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About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4I love punk rock, Newport County F.C., reading and taking it easy but most of all Cath, my wife, and Esme, my baby daughter, are the best things in my world.I love San Francisco and would visit every year if time and money allowed.

My Interests

Punk rock, reading and

I'd like to meet:

Joey Ramone (RIP), Ian Mackaye, Mark Hughes, Brian Baker, Michael Moore, Michael Palin plus anyone who makes me laugh or think.

Music:

Mainly punk rock (I don't care for genres - if I like it it's punk) - Stiff Little Fingers (BEST BAND EVER), Descendents/ALL, Bad Religion, Ramones, Samiam, Rhythm Pigs, Avail, Dag Nasty, Scream, Strike Anywhere, Green Day, MTX, Face To Face, The Movielife, Thrice, 7 Seconds, GBH, Squat, UK Subs, The Abs, Doughboys, Against Me!, The Unknown, Caustic Christ, The Evens, Husker Du, DOA, Circle Jerks, Gang Green, Toxic Reasons, Big Black, Naked Raygun, Soldier Dolls, The Posies, Cowboy Killers, False Prophets, The 3 Johns, NOFX, Minor Threat, Celibate Rifles, The Wall, Doctor Bison.

Movies:

Animal House, Ginger Snaps, Ghostbusters, anything by Michael Moore, Sideways, American Splendor, Napoleon Dynamite, End of the Century, Serenity, Blues Brothers, Battle Royale, Garden State, all Indiana Jones films ... plus many many more.

Television:

Six Feet Under, Buffy / Angel, Lost, 24, Seinfeld, Medium, Firefly, The Simpsons, Match of the Day, Not Going Out

Books:

Haruki Murakami, Carl Hiaasen, Michael Connelly, books about punk, books about places I've visited (SF/Berlin being two of the most favourite)Recent good reads inc:Nature Girl : Carl Hiaasen, The Interpretation of Murder : Jed Rubenfeld, Parched : Heather King

Heroes:

Mark Hughes, Jake Burns (for his lyrics ... would love to know what happened with Henry Cluney though!)

My Blog

The Simpsons Movie / The Accused (not the film but the band)

Okay, so I might be the last person on the planet to see this but I'd like to share my thoughts having finally done so. Right from the start to the end this film had me laughing more than a normal epi...
Posted by Rich on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:19:00 PST

World/Inferno Friendship Society - Live

I saw this band play Plymouth on Friday. Not many really good bands come to Plymouth but boy this band were fantastic. At 41 years old it takes a lot to make me dance around these day...
Posted by Rich on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:36:00 PST

CD Purchases, current book being read and some other stuff

So, I have just been paid and as is my way I ordered a few CD's to keep me going musically through the month of March. I've recently employed a policy of buying four CD's a month due to the fina...
Posted by Rich on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:40:00 PST

R.I.P. Cassie 11th Feb 2007

Yesterday my mum had to have one of the two cats of mine she is looking after put down. Cassie was almost 16 years old and her kidneys had failed. To some this might seem like nothing to g...
Posted by Rich on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:44:00 PST

CRASS - Crazy hippies or punk icons?

I've just read the George Berger book on Crass which ended up on my Amazon Wishlist out of a quest to find out more about the band that were once shrouded in mystery, or that's how it seemed to me as ...
Posted by Rich on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:04:00 PST

Esme's First Tooth ...

... arrived today!
Posted by Rich on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:53:00 PST

Two Nights With The Ramones, One With Myra Hyndley

I didn't see The Ramones for the first time until they played a group of dates at The Lyceum in London. Support came from Welsh goths Gene Loves Jezebel plus one of the hip and trendy rockabilly...
Posted by Rich on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 04:05:00 PST

1987 - The Big Black Year

Looking through some old photos recently lead me to thinking about the fun that was had in driving around the UK to see touring bands and how, now, at the advanced age of 41 the idea of sleepin...
Posted by Rich on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:19:00 PST

"The Peter Beadle Incident"

Whoever threw that coin should be hung, drawn and quartered. Old fashioned retribution should be revived.
Posted by Rich on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:12:00 PST

Even In Blackouts - Live

Whilst searching the internet for details on EIB's third album I discovered that they were due to be playing in Plymouth within a week. Given that I'd heard a few tracks from the first two recor...
Posted by Rich on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:20:00 PST