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About Me

Hi there, I'm Oh_Simone of the You Can Call Me Betty podcast fame, but you may call me Simon. Welcome to MySpace, as it were. Be my friend, I welcome you unless you're weird/a marketing tool/a really bad band.
Other than that, I'm not really sure. I've distanced myself from the majority of the MySpace community by apparently being a good decade older than the average age, and not having sufficient stripy emo t-shirts. But, one has to keep up with the modern technology. So leave me a comment, or better still go visit Betty and say hi, or have a listen to my podcast below.
Face design by Damien Weighill .
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My Interests

Criticising other people in various ways; writing; eating; dancing like Carlton; peri-peri sauce, king of chilli sauces; music; Jamaican food; coffee + tea; beating Rachel at University Challenge

I'd like to meet:

Natasha Bedingfield; Dan Snaith; Keiran Hebden in Tesco; Kirstie Allsopp; Rich Gilbert and/or Joey Santiago; Werner Herzog rescuing me from a car crash; Bruce Parry; Bruce Campbell

Music:

Four Tet; Sigur Ros; Pixies; Clue To Kalo; Adem; Johnny Cash; Nick Cave; Mogwai; Groop Dogdrill; Frank Black; Caribou; Manitoba; Throwing Muses; Kristin Hersh; Tanya Donelly; Godspeed You Black Emperor; Arcade Fire; Smiths; 50 Foot Wave; Low; Radiohead; vintage reggae; M Ward; anything Brazilian, Suba, Bebel Gilberto, Celso Fonseca, Tropicalia; Steve Adey; TV On The Radio; Jamie Lidell; Belle & Sebastian; Mr Hopkinson's Computer

Movies:

Blues Brothers; Godfather Parts I and II; Tsotsi; The Proposition; Shaun Of The Dead; Walk The Line; Romeo + Juliet; Fargo; The Big Lebowski; Harold & Maude; ZOOLANDER; Dodgeball; Anchorman; anything Herzog/Kinski; Being There; Dumb & Dumber; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Perfume

Television:

Spaced; Simpsons; The Apprentice; Black Books; Richard & Judy (I'm so going to win You Say We Pay one day); Marion & Geoff; BBC Breakfast; Tribe; Lost; Dragons Den; You Are What You Eat

Books:

Currently reading: The Troublesome Offspring Of Cardinal Guzman (Louis De Bernieres)

Heroes:

Bruce Parry. Just Bruce Parry.

My Blog

Do you have monkeys in Scotland?

So the current work-listening-experience is the soundtrack for The Last King Of Scotland, which is currently frightening just about everybody. The opening track is this guttural, rhythmic howling, whi...
Posted by Oh Simone on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:59:00 PST

Smell-O-Vision

"Crossing the Atlantic, racing to America in a month - as if people hadn't got along without that continent for thousands of years."- Patrick Suskind, "Perfume"Aside from being one of the better films...
Posted by Oh Simone on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:25:00 PST

Future Ex-Wife

I got an email from Natasha Bedingfield today. Her next single is to be called, I Wanna Have Your Babies. I can't help thinking she's talking to me.
Posted by Oh Simone on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:51:00 PST

Thought For The Day

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"- Walt Whitman, "Song Of Myself"
Posted by Oh Simone on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:47:00 PST

Bloggedy Blog

OK, I'm going to actually have to blog here some more. I gave up my main blog. I just don't have time these days, woe is me, to put the required effort into an mp3 blog, but expect a podcast every now...
Posted by Oh Simone on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:02:00 PST

I got tickets...

For Kristin Hersh in a tiny theatre in the West End in January. This is fantastic, fantastic news.
Posted by Oh Simone on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:26:00 PST

Current Listening

Swedish internet radio. In many ways, I'm very happy to live in this country.
Posted by Oh Simone on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:26:00 PST

Currently reading

I'm currently reading Thomas Pynchon's V. I don't know what to make of it. Pynchon is one of those authors I've always been put off reading by the type of people who expound him as being the greatest ...
Posted by Oh Simone on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:32:00 PST

Currently Reading

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol - Diary Of A Madman & Other Short Stories You've got to love classic Russian literature, for a number of reasons. 1) It's good 2) It makes you sound clever 3) If you can w...
Posted by Oh Simone on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:55:00 PST

RIP Desmond Dekker

Currently listening to a Trojan box set.
Posted by Oh Simone on Fri, 26 May 2006 03:14:00 PST