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Shahan

still unemployed, and available for hire

About Me

Hi, my name is Shahan
(well that's the Mark Hoppus rip-off done, not that I'm a big fan of his. I like blink-182, and +44 arent't that bad. Anyway...)
I'm of Bangladeshi descent and an unsure Muslim who is very Westernised (hence why I am sometimes jokingly referred to as "white" and "the worst Muslim ever", lol). Doesn't mean I'm not religious or ashamed of where I come from...hopefully not.
I'm 18 years old, whether I act like it is questionable.
Now doing A-Levels at City Of Bristol College, next year I might be doing a degree at uni.
Living in Long Ashton, just outside Bristol. Always have since 1989!
I feel that I have a lot left to achieve and do in my life, and I shouldn't rush but not wait for it at the same time.
My music taste is all over the place (but stull rock-based), from metal to indie, punk to alternative...and very little emo (but only in a guilty pleasure way). I have over 100 albums, and the number is always increasing. As much as the idea of having your whole music collection on one device such as an iPod sounds good, I would rather have music on CD than downloading it. SAVE THE CD WHILE IT STILL EXISTS!
My personality has elements of nerdiness, (comic) genius, humour, alleged creepiness, alleged vanity, sexual inneundo, and "digging holes for myself", which can often lead to me going too far, mostly for the better, in my opinion.
I love giving the wrong impression, just because it creeps the fuck out of everyone, and I find the expressions in people's faces amusing. If it backfires then I messed up.
When it comes to most social situations, I'd rather be the guy standing out and saying something different than the guy in the background saying nothing at all...that is if I can be bothered.
My top friends list doesn't actually determine which friends I like more...just which ones (that have MySpaces and) I normally see a lot and/or talk to online.
My ambition in life is to become a well-known rockstar-like musician and/or a comedian; anything I can be a showman in..but not so much for the fame. I currently write in the college magazine, I guess that's a start.
I don't think I'll ever be considered perfect or as someone else's trophy.
MOST OF THE TIME, I'LL BE MY USUAL HAPPY-GO-LUCKY SELF, SO I'LL BE EASY TO TALK TO...BUT WOULD YOU WANT TO LISTEN?
LIKES
= The live music scene e.g. gigs/festivals. What I lack in the stuff I've done in my life, I make up for it by the many bands I have seen.
= Going to the cinema, having popcorn + drink, then coming home and having a curry. Or dipping a KitKat or similar chocolate into a hot chocolate then eating it afterwards. Those feelings in my mouth are amaaaazing!
= Being with my friends, who don’t mind me for who I am...I think :P
= The concept of football chants.
Political Scandals, it makes good news, or a "good day to bury bad news".
= When I see couples, most likely those I don't know personally, arguing. It just makes me happier, possibly because I've never had to be in such a position.
= My physical appearance. Yes, I'm fine with it. I've lost a lot of weight (without trying) over the years, and despite my height (5'7"), I know it's a bit short for a guy but it's alright for a Bangladeshi guy.
= How easy it is to mess with cats' minds, but later forgive them by cuddling them and patronising them, lol.
= When people tell me they've met people who are more weirder than me.
= When my actions and/or words are the most shocking in the room, even if I am the only one there.
= Situations when the only person laughing is myself.
IF YOU WANNA LOOK AT OTHER STUFF I LIKE, THEN LOOK AT THE GENERAL BOX UP LEFT, STUPID.
HATES
