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Who Gives A Mellish?

...when he drinks, his face gets redder and he starts talking loudly. It was like being sat next to

About Me

"Really powerful, foremost, imposing, immensely capable, unshakeable, heroic, brave, forever majestic, wonderful, the most active, always improving, the most handsome, very interesting, enthusiastic, resourceful, magnificent, peaceful, with unlimited strength, truly reliable, beneficent, incredible, praiseworthy, considerably quick, proud, of great strength, too sharp, calm, impressive Mellish."

My Interests

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and pro wrestling - especially Ring of Honor, TNA (WHY do I do this to myself every fucking week?????), Pro Wrestling NOAH, Dragon Gate, classic New Japan, old Michinoku Pro, the sadly-missed FMW & 1990s All Japan, all kinds of Joshi and some quality indie stuff like Pro Wrestling Guerilla and Chikara Pro, 1970s Japanese pro wrestling. And of course, LUCHA LIBRE - the greatest form of combat/entertainment known to man! NFL/CFL/college football (thats right football, none of that silly soccer). Reading, music and travel. Museums and galleries. Hanging out with my goofy friends. Writing for www.kakutougi.info and Fighters Only magazine.

I'd like to meet:

Meh.

Music:

Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Metallica, Faith No More, Dick Justice, Black Keys, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Blind Boy Fuller, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Johnny Cash, Manic Street Preachers, Foo Fighters, Mad Capsule Markets, White Stripes, Depeche Mode, Pantera, Leadbelly, Sepultura, Mad Capsule Markets, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cathedral, Mississippi John Hurt, White Stripes, Breeders, Hole, Clem Snide, Sick of it All, Masters of Reality, the Eels, Paradise Lost, Tom Petty, REM, Primus, Son House, Rollins Band, Carcass, Nailbomb, Killers, Iron Maiden, Blind Willie McTell.

Movies:

A few random titles that spring to mind: Lord of the Rings trilogy, Best In Show, Pulp Fiction, Drunken Master, Pom Poko, Grizzly Man, Bully, Chasing Amy, Lost in Translation, Das Experiment, Bad Boy Bubby, Grave of the Fireflies, Die Hard, Oldboy, Hard Boiled, Bob Roberts, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Project A, Borat, Die Hard Trilogy, Jackass 1 & 2, Shawshank Redemption, Children of Men, Murderball, Hostel, Taxi Driver, Pan's Labyrinth, Batman Begins, Rocky, Bubba Ho-Tep, Spirited Away, Sin City, Goodbye Lenin, Bad Santa, Zoolander, City of God, Donnie Darko, Finding Nemo, the Descent, Dunston Checks In, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, A Mighty Wind, Nightmare Before Christmas, March of the Penguins, A Better Tomorrow, One Day in September, Perfect Blue, Shawshank Redemption, Chopper, the Village, Gladiator, Gorky Park, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Akira, Stand By Me, Roujin Z, Paperhouse, Unbreakable, Sonatine, Night Watch, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Rashomon, A History of Violence.

Television:

Seinfeld, Heroes, the Ultimate Fighter, Trailer Park Boys, the Shield, Entourage, Family Guy, Futurama, King of Queens, CSI: Miami, the Office (UK & US), Jericho, The Fast Show, Rising Damp, Dexter, Corner Gas, Life on Mars, Jeeves & Wooster, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, 15 Storeys High, Peep Show, Yes Minister/Prime Minister, Derren Brown, Extras, the West Wing, Shameless, South Park, My Name is Earl, Scrubs, Dexter, Frasier, Blackadder, American Dad, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Simpsons, Channel 4 News, Six Feet Under, I'm Alan Partridge. Documentaries on religion, nature, animals, history, politics and war.

Books:

George MacDonald Fraser, Misha Glenny, Edgar Allan Poe, Andrey Kurkov, Chuck Palahniuk, William Boyd, Herge, Dave Gorman, Mikhail Bulgakov, Jane Goodall, Norman Finkelstein, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Ellroy, George Plimpton, John Simpson, Terry Pratchett, Iain Banks, Jared Diamond, Gordon Corrigan, Eric Hobsbawm, Ian Buruma, Josef Skvorecky, Marlene Van Niekerk, JM Coetzee, Goscinny et Uderzo, Timothy Garton Ash, Franz Kafka, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Stephen Fry, Gunter Grass, Michael Marshall (Smith), HG Wells, Johnathan Swift, Voltaire, Jules Verne, Joe Klein, Christopher Buckley, Carl Hiassen, George Orwell, Slavenka Drakulic, John Pilger, Ryu Murakami.

