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About Me

Looking for myself
Passionate...

Impulsive...

and looking to find myself...

My Interests

Main interests:

Travelling; cinema; acting; modelling; reading; skiing; scuba diving; working out; photography; museum visits; cultural walks (love London Walks see walks.com); art; wining & dining; Computers; The Internet. Ohhh... and Sex... ;) Though not necessarily in that order... :)

Favourite drinks: Blossom Hill (Rose); Caipirinhas; Mojitos

Favourite food: Spanish; Italian; Chinese; Indian (though don't know enough about it); Mexican; Tex-Mex; Thai

I'd like to meet:

The real me
The real me...

Would also like to meet my soul-mate within this lifetime but feel that I can survive without her...

Would like to meet writers, photographers, artists and anyone to fire up my imagination.
More than anything I'd like to meet people who keep regular contact.
Please don't send me a friend request without first dropping me a line.

Music:

Favourite music
Favourite music (currently):

Ibizan Chillout mixes (esp. Cafe Del Mar vol 7 & 'Best Of Cafe Del Mar'); Concha Buika; Flamenco; DeBussy; Vivaldi; Pavarotti and most relaxing classical...

Favourites of the past:

Bowie (Hunky Dory - Scary Monsters inclusive); Queen; Roxy Music; Dire Straits; Pink Floyd; Beatles; AC/DC; Lynyrd Skynyrd; Rolling Stones; The Who; Fleetwood Mac; Mike Oldfield; Enigma; Santana; Jimi Hendrix; Eric Clapton; Oasis; Abba; Jackson 5; Tom Jones; Elvis; Scott Walker; Jacques Brel; Charels Aznavour; Dusty Springfield; The Monkees; Gary Numan; Kraftwerk; ELO; Bruce Springsteen and most stuff played on 'Sad-Git-FM'... err... mean Magic FM... :)

Movies:

favourite movies
Some of my favourite movies (in no particular order):

The Godfather (parts 1 & 2) .

For A Few Dollars More (The quintessential western IMHO)

Dirty Harry - Still as relevant today as it was in 1971

First Blood

Gandhi - very moving

Seven Years In Tibet

Kill Bill (vol 1)

Close Encounters of The 3rd Kind

Zorba The Greek

The Thomas Crown Affair (Pierce Brosnan's brilliant/stylish remake)

Goldfinger - My favourite James Bond film. A classic!

Casino Royale (2006) - Daniel Craig is brilliant. They've breathed new life into the franchise with this one!

Gladiator - modern day epic.

Enter The Dragon

Saturday Night Fever - the film that got people into clubbing!

Last Samurai

Man On Fire (Denzel Washington)

Cry Freedom - Brilliant serious performance by Kevin Kline (usually associated with comedy)

Pulp Fiction

The Silence of The Lambs

Raiders of The Lost Ark (all of them)

Batman Begins

Television:

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Hardly watch TV except news occasionally and/or any interesting documentaries, if I happen to catch 'em on time. I'll occasionally watch 'The Travel Channel' on satellite.

Favourite TV of the past:

Kung Fu - (with David Carradine)

Books:

Some books I
Some books I've found inspirational:
Like The Flowing River (Reflections and Thoughts) (Paulo Coelho)
The Day I Died (Tammy Cohen)
The Da-Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
The Pilgrimage (Paulo Coelho - I think his best...)
Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
Less Than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis)
Shogun (James Clavell)
Junky (William Burroughs)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Mindfulness in Plain English (B.H. Gunaratana)
Los Angeles Without a Map (R. Rayner - hilarious)
Lessons from the Dying (R. Smith - very moving)
On The Road (Jack Kerouac)
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Jules Verne)

Heroes:

Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi, my Mother (and all immigrants who have worked like slaves, adapted and humbled themselves to their new surroundings.)

My Blog

for my soulmate in my next lifetime

She knows who she is... hope you get to see this... ...
Posted by Johnny on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:11:00 PST

Ive been released...

I feel like a prisoner who's just finished a very, very, very long jail sentence and has just been released... I don't really know how to adjust to the 'outside' world...now that I'm free... ...
Posted by Johnny on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:15:00 PST

my last day at work

T'was my last day at work in Lush yesterday. I'm sad. I feel it's the end of an era for me and possibly for my coleagues, some of whom, had actually been there (like myself) since the opening of the s...
Posted by Johnny on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:39:00 PST

Tribute to The King

30 years on... and the legend still lives on... Apparently he wrote the song below... A pity he had so much talent... so little confidence in himself... so much fear of 'The Colonel'... Makes you wond...
Posted by Johnny on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:57:00 PST

Where's Bob Geldof and Bono when we need them?

Where's Bob Geldof , Bono, Sting and any of the other sanctimonious S.O.B.s when we need them? Who answers and helps 'our own' when they need help?... Re - Recent Flood Crisis in UK (see link below)ht...
Posted by Johnny on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:27:00 PST

Work and Life I

Manuel needs to be busy. If he is not, he thinks that his life has no meaning, that he's wasting his time, that society no longer needs him, that no one loves or wants him. ...That night, Manuel has a...
Posted by Johnny on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:04:00 PST

Becky

Becky... What's happened? Why have you dissappeared? Hope you read this blog and get back...
Posted by Johnny on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:20:00 PST

God Save The Queen

"God Save The Queen"God save the queenThe fascist regimeThey made you a moronPotential H-bombGod save the queenShe ain't no human beingThere is no futureIn England's dreamingDon't be told what you wan...
Posted by Johnny on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:36:00 PST

The English and Sunshine

What IS IT with the English and Sunshine??!! I went out yesterday for a meal during the day. Granted it was a lovely winter's day... fresh... somewhat crisp... sunny... I was wearing a polo neck sweat...
Posted by Johnny on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:36:00 PST

Just for the record...

Current affairs and the current social climate in 'my' country... the country where I was born... the country where I currently reside... have spurned me on to put up a few blogs that may cause some o...
Posted by Johnny on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:25:00 PST