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Whispering Jonny Pollups

A Fiery candelabra

About Me



My Interests

Rock and or Roll, History, Art, Dinosaurs, Folklore, Travel, Bodyboarding, Crap Skateboarding EXTREME!, Dog Hockey, Partying hard, Stormy nights, Stencil art, allotments, sidings, scribbling, Vengeance, Cats, writing, Exposed Ocean Coasts, Skylights, Manmugs, sideburns, butties, painting, photoshop, etching, drawing, packed lunches, Photography, Spooky shit, Triops, Casual pub fight club, chot, Seabrooks crisps, Vimto, Banana Sambucca, Salad cream, piccalilly-not the sugar free shit however, fossils, being a "wrong-un", things you really shouldn't laugh at, Ace dusty old bookshops, Morrocan cous cous, bounding, besieging Castles, otter sponsorship, paranormal investigations, and other Gentlemanly pasttimes.

I'd like to meet:

Fellow low maintenance pet enthusiasts- *NOTE* Not tadpoles, they are more trouble than they are worth- canibalistic dark spangle shaped bastards. Fellow eunuchs. Fellow dust allergy sufferers. No one too exciting really, it brings me out in a terrible rash.
ARE YOU THAT PERSON?

Music:

The Clash, The Specials, Tiger Army, The Pogues, Calexico, Rocket from the Crypt, Ottis Reading, Moricone, Kosheen, AFI, The Wildhearts, BB King, Ye Wiles, Antimaniax, Dem Brooklyn Bums, Nick Cave, The Cars, Louis Armstrong, The Cardiacs, Dr.John, Lightyear, Jimmy Cliff, Billy Bragg, Smoking Popes, Duran Duran, Iron Maiden, Buddy Guy, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Young Blood Brass Band, Robert Johnson, Jonny Thunders and The Heartbrakers, Gogol Bordello, Filaments, Howards Alias, SB6, Ben.E.King, Operation Ivy, Capdown, Carter USM, Elvis Costello, Andrew WK, Bob Dylan, Nekromantix, Neil Young, Snuff, Madness, Johnny Cash,Tom Waits, Horse the band, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Bedoiun Soundclash,Toots and the Maytals, Zatopeks, Talking Heads, Nina Simone, Ash, The Beat, Lee Scratch Perry, Joe Strummer and The Meascaleros, The Tossers, ROY Orbison, The Ronnettes, Horrorpops, Nightwish, Fantomas, Mr Bungle, Cpt Beefheart, Sam Cooke, Leonard Cohen, Ozamatli, Faith No More, RAMONES, Black heart procession, NOFX, Rancid, Therapy?, Dread Zeppelin, The Bastards of Black.I tend to favour stuff that you can hum and tap tables and bus seats to.The Local Talents of popular beat combos, especially The Liarbilities and Mapatazi Bob. They give me brown nose.

Movies:

Ghostbusters, The Wicker Man, Watershipdown, Clerks, This is Spinal Tap, The Woman in black, Krull, You only live twice, The Rocketeer, Hellboy, Pirates of the Carribean 1&2, Waynes World, Fight Club, Nightwatch, The Omen, all the original Grudgey Ringu stuff, Zatoichi, Dogma, The Untouchables, Perfect Blue, 39 Steps, House on Haunted hill, Delicatessen, Kung-Fu-Hustle, Indiana Jones and the last crusade, Napoleon Dynamite, The Life Aquatic, Lostboys, Buba Ho-Tepp, Withnail and I, Few Dollars more, Alien III, Bill & Ted, The Good the bad and The Ugly, Nightwatch, Empire Strikes Back, Shaun of the dead, etc.... oh and I secretly like Dirty Dancing.

Television:

Most Haunted. Skint- Kings Heath and Erdo represent, Spaced, Countryfile, The League of Gentlemen, Mythbusters, Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons, Starfleet, Ulysees 31, The Blue Planet, I'm Alan Partridge, The Good life, American Chopper, Armstrong and Miller, Farscape, Robin of Sherwood, Allo Allo, Brass Eye, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Samuri Jack, Quantum Leap, Borat, The Hitchhikers guide to The Galaxy, The Office, Dick and Dom in da bungalow, Catterick, Cricket, Time Team, Wreck Detectives, What's in the box? Tribe

After 27 years of television, I can't help feeling slightly cheated....

Books:

Douglas Adams Ian Banks Roald Dahl Viz

Morbid, Macabre, spooky stuff, folklore. Band Biographies / Autobiographies. Razzle.

Heroes:

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My Blog

EXCITING BLOG! <<<L@@K!!!!1

Really exciting! It's only taken six months but finally there's a blog worth writing.Inconsequential details first however:My darling Helen is currently being waited on by an army of orphaned foot-sol...
Posted by Jonny on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:49:00 PST

Slamdoink

Ah, officially half way through a holiday and I have the first cold of the year. Luckily, combining a sore throat and hacking cough with half a packet of crackers, I can get my voice into reasonable s...
Posted by Jonny on Wed, 30 May 2007 06:03:00 PST

Nothing is the new something.

    Kerazy minimalistic cryptisism!The last couple of weeks in Haiku:sodden campfire chotrowing boats lazy studentbutterfly prat sprayzen.Ps, Cracker is missing pressumed dead. R.I.P*E...
Posted by Jonny on Mon, 21 May 2007 11:59:00 PST

Shefali's Birch pollen dilema & the onset of middle age....

I promise that the title is the best bit of this blog.Anyone else having terrible hayfevver? (I'm not, -I refuse to be allergic to a flower) Apparently it's caused by birch pollen. That was Shefali's ...
Posted by Jonny on Thu, 03 May 2007 11:50:00 PST

Aye, candy.

..Yes, it's the Superfrank artwork. I've been sketching away at this for a bit so I thought I'd share it with the world. It's one third Commodore Amiga 500+ / shadow of the beast / golden axe / Last ...
Posted by Jonny on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:52:00 PST

Neglect.

    I understand that I have somewhat neglected to update the dullest blog on myspaff of late. It's because I've been "off" for Easter and have been spending the majority of my free tim...
Posted by Jonny on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:42:00 PST

Midway through thumbing myself into oblivion....

On the acoustic bass mind. Dirty bitch.Late last week was the blandest on record. There was work, food, sleeping on the sofa and sleeping in bed. On repeat.Meanwhile:Ooh, I'm all excited. I have two d...
Posted by Jonny on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:33:00 PST

On second thoughts.

Sometimes a moving picture can say a thousand words: This song has plagued my head for four days now....
Posted by Jonny on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:29:00 PST

A visual extravaganza of lazy. St Patrick's day special.

Ho hum.It's that time of the week again.Chod all has happened. Work has consumed most things in it's path this week, I get a free moment and still feel compelled to write a chuffing blog. Quite why I ...
Posted by Jonny on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:21:00 PST

upholstery.

    Just a brief update at the moment as I'm a very busy and very haggered gentleman.It's been quite an exciting week or so since we last spoke. Let me see, let me see- ah yes- there we...
Posted by Jonny on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:30:00 PST