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laini

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Three things:

If I don't know you and you wanna add me, message me.

Bands: the music list on the left isn't comprehensive but use some god damn common sense please. And don't send me any 'you look cool, listen to my band' crap. I don't have my music taste written on my face.

If you're a company trying to advertise, fuck off.

Music:

goth, 80's, EBM, IDM, hard dance, jazz, motown, folk, synth pop, industrial, drum n bass, jungle, hip hop, breakcore, trip hop, classic rock (especially 80's sleaze rock), weird alternative shit, metal, etc etc etc.

Movies:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Withnail & I, Pi, Dune, Evil Dead, Clerks, Blade Runner, Bubba Hotep, Adaptation, Cube, Santa Sangra, Beetlejuice, Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, The Blues Brothers, Lost Highway, House of 1000 Corpses, Tommy, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.

Television:

Red Dwarf, 24, Lost, West Wing, Six Feet Under, Spaced, Family Guy, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Jam, Brasseye, Thundercats, Fraggle Rock, The Young Ones, Monty Python, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Mighty Boosh, Scrubs, Black Books, Messiah.

Books:

Anything by Hunter S Thompson, Douglas Adams, Donna Tartt, PG Wodehouse, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson. Chuck Palahniuk. Also Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory, Joseph Heller - Catch 22, Stephen King - Insomnia, Dave Barry, and a little bit of Pratchett (but not too much...).

Heroes:

Bruce Campbell!!!! Truly a god among men....

My Blog

What I did

Feel obliged to post something, so here it is. Er... PhD's going well, fingers crossed I should have a paper to submit for publications in the next few weeks, which bearing in mind I've only been at t...
Posted by laini on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:40:00 PST

Perpetual studentdom

Well. I've spent the last couple of months on the futile graduate job hunt, because I didn't get funding for my PhD. In actuality, the only job I interviewed for one which I (apparently) applied for b...
Posted by laini on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:58:00 PST

Long overdue I guess...

I never write in this. So I thought I oughta. But lj's still better.Uni is kinda up in the air at the moment. I got my second semester results back, and so far I'm still on course for a distinction. B...
Posted by laini on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 04:24:00 PST

blah

Exams suck. That is all. P.S (clearly that was not all). Exams are over on Thursday. I have a week of partying planned to make up for all this bloody studiousness. Still can't decide between&nbs...
Posted by laini on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:29:00 PST

2006....

Happy New Year! to everyone I haven't already said it to. This is officially the end of new year in laini world, next job is easter. I am choosing to ignore the existance of valentines day in the wor...
Posted by laini on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:47:00 PST

Hello world..... again.

So this seems a little pointless since I already have a livejournal..... which I've already posted to today. But then the point of this was to keep in touch with a whole other bunch of friends who I d...
Posted by laini on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:54:00 PST