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Charlie

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My Interests

Music:

Led Zep, QOTSA, Motorhead, Nine Inch Nails, Jimmy Eat World, Hefner, Rancid, Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros, Iron Maiden, Rocket From The Crypt, Thrice, Million Dead, Pearl Jam, Muse, The Cramps, Husker Du/Bob Mould, Mr. Scruff, Smashing Pumpkins, The Exploited, System of a Down, Foo Fighters, Dead Kennedys, Therapy?, Sonic Youth, Mercury Rev, The Clash, The Ramones, Pixies, Turbonegro, Super Furry Animals, Green Day, Le Tigre, Pulp, The Research, LCD Soundsystem, The Distillers, Million Dead, Muse, Idlewild, (Early) Manics(!), Red Stars Parade, Metro Manila Aide, Cock Sparrer, Demented Are Go, Minor Threat

Movies:

Snakes on A Motherfucking Plane, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Shawshank Redemption, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, This is Spinal Tap, Anchorman, Dodgeball, Silence of the Lambs, 21 Grams, Talk to Her, Crash, Jamon Jamon, School of Rock, Army of Darkness, If..., Aliens, Predator, Robocop, American History X, American Psycho, Team America, Airplane, Back to the Future, Wayne's World, Labyrinth, Team America

Television:

The Simpsons, Family Guy, Neighbours, Big Brother, Lost, Soccer A.M., Buffy, Nathan Barley, Spaced, 24, Have I Got News For You, Ray Mears' Bushcraft, Malcolm in the Middle, League of Gentlemen, Match of the Day, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Peep Show

Books:

This Band Could Be Your Life, Stephen King, Powder, The Hobbit, Adrian Mole, The Preacher graphic novels, Bukowski, The Stand, The Outsider, every Douglas Coupland book I've ever read, 1984.

My Blog

Ibiza Rox

So, after a long day getting down to Gatwick, the three of us are here in Ibiza, the party capital of the Universe, and, I daresay, many as yet undiscovered universes. In a reckless display of cash-fl...
Posted by Charlie on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:58:00 PST

Reasons to move out

I LIKE sleeping in till 2p.m. I LIKE eating my dinner at 10p.m. I LIKE the lights on. I LIKE sitting on the bog for 40 minutes, without being disturbed. I LIKE watching Soccer AM with a coffee. I LIKE...
Posted by Charlie on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:38:00 PST

New Year's Resolutions

This year, I will resolve to do the following things: 1) Finish researching the novel and just write the damn thing. 2) Raise the press-ups benchmark to 50 (currently 35). 3) Identify my real friends ...
Posted by Charlie on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:45:00 PST

The Art of Stage Diving: Revealed

Something occurred to me last night at the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster gig. Crowd surfing is sooo passé, stage diving is the future. I'm sure everyone is in agreement that stage diving is more f...
Posted by Charlie on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 11:29:00 PST

All Hail Jack Bauer

If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he'd shoot Nina twice. Jack Bauer set an ordinary flash memory card to self-destruct. Don't ask how h...
Posted by Charlie on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:29:00 PST

Back to nature

OK it seemed like a good idea, and hell, it was. Pack a bag and skip town for a couple of days, since this city just plain stifles you sometimes. Head for the Lakes for some sort of rural adventure (m...
Posted by Charlie on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:08:00 PST

Nick´s dodgy guts

OK so we´re now in Spain, San Sebastian specifically, and we are happy to report that it is indeed the dogs testicles. It´s been pretty hardcore so far but events are taking their toll on poor Nichola...
Posted by Charlie on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:09:00 PST

Do I detect some gay here?

Well it's day 4 of Nick and Charlie's trip round Europe. OK, France and Spain then. We're in Marseille at the moment and we can report that France is seriously hacked off after their controversy-marre...
Posted by Charlie on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:44:00 PST