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About Me

Born in Oldham in 1980, the son of a Northern gentleman mill owner and a French Beat Poet-ess. Upon leaving school I spent several years as a Revolutionary in South America. I then returned to Blighty to attend the University of Skelmersdale, achieving a 2:1 class honours degree in Advanced Cryonomics and Applied Thermo-masculation. The past three years have been spent exploring a wide range of artistic pursuits, whilst working as Chief Taster for Rentokill.
Member of the Bands
Shoehorn Thunder Clothes (1995 - 1997)
Captain Arkwright and the Sausage Stuffers (1997 - 2000)
Das Huhnerpantoffelnbilderblatter (2000 - 2001)
Windolene (2001 - 2002)
O bumerangue coletivo (2002 - 2004)
Appen..omy (2004 - 2005)
Novels, prose, short stories and assorted Writings:
The Diary of Oliver Pierson (1998), 20 Poems about Internal Combustion (1999), The History of the Wingnut (2001), Harding: Police Butcher (2000), Harding: Police Butcher - Case of the Missing Hangnail (2001), Harding: Police Butcher - Hands off my Boneless Tenderloin (2002), Harding: Police Butcher - Bolton Holiday (2004), Harding: Police Butcher - The Return of Doctor Ramshank (In Production), 100 Recipes for Boddingtons (2003), A Socio-Economic History of Modern Day Borneo (2004), Advanced Methods of Dynodermanemics (British Journal of Doornob Repair Technology Theorems, March 2002)
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My Interests

Magnum PI
Music
Sitting Down
Cup of Tea
Biscuits
Drink
Music
Photography
Writing

I'd like to meet:

Bruce Campbell
Terry Wogan
David Lloyd
David Byrne
Mike Harding
William Shatner
The Stig
Corn Mo
Lance Henriksen
Juggernaut Onan Gupta
Jose Chung
Patrick McGoohan

Music:

They Might Be Giants, Talking Heads, David Byrne, Jim White, Tiger Lillies, Los Amigos Invisibles, Johnny Dowd, Handsome Family, Mike Harding, Tom Tom Club, Grateful Dead, Devo, Geggy Tah, Go West, Ozomatli, Squeeze, Madness, Balanescu Quartet, ZZ Top, Tenacious D, Nightwish, Man O War, The Arcade Fire, Weird Al Yankovic, Corn Mo, The Real Tuesday Weld, Mono Puff, The Handsome Family, Johnny Dowd, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, Hellwood, Burning Leaves, 16 Horsepower, Mundanes, Macc Lads, Jenny Owen Youngs

Movies:

David Cronenberg
Death Wish 1 2 & 3
Richard Harrison 'Ninja' movies
Rocky 4
Bruce Campbell

Television:

Magnum PI
The Prisoner
Danger Man
Nowhere Man
MillenniuM
Family Guy
Brass Eye
Top Gear
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
First Wave
John Doe
Freaky Links
Jack Of All Trades
Brisco County Jr
Magnum PI
Mythbusters

Books:

Flannery O'Connor
George Markstein
Blackstone Chronicles
William S Burroughs
Mike Harding
Michael Moore
Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way

Heroes:

Patrick McGoohan
The Stig
Corn Mo
David Lloyd
Bruce Campbell

My Blog

The Truth About Thunderbirds!?!?

I was watching an episode of Gerry Andersons Thunderbirds the other day, and I realised that there where a few unanswered questions that cropped up, and I began wondering about the answers to these qu...
Posted by Ant on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:23:00 PST

Ardath

You may think that globalisation is a good thing, especially if you're the type who cancels planned events with your friends for work, and if you are one of those, to quote Bill Hicks "please kill you...
Posted by Ant on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:51:00 PST

Nocturnal Pursuits

"Taketh one part of crimson red, and combine withe 2 parts of dropwort, rubbeth in thine flesh of essential meat, placeth under thy burning heat of a thousand candles, and chant "dosloth, agog mannen ...
Posted by Ant on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:57:00 PST

Taff Griffiths - Welsh Hero

If you had told a Welsh coal miner from the 1950's that in the year 2008 that a bunch of fame hungry no-talent sorry excuses for human flesh sat in a house doing silly things would be one of the most ...
Posted by Ant on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:11:00 PST

Childhood Games Remembered

When I was a small boy, I used to like to re-enact my favourite cartoons with my friends, I would turn my go-cart into the Thundertank, and pretend my dads shed was the Castle of Greyskull. This...
Posted by Ant on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:08:00 PST

Havana The Cat

There was once a cat called Havana, that lived behind a wheelie bin in the posh part of South Shields, he used to be well known amongst the locals, mainly because of the fact he used to smoke fat ciga...
Posted by Ant on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:54:00 PST

My Recent Charity Work

The 'Buy Me A Bitch' FoundationI may have gone a while dear readers, but my absence has been worthwhile as I have been busy setting up the 'Buy Me A Bitch' Foundation. A wonderful organisation c...
Posted by Ant on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:38:00 PST

A Tough Year Ahead

The well manicured suited man stood in front of the group, bleating on about KPI's and mission statements as 12, mostly male team members sat in varying degrees of interestedness, from bottom licking ...
Posted by Ant on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:39:00 PST

A New Urgent Appeal

Today I launch a brand new appeal to save a beloved British Institution under severe threat from modern society; something I believe should be given more priority than rising fuel prices, the non-exis...
Posted by Ant on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:00:00 PST

That Old Oak Tree

I would spend hours at a time everyday during the summer, playing with my cousins on that big old oak tree in my grandparents back garden out in the country. We'd make up games, Fort, Tarzan, Zo...
Posted by Ant on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:56:00 PST