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About Me

I'm Alasdair. I also answer to Ally and Ali. The reason for the distinction is because I spend too much time on the internet and too much effort scratching my name into desks and benches. My top myspace friends are in no particular order and neither are any of my priorities.

My Interests

Music. Tv. Books. DVD Boxsets. Gigs. Computergames. Words. Comicbooks. Languages. Drums. Beer. Writing stuff. Dancing. Vodka. Science. Cuddles. Pizza. Japan. The Crow Bar. Eyes.

Music:

I'm currently trying to extract an artists list from iTunes to put here. It will be long. I like the Crow Bar, ABC, The Cathouse, Paisley Union, QM Union, Revolution, Cheesey Pop, hopefully Bedlam, the other unions, Bento Bar, The Garage, Underworld, Bunker, Firewater, all the other pubs I've been drunk in and have forgotten. I will go to Fury's when no other option presents itself. I want to go to the Arches. I may also one day be up for going to a rave.

Movies:

I'm not as in to films as my pretension would suggest.

Television:

Alias, Lost, Life on Mars, Firefly, Band of Brothers, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Star Trek, Family Guy, Futurama, The Simpsons, Blackadder, The O.C., Scrubs, The Adventures of Tin Tin, X-Men, Spider-Man (90's), Super Ted, Still Game, Farscape, M*A*S*H, Frasier, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Diggnation, QI, Have I got News for You, Nevermind the Buzzcocks, the news, Spaced, Red Dwarf, Who's Line Is it Anyway, The New Adventures of Superman, Quantum Leap, Monkey, Neighbours, Robot Wars, Monty Python's Flying Circus, StoryFix, Peep Show.

Books:

I'll fill this out in a wee while once I've got my back catalogue looking slightly more impressive.

Heroes:

Clark Kent, for reasons of empathy. The Doctor, for saving my life every bloody time.

My Blog

"Wish me luck."

A number of years ago, when his comicbook, The Invisibles was threatened with cancelation, Grant Morrison, in an attempt to save it, printed inside one issue, a sigil (a symbol deisgned with magi...
Posted by Alasdair on Sun, 20 May 2007 02:55:00 PST

Overemblazification.

I need to stop emblazoning my writings with the term "emblazoned".
Posted by Alasdair on Sat, 05 May 2007 06:10:00 PST

one hundred and eighteen

I was walking down Buchanan Street one day last year, pondering my next purchase, perhaps a stroll into forbidden planet. In the distance, music played.It got louder, and louder. It was powerful, and ...
Posted by Alasdair on Thu, 03 May 2007 08:55:00 PST

Reason for leaving home and finding a flat #6.

My friend's blood splattered across him, me and the concrete beneath our feet.
Posted by Alasdair on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:53:00 PST

Gliese 581c

Astronomers have found a planet slightly bigger than the earth orbiting a red dwarf star, which may be capable of harbouring life.It has temperatures of between 0 and 40° C, it might be completely or ...
Posted by Alasdair on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:30:00 PST

absurdity

Today, I minorly rediscovered Daft Punk, Yellowcard, Glasgow's West end, Fox's biscuits, series 7 of Friends, walking to Glasgow Central, AfterShock, how friendly/jovial neds can be, how friendly/trus...
Posted by Alasdair on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:38:00 PST

Alias.

I watched the final ever episode of my favourite TV show today, Alias. I've been watching it for around six years, five series, and over one hundred episodes. I know the characters' histories, famili...
Posted by Alasdair on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:40:00 PST

Science vs Faith.

Posted by Alasdair on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:11:00 PST

Aloysius Lilius is a knob jockey.

There are only twenty eight days in February?! What kind of idiot came up with this bastardingly daft Gregorian calendar anyway? I need to get some work done! March marches forth!...
Posted by Alasdair on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:56:00 PST

You Are Here.

All my best writing is either set to private, friends only, preferred list, is on another website, or is on paper. Or is in my head. Somewhere.
Posted by Alasdair on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:15:00 PST