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Nick

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About Me

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My Interests

Bicycles, Books, Politics, Tae Kwon Do, Yoga, Indie music, Hedonism, Cinema, Real ale, Walking, Pointy shoes...and saving the planet!

I'd like to meet:

people who'll post me acorns and paint me rocks.

Music:

The Beach Boys, Orbital, Philip Glass, Brian Eno, The Beatles, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Belle & Sebastian, Fleetwood Mac, Arcade Fire, CSS, Infadels, The Rolling Stones, Radiohead, Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, Buttonhead, My Sad Captains, The Byrds, Pink Floyd, Four Tet, Toots & the Maytals, Black Grape, and Pulp.


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Movies:

Performance, Stardust Memories, The Shining, Dr Strangelove, Les Invasions Barbares, Together, My Summer of Love, Carry on at your Convenience, Festen, Dead Man's Shoes, Yellow Submarine, Head, American Beauty, 2001, Straw Dogs.

Television:

nah Radio Four

Books:

The First Circle, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Cancer Ward, Tao Te Ching, The Death of Ivan Illich, Crime and Punishment, Straw Dogs, The Constitution of Liberty, Birdsong, Catch 22, Atonement, Narziss and Goldmund, Bob Dylan - Chronicles vol 1.

Heroes:

Harriet, Jo Finburgh, Martyn Williams, Tony Juniper, Lonely Joe Parker, Ross Blake

My Blog

Happy slapping for climate justice

It's just like a real march, only you don't have to get up at 6 for the bus to London*, you won't get left holding someone else's banner, and no one will try and sign you up to the Revolutionary Judea...
Posted by Nick on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:49:00 PST

Last night a swedish pop band saved my life

I'm going through open heart surgery at the moment without anaestheticBut last night I went to see Peter, Bjorn and John play at Koko Jen dragged me right down the front and we danced like disco never...
Posted by Nick on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:13:00 PST

Feeling scilly

28 miles, two hours and forty minutes is all it takes to paradise - otherwise known as the Isles of Scilly. A car free archipelago off the tip of Cornwall. It's so beautiful I want go back for second...
Posted by Nick on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:57:00 PST

You're saying the universe doesn't revolve around...

My ex has met someone else. Its not fair.  Why isn't she lighting little candles on a shrine she's made for me in her room, mourning my loss and giving up hope of ever finding love again. Can...
Posted by Nick on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:57:00 PST

Sir Nick

Been a while since I lasted posted. After staring at a computer all day at work, I usually just can't be bothered. But, i've got a day off today so i thought i'd spend it staring at a computer. ?...
Posted by Nick on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:38:00 PST

Sleeping on couches

Or the travails of a travelling tinker... You know you're not at home when you begin to rely on the warmth from the evenings joint. At least that's where I am right now. For the last month i've been w...
Posted by Nick on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:46:00 PST

This bankholiday I want to....

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Posted by Nick on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:01:00 PST

Vanishing beauty

Read a sad thing in the paper yesterday. Loads of the UK's butterflies are now under threat, presumably because we're fucking up the countryside with intensive agriculture, pesticide use, climate chan...
Posted by Nick on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:05:00 PST

English National IQ TEST

Many continental Europeans believe England is a nation of semi-literate morons. Are they right? Now you can take part in the great English IQ test and find out if you're one of them.    ...
Posted by Nick on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:48:00 PST

Sipping champagne with Tories on the terrace

It's not every day you get to sip champagne on the river side terrace of the House of Commons with a senior Tory MP. (Not unless you're a rent boy, arms dealer, Tory MP, or some other dodgy character....
Posted by Nick on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:17:00 PST