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About Me

Play violin in a band called THE PLUG . Have played in bands for years (different bands of course). Played in orchestras too. But I am so much more than amateur violinist, oh yes! I have a small organic farm inside a shoe, I like turtles and somewhere out there is a living clone of me with a penchant for cross-dressing.My band is The Plug ( HOMEPAGE or MYSPACE PAGE ). My friends are in it - Bob, Wilbs and Ben. I have just done my first commercial webpage and I live in a flat the size of a venezualan's posing pouch.I used to write, but now can't be arsed - these are my stories .

My Interests

Violin stuff of all descriptions. Writing, reading, music of many genres, History, politics, science and other dull stuff found in musty libraries

I'd like to meet:

Stephen Fry, Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding. Dead people I'd like to meet are Jascha Heifetz, Stephan Grappelli and Archduke Ferdinand - he was a character!

The Plug's Delalalalalala - home movie vid!

Or watch us doing Come back strong LIVE at Richmond as videoed by a fan! .. width="425" height="350" ..

Music:

The Kinks, ELO, Beatles, Stone Roses, Charlatans, Happy Mondays, Coldplay, The Plug, The Electric Soft Parade, Alfie, The Jam, The Doors, Galliano, JTQ etc Classical - Heifetz, Prokofiev, Shostakovich.

Movies:

Anchorman and anything else intelligently irreverantly funny

Television:

Garth Marenghi, The Mighty Boosh, Spaced, Green Wing, Black Books, Red Dwarf, Blackadder, I'm sorry I haven't a clue (I know its radio but so what??) and others such as Family Guy (oh, Stewie!), Futurama, American Dad, etc

Books:

I've read millions of books, I just can't remember any but the last few...something to do with my age and an inability to remember book titles or authors...Catch 22, Life according to Garp, The Iron Man (ted Hughes version), The compleet Molesworth, Lord of the rings, The Beach, - Authors: Stephen Baxter, Tolkien, Fry, Iain M Banks, Arthur C CLarke, Isaac Asimov, Dickens.Current book on the go is Labyryinth by Kate Mosse...Its, er ok...

Heroes:

Heifetz, Stephen Fry

My Blog

Genuine blog of doom

Well Wilbs and I did out solo acoustic thing at the county the other night and I have to say it went really well! We played well, Wilb is coming on leaps and bounds vocally and for a change it was qui...
Posted by John on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:16:00 PST

Tagged...

My dreams of a quiet life remain unfulfilled as I have finally been dragged into partaking of a Myspace craze. I have been tagged, it seems - this is in itself a worry and would make me consider some ...
Posted by John on Mon, 08 May 2006 11:32:00 PST

Memories of a royal wedding

From Lionel Rathbourne's ramblings.... So Prince Charles has wed the manly and thoroughly horse-like Camilla. Rightly, as I had feared, the world did not watch with breath baited or with celebrations ...
Posted by John on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 05:22:00 PST

Crazy damn fraudsters

I have just had a look at my bank statement online and some utter, utter reprobate has gone on a trip to Rome on Alitalia, bought some perfume and a phonecard ALL ON MY ACCOUNT! Fuming? Yes. Perhaps m...
Posted by John on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:40:00 PST

Violin in the 21st century - a musing

So...20th century violinists are the peak of achievment? Discuss. Ok, so there are the following violinists in my collection that I would consider true masters of the art.... ...I have (the subli...
Posted by John on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:28:00 PST

Bombay dreams of Bob

CLICK HERE!
Posted by John on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:10:00 PST

Is it true?

I remember the war well. Years ago I bled for British honour. I was in Greece on holiday and got into a fight with a German. I allowed him to thrash me within an inch of my life and, to my credit, he ...
Posted by John on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:37:00 PST

A coward's remorse.

A coward's remorse.Everyone ducked at the sound of the shot,They were coming to get us, ready or not!"But there's infinite ways to trouble a mindSo empty of reason theres nothing to findWill my l...
Posted by John on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:00:00 PST

A thought....

It rained like Chac had blown a divine gasket in that stormy night in 1954. My old accomplice and wartime cohort Alan Turing of Enigma cracking fame had sadly passed away into that cryptograph in the ...
Posted by John on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 03:00:00 PST

Revitalised!

Well thats one helluva lovely blog I left there - not quite sure what had annoyed me so... Anyway, this myspace thing is ace and I am currently harrassing Ben (our drummer) who is helping to organise ...
Posted by John on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:50:00 PST