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Scruff

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I am laidback and interested in travelling interesting places all around the world. I love the arts: music, films, photography, art galleries, theatre, books etc. I enjoying socialising with friends of all nationalities and ages. All you need for a good time is some good conversation.

My Interests

Short Film Festivals, Music Festival, Morocco, Music, Films, Cambodia, Photgraphy, Books, Travel, Politics, Tanzania, Good friends & Interesting people.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet anyone who has an interesting story about their life: this can include travel stories, bands the like, films that they enjoy, books to recommend.People who are interested in original & thoughtful music, art, film are encouraged to contact myself.I believe that we should all spread the word on things we love and enjoy, bands that we love, films that we enjoy, places we've loved and would love to visit.

Music:

1 Giant Leap, Oumou Sangare, Ali Farke Toura, Bill Withers, Thelonious Monk, Kronos Quartet, Donna Hathaway, Curtis Mayfield, Sly & the Family Stone, Fela Kuti, George Clinton and The Parliament/Funkadelic, Femi Kuti, Manu Chao, Toumani Diabiate, Eddie Reader, Mory Kante, Mihirangi, Blackalicious, Bob Marley, Bomba, Ani Di Franco, Asian Dub Foundation, Baaba Maal, James Brown, Gil Scott Herron, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Commodores, Ray Charles, Roy Ayers, The Four Tops, Wilson Pickett, Ben E King, Smokey Robinson, The Marvelettes, Bill Withers, JR Walker & The All Stars, The Supremes, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Edith Paif, Robert Johnson, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Janis Joplin, Howlin Wolf, Camielle, Matisyahu, Jose Chameleon, Ferouz, , Jackson 5, Toots & the Maytals, Burning Spear, Harry Manx, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Nusrat Fatah Ali Kahn, Desmond Decker, Ella Fitzgerald, Seeed, Soul Williams, The Meters, Martha & The Vandals, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Fat Freddy Drop, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Alice Russell, The Bamboos, The Quantic Soul Orchestra, Blue King Brown, Skin, Turin Brakes, G Love & Special Sauce, Sublime, Plantlife, Lanu, De Jah Groove, dDub, The Red Eyes, Kora, Cody Chestnutt, Carus & the True Believers, Martin Harley Band, The White Buffalo, Xavier Rudd, Loren, The Beautiful Girls, Mick Hart, Yanto Shortis, Dave Johnson, Dave Man Collective, Damien Rice, Sime Nugent, Eliza Wren Payne, Ben Harper, Billy Bragg, Beth Preston, Hayden, Sadie Jemmett, Newton Faulkner, Sarah Blasko, Ryan Adams, Nathan Gaunt, Nine Mile, Dallas Frasca, Dan Sultan, Trevors House, Ki, Rambunctious, Rob Sawyer, Austin, The Waifs, Ryder, Will Oldman, Jez, The Broken Family Band, TM Juke. Abbie Cardwell, MJ Taylor, Rhyeece O'Neil, Whiskey Go Go's, The Frames, CW Stoneking, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Beasts of Bourbon, Iggy & the Stooges, The Cruel Sea, Fugazi, Neil Young, Tim Buckley, T-Rex, David Bowie, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog, Jeff Buckley, , Sonic Youth, The White Stripes, The Ramones, Augie March, Leonard Cohen Split Enz, The Clash, Tears for Fears, Tom Waits, The Dirty Three, The Doors, The Pogues, The Church, The Jesus & the Mary Chain, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Pixies, MC5, Led Zepplin, Jimi Hendrix, INXS, At the Drive In, The Velvet Underground, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Sigur Ros, Amina,Antony & the Johnstons, Architecture in Helsinki. Mu'm, Decoder Ring, The Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra La Laband, Sound Tribe Sector Nine, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Interpol, The White Rose Movement, The Rapture, The Good the Bad and the Queen, Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, Soulwax, Bloc Party, Hot Chip, The Presets, Who Made Who, Air, 2 Many Djs, The Chemical Brothers, Faithless, The Bees, Goose, Portishead, The Roots, Dj Shadow, Beastie Boys, Tiga, Justice, Katalyst, Dexter, Dj Kuya, Manchild, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5, Massive Attack, Mo Horizons, St Germain, De La Soul, DJ Andy Smith, The Avalanches, Unkle, Yo La Tengo, A Skills & Krafty Kuts, Pendulum, Phoenix, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club, The Libertines, The Shins, The Lemonheads, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, Hot Hot Heat, Two Gallants, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Death Cab For Cutie, Animal Collective, Feist, Devendra Banhart, M Ward, Cat Power, Joanna Newsom, Okervill River, Joan as a Police Woman, Vetiver, Hush the Many (Heed the Few), Semifinalists, An Pierle & White Velvet, TV on the Radio, Gomez, The Music, The Hives, The Strokes, The Mars Volta, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Spoon, Push Button Auto, My Left Boot, The Vasco Era, The Black Keys, Colonel Vipers Whitpstickband, and many more ....

