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The Nurk

Schweinekind!

About Me


I've only just started on my doctorate in early modern history @ the University of Sussex ("Soldier Spirituality in the Thirty Years' War")
Apart from that I play(ed?) in Colt .45 and the Porters
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name:
Birthday: Friday 13th July 1979
Birthplace: Oberhausen, Ruhrpott
Current Location: Brighton, UK; German libraries and archives
Eye Color: blueish
Hair Color: brown
Height: 190 cm
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: German with other bits thrown in
The Shoes You Wore Today: DMs
Your Weakness: food, drink, tobacco, shoes, hats
Your Fears: frogs and toads (it's called vadrachophobia)
Your Perfect Pizza: thin crust with salami, peppers, capers, hot peppers and garlic
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Find fucking sources for my PhD, lose weight, give up smoking, the list goes on
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: always msipseel everything
Thoughts First Waking Up: fuck, I overslept
Your Best Physical Feature: Legs probably
Your Bedtime: 1-2am
Your Most Missed Memory: having nothing to worry about and aaaaaaaaaaall the time in the world to play Attila the Hun, knight, pirate, cowboy or A-Team
Pepsi or Coke: still water
MacDonalds or Burger King: Grubbs Burgers or BK. I fucking hate McDonalds
Single or Group Dates: single. I drink too much in bigger groups
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Probably Lipton
Chocolate or Vanilla: depends
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee.
Do you Smoke: Yes.
Do you Swear: A lot. Fatherfucker, Spast, Huuuuurensooooohn
Do you Sing: Beeeeautifully
Do you Shower Daily: Yes.
Have you Been in Love: Oh yes
Do you want to go to College: I'm in college and due to shitty life-choices I'll be there for a lot longer
Do you want to get Married: Yes. In an ideal world
Do you belive in yourself: Not really. Having said this: I'm amazing
Do you get Motion Sickness: Naaaa. I usually move so slow I can't tell if I'm moving at all
Do you think you are Attractive:
Are you a Health Freak: Fuck off
Do you get along with your Parents: Yeah! Bestestestest parents in the whole world
Do you like Thunderstorms: Silly question. When I'm inside I don't care, when I'm on a plain carrying a metal pole I'm not particularly fond of them
Do you play an Instrument: Yes, with more enthusiasm than skill: guitar, mandolin, lap-steel, double bass, a little banjo and I bought a fiddle before Christmas
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Pfffffff
In the past month have you Smoked: Pfffffff
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: No
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: I planted a bomb there but it didn't go off. Bugger
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Nonono
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: No
In the past month have you been on Stage: Unfortunately not
In the past month have you been Dumped: No potential dumper around, thank God
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No, always the risk of getting harpooned by marauding Whale fleets
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No. Not that I'm aware of.
Ever been Drunk: Yes and I enjoyed it massively that's why I'm trying to recreate the situation as often as possible
Ever been called a Tease: I've been called a LOT of things but not 'tease'
Ever been Beaten up: A lot when I was a teenager.
Ever Shoplifted: I don't think so.
How do you want to Die: Happy and old and I wouldn't mind breaking the familiy tradition and die quickly
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: I don't hope I'll grow any more.
What country would you most like to Visit:
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Don't care
Favourite Hair Color: Don't care
Short or Long Hair: There's few girl on whom short hair looks good...
Height: don't care
Weight: One fatso in bed is enough and that's me, biatch!
Best Clothing Style: My style. It is frowned upon by most around me but has given my mum something to focus on when she's bored with work.
Number of Drugs I have taken: What a fucking petty question to ask. Get a life.
Number of CDs I own: Maaaaaany. And Vinyl as well, that's those big black discs
Number of Piercings: None any more
Number of Tattoos: 6 and counting
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Breaking up with my first love. Other than that: Viel Feind, viel Ehr
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My Interests

music, history, religion, linguistics, literature, politics, people, food, drink, folklore, pomade

I'd like to meet:

There's a high probability that I DON'T WANT TO MEET YOU! If you don't know me, don't have anything interesting to say or want to collect "friends" for your tedious, 3rd generation rip-off Indie or Emo band, please take this personally and FUCK OFF!

