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Nick

The proof is in the pudding. And you, my son, have eaten it.

About Me

I like late nights. I don't like mornings

My Interests

Me, myself and I

I'd like to meet:

the cunt who signed the Kooks

Music:

A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Alfie, Ambulance Ltd, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of The Dead, The Animals, Annuals, Arcade Fire, Ash, Band of Horses, Beach House, Bear Hands, The Beatles, Beck, The Besnard Lakes, The Beta Band, The Black Keys, Blink 182, Bloc Party, Blood Red Shoes, Blonde Redhead, Bobby Cook, Bon Iver, Bluetones, Blur, The Boxer Rebeliion, Brakes, Brian Jonestown Massacre, British Sea Power, Built to Spill, C.S.S., The Candyskins, The Charlatans, Charlottefield, Chow Chow, Clinic, Clor, Coin-op, The Cribs, The Crockets, The Cure, Dandy Warhols, The Dears, Death in Vegas, The Death Set, Deerhunter, Delays, dEUS, Dios Malos, Doves, Duels, Duke Spirit, Eels, Everclear, Explosions in the Sky, Fanfarlo, Film School, Fire Engines, Fiver,Fleet Foxes, Foo Fighters, Forward Russia, Frightened Rabbit, Fujiya & Miyagi, The Futureheads, Good Books, The Gossip, Graham Coxon, Grammatics, Get Well Soon, Grandaddy, Hefner, Hope of the States, Idlewild, iLiKETRAiNS, Interpol, Islands, Joanna Newsom, Joy Division, The Killers, The Kinks, The Kissaway Trail, The Lightning Seeds, Llama Farmers, Longpigs, Lowgold, The Maccabees, Magenta Skycode, Magic Weapon, The Mai Shi, Maps, Maximo Park, Metric, Metronomy, MGMT, Midlake, Minuteman, Miracle Fortress, Mocha Parade, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine, My Latest Novel, My Luminaries, My Morning Jacket, The National, New Order, The New Year, Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montral, Olivia Tremor Control, The Open, Patrick Watson, Pavement, The Pixies, Polyphonic Spree, Pull Tiger Tail, Queens of the Stone Age, Radar Bros, Radiohead, Rodan, Russian Circles, Secret Machines, Sennen, The Shins, Shipping News, Shocking Pinks, Silver Jews, Silver Mt. Zion, Simple Kid, 65 days of Static, Sleeper, Slint, The Smiths, Sons and Daughters, Spinto Band, Spiritualized, The Stone Roses, The Strange Death of Liberal England, The Strokes, Sufjan Stevens, Sunset Rubdown, Sunshine Underground, Super Tennis, Swan Lake, Swell, Tapes 'n Tapes, Third Eye Blind, Tim Fite, Tindersticks, Tokyo Police Club, Tom Vek, Troubles, TV on the Radio, The Twilight Sad, The Wannadies, We are Scientists, The Wedding Present, Wilderness, Wintersleep, Wire, Wolf Parade, Young Galaxy, The Young Knives

Movies:

Trainspotting, Bambi, Garden State, Mississipi Burning, ID, Amelie, True Romance, The Graduate, Deer Hunter, Any Vietnam War film (apart from Rambo) Anything involving Johnny Depp, Oceans 11, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Quiet American, Crash, Donnie Darko, All Quiet on the Western Front, Stand by Me, Pump up the Volume, This is England and some more.

Television:

I like it, but it doesn't like me.

Books:

This week I have mostly been reading A Long Long Way

Heroes:

Me

My Blog

Self Indulgence

I recently rearranged my record collection. No, I wasn't rearranging in alphabetic order, by year of release, by songs beginning with "the" or by length of album. I was merely putting the right CDs in...
Posted by Nick on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:27:00 PST

Travel lo(d)g(e)

As the old adage goes, I love travelling but I hate travelling. After my recent world travels, (ok, I visited three countries and happen to live in one of those) I can confirm never a truer word ...
Posted by Nick on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:26:00 PST

Fantashtique

In life sometimes things just come together in a way that is beyond description. Call it coincidence, fortune, fate, whatever. When I made the momentous decision to grow a tache it went beyond rhyme o...
Posted by Nick on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:37:00 PST

Tache... TASTIC.

The English are famous for many things in the world, some great, and some not so great. We are known for our great Empire, for being leaders in the industrial revolution, at the forefront of developme...
Posted by Nick on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:45:00 PST

Rolling in the Mud

I would hate to be one of those people who is seen to be, how do you say it, "superior" in everything they do. In fact I'd rather like it. Having experienced the majority of the large festivals in the...
Posted by Nick on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:34:00 PST

Six small Vignettes from a weekend.

The title of this is dedicated to Christopher David Jarrett. None of the rest is.   Why?   Because he is boring.   Number One: Making enemies and friends.   I've never been a bi...
Posted by Nick on Mon, 21 May 2007 09:03:00 PST

Doing it like the kids...

At the risk of writing about old news, which is in fact, the whole point of writing this, I was intrigued by a Daily Mail article on Parliamentry Ministers - whisper it quietly - smoking Can...
Posted by Nick on Fri, 04 May 2007 08:58:00 PST

Hope and Despair: The human condition

Being an enlightened individual and self-styled thinker, (I went to university don't you know) I decided to do some "thinking" the other day. It actually went very well. Now there were many things I t...
Posted by Nick on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:47:00 PST

2006. What Nick has learnt and what he has not.

I have finally learnt how to spell definitely and necessary correctly. I still need to hone my use of apostrophe's (I know, I know) and learn not to, excessively, overuse my favourite, the comma. &nbs...
Posted by Nick on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:01:00 PST

I am not Matt Willis

The above statement is a fact. To add to the above fact I do not look like Matt Willis. I do not have his looks, his fame, his boyband success, his alcohol addiction, his money or his musical talent. ...
Posted by Nick on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:21:00 PST