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fritz

in the city there's a thousand things i want to say to you

About Me



I love chicken tikka masala, lambrettas, london and the smell of tube amps....ummm.....whatever.

Maybe you should just listen to my band

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My Interests

ac30's
apple tango
bbc podcasts
camden town
cask ale
charlton atheltic f.c.
cheese and onion pies
gibson guitars
hiwatt amplifiers
lambrettas
portobello market
quebec nordiques
recording
vic reeves
rickenbackers
sarcasm
ultimate frisbee.

I'd like to meet:


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Music:

lily allen
arctic monkeys
atari teenage riot
babyshambles
the beach boys
big star
bionic
the blue van
bloq party
brand new
burning airlines
china drum
gene clark
controller.controller
the creation
the cribs
damone
the dead 60s
the delays
desmond decker
dirty pretty things
doughboys
dweeb
editors
feeder
fugazi
the futureheads
marvin gaye
hard fi
hey mercedes
hot hot heat
milt jackson
the jam
jawbox
junior achiever
kasabian
the killjoys
kinks (64-69)
the kooks
let go
the libertines
the life and times
lov'in spoonful
mando diao
bob marley
mega city four
metric
mobile
wes montgomery
harry nilsson
the ordinary boys
ramona
richard j. parfitt
pwei
the rifles
rooney
john sebastian
shellac
60ft dolls
small faces
elliot smith
jimmy smith
sometimes why
the souls
the specials
the stereo
the streets
the subways
super furry animals
teenage fanclub
the vibrants
wact
the wannadies
paul weller
the who (64-67)
the wonder stuff
the zombies
and of course...
john, paul, george and barry. 

Movies:

alice's restaurant
amelie
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
get carter (with michael caine!)
italian job (see previous!)
richard lester
jacob's ladder
the kids are alright
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
quadrophenia
spinal tap

anything with Kate Winslet or Anna Friel

Television:

alan partridge
the amazing race
gerry anderson
cash in the attic
doctor who
extras kids in the hall
lost
monty python
the office
seinfeld
the simpsons

Books:

beatles gear - andy babiuk
the jam: a beat concerto - paolo hewitt
the musician's guide to pro tools - john keane
mod a very british phenomenon: clean living under difficult circumstances - terry rawlings
the kinks: the offical biography - jon savage

Heroes:

roberto begnini
wallace and gromit

My Blog

Fritz's Top Ten Cheese List

Fritz's Top Ten Cheese List (in no particular order) 1. Wensleydale with cranberries 2. Brie 3. Old Cheddar (must be white) 4. Camembert 5. Edam 6. Red Leicester 7. Blue (french and stink...
Posted by fritz on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:13:00 PST

"Is music good again?" OR "My Current CD Rotation"

Paul Weller - As Is Now Weller's best effort since Stanley Road. Great sounding record, Weller's guitar is amazing. A couple of sleepers (I find much of Weller's solo catalogue hit and miss initially...
Posted by fritz on Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:23:00 PST

Cheese

I had a dream last night that I was riding a bicycle made of cheese. I kept eating bits of it. The brie wheels, cheddar handlebars, the "Baby Bell" bell. My mother kept telling me, "If you eat all y...
Posted by fritz on Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:37:00 PST

My heart hurts...

My last visit to England was exactly one year ago. I'm feeling reflective and sentimental today. Here I am ten years later still longing to be back there. British television programs just trigger my...
Posted by fritz on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:10:00 PST

HOLY SHIT!

So last week was Canadian Music Week and I took a chance and went to see a band from Denmark called "The Blue Van". A listing compared them to Small Faces and The Who...so ofcourse I was there! The...
Posted by fritz on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

FRIENDS....

Sometimes memories are best left as the bias fantasies that we turn them into. Reality can suck. "I thought we were best friends. Apparently I was wrong and I don't think you give a fuck."
Posted by fritz on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

IN FOR THE HUG

Ok so I feel like a huge dork. There's an actress I've work with loads of times and we seem to get on well. The last time I saw her was at a Christmas wrap party. She approached me twice and ini...
Posted by fritz on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A NEW STICK

so i play hockey every wednesday night with guys from work. all my equipment is fifteen years old. most of it smells like ass and is stained a weird yellow colour. i went to canadian tire (where ...
Posted by fritz on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

FIRE AND SKILL

harp flourish, reflections, therapy i think it was my aunt that gave me my first guitar. It was a cheap nylon string one that you buy from a catalogue. it had a big horse's head painted on it. It mu...
Posted by fritz on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST