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Duke El Ington

Play with the cards you're dealt, and play well.

About Me

A Gentleman, a bounder, a cad and a rogue. I'm a South London boy with a country dispostion.I'm also a recent graduate of the Oliver Reed School of life.

My Interests

Music.........can't get enough. Love film, theatre, reading, eating out and of course the occasional libation.I have recently taken up fencing, and some say I have a natural flair for the blade. In some circles I am now addressed as Lord of the Sword.I'm also interested in the influence of cockney music in the thrash metal techno bangra scene.....

I'd like to meet:

People mainly........although if there are any animals who are computer literate, can think conceptually, and can read & write then feel free to contact me.

Music:

That is a difficult question.Alternative, Blues, Classical, Country, Dance, Easy Listening, Electronica, Folk, Funk, Hip Hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, Soul and World.Artists that stand out from the crowd - Radiohead, Longpigs, Jeff Buckley, Chet Baker, Nick Drake, Sigur Ros, Cinematic Orchestra, Nitin Sawhney, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Pearl Jam, Cream, John Martyn, Bonobo, Aphex Twin, Ben & Jason, Alice In Chains, Deadly Avenger, Soundgarden, Elliott Smith, Feist, Ella Fitzgerald, Kings Of Convenience, Otis Redding, Seth Lakeman, Josh Rouse, Jose Gonzalez, Pink Floyd, Martin Grech, Joseph Arthur, Lamb, Ben Harper, Joanna Newsom, Mogwai, Kings Of Leon, Stina Nordenstam, Paul Anka, Queens Of The Stone Age, Turnin Breaks, Emillian Torrini, Frou Frou, Elbow.......I could go on.

Movies:

A hard question again. A selection would be City of God, Memento, The Fisher King, Old Boy, LOTR, anything Epic and anything by the Cohen Brothers.

Television:

The opiate of the masses

Books:

This one's tricky as well, especially without looking like a fantasy/sci-fi geek. Erm.....for starters A Booke Of Days by Stephen J Rivell, or any of David Gemmells books. (RIP dude)

Heroes:

My Family & My Friends. Those who have made a mark on me, and or course the late great Oliver Reed

My Blog

My Dilemma

I'm lying in bed slightly hung over, and the sun is peeping in from behind the curtains intent on making me suffer for the night before. My girlfriend leans over to me and says; "I've done something ...
Posted by Duke El Ington on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:42:00 PST

The Fragility of Oldness

So over my Nan had a fall over Christmas. She's 86 and still going strong. She took a tumble whilst going to get the morning paper and cut her leg so badly she needed to have a skin graft. She wa...
Posted by Duke El Ington on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:29:00 PST

Missing Limb

Good Grief! Since when did a piece of technology become such an integral part of my life?   I'm sure that we coped before, back in the days before digital gadgets, and techno whatsits, but now th...
Posted by Duke El Ington on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:30:00 PST

Bottom of the Ocean Ball

Dear one and all.   It is indeed that time again, and as the winter festivities begin to arrange themselves into your diaries I only ask that you give thought to how you intend to see o...
Posted by Duke El Ington on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:04:00 PST

Damacles

Walking a bit of a tightrope at the moment. An old, unwelcome adversary may return, and I hope against hope this old foe doesn't darken my door again....................but you never know. &...
Posted by Duke El Ington on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:03:00 PST

The Nature of Blog

Blogging. Creative form of expression or Self indulgent bollocks ? Peas & Loaf El x
Posted by Duke El Ington on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:45:00 PST

Old Blue Eyes

Out of the blue this afternoon I was told by the lovely lady at the sandwich shop that she thinks I'm like a modern day Frank Sinatra.   I don't know why she came to that conclusion, or...
Posted by Duke El Ington on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:54:00 PST

Life is like a bar of chocolate.

In the words of Willy Wonka "We have so much time, and so little to do.......strike that, reverse it." I currently have so many ideas and directions bubbling around inside my fat head, but I...
Posted by Duke El Ington on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:39:00 PST

How to be remembered

In my time I have had to give a great deal of thought to my own death. Without going into too much detail, things got a bit touch and go for a while and the eventuality of pushing up th...
Posted by Duke El Ington on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:58:00 PST

5 Years On

A poem that is as strong today, as the day it was written. self evident yes, us people are just poems we're 90% metaphor with a leanness of meaning approaching hyper-distillation and once upon a t...
Posted by Duke El Ington on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:35:00 PST