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About Me

You Belong in Amsterdam
A little old fashioned, a little modern - you're the best of both worlds. And so is Amsterdam.
Whether you want to be a squatter graffiti artist or a great novelist, Amsterdam has all that you want in Europe (in one small city). What European City Do You Belong In?

My Interests

music, movies, rugby, running, nightclubs, travel, airlines, hanging out with friends, spending time with family. i live above a bear bar and next to a building site.

Favourite places, Berlin, London, New York, Venice, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Brussels, Rome

Music:

Serge gainsbourg, Rufus Wainwright, NIN, Goldfrapp, Grace Jones, Nancy Sinatra, Pulp, Jayne County, Diana Ross, Saint Etienne, Moz, Ladytron, Sadie and the Scrubbers, Prince, Marc Almond, Antony and the Johnsons, Michel Polnareff, Burt Bacharach, Suede, Expose, Sonic Youth, John Barry, Chris Isaak, Joan Jett, Pizzicato Five, Blondie, Glamour To Kill, Peaches, Scott Walker, Pet Shop Boys, Marilyn Manson, Klaus Nomi, Gretschen Hofner, Lee Hazelwood, Nina Simone, Siouxsie, The Rolling Stones, Nico, Brigitte Bardot, Chemical Brothers, Cyndi Lauper, Jackie DeShannon, Madonna, Tiga, Francois Hardy, LCD Soundsystem, Cher, David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Elvis

Movies:

Quentin Tarintino, Paul Morrissey, Russ Meyer, Tim Burton, Pedro Almodovar, Bruce Labruce, David Lynch, Hitchcock, John Waters, dievx dv stade, bollywood, super heroes, Elizabeth Taylor, Dirk Bogarde, Johnny Depp, Diana Dors, Bette Davis, Ingrid Pitt, Sal Mineo, Jayne Mansfield, Steve McQueen, Tab Hunter, John Fraser, Sophia Loren, James Bond

Television:

Wonder Woman, Bewitched, Eastenders, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Six Feet Under, Miss World

Books:

Douglas Coupland, Brett Easton Ellis, Hanif Kureishi, Time Out travel guides, Shakespeare, Joe Orton, Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, Lucy O'Brien, Stewart Home, Herman Hesse

My Blog

Thats How People Grow Up

It wasn't quite the 'Everyday is Like Sunday' video with an endless line of people buying the new Moz single, but there was one other guy from my gym buying the CD single as I did. I also got it...
Posted by davey on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:04:00 PST

Morrissey In London

Can't believe am missing all the London Morrissey shows at the Camden Roundhouse this week, England's finest and at such a historic venue. The Stones, The Doors, Bolan. If only the dressin...
Posted by davey on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:35:00 PST

Fopp closure

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6252300.stm Is sad that record/cd store Fopp has closed. The Manchester branch was a great place to meet friends and have coffee. Though my female...
Posted by davey on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:24:00 PST

Berlin part 1

Eventually got to Berlin late Friday after the check-in dog at Manchester made a mistake with our bags so we were at Frankfurt longer than expected. As we got off the bus at Under Den Linden the...
Posted by davey on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:00:00 PST

Pam Ann

Me and Shelley took the tram over the border to Salford to see Pam Ann, at the Lowry. I saw her at the Black Cap in Camden last summer. She was better tonight, alot more filthy....
Posted by davey on Tue, 22 May 2007 04:54:00 PST

Peepholism

I was just randomly looking at the blogs of cool New Yorkers and found out that Jo Slee/Morrissey's Peepholism is on sale at amazon for $170!! Plus postage of course. When it came out in 1994 I ...
Posted by davey on Wed, 09 May 2007 01:19:00 PST

vote

Polling day, walked down Canal Street and on towards Manchester's gothic town hall, the city centre polling station. Some kinda bear festival over the weekend, lots of overweight men with ...
Posted by davey on Thu, 03 May 2007 02:30:00 PST