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About Me


My Interests



I'd like to meet:


Music:



Movies:

    The Day The Earth Stood Still The Thing Forbidden Planet Excalibur Dark Star Rogue Farm Aliens Sin City 2001 Space Odyssey Delicatessan Planet of the Apes (1968) Meet the Feebles Ghost in the Shell Princess Mononoke Hero Bladerunner Brazil The Abyss (Special Edition) The Last Seduction Dark City Donnie Darko Harold and Maude This is Spinal Tap Jan Svankmajer 's Alice The Princess Bride LA Confidential The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover Pan's Labyrinth

Television:



Books:

2008 reading list (favourites in green ):

    " Last Argument of Kings " by Joe Abercrombie "Lye Street" by Alan Campbell "The Stolen Child" by Keith Donohue"Black Man" by Richard Morgan"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson"Mobius Dick" by Andrew Crumey" Before They Are Hanged " by Joe Abercrombie"Lives of the Monster Dogs" by Kirsten Bakis" Welcome to Tranquility: Volume 1 " by Gail Simone"DMZ Vol. 1: On The Ground" by Brian Wood "The Fahrenheit Twins" by Michel Faber" The Stars My Destination " by Alfred Bester"The Android's Dream " by John Scalzi
2007 reading list (favourites in green ):
    " The Anubis Gates " by Tim Powers" Flashman and the Dragon " by George MacDonald Fraser"Enduring Love" by Ian McEwan"Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami"Polity Agent" by Neal Asher"The Ghost Brigades" by John Scalzi" The Road " by Cormac McCarthy" Old Man's War " by John Scalzi "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut "Violent Cases" by Neal Gaiman "The Winter of Frankie Machine" by Don Winslow "Signal to Noise" by Neal Gaiman "Neverwhere" by Neal Gaiman"Powers: Definitive Collection 1" by Brian Michael Bendis"Red Seas Under Red Skies" by Scott Lynch"Blindsight" by Peter Watts"Special Assignments" by Boris Akunin" The Blade Itself " by Joe Abercrombie" Stagger Lee " by Derek McCulloch "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov "The Prefect" by Alastair Reynolds "A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil" by Christopher Brookmyre " The Rediscovery of Man " by Cordwainer Smith "Glasshouse" by Charles Stross "Black Hole" by Charles Burns " The Lies of Locke Lamora " by Scott Lynch "Fables: Legends in Exile" by Bill Willingham "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley "Zima Blue" by Alastair Reynolds "Starship Troopers" by Robert A. Heinlein "Jingo" by Terry Pratchett "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 2" by Alan Moore "Tricks of the Mind" by Derren Brown
2006 reading list (favourites in green ):
    " Feet of Clay " by Terry Pratchett "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 1" by Alan Moore "The Apple" by Michel Faber "Galactic North" by Alastair Reynolds "Provender Gleed" by James Lovegrove "Cowl" by Neal Asher "Sleepyhead" by Mark Billingham "Porno" by Irvine Welsh "Jennifer Government" by Max Barry "Hal Spacejock" by Simon Haynes "All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye" by Christopher Brookmyre "The Collector" by John Fowles "Learning the World" by Ken Macleod "Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway" by Mike Carey " Scar Night" by Alan Campbell "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula le Guin "Prador Moon" by Neal Asher "Black Widow" by Richard Morgan " The Power of the Dog" by Don Winslow "Brass Man" by Neal Asher "City of Saints and Madmen" by Jeff Vandermeer "Rising Stars" by J.Michael Straczynski "The Line of Polity" by Neal Asher " The Crimson Petal and the White " by Michel Faber "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" by Philip K. Dick " Under the Skin" by Michel Faber "The Death of Achilles" by Boris Akunin "Iron Sunrise" by Charles Stross " Pushing Ice" by Al Reynolds " Turkish Gambit" by Boris Akunin "Woken Furies" by Richard Morgan "LA Confidential" by James Ellroy
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    Futurist Dancing: Sci-Fi Speeding Edinburgh SF Book Group

Heroes:

Richard P. Feynman , Sir Patrick Moore, Douglas Adams, Delia Derbyshire , NASA, ESA, Audrey Hepburn, David McCallum , Doug McClure, Lee Marvin, Alan Turing, Bill Hicks, Phil Oakey, Paul Darrow and Tom Baker.

My Blog

Marsheaux - Regret (Afronts Special Name Mix)

Here's a video I mashed together for my remix of Marsheaux's version of New Order's Regret: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gakLUJoe1tYDeath to Videodrome! Long live The New flesh!...
Posted by Afront on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:11:00 PST

My Top 20 Albums for 2007

01. Schmoof - "The Glamour"02. Editors - "An End Has A Start"03. Black Devil Disco Club - "Black Devil In Dub"04. Northern Kind - "Fiftythreedegreesnorth"05. Combichrist - "What The F*ck Is Wrong With...
Posted by Afront on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:13:00 PST

New Remixes

New remixes uploaded to The Rame's MySpace page:http://www.myspace.com/therameMixes include:- Marsheaux - Regret (Afront's Special Name Mix)- Freezepop - Boys on Film (Afront's Hot Coffee Mix)- Combi...
Posted by Afront on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:54:00 PST

The Human League take a photo of me

... and a few other folk at their free gig in Falkirk.Photo by dbeevers
Posted by Afront on Thu, 17 May 2007 02:54:00 PST

My Top 20 Albums for 2006

01. The Knife - Silent Shout02. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations03. IAMX - The Alternative04. She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge05. Kings Have Long Arms - I Rock Eye Pop06. Fujiya & Miyagi - Tran...
Posted by Afront on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:18:00 PST

Wikipedic

Decided to try my hand at a Wikipedia entry. Here's a new entry on Schmoof:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SchmoofThere's also a page for the Bedroom Disco album....
Posted by Afront on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:51:00 PST

Schmoof Interview & Codette Website

InterviewSchmoof are a great synthpop band I reckon, so I decided to interview them recently for Secrets Online. This was my first time interviewing a band, but I'm pleased with how it turned out. Cli...
Posted by Afront on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:16:00 PST

Pictures of me found on Net

Me with my Fencing group:Me at the Nu Electro gig in Manchester:...
Posted by Afront on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 04:21:00 PST

Rock and Roll is Dead: Gauda Prime Mix Video

I made a video to go with my Gauda Prime mix of the Kings Have Long Arms (featuring Phil Oakey) track "Rock and Roll is Dead". Here's the video:Here's some buy links to ease my piratical conscience:...
Posted by Afront on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:13:00 PST

Hear Kitty Kitty (Full Version)

ERR MEOW!3-part sci-fi trailer for PANSENTIENT League website (unaff. to (The) Human League ) featuring: Oscar the Augmented Kitty on webcamIcedermal.gif 1.0 packets: http://www.rfid-networks.com vs. ...
Posted by Afront on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:23:00 PST