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Adam

knitted socks can just blow me

About Me

I am the Egg Man. I am the Walrus. Goo-Goo-Ga-Choo.

I have a degree in Archaeology that I don't use, and make great tea. What more can you ask?

My Interests

Eating and drinking. Mexican, Indian and Cajun for preference, but if it's good, I'll eat it. Archaeology, Anthropology, Ancient History and the Desert.
Music is my drug of choice.
I like to travel and am trying to save again to get me away some more. Cuba before ol' Fidel dies, Egypt, Canada and hopefuly soon, Ghana. But anywhere that's not here will do, southern Italy and the mediterranean in general is always beautiful. And at some point South America...

I'd like to meet:


People who run with scissors, eat food past it's sell-by-date, piss on electric fences, take cold medicine while operating heavy machinery and find artistic uses for road-kill.
Don't get too deeply into yourself, there's a big, wide world out there and if you're not careful you'll miss it and chew yourself to pieces.
MESSAGE ME BEFORE TRYING TO ADD ME!!!! - no 'friend collectors' please - too many friend requests from people who have never messaged me and when you look at their page, they've got over a thousand friends.
What's the point of that?

Music:



adopt your own virtual pet! A Perfect Circle , AC/DC , Al Green, Al Wilson, Alice In Chains , American Head Charge, Anthrax , Aretha Franklin, Audioslave, Bill Withers, Biohazard, The Black Crowes , Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Blood Simple, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Canned Heat, Cat Stevens, Chris Cornell, Chris Robinson, Corrosion of Conformity, Counting Crows, Damage Plan, Deftones, Desmond Dekker, Devin Townsend, Disturbed, Dog Eat Dog, The Doors, Down , Downset, Dr. John, Drowning Pool, Dub War, The Eagles, Entombed, Faith No More, Fear Factory, Floodgate, Foo Fighters, Frank Zappa, Front Line Assembly, Fudge Tunnel, G//Z/R, Guns n' Roses, Harry Belafonte, Hawkwind, Helmet, High On Fire, Howlin' Wolf, Jackie Wilson, James Brown, Jerry Cantrell, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, John Lee Hooker, Korn, Kyuss, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Lead Belly, Led Zeppellin , Lenny Kravitz, Life Of Agony, Limp Bizkit, Little Richard, Machine Head, Marilyn Manson, Marvin Gaye, Mary Beats Jane, Megadeth, Metallica, Ministry, Misery Loves Company, Motorhead, Muddy Waters, Mudvayne, Nailbomb, Neurosis, Nina Simone, Nine Below Zero, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Orange 9mm, Otis Grand, Otis Redding, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera , Paul Weller, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Pitchshifter, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against The Machine, Raging Speed Horn, Rammstein, Ray Charles, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Reef, Rob Zombie , Robert Johnson, Rollins Band, Sam & Dave, Sam Cooke, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sepultura, Sick of it All, Slayer, Slipknot, Soulfly, Sound Garden, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Wonder, Stone Temple Pilots, Strapping Young Lad, SuperJoint Ritual, System of a Down, T.Rex, Temple Of The Dog, Testament, Tool , Vision of Disorder, White Zombie, ZZ Top...

Movies:


A Few Good Men, The Abominable Dr Phibes, Alien, Aliens, American Beauty, American History X, Amistad, Apocalyse Now, As Good As It Gets, Blazing Saddles, Blow, Blues Brothers, Bridge On The River Kwai, Bullit, Casino, The Chronicles of Riddick, Dark City, Das Boot, Devil's Advocate, The Empire Strike's Back, Event Horizon, Fight Club, Full Metal Jacket, Gattaca, Good Will Hunting, The Great Escape, The Green Mile, Heat, The Insider, Interview With A Vampire, JFK, Kelly's Hero's, Kill Bill vol 1 & 2, LA Confidential, The Last Samuria, Lawrence of Arabia, Layer Cake, Leon, Live and Let Die, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lord of the Rings, Lost In Translation, Man on Fire, Mars Attack, The Name of the Rose (or my Gay Monk Film, as my friends call it..), Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Phone Booth, Predator, The Producers, Pulp Fiction, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Reservoir Dogs, Return Of The Jedi, Rising Sun, Ronin, Schindlers List, Seven, Shaft, Shawshank Redemption, Sin City, Snatch, Star Wars, Strange Days, Theatre of Blood, Training Day, Troy, Twelve Monkeys, Usual Suspects, X-Men 1 & 2 and far too many more to mention...

Television:

Other than 24, The Shield and Lost, which I find worryingly addictive, I can't remember the last time I saw anything new that was worth while. But all the old stuff is good - Red Dwarf, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, League of Gentlemen, Black Adder, Have I Got News For You, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Alan Partridge and anything with Peter Cook & Dudley Moore. Derren Brown is also bewildering and amazing.

Books:

All the usual stuff - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Will Self, Tolkien, Pratchett, Brin, Stephen King, Frank Herbert and I find myself reading a lot more non-fiction and history these days for pleasure again - amazing how University can kill your interest in somethings while you're there. It's good to know what mistakes have been made, and maybe not repeat them too many more times.

Heroes:

So many dead hero's. I'm running out. Oh,and whoever invented the Turkey Club Sandwich.

My Blog

Operation Chariot

 One late March, a few years ago, I happened to be strolling along the seafront of Falmouth harbour.  All was peaceful, with little puffy strands of cloud in an otherwise blue sky, with only...
Posted by Adam on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:52:00 PST

stamped out curriculum

 They must think I'm stupid.  
Posted by Adam on Tue, 20 May 2008 12:25:00 PST

you say "tomato".

 So do I.
Posted by Adam on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:46:00 PST

inside the outside

Just when something is good, people have to go and fuck with it. Just when something is right, people have to go and fuck with it. Just when something can be depended upon, people have to go an...
Posted by Adam on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:22:00 PST

not out

"You're ninety-five years old?! Christ, how do you manage it, Tom? You look so young!" "Well, boy...", Tom paused to take a reflective glug of his pint of beer as he tapped some ash off the end of his...
Posted by Adam on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:54:00 PST

more

 is, however, very seldom less.
Posted by Adam on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:01:00 PST

less

  is more.  
Posted by Adam on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:33:00 PST

repetition

 The shirt gives testimony that someone will never make it as an escapologist. Cuff buttons prominent only by their absence and the trailing pieces of entrail-like thread.  Fr...
Posted by Adam on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:47:00 PST

today...

.. as a Libra, your stars indicate an eaten-by-myspace blog, and with Saturn ascending through multiple stages of being-right-there-in-spaceness, you will thereby go with incandescent fury. ...
Posted by Adam on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:06:00 PST

such a serious child

 I remember long summer afternoons, at Layston Primary School, spent laying on the school field. Dry and scratchy stubble of grasses, full of insect crickling sounds by my ears, as I watched the ...
Posted by Adam on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:04:00 PST