= Giving, or thinking of giving, your, erm, love, to someone who doesn't give any back, possibly because they are already committed or just don't want to be. Dammit I hate it when that happens, you think you've found the right person only to be proved wrong! And this has happened to me my whole life! And I don't want to have an arranged marriage (if that happens) and realise I missed out on actual love! Ah fucking hell!
= Peer pressure can influence me too easily. But I try not let it to.
= When I see couples at gigs; and doing stuff like holding hands or making out! For fuck's sake, you don't do to a gig for a date, you go for the music! Shakespeare is a fucking idiot for saying "if music be the food of love, play on"...because it's not! Well, not the music I'm usually into anyway.
= The fact that I can be too fucking picky e.g. sometimes when people borrow CD's off me, only to find that when I get them back, the jewel cases can break. See, there’s no need for that, is there?
= People, especially most other Asians/Muslims who joke about or can’t accept me because I am different to them.
If people ask me why I don’t do certain things, it’s most likely because I don't want to do them in the first place, not because of my religion. OK I'm not a devout, but I sure ain't no complete sinner! I shall be born again...eventually :P
= When people such as some of my family say that I shouldn’t do stuff like going to parties or go to trips with friends because “English people do that, but we’re not meant to (because we’re Asian/Muslim)".
= When media/random people of the public, and even some friends, remind me of how much it sucks being single, but worse, ALWAYS being single. I wouldn't mind having a girlfriend, but not because I feel pressured to by friends who are all loved-up, and that I only have a girlfriend to say, "compete" with them.
When I have to explain myself constantly to people who don't understand what I am trying to say or do, unless they're suppposed to, that's when it's funny.
= The unreliabilty of First buses.
= Striving to be a better person, physically and mentally, while trying to keep both sanity and normality.
= The fact that I appear to be so unhappy with my life in general despite it not actually being that bad.
= When people call me a "weirdo".
= The British music scene nowadays; pretty much all the new bands suck, and there are too many new bands whose names begin with "The".
= Singer-songwriters! There are too many of them nowadays, it's not cool anymore!
= The fact that I can get jealous about things that don't really matter e.g. not being invited to a party but loads of people I know were etc, unless there was a good reason
= Windows Vista!
I’M SURE THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS I HATE VERY MUCH, HOWEVER I’M TRYING TO HAVE A POSITIVE OUTLOOK ON LIFE SO I WON’T THINK OF ANYMORE RIGHT NOW. AND BESIDES, MY OPINION PROBABLY WON'T BE IMPORTANT TO YOU
The Gigs/Festivals etc. I've Been To (Were You At Any Of These?)
• THE VINES (w/The Duke Spirit, The Open), Bristol Colston Hall, Sat 15/05/04
• THE HIVES (w/Ikara Colt), Bristol Academy, Tue 21/09/04
• ELECTRIC SIX (w/Esquire, Little Nikita), Bristol Anson Rooms, Sat 04/12/04
• MANIC STREET PREACHERS (w/Delays), Bristol Colston Hall, Mon 11/04/05
• IAN BROWN, Bristol Academy, Wed 06/07/05
• R.E.M. (w/The Zutons, Idlewild, Johnathan Rice), Cardiff Millennium Stadium, Sun 10/07/05
• BOWLING FOR SOUP (w/American Hi-Fi, MC Lars, Army Of Freshmen), Bristol Academy, Tue 11/10/05
• HARD-FI (w/Distophia), Bristol Academy, Fri 14/10/05
• THE ORDINARY BOYS (w/Bedouin Soundclash, The Automatic), Bristol Academy, Sun 16/10/05
• FRANZ FERDINAND (w/Editors, The Rakes), Cardiff International Arena, Mon 14/11/05
• BLOODHOUND GANG (w/Electric Eel Shock, The Lucky Nine), Bristol Academy, Tue 15/11/05
• NOISE & CONFUSION 05 (Oasis, Foo Fighters, Razorlight, The Coral, The Subways, Nic Armstrong & The Thieves, Yeti), Cardiff Millennium Stadium, Sat 10/12/05
• KERRANG! XXV TOUR (Bullet For My Valentine, Hawthorne Heights, Still Remains, Aiden), Bristol Academy, Mon 16/01/06
• NME AWARDS TOUR 2006 (Maximo Park, Arctic Monkeys, We Are Scientists, Mystery Jets), Bristol Academy, Mon 13/02/06
• SIMPLE PLAN (w/Hidden In Plain View, MC Lars), Bristol Academy, Wed 15/02/06
• EDITORS (w/Brakes, Kubichek), Bristol Academy, Fri 24/02/06
• FEAR FACTORY (w/Breed 77, Misery Index), Bristol Anson Rooms, Sat 08/04/06
• LOSTPROPHETS (w/The Blackout), Newport Centre, Thu 27/04/06
• THE ORDINARY BOYS (w/Young Soul Rebels), Bristol Academy, Tue 02/05/06
• FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND (w/Fightstar, Days In December), Bristol Academy, Wed 24/05/06
• FOO FIGHTERS (w/Motörhead, Queens Of The Stone Age, Angels & Airwaves, Juliette & The Licks), London Hyde Park, Sat 17/06/06
• LOSTPROPHETS (w/The Blackout, The Guns, Dopamine), Cardiff International Arena, Sat 22/07/06
• THE YOUNG KNIVES (w/The Crimea, Lorraine), Bristol Academy 2, Wed 02/08/06
• BILLY TALENT (w/Reuben), Bristol Academy, Sat 09/09/06
• THE SUBWAYS (w/The Dodgems, The Milk Teeth), Bristol Academy, Sun 10/09/06 (ONLY WENT BECAUSE MY FRIEND HAD A SPARE TICKET)
• VICTORY RECORDS TOUR 2006 (Aiden, Bayside, The Audition, The Sleeping), Bristol Anson Rooms, Thu 21/09/06 (ONLY WENT BECAUSE I WON A COMPETITION IN THE METRO)
• BOY KILL BOY (w/Ali Love, Parka), Bristol Bierkeller, Sun 22/10/06
• NEW ORDER (w/Maxïmo Park), London Wembley Arena, Fri 27/10/06
• UNHOLY ALLIANCE: CHAPTER II (Slayer, In Flames, Lamb Of God, Children Of Bodom, Thine Eyes Bleed), Cardiff International Arena, Mon 30/10/06
• MTV2 SPANKING NEW MUSIC TOUR (Wolfmother, ¡Forward, Russia!, Fields, The Maccabees), Bristol Academy, Sun 12/11/06
• MUSE (w/The Noisettes), Birmingham NEC Arena, Wed 15/11/06
• MOTÖRHEAD (w/Clutch, Crucified Barbara), Bristol Colston Hall, Mon 20/11/06
• IRON MAIDEN (w/Trivium, Lauren Harris), Cardiff International Arena, Mon 11/12/06
• SOiL (w/Godhead, Brand New Sin, Lennon), Bristol Bierkeller, Wed 10/01/07
• EAGLES OF DEATH METAL (w/Fortune Drive), Briston Anson Rooms, Tue 23/01/07
• GET HAPPY TOUR (Bowling For Soup, Son Of Dork, Wheatus, Army Of Freshmen), Bristol Academy, Tue 06/02/07
• MATT BERRY aka Dixon Bainbridge from The Mighty Boosh (w/Jonas 3), Bristol Thekla Social, Tue 20/02/07 (ONLY WENT BECAUSE IT WAS FOR A FRIEND'S BIRTHDAY)
• MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE (w/Thursday), Cardiff International Arena, Sun 25/03/07
• THE RAKES (w/The Holloways, and some other band), Bristol Academy, Thu 29/03/07 (ONLY WENT BECAUSE I WON A COMPETITION IN THE METRO)
• THE YOUNG KNIVES (w/Blood Red Shoes, Navy Souls(?)), Bristol Anson Rooms, Mon 02/04/07
• WITHIN TEMPTATION (w/Lauren Harris), Bristol Academy, Tue 10/04/07
• MANIC STREET PREACHERS (w/Kids In Glass Houses), Bristol Colston Hall, Sat 02/06/07
• MEGADETH (w/Priestess), Bristol Academy, Wed 13/06/07
• ELECTRIC SIX (w/Kid Carpet), Bristol Thekla Social, Thu 14/06/07
• DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, Bristol Louisiana, Fri 22/06/07
I HAVE GONE TO SEE SMALLER, MORE LOCAL BANDS AT PLACES LIKE THE CROFT, TOO
LIVE COMEDY:
• THE MIGHTY BOOSH, Bristol Colston Hall, Sat 15/04/06
• ALAN CARR, Reading Festival, Fri 25/08/06
• JIMMY CARR, Bristol Colston Hall, Wed 31/01/07
• LENNY HENRY, Bristol Hippodrome, Sun 04/02/07
• RUSSELL HOWARD (w/Marian Pashley), Bristol Hen & Chicken, Sat 16/06/07
IN-STORE APPEARANCES (LIVE SETS, AUTOGRAPH SIGNINGS ETC.):
• THE AUTOMATIC, Fopp Bristol (Park Street), Thu 08/06/06
MUSIC FESTIVALS (AND WHAT YEAR I WAS THERE):
• DOWNLOAD, Donington Park: 2006 (Saturday only), 2007 (Sunday only)
• READING, Reading Richfield Avenue: 2006 (all weekend)
I HAVE BEEN TO SEE SMALLER, MORE LOCAL FESTIVALS AS WELL, MOST NOTABLY ASHTON COURT

My Interests

THE TWO BIGGEST INFLUENCES ON ME ARE MUSIC AND COMEDY
BUT I’M ALSO INTO...
• Being a "MySpace whore"
• Being part of the live music scene
• Being with friends/attempted socialising
• Cats...chasing them AND playing with them, not at the same time though
• The city of Manchester (even though I’ve never been there), especially most of its music, and the whole ‘Madchester’ vibe that seems so great via the media
• eBay!
• Food that isn’t meant to be good for me
• Football (I'm starting to get into it again. Thank you Iain!)
• HOT CHOCOLATE!!! possibly the only reason why I go to Starbucks
• (Lack Of) Asian lifestyle/Religious Influence
• Life/Personal Decisions etc, the shit you think about when you’re down/sad
• Money, or my unfortuante love/greed of it
• Most TV Commercials, especially the clever ones
• Movies, likely from Hollywood/Western culture. I do not like Bollywood at all
• Music Videos/Watching music channels like MTV2, Kerrang! and Scuzz
• News/Current Affairs
• Novelty songs e.g. Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire”, Dire Straits’ “Money For Nothing”
• Retro TV idents e.g. BBC2’s from the 90s
• Retro videogames e.g. Crash Bandicoot, Tekken
• SEXUAL INNEUNDOS!
• The influence of the USSR, especially its National Anthem (whatever it means, but the music kicks ass!), and how it seems ‘cool’ to me, particularly due to the media, somehow
• SUBWAY: I love the Meatball Marinara!
• Watching television, but I’m no couch potato
• and of course...MOI! I don't consider myself a narcisist but there are times where I love myself too damn much!

http://s 8 3. photobucket.com /albums/j287/manics1985 is my Photobucket (take out the spaces)

Here is my YouTube

I'd like to meet:

...apart from the obvious (that being someone to spend my time with, bla-bla-bla and all that crap), there are so many musicians, comedians and actors whose work has had a massive influence on me that I would like to meet; the list would go on for ages should I put it on here...ah I’ll name a few; Dom Joly of Trigger Happy TV fame, James Dean Bradfield from the Manics, Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam, and Dustin Hoffman from...The Graduate and Midnight Cowboy (well he’s been in a lot of films lol).
And of course there are several cartoon characters, such as the Greased Up Deaf Guy from Family Guy, Denzel Crocker from Fairly Odd Parents, and Johnny Bravo from…Johnny Bravo, that I wouldn’t mind meeting, because of their different yet comic personalities and thinking how cool it would be to have met people like them. Problem is, I’m not a cartoon character...yet I act like one.
Oh...and Boris Johnson MP, he’s probably the funniest, legendary politician ever!

Besides, click here to see the pictures of me with those that I HAVE met...

I have also met (but not had pictures with, and in chronological order):
MC Lars,
Russell Leetch from Editors,
BURTON C. BELL FROM FEAR FACTORY,
NOEL FIELDING FROM THE MIGHTY BOOSH,
Iwan & Frost from The Automatic,
Tom Schofield & A.J. Cavalier from SOiL,
Chris Burney; Erik Chandler & Gary Wiseman from Bowling For Soup,
MANIC STREET PREACHERS,
Johnny Na$hinal; The Colonel & Percussion World from Electric Six

...and this is the stuff they signed for me...as well as setlists/plectrums etc I've gotten from gigs

Music:

Bands underlined are those that I've had the pleasure (usually) of seeing live ALL-TIME FAVOURITES:
METALLICA
IRON MAIDEN (x2)
MANIC STREET PREACHERS (x2)
OASIS
FEAR FACTORY

LOVES:
Beck, Billy Talent (x2), Bloodhound Gang, Bon Jovi, Coldplay, The Darkness, Depeche Mode, Drowning Pool, Editors (x2), Electric Six (x2), Franz Ferdinand (x2), The Jam, Linkin Park, Lostprophets (x2), Madness, Megadeth, Motörhead (x2), Muse (x2), My Bloody Valentine, My Chemical Romance (x2), New Order, Nickelback, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Slayer (x2), The Smiths, SOiL, System Of A Down, The Stone Roses, Trivium (x2), U2, Weezer

LIKES:
+44, AC/DC, All-American Rejects, Angels And Airwaves, Arctic Monkeys (x2), Ash, Audioslave, Black Sabbath, Blink-182, Blur, Bowling For Soup (x2), Boy Kill Boy, Bullet For My Valentine (x2), Eagles Of Death Metal (x2), Fall Out Boy, Feeder, Foo Fighters (x2), Funeral For A Friend, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Green Day, Guns’n’Roses, Happy Mondays, Hard-Fi, HIM, The Hives, Ian Brown, Interpol, Joy Division, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, The Killers, Lacuna Coil, Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson, Mastodon (x2), Maxïmo Park (x2), Metric, Morrissey, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, The Offspring, The Ordinary Boys (x2), Panic! At The Disco, Pantera, Papa Roach, Pink Floyd, Placebo, Queen, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rage Against The Machine, Rammstein, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Saliva, Simple Plan, Stone Sour (x2), Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Sum 41, Tenacious D, Travis, Velvet Revolver, The Verve, The Vines (x2), Weird Al Yankovic, Within Temptation (x2), Wolfmother (x2), The Young Knives (x2)

DON'T MIND:
+44, Aerosmith, AFI, Air, Alkaline Trio, The Automatic (x3), Avenged Sevenfold, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Be Your Own Pet, Biffy Clyro, Blondie, Bob Dylan, CKY, The Clash, Clutch, The Cure, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Dirty Pretty Things (x2), Disturbed, Elbow, Eminem (well, some of the funny songs anyway), Faith No More, Fatboy Slim, The Flaming Lips, Flogging Molly (x2), Garbage, Good Charlotte, Gorillaz, Graham Coxon, Idlewild, In Flames, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Klaxons, Korn, Kraftwerk, KT Tunstall, Led Zeppelin, Less Than Jake, Michael Jackson, Ozzy Osbourne, Paramore, Pixies, Primal Scream, Pulp, The Raconteurs, Radiohead, Ramones, The Rakes (x2), Reel Big Fish, Robbie Williams, Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols, The Strokes, Suede, Supergrass, Talking Heads, Thin Lizzy, We Are Scientists, The White Stripes, The Who, Will Smith, The Zutons

TOP 3 FAVE ALBUMS:

IF THERE ARE ALBUMS MISSING, CHANCES ARE THEY DON'T BELONG THERE OR I HAVEN'T HEARD THEM YET!

Movies:

ALL-TIME FAVOURITES:
ROCKY
(in order of preference:
I, III, IV, BALBOA, II, V)
LOVES:
The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Airplane films, American Beauty, Apocalypse Now, Back To The Future trilogy, Beavis And Butthead Do America, Blazing Saddles, Borat, Born On The Fourth Of July, The Butterfly Effect, Chicago, City Of God, A Clockwork Orange, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Flash Gordon, Freddy Got Fingered, Full Metal Jacket, Ghostbusters I & II, The Girl Next Door, The Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas, The Graduate, Heat, Hot Fuzz, The Long Good Friday, Man On The Moon, Marx Brothers films (Duck Soup, A Night At The Opera), Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster, Midnight Cowboy, Monty Python films (Life Of Brian, The Meaning Of Life), My Super-Ex Girlfriend, Police Academy, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Scarface, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Spaceballs, Spirited Away, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Star Wars: Episodes IV-VI, Taxi Driver, Team America: World Police, This Is England, Trainspotting, The Usual Suspects
LIKES:
24 Hour Party People, 28 Days Later/28 Weeks Later, 300, Ace Ventura films, Air Force One, Alien quadrology, Ali G: Indahouse, Austin Powers trilogy, Bad Boys I and II, Battle Royale, A Beautiful Mind, Bedazzled (original version), Beetlejuice, Beverly Hills Cop I and II, Bicentennial Man, Bowling For Columbine, Braveheart, The Breakfast Club, Bruce Almighty, Casablanca, Cast Away, Cats & Dogs, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Clerks, Collateral, Dawn Of The Dead (remake), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Die Hard trilogy, Dirty Harry, most Disney/Pixar films, Doctor Doolittle I and II, Dog Day Afternoon, Dumb and Dumber, Enter The Dragon, The Exorcist, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, A Few Good Men, Final Destination 1 and 2 (haven't seen 3), Gangs Of New York, Get Shorty, Gladiator, Good Will Hunting, The Great Escape, Gremlins 1 and 2, Happy Gilmore, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The Hot Chick, I, Robot, Ice Age, The Italian Job (original version), Jackass movies, most James Bond films, Jarhead, Jaws, Jeepers Creepers, The King Of Comedy, Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, Kinsey, Last Action Hero, The Last Samurai, Leon, Lethal Weapon 1 and 2 (haven't seen 3 or 4), Little Nicky, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lord Of The Rings trilogy, Mad Max (only seen 1st one), Madagascar, The Madness Of King George, The Matrix trilogy, Me, Myself and Irene, Meet The Parents, Mission:Impossible I and II (haven't seen III), Mr Bean films, Napoleon Dynamite, Natural Born Killers, Nightmare On Elm Street, Norbit, Old School, The Omen (original version), Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy, Platoon, Priscilla: Queen Of The Desert, Psycho (original version), Rambo trilogy, Rat Race, Ray, Richard Pryor: Live In Concert, The Ring (US and Japanese versions), Road Trip, The Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, Rush Hour I and II, Saturday Night Fever, Scanners, School Of Rock, Scream trilogy, Se7en, Sexy Beast, Shallow Grave, Shrek I and II, The Silence Of The