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Bruce

Bruce the Revolutionary

About Me

    I'm known as either James/Bruce/Lenny depending on how you know me. I never know how to introduce myself. I study Politics and International Relations at Coventry Uni Originally from Solihull, which is a beautiful little suburb near Birmingham. Music is my real passion. It's cliche but it honestly is. I like to think I'm a guitarist, I'm in two bands, "The Blank Czechs" and also "The Romanovs." The latter need a singer, contact me if you know someone. Big into literature and all that. I always read about five books at one time. My writing has slowed down as of late. But it shall return. I have plans. Although I study the blasted thing, politically I am very confused. I guess I'm kind of liberal but that shouldn't be equated with being a follower of the liberal democrat party. I would go further but you're most likely not interested. Errr...I dig people. Generally. I do try and find the best in people. Honest. Doesn't mean I always succeed though. But you know, there's something you can learn from anybody. I like my alcohol a lot. Probably too much. Frequent the Fieldhouse if I'm back home in Solihull and the Golden Cross when I'm at uni. Theology, philosophy I delve into. I'm a big fan of isms. Ex county tennis player for Warwickshire. And I particularly like repeating that in an over the top posh accent. My only fears are supermarkets and hen parties.

My Interests

Music, politics, literature, poetry, philosophy, theology, tennis, the human condition, writing, observation, alcohol, anarchism, expression, art, journalism, hypnotism, contortionism, facial hair, human rights, culture, history, advertising, the loss of childhood, bad nightclubs, existentialism, absurdism, meditation, reflection, justice, crisps, psychology, laughing at sociology students, fear, lust, kebabs, nihilism, revolution, evolution, nature, the city, travelling, wikipedia, country pubs, brownstone buildings, using quotes when generally inappropriate, trees, stars, grass, death rays, poverty, nunchukas, pragmatism, laying in, the pursuit of happiness.

I'd like to meet:

I don't really have any preconceptions about people I want to meet. Feel free to add me on msn at [email protected].

Music:

  • The Clash
  • The Smiths
  • The Cure
  • The Stooges
  • The Stone Roses
  • MC5
  • The Flaming Lips
  • The Replacements
  • The Libertines
  • The Damned
  • Miles Davis
  • X Japan
  • Jawbreaker
  • Fugazi
  • Dead Kennedys
  • The Doors
  • Guns N' Roses
  • Led Zeppelin
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • The Beatles
  • Bob Dylan
  • John Coltrane
  • The Stones
  • Joy Divison
  • Pink Floyd
  • 13th Floor Elevators
  • Pavement

    • Movies:

  • Clockwork Orange
  • Donnie Darko
  • Withnail & I
  • Dogma
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Waynes World 1 + 2
  • Enter the Dragon
  • Dr Strangelove
  • This Is Spinal Tap
  • The Rambo trilogy
  • The Bill and Ted Films
  • Shawshank Redemption
  • Napolean Dynamite
  • Un Chien Andalou
  • Edward Scissorhands
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Trainspotting
  • Pull My Daisy

    • Television:

  • Seinfeld
  • South Park
  • The Young Ones
  • Never Mind the Buzzcocks
  • Python
  • Fawlty Towers
  • Have I Got News For You
  • Various documentaries. Usually on WWII.
  • Pretty much anything on the Paramount Comedy Channel. Even the various sitcoms where Charlie Sheen plays the same character for every role.

    • Books:

  • "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • "On the Road" and "Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac
  • "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
  • "Ham on Rye" and "Factotum" by Charles Bukowski
  • "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D Salinger
  • "The Great Gatsby" by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  • "One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey
  • "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
  • "Wild Swans" by Jung Chang
  • "Nineteen Eighty Four" by George Orwell
  • "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby
  • "Catch 22" by Joseph Heller
  • "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  • "Junky" by William S. Burroughs
  • "Buddhism Without Beliefs" by Stephen Batchelor
  • "No Logo" by Naomi Klein
  • "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson
  • "The Corporation" by Joel Bakan
  • "Spirit-Wrestlers" by Philip Marsden
  • "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
  • "Seven Years in Tibet" by Heinrich Haller

    • Heroes:

  • Jack Kerouac (pre rambling racist drunk period)
  • Friedrich Nietzche (pre brain softening period)
  • Ian MacKaye
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Joe Strummer
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Buddha
  • Jesus
  • Albert Camus
  • George Orwell
  • Bob Dylan
  • Morrissey
  • Jimi Hendrix
  • Socrates

    • My Blog

    Blimey I've lost my mojo

    Maybe not mojo. Too many sexual connotations. Zest, va va voom, the zang, whatever you want to call it. I don't know, I am generally confused. There used to be a time where I would look at the world w...
    Posted by Bruce on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:12:00 PST

    As a Politics Student...

    The first thing. Undeniably. That anyone will say when you state this is. "You're a politics student are you going to be the next Prime Minister then?" With a couple of nudges. But hey. I got those ba...
    Posted by Bruce on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:53:00 PST

    Damn Room Checks

    So I have to have a room check. I see this as an affront to liberty and to general logic so I am not impressed. They are pointless. Let me describe why. - The whole reason for a room check is to make ...
    Posted by Bruce on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:35:00 PST

    Arctic Monkeys?

    The Arctic Monkeys success is a strange thing. Anyone who listens to them can clearly see they're nothing more than a poor man's Libertines with a northern accent. Few jaggedity guitars and a couple o...
    Posted by Bruce on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:45:00 PST

    Leave the Porn Alone Maaan.....

    It's sort of hard to defend this issue without being accused of being a perverted porn obsessive but dammit I'm going to try anyway. I think making the possession of extreme and violent pornography a ...
    Posted by Bruce on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:52:00 PST

    Miscellanous Ramblings

    Got home from York today. York is a strange beautiful city with narrow harrowing streets, daunting tall buildings that lean in on you as you walk along the wet cobblestone and where every pub is haunt...
    Posted by Bruce on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:04:00 PST

    Goddamn Amnesty

    As some of you know, I make a regular dontation of like, �7 to Amnesty International every month. Unfortunately, they ring me ALL THE DAMN TIME for more money, and they have this set routine they c...
    Posted by Bruce on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:54:00 PST

    Prescott

    You know how when they ask kids what they want to be when they grow up, they always say something like "policeman" or "fireman"? I don't understand how they don't want John Prescott's job. Think about...
    Posted by Bruce on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 06:21:00 PST

    New York Photos

    Hey, just some photos from my trip to New York which are probably not really exciting (I know how uninteresting people's vacation photos usually are) but hey, you clicked here therefore, wanting to se...
    Posted by Bruce on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:01:00 PST

    Man I hate Bon Jovi

    I was sitting around thinking about how much I hate Bon Jovi. You just hear the songs and know exactly how they were made. Always Evil Record Company Whore: Say guys, we need you to write a bi...
    Posted by Bruce on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:20:00 PST