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Al

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long...and you have burned so very, very brightly

About Me

Click here if you really have nothing better to do and want my life history and other related crap - this can all be found at my website
I can't think of any good reason why you would want to visit the website particularly as I hardly ever update it.

My Interests

Music, guitars, cats, tattoos,Tai Chi, designer clothes, fine art, amateur cardio-thoracic surgery, annoying people for my own amusement and being an irritatingly clever person.

I'd like to meet:

myself coming in the opposite direction.

Music:

Jimi Hendrix, RHCP, Buddy Guy,Funkadelic, Robert Johnson, Linkin Park, Rattlesnake Remedy, Bootsy Colllins, Sleepyhead, Pat Metheny, Sly and the family Stone, and pretty much anything else that sounds musical.

Movies:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Bladerunner, The Doors, Finding Nemo, 2001, The Good The Bad and The Ugly,....

Television:

Any documentary about unusual and hilarious illnesses, The A Team, Monkey, Mr Benn, Most Haunted, Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns (he is in need of a psychiatrist), and loads of other crap TV shows that I can't remember.

Books:

I am currently reading Profanisaurus Rex, Lecture Notes in Clinical Medicine, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Heroes:

Jimi Hendrix, Mr T, and Spiderman.

My Blog

Work

Finally managed to drag my lazy self into work this week (despite still being awfully poorly  ). I am hoping that due to the spectacular amount of tablets the doctor (and now the dentist as well!...
Posted by Al on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:07:00 PST

Still incapacitated

I am getting very bored with this lying around at home all day with my spine continually causing me pain. I have done almost nothing for the last 3 weeks and apart from a few breif trips out of the ho...
Posted by Al on Mon, 21 May 2007 11:44:00 PST

Spinal Torture

I have managed once again to spectacularly injure myself and am once more confined to my bed. If anyone knows a cure for back injuries let me know - but not too soon as the doctor keeps giving me...
Posted by Al on Wed, 16 May 2007 06:10:00 PST

Holidays

Just got back from my holiday as a paranormal investigator in Cornwall. Sadly I didn't find anything particularly ghostly or anything that would have warranted a Scooby Doo style investigation. I did ...
Posted by Al on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:51:00 PST

At last some musical talent...

I saw Juliette and the Licks at Barfly in Birmingham on Saturday and they were excellent. If you get a chance to see them make sure you do, best live band I've seen in ages (and I do see a ridiculous...
Posted by Al on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 04:21:00 PST

Ninja

I've taken up Tai Chi this week in order to regain my former supreme level of health and fitness, which sadly has been slowly ebbing away over the past few years. It seems pretty good so far after one...
Posted by Al on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:59:00 PST

Birthday Boy!

I had a super birthday yesterday (although nobody bought me Lego which is what I had asked for, apparantely I am too old for such items and I may turn to old habits and eat the lego, which is a c...
Posted by Al on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:32:00 PST

shit, fuck, arse and other obscenities

I've had a crap week. To start the week I had a water leak in my house and then when the water board came out to check it out I found that I also have a burst pipe somewhere under my kitchen floor, t...
Posted by Al on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:42:00 PST

and relax...

For a change I am not in a near psychotic frenzy and have spent the last hour just playing guitar and chilling out, I should do this more often...
Posted by Al on Sun, 21 May 2006 03:25:00 PST

Do Cats get senile dementia?

Is it possible that cats, like humans, go mad in their latter years? So far today my eldest cat woke me at 4am by making some bizarre sounds, a little like I imagine a harpsichord  would sound if...
Posted by Al on Wed, 17 May 2006 03:32:00 PST