Movies:

Any films from Pedro Almodovar, Walter Salles, Terrence Mallick, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Shame, Dry Season, Return to Goree, Paradise Now, Osoma, Dead Man, The Edukators, Tsotsi, Amorres Peres, The Three Burials of Melquides Estrada, This is England, The Jammed, City of God, The Virgin Suicides, Y Tu Mam Tambien, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Motor Cycle Diaries, Indochina, My Life as a Dog, Donnie Darko, Jesus Son, Almost Famous, High Fidelity, 25th Hour, Narc, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Lord of the Rings, Reservior Dogs, The Goonies, Sex Lies Videotape, My Left Foot, I Know I'm Not Alone, Lost in Translation, The Science of Sleep, Babel, Twenty Four Hour Party People, The Idiots, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Fog of War, Shelter, The Constant Gardner, Syriana, Fight Club, Babel, All about my mother, Talk to her, Requim for a Dream, Sexy Beast, Coffee & Cigarettes, Out of Sight, The Last of the Mohicans, Whale Rider, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Good Bye Lennin, The Corporation, 1 Giant Leap .....

Television:

I prefer films or books............ Plus photos as well.... have a look at some of my photos on photobucket.http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t13/thebarefo otnation/

Books:

Emergency Sex, Animal Farm, High Fidelity, The Motor Cycle Diaries, The Virgin Suicides,Manufacturing Consent, No Logo, Covering Islam, Cather in the Rye, The Plague, The Outsider, Culture & Imperlism, The Kite Runner, Its a long way down, Baghdad Burning, Fences and Windows, The Kite Runner.....

Heroes:

Marla Ruzicka, Mukhtaran Mai, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Franti, Naomi Klein, Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama, Edward W Said, Eddie Vedder, Johnson MaCrobert, Wambui Muiri.

My Blog

Can we love?

Love can overcome the devils within society.Love will move us, it will move the masses, it will change the world!If we cannot listen to those we might disagree with, we will never change...opposing vi...
Posted by Scruff on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:13:00 PST

MUKHTARAN MAI: Punishment of the innocent

MUKHTARAN MAI: Punishment of the innocentMukhtaran Mai was 30 years old when she was given her judgment from a tribal jirga (tribunal) in Meerwala Jatoi, Southern Punjab, Pakistan. Had the crime been ...
Posted by Scruff on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:34:00 PST

Kenya

____________________________________________________________ ______________________________ Nairobi   Arriving into Jomo Kenyatta Airport, Nairobi after a red eye flight from Cairo, Egypt I was g...
Posted by Scruff on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:01:00 PST

Morocco

Sept/Oct 2006   Stepping off the boat onto Moroccan soil the first thing you notice is the smell of the port; part fish, part mint tea and part 000's of entrepreneur's ready to take some Euros &a...
Posted by Scruff on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:04:00 PST

Ramadan

I decided to take part in Ramadan, which for those of you who don't know is one of the five pillars of Islam. It is when Muslims fast (i.e. consumption of nothing inc. water and food) between sun...
Posted by Scruff on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:24:00 PST

Tunisia

Tunisia's past is still very much evident in its present, the various empires and countries who once reigned supreme over this land have left their mark in its architecture, sites and the culture. &...
Posted by Scruff on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:37:00 PST

Rock En Seine Festival

Rock En Seine 25-26 August 2006 Paris   Festival partners in dance.... Bloody Joe C, Andi Fancy Pants, Laz & Samina!   Day One Arriving into Gare Du Nord from Bruges a little weary from...
Posted by Scruff on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:27:00 PST

Pukkelpop Festival

Pukkelpop Festival 18-20 August 2006 Kiewit, Belgium   This festival had a few hiccups before I even arrived there; firstly I thought the festival started on the Friday, not Thursday so my f...
Posted by Scruff on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:36:00 PST

Nice Jazz Festival

Nice Jazz Festival 22nd July 2006   Nestled in the Matisse gardens with the French Alps in the background this smallish Jazz Festival was an absolute pleasure. Acts ranging from the godfather of...
Posted by Scruff on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:54:00 PST

Roskilde Festival

Roskilde Festival 27 June - 03 July 2006 Roskilde, Denmark   Reviewing all Roskilde would be like writing Lord of the rings...... even though it'd be epic.... fascinating..... mystical. It would ...
Posted by Scruff on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 07:40:00 PST