Heroes:

Wouldn't say I have heroes (despite the captioning in some of my pics) but there are people I admire.People like Walter Autrey, Danny Hodge (read the blog), Booker T. Washington, Dr Wagner Jr, Voltaire, One Eyed Frank McGee, Walter Payton, Jim Cornette, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Norman Finkelstein, John Wilkes, Bill Hicks, Jane Goodall, Muhammad Ali, George Plimpton, Kazushi Sakuraba, Paul Robeson, Frederick the Great, Larry Holmes, Herge, Lou Thesz, Joe Sacco, Randy Couture, Niccolo Machiavelli, Lightnin' Hopkins, Minoru Suzuki and Stephen Fry. Some fictional characters are worth a mention too. Most notably Fielding Mellish, Dr Tobias Funke, Bertie Wooster, Rupert Rigsby, Roger the Alien, Shane Vendrell, Sir Humphrey Appleby, Horatio Caine, Captain Haddock and George Costanza, Paddington Bear.

My Blog

Jerry Seinfeld and the nature of fame

There's something thats always bothered me about famous people.  No, its not their perfect teeth (I have my own, damn your collective eyes) or their stupendous wealth or their uncanny ability to ...
Posted by Who Gives A Mellish? on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:08:00 PST

The hierarchy of pornography/prostitution and NO BREAD

OK, its now September 30th and I did it.  NO BREAD for an entire month.  No pizza - despite Nixon's chicken pizza temptation, despite Leek Rotary Club's bread roll shenanigans, despite my ur...
Posted by Who Gives A Mellish? on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:45:00 PST

Self-discipline and The Boy becomes a MAN

Those who know me best will be perfectly well aware of just how lacking I am in self-discipline.  Whether its the state of my ramshasckle, untidy home, my often atrocious diet, my constant p...
Posted by Who Gives A Mellish? on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:46:00 PST

Baron Von Borscht and three awesome things

Those who have looked at my 'About Me' section will see i'm the self-proclaimed KING of CHILLI (also see my blog of May 23rd featuring My Big Red Dirty Chilli), not to mention my currently undeclared ...
Posted by Who Gives A Mellish? on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:50:00 PST

Bullshit, Lies, the Jews and CSI

Despite my intellectual skills and leanings, lets face it, I'm a bit of a meat-and-potatoes simpleton.  I do indeed have two degrees, two degrees, though one of them is in a subject so specialise...
Posted by Who Gives A Mellish? on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:51:00 PST

Tintin and Retrospective Moral Judgments

Something annoyed me this week.  Well, actually, plenty of things annoyed me this week (from personal mishaps, to the FUCKING COURT SUMMONS I got this morning, to internet trolls and the laughabl...
Posted by Who Gives A Mellish? on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:02:00 PST

500 children, my new kitty!!!!, Brock Lesnar and Hostel 2

Let's get this out of the way immediately.  I don't actually HATE children.  I just find them that worst of all possible combinations - boring and difficult.  Like dancing.  Or com...
Posted by Who Gives A Mellish? on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:57:00 PST

28 Weeks Later (WARNING: major spoilers so don't fucking complain as you were warned)

Just back from a rare trip to the cinema to watch '28 Weeks Later'.  After being informed that the cinema experience is great and piracy is bad, m'kay, the trailers began to roll.  Now,...
Posted by Who Gives A Mellish? on Thu, 31 May 2007 03:52:00 PST

So glad Im not epileptic &&&&.. in 1954

Working in a museum has its advantages.  For starters, it tends to be fairly pleasant most of the time, the people are generally nice and the working environment is at least more interesting than...
Posted by Who Gives A Mellish? on Sat, 26 May 2007 11:27:00 PST

My Big Red Dirty Chilli AND an awesome joke!

Been far too busy disgracing myself in a million different ways for bloggerisationism but here's a couple of things for your edu-tainment. My Big Red Dirty Chilli You people may or may not know that I...
Posted by Who Gives A Mellish? on Wed, 23 May 2007 01:47:00 PST