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Reuben

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

About Me

MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator Who me? I'm 33. living in the sunny (haha!) city of Manchester UK. I'm currently a studying (skiving) full time student! When I'm not working (yeah right!) I occassionally DJ at various bars and venues around the city. I love going to see live gigs as much as poss as well as hanging out with my friends in various speakeasys around the city. Roll on the spring/summer, where's my passport! grrr! I love to ride my vespa T5! ..

My Interests

Summer, travelling, music festivals, camping, decent food, pubbing, clubbing, gigging, the UK and International scooter scene. still riding scooters (and kicking them ocassionally), DJing and general stuff!

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who's got anything original, interesting or witty to say!
MyGen Profile Generator.. width="425" height="350" ..Keith Moon (RIP),
Jimi Hendrix (RIP),
George Clinton,
Bill Hicks, (RIP)
The Beastie Boys,
Tony Blair (so I can give him a dry slap for being such a turncoat! Looooooser!
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman (so we could gab about about travelling on two wheels)
Hunter S Thompson for being a general nutter!
Oh and Paddy Smith, the bloke who used to screen print the patches for the national scooter rallies years ago (how incredibly random)

Music:

The Beastie Boys, Mixmaster Mike, Qbert, Aphex Twin, DJ Shadow, Squarepusher, old school hip-hop. George Clinton: P-funk, Funkadelic, Parliament, Ohio Players, Booker T, Sly and the Family Stone etc. Old school rock: Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Small Faces, Jimi, The Stone Roses, Joy Division, Happy Mondays etc. Ska: the Specials anything two tone, punk: the pistols, The Clash, Snuff, Pennywise, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, the Business, Roots Manuva, Massive Attack, Wolfmother, bits of Northern Soul, the bay city rollers and Bros :-& God there's way too many more!

Specials
Screamadelica
Snivilisation
Innervisions
Psyence Fiction

Golden Greats
Stand!
The Payback
Definitely Maybe
The Clash

Flibbiddydibbiddydob
Never Mind The Bollocks
Los Grandes Exitos en Espanol
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Music for the Jilted Generation

Hard Normal Daddy
Disraeli Gears
Liquid Swords
The Stone Roses
Bummed

U.F.Orb
The Doors
Band of Gypsys
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Blue
Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow
Maxinquaye
Blue Lines

Check Your Head
Straight Outta Compton
Endtroducing...
Led Zeppelin 1
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Movies:

Akira, the eternal beauty of a spotless mind, Lost in translation, Blade Runner, Alien, Baraka, Full Metal Jacket, Life of Brian, anything directed by Terry Gilliam, Ridley Scott or Martin Scorsese. Napoleon Dynamite, Quadrophenia, Clerks, mallrats, Donnie Darko. Thrillers are all good, although Hollywood seemsto be a bit ball-less these days. What happened to originality? scarey movie 3? pah!
Reservoir Dogs
Brazil - Criterion Collection
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Trainspotting
Gummo
Evil Dead II (Special Edition)
Bad Taste
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Easy Rider
Donnie Darko
Lost in Translation
Quadrophenia (Special Edition)
GoodFellas
Taxi Driver
Time Bandits - Criterion Collection
The Godfather
Alien
Beat Street
Clerks (Collector's Edition)
Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut)
Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope (1977 & 2004 Versions, 2-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Baraka (Special Collector's Edition)
La Haine - Special Edition [Non-US Format, PAL, Region 2, Import]
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Television:

(When I get a chance!) - Lost, Old movies (TCM etc), My name is Earl, Spaced, Discovery, the Sopranos, Chorlton and the Wheelies, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin, Starsky and Hutch.

Books:

Anything by Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, the Acid House, Filth etc Martin Miller - Milk sulphate and Alby Starvation, The Good Fairies of New York, Ernesto "Che" Guervara - The Motorcyle Diaries, the Bolivian diaries. Hunter S Thomson - Fear and loathing, The Rum Diaries. William Burroughs - Junkie.

Heroes:

Bill Hicks (he who speaks the truth RIP), Jimi Hendrix (RIP), Tony Benn MP, Keith Moon (RIP). Hunter S Thomson, Che, Jimmy Page, John Bonham. Why are all my heroes dead or on their last legs? maybe I ought to speak to a therapist! Oh and Banksy, coz he's a dude!

My Blog

Viz top tips!

All you need in life! Climb onto your neighbour's roof and dangle a fish on a bit of string in front of his windows. He'll think his house is underwater. Girls. Too old to go on an 18 to 30 holida...
Posted by Reuben on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:24:00 PST

Buy stuff, you'll feel better about yourself!

What's the deal with the whole "buy stuff, you'll feel better about yourself" philosophy?  People getting themselves into stupid amounts of debt and for what?  handbags, sportswear, jeweller...
Posted by Reuben on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:52:00 PST

This week I will mainly.....

.....be moaning at how thoughtless people can be.  Chorlton Green - a great example of a beautiful green area in the middle of a city......ruined by a bunch of idiots who havn't been taught by th...
Posted by Reuben on Mon, 08 May 2006 10:10:00 PST