Music and t'internet are the big things lately and l've rediscovered books again. Have read tons lately, when that got too much I've been wasting the rest of my life on my Gamecube. Quite tragically love comics too, really thought I'd grow out of it but I'm 30 now so I may be stuck with it, I (sort of) work on weekends at the comic shop in Birmingham as kind of a hobby, basically it pays for my comics habit. 4 years in my 'proper' job was enough and I've had enough, and I'm leaving the school as soon as I've served my notice period. Other than that I like Guiness, being messy, totes toasties, staying up late, spending all day in bed, Crunchie Blast bars, poker (played with real people in the same room as me and everything), bad puns, documentries about odd things like weird medical conditions and crackpot theories about how the world is doomed to be hit by an asteroid, toasted bagels with Philadelphia on them, West Bromwich Albion, University Challenge, pechuli oil, Cherry-Coke and people-watching office workers at lunch time and home time in the city centre to name a few. I could go on but eventually staying up late leads to staying in bed all day and I've got to go and do the bit in between before I doze off on my keyboard.
Anyone really, just don't add me without asking you'll probably get ignored.
Bands should go visit my music storing alter-ego Stubot , if you're a band looking for someone to listen to your stuff send it there not here, I'm trying to keep this end friends only as I kept losing them amongst the bands so I've cleared them out, that profile will be checked regularly and as soon as the fecking player in myspace starts working for more then an hour or two at a time I'll give your band a listen.
Smog, Joy Zipper, the Rakes, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Cave, the National, the Violent Femmes, the Arcade Fire, the American Analog Set, Johnny Cash, the Futureheads, East River Pipe, the Flaming Lips, Explosions in the sky, Queens of the Stone Age, early Aerosmith, the Kinks, Cat Power, dEUS, Bob Dylan, the Pixies, Low, the Cardigans, Teenage Fanclub, Babes in Toyland, Slint, The Autumn Defence, The Delgados, The Ramones, Interpol, Pavement, Nick Drake, Wilco, Soundgarden, The Beach Boys, some Blur, Graham Coxon, Weezer, Babyshambles (much to my surprise), Doves, the Stones, Eric's Trip, Cat Stevens, early Belle & Sebastian, Novak, Talking Heads, Faith No More, Pulp, Neil Young, the Radar Brothers, Josh Rouse, the Walkmen, Super Furry Animals, David Bowie, Death cab for cutie...if you're still reading this you have too much time on your hands.
I kept losing my friends amongst all the bands so I've set up an evil music whoring twin of myself known as Stubot , if you're a band looking for someone to spam go see him instead he'll be much more understanding.
Jaws, Amelie, the Way of the Gun, Spirited Away, True Romance, Serenity, Old Star Wars, Stir Crazy, The Thing, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dr. Strangelove, Grosse Point Blank, Silent Running, The Natural, Twelve Monkeys, Pleasantville, Unbreakable, The Big Lebowski, The Truman Show, Some Like It Hot, I'm going to stop there or we'll end up with another endless list like the music bit. Just seen a "Me and you and everyone we know" and "A history of violence", both were fantastic for very different reasons. The latter being very dark but compelling, the former is really lovely, a tiny bit tragic and just beautiful to watch. It amongst other things made today a nice day :)
Nothing that's on at the minute other than Channel 4 news. Like Spaced, Samurai Jack, University Challenge, Futurama, and Lost when they're on. Everybody Loves Raymond is my guilty pleasure.
Watership Down by Richard Adams, Popular Music by Michael Niemi, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence by Robert M.Pirsig, A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K.Dick, Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman, Not Fade Away, the Stone Junction and Fup by Jim Dodge. Jeff Noon, Michael Marshall Smith, Iain M. Banks, Phillip Jose Farmer. Plenty more where they came from mostly bought from second hand book shops.
Gordo Cooper, Kim Deal, John Peel, Bill Hicks, Muhammed Ali, Martin Luthor King, Bigwig and Hazel, The Green Arrow, Jessica Jones, Genndy Tartakovsky, Jim Dodge, Charlie Brown and Sir Richard Burton (the explorer not the actor)