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Forever Doesn't Last

My sweet little angel, you should have run.

About Me

We are the music-makers
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities.
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion art empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth.
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

"ODE" by Arthur O’Shaughnessy [1844-1881]

I'm just about to enter third year of a business degree in Glasgow Caledonian Uni and at the moment I'm also a part time off license manager and a menace to civilised society, lamp posts and doors whenever I can manage it. Other than all that I'm a regular kind of guy who enjoys reading, going to the movies hanging with my mates and just generally trying to experience as much of what this planet as to offer as I can.


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My Interests

I'm into pretty much anything that seems like a good idea at the time. Of course, it would be nice if some of them seemed like a good idea afterwards too but hey you can't have it all can you?

Basically up for pretty much anything that can amuse me! p
I love going to the cinema- monster films in particular. I always find it more fun if you cheer on the bad guys because lets face it, most of the people who die in these films are that stupid that its kinda of hard to feel upset when they inevitably buy it.

I'm a voracious reader- you should seem the piles of books Ive got scattered about the place. Some of my favourite authors are: David Gemmel, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Robert Jordan, Robin Hobb, Anne Rice, James Paterson, Raymond E. Feist, Arthur C. Clarke etc. etc. etc.

I will try pretty much anything- life is far too short and far too dull otherwise.

I'd like to meet:

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters and my enemies for their good intellects." Oscar Wilde.

Music:

My music taste is a bit varied but I generally like a bit of rock. Some bands from the playlist im listening to just now: Queens of The Stoneage; Drowning Pool; Cave In; Kittie; HED (P.E); Boy Hits Car; Seven Dust; Rage Against The Machine; Raging Speedhorn; Otep; Marilyn Manson, Primal Scream; Adema; Rob Zombie; Cold; American Head Charge; Soulfly; In Me; Atreyu; the Cult etc.

Movies:

Predator, Natural Born Killers, The Prophecy, Event Horizon, the Devils Back Bone, Kill Bill (vol. 1), Anchor Man, Star Wars, LOTR (if you claim to be a fan though, read the freakin books dammit), Pitch Black, Shadow of the Vampire, the Blade trilogy, The Evil Dead Trilogy, Night Watch, the Devils Backbone, Shaun of the Dead, T2, Old School

Television:

House, family guy, american dad, robot chicken.

Books:

The Adventures of Barry Ween: Boy Genius by Judd Winnick, The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, the Rigante series by David Gemmel and the Assassins Trilogy by Robin Hobb. Join me by Danny Wallace. I have pretty much every book by Terry Pratchett as well.
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My Blog

All apologies

It becomes obvious this morning why the harsh light of day is so called. I've had perhaps two, maybe three hours sleep and in the balance of all probability I am still quite drunk. Have you ever had r...
Posted by Forever Doesn't Last on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:01:00 PST

An End

I am a creation of my own desire, My own mother and my own father. But why must I walk into another fire, Why let another of my children burn? So spin the wheel but take my turn, Im spent, Im finished...
Posted by Forever Doesn't Last on Mon, 08 May 2006 05:24:00 PST

Just Save Yourselves

The advancement of civilisation is accompanied in equal measure by the decline of civilised society. We are a society of strangers bound in chains of fiction and electronically anaesthetised by our ow...
Posted by Forever Doesn't Last on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 05:33:00 PST

Mister Sanity- like a dolphin in the dark!

Y'know I was just watching a T.V programme and it was all fine and good until a character said "the hardest thing to do in this world is live in it" Kudos if you know what I was watching but anyways- ...
Posted by Forever Doesn't Last on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:20:00 PST

SELF DESTRUCT

Man if I had a self destruct button right now I'd have pressed it. Shame people don't come with those and is it me or is there something cruelly ironic (yet darkly funny) about asking a depressive to ...
Posted by Forever Doesn't Last on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:01:00 PST

Bizzarre

Just had the most bizzare dream! I've got workmen over in the house at the moment and ive been pretty sleep deprived the last few days. Didnt wanna go to bed though so I just kinda dozed off on the co...
Posted by Forever Doesn't Last on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:35:00 PST

The Light of Other Days

I've just finished (re) reading a novel by Arthur C. Clarke called the Light of Other Days. Essentially it involves the invention of a device which allows anyone to see anything at anytime. Interestin...
Posted by Forever Doesn't Last on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:07:00 PST

Valentines day death by boredom

Man that was a really shitty Valentines Day- it turns out that I'm the only singleton in my work place and I got guilt tripped into working the full day by myself- eleven hours!!! Aside from that the ...
Posted by Forever Doesn't Last on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:16:00 PST

Incoherent ranting.

Well I was just about to head over to largs to visit some relatives. Unfortunately public transportation has wharted me once again. Anyone who has to travel through Shawlands at the moment probably kn...
Posted by Forever Doesn't Last on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:31:00 PST

Welcome to my madness.

You know, its strange really but I've never really written a blog before. In all honesty the reason I am attempting to do so just now is because I've got a slight insomnia thing going on at the moment...
Posted by Forever Doesn't Last on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:08:00 PST