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Some Random Bloke Called Paul

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About Me


Where do people come from to visit the Doc?!
(This hardly ever works on my PC...)

So the tag line is (almost) a quote from Fight Club and, you guessed it, I'm a product of the TV-worshiping Swedish furniture-loving generation X. Does anyone remember Dream On- the crap US sitcom, where the guy's life was punctuated by quotes from the tv shows he grew up watching? No? Well, I do!
Too many sleepless nights plus too many crap late-night TV shows on ITV and C4 (BBC1 & 2 had long-since turned on their scary testcards) warped my fragile little mind- oh no, another quote! Even my music tastes developed from watching 'Noisy Mothers' late on Friday nights- I wonder if Krusher has a myspace page...
By day, I masquerade as a mild mannered mental health worker- it's pretty cool getting paid to help make peoples' lives better. Stressful though, sometimes, but getting pissed with my mates and acting like an eejit generally makes it easier to cope... ;oD
Thanks for dropping by- hope you like the profile. If you do, why not click 'Add to Friends' and we'll go from there. Cheers, Paul/Doc ;)
You Are Kermit
Lovable and friendly, you get along well with everyone you know. You're a big thinker, and sometimes you over think life's problems. But don't worry - everyone know's it's not easy being green.
The Muppet Personality Test

My Interests

Live music, films, people, booze; not necessarily in that order.

I'd like to meet:

Most people... at least once... Maybe you?!

Music:

I love music! Particularly live music and particularly rock, metal, punk, funk and ska.You can probably tell from the site address that I'm a recent Motley Crue convert after years of resisting (cheers Mark!) and I love the rock 'n' roll stuff- GnR, The Cult, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, etc.

I play the bass guitar and love anything with a good groove- particularly 'Zombie Metal' like White Zombie, Rob Zombie, Frankenstein Drag Queens, etc.- and bands like Pantera, Rage Against the Machine, RHCP etc.

Myspace has turned me onto some particularly excellent local bands- checkout Multi Purpose Chemical , if you're into bands like SOAD, or Anger is a Gift if you like Rage Against the Machine (best band ever!), and The Stopouts if you're a ska head.

Movies:

I grew up on zombie movies- Dawn of the Dead (original, obviously) and Braindead are still two of my fave films.

I've watched far too many low-budget horror movies to count (although the Mutant Kid/Plutonium Baby still makes me laugh) and watched Star Wars so much as a Kid I can pretty much recite it line for line... "Strange, the damage doesn't look as bad from out here..."

Bit more cultured these days though. Think my favourite ever film is probably Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning.

Television:

I watched a lot of crap telly growing up...
Cartoons- Battle of the Planets, Transformers, Centurions, Ulyses 31, Cities of Gold, etc. Comedies- Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Mary Whitehouse Experience, etc., etc.

Don't watch much TV these days but, when I do, Spaced, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Family Guy and Robot Chicken make me laugh the most.

Books:

Currently reading Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Survivor, Haunted, etc.), amongst others.

Heroes:

Clement Atlee and Aneurin Bevan, founders of the welfare state and NHS. Fighting poverty and suffering for over 50 years ;o)

My Blog

I Have Returned...

As if from the dead... OK, news news news! Two weeks and we are off to what looks like the best festival EVER and, it's in bloody Germany- Rock Im Park! God, that lineup is amazing- even the bands I'm...
Posted by Some Random Bloke Called Paul on Sun, 18 May 2008 03:22:00 PST

Yikes...

Bloody hell- nearly a year since my last blog... How time flies when you work too hard... 
Posted by Some Random Bloke Called Paul on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:46:00 PST

Long time no Myspace

Hello! OK, OK, I've been away for a while and, unfortunately, not likely to go back to being on here quite as regularly as I did- this place is addictive- but still, here I am and not, I repeat NOT, o...
Posted by Some Random Bloke Called Paul on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:43:00 PST

Big in the Subcontinent

No idea why but, according to my World Visitor Map, I seem to get a lot of traffic from India and Bangladesh... Strange...Anyway, not had a chance to blog for ages... Places to go, people to meet- you...
Posted by Some Random Bloke Called Paul on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:57:00 PST

Trouble at 't' Mill

How do I spend my weekends these days? Well, any of you out there who ever played Dungeons & Dragons or other role-play based adventures should watch out- there's a new game come to town!Forget al...
Posted by Some Random Bloke Called Paul on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:48:00 PST

Let the games begin!

I love this site!!! Here are just a few of my favourites and probably say something about me... see if you can figure out what ;o)For the zombie movie fan in me.... Myspace Games Mys...
Posted by Some Random Bloke Called Paul on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:39:00 PST

1000 views! I'm, like, popular or something...

Who would have thought it...? I reckon it was the Richard Cheese profile song that made the difference... 
Posted by Some Random Bloke Called Paul on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:31:00 PST

I've got a weird job...

I have some interesting times working in mental health... Last Friday, I met a member of this guy's family... Confidentiality stops me from revealing too much but I was doing an assessment in so...
Posted by Some Random Bloke Called Paul on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:37:00 PST

Your Momma

OMG- how many of my friends are getting married and having kids?! It's not healthy, all of this mainstream living... My mate Taffy told me before Christmas that his wife is expecting, ...
Posted by Some Random Bloke Called Paul on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:24:00 PST

Good for me and bad for me..

Gah- I must be getting middle aged... Joined a gym yesterday... Middle age spread has been setting in early and, given that cricket has stopped for the winter and Taffy is more interested in the ...
Posted by Some Random Bloke Called Paul on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:12:00 PST