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Niall Iain

It's Better To Burn Out Than Fade Away

About Me

I've got a big overdraft (terrible at saving money), I'm always late (terrible for doing just 'one more thing before I go'), I always get taken for a sucker (terrible judge of people), I think that I'm going to live forever (terrible optimist)...
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My Interests

Breathing, live music, Squirrels, other people's stories, badly stuffed animals (The Drover's Inn, Loch Lomond is a shrine to this!!), the Western Isles, the word 'blancmange' (criminally under-used!), my bed, my duvet, my pillows, my foot spa, brussel sprouts, the moon and stars, the sea, inside my head.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who can get me to South Georgia

Music:

Oasis, Biffy Clyro, Our Small Capital, Calamateur, Crash My Model Car, Sufjan Stevens, King Creosote, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Elbow, Dogs, Neko Case, Your Scarecrow, The Cinematics,Dun Ringle, The Fratellis, My Latest Novel, Calla, Arab Strap, Young Heart Attack, Mill A h-Uile Rud, The National, Lee Patterson, Amandine, Doves, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Clash, Marvin Gaye, Duke Special, PJ Harvey, The New Pornographers, Joanna Newsom, AC/DC, The Verve, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Your Distant Cousin, Prince Edward Island, The Charlatans,Sam Cooke,The Vatersay Boys, Beastie Boys, The Proclaimers, The Beach Boys, The Gael Force, Union Of Knives, Mindy Smith, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, Johnny Cash, Alecto, The Hazey Janes, Jo Mango, Roddy Woomble, King Creosote, Howling Bells,Manor Park Elite (the music, not the name!)

Movies:

Jaws, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, return Of The Jedi, Restless Natives, Local Hero, Whisky Galore, Ice Cold In Alex, Ten Canoes, Once, Jindabyne

Television:

The Mighty Boosh, Still Game, Popworld, Weir's Way(!), PC Alasdair Stiubhart, Newsnight, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fawlty Towers.

Books:

Haynes manual (Talbot Sunbeam '82), Harpoon At A Venture (Gavin Maxwell), John Peel - Margrave Of The Marshes, Spagan, Pryor Convictions (Richard Pryor), Islands In The Clouds (Isabella Tree), The Miracle Of Mindfulness (Thich Nhat Hanh), Touching The Void (Joe Simpson), A School In South Uist (F.G. Rea), Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer), The Fatal Shore (Robert Hughes), The Rocks Remain (Gavin Maxwell), A Child Called It (David Pelzer), Three Dark Days (Kenneth Macdonald), anything by Bill Bryson.

My Blog

Rapal TV............more of an info blog!!!

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND will be performing on RAPAL TV tonight (24th Jan) and are amazing...make sure that you watch: stylophones, ironing boards, dapper waistcoats, fine tunes and Gaelic facial graffiti...
Posted by Niall Iain on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:51:00 PST

lunacy or living?

Perhaps I have had too much time on my hands lately....perhaps I need to increase the dose of my medication......or perhaps I just fancy doing something a bit different BUT I am seriously considering ...
Posted by Niall Iain on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:37:00 PST

You could do this, you don’t have to...but you should

I went to see a film called 'Once' yesterday and it was amazing. The soundtrack is one of the best I have ever heard. Go and see this film, listen to the songs and believe in life again!
Posted by Niall Iain on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:46:00 PST

What’s worse.....?

...going away or being left behind?
Posted by Niall Iain on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:40:00 PST

Things you really dont expect to hear in bed...! (no. 23)

"My God, it's Willie Thorne!!"
Posted by Niall Iain on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:31:00 PST

History

Everybody has a past. Don't hold it against them...celebrate it.
Posted by Niall Iain on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:14:00 PST

I think that I am lost!

Does anybody know how to get to South Georgia.....?
Posted by Niall Iain on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:47:00 PST

Belladrum! I was there......I think !?!?!?!?

Belladrum Festival at the weekend...'flickin amazing' as they might say in these parts. I stayed in the coolest tent on the campsite. I met Darth Vader and Wonder Woman. I also saw a very tall Robin, ...
Posted by Niall Iain on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:53:00 PST

Ear therapy

If you have some spare time and want to listen to some great tunes from some nice people then check out these myspace sites: myspace.com/strikethecolours myspace.com/angusandjuliastone I was lucky eno...
Posted by Niall Iain on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:50:00 PST

Matrimonial Tourettes

I asked a beautiful woman to marry me at the weekend. She said no. Everybody heard.
Posted by Niall Iain on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:59:00 PST