I WOULD like to meet people that are interested in talking endlessly about the genius of pre-war Hillbilly records, would like to give me money, point out sources and archives that might help my PhD dissertation, teach me how to play the banjo properly, tattoo me well for free, tell me where my Johnny Bach CD is, introduce me to good hip hop, start a raunchy hillbilly band or a proper Oi! band, or volunteer to push me around in a (necessarily) oversized pram and feed me White Russian from a baby bottle.

Music:

Bach, Händel, Beethoven, Mendelson Bartholdy, Jimmie Rodgers, Robert Johnson, Zarah Leander, Naftule Brantwein, Milton Brown, Ernest Phipps, Molly O'Day, Dock Boggs, Adolph Hofner, Merle Travis, Al Dexter, Big Joe Turner, Hank Williams, Big Mama Thornton, Maddox Brothers and Rose, Kittie Wells, Bob Wills, Hank Thompson, Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, some Presley, Carl Perkins, Wanda Jackson, Janis Martin, the Killer, Roy Orbison, Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins, Marvin Rainwater, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, DOLLY!!!, Tom Waits, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Barbara Lynn, Four Tops, Rose Tattoo, Dead Boys, Chelsea, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Clash, Cockney Rejects, Motörhead, the Oppressed, Anti Nowhere League, Last Resort, Dead Kennedys, Cock Sparrer, Blitz, Anti Heros, Business, Sham 69, 4 Skins, Pogues, Desmond Dekker, Specials, Madness, Lee Perry, rocksteady & ska bands whose names I don't remember, Chaos UK, Agnostic Front, The Exploited, One Way System, Demented are Go, Forgotten Rebels, Operation Ivy, Sloppy Seconds, Public Enemy, NWA, Sublime, BR5-49, Deke Dickerson, Geraldine Fibbers, Phranc, Steve Earle, Laura Cantrell, Gillian Welch, OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, Mojo Nixon, Social Distortion, Mike Ness's solo stuff, Swinging Utters, The Briggs, Rancid (and their side projects), Blood for Blood, Green Day (honestly!), the Distillers, the Forgotten, DKM, Flogging Molly, US Bombs, Hunns, Rubinchik's Orchestyr, Bonecrusher, K.I.Z., Cool Savas,Kelis, Capone and Noreaga, Lilly Allen, it's getting boring...

Movies:

Shakespeare movies, anything with Anthony Hopkins, 'Chopper', 'Tanguy', 'Mistery Train', Monty Python, 'Skinhead Attitude', '21 Grams', 'This Machine Kills Fascists', 'Lost Highway'(the Hank Williams documentary, not the weird movie I never understood), any war movie, anything to do with history (so that I can go: 'actually, this is not REALLY what happenend...' to people unfortunate enough to be watching the movie with me), nudity always welcome.

Television:

Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Familiy Guy, the news (for my daily fix of anger), SPONGEBOB, Ein Herz und eine Seele (yes, there's some humor in German TV), Peepshow.

Books:

the Bible, Hamlet, De praestigiis daemonum, Thinking with Demons, A Farewell to Arms, Middlesex, Max Goldt, Doghouse Roses (Steve Earle's brilliant shortstories), Dürrenmatt, some Kafka, The Life and Oppinions of Tristram Shandy, We need to talk about Kevin, books on history, linguistics and music.

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Hank Williams, Cash, Joe Strummer, my (grand-)parents, anyone who has the brains to see that things are fucked up and the guts to do something about it.

My Blog

Seid Ihr eigendlich dumm?

Also nur mal zum testen: Lest Ihr das wirklich? Mag ja sein, dass irgendwelche Affen myspace benutzen um sich mitzuteilen, aber wer liest sich sowas denn durch? Total behämmert. Nicht, dass ich nicht ...
Posted by The Nurk on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:52:00 PST