roses, ry cooder, jeff beck, steely dan, jimi hendrix, eric clapton, cinematic orchestra, jurassic 5, tom waits, tower of power, inflatable haggis, lamb, leftfield, razorlight, little feat, nitin sawhney, supergrass, portishead, queen, roots manuva, u.n.k.l.e.

Movies:

city of god, goodbye lenin, dancer in the dark, batman returns, shawshank redemption, memento, lilya 4 ever, the big lebowski, 21 grams, happy gilmore, terminator 2, lost boys, bourne supremacy, donnie brasco, dumb and dumber, dirty pretty things, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, anchorman, secretary, pierrepoint, alien, fear and loathing in las vegas, et, the fly, leon, silence of the lambs, usual suspects, american beauty, fight club, american history x, donnie darko, million dollar baby.

Television:

top gear, have i got news for you, the simpsons, planet earth, reeves and mortimer, grand designs, the f word, black books, c4 news, harry hill, despatches, derren brown, modern toss, jools holland, jonathan ross.

Books:

not much of a fiction reader. read chomsky, pilger, fisk and klein during my stint as a miserable, self righteous, socialist hooligan!

Heroes:

harry hill, john simpson, jimi hendrix, vic and bob, noam chomsky, bjork, dave gilmour, al pacino, jeff buckley, johnny greenwood, conrad hall.

My Blog

It's a sheep's life...

Last month I went to North Uist and filmed the rear end of a sheep giving birth to a cute little lamb.Last week I returned to North Uist and filmed last year's little lamb being killed, skinned, gutte...
Posted by magnus on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:20:00 PST

The chalk of shame

Very easy to spot when those in my flat have been out on the serious lash. Both Deirdre and I woke up to find the right shoulder on our jackets covered in a white, chalky substance on Saturday. Happen...
Posted by magnus on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:46:00 PST

Long time dead!

Oh the hillarity when this appeared on google image search! Spooky eh!
Posted by magnus on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:44:00 PST

A devistating tale of hair loss and folical carnage...

Maaan, it was all going so well. A moderate dollop of product and a swift flick of the comb was all it took to spruce my bonce instantly towards the leauge of my guitar (and hair) idol Jimi Hendrix or...
Posted by magnus on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:54:00 PST

I am best friends with Hue and Cry!

It's true, the legendary Pat and Greg Kane consider me, yes me to be their best friend in the whole world! It's just a matter of time before I get the call to go on tour with them, squeeeling away on ...
Posted by magnus on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:28:00 PST

New Shoes?!!!

So, no I do not have a shoe fetish, well, not that i'm aware of right now. I'm not really super into shoes either but sometimes it strikes one as a darn good idea to ask everyone in the bar (many of t...
Posted by magnus on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:51:00 PST

I woke up in a strange place... again...

So, this is my first blog for anyone who cares to read it. I felt compelled to write of my utter dismay as once again, on Saturday morning, I awoke on the number 44 bus in a strange town miles from Gl...
Posted by magnus on Wed, 17 May 2006 05:40:00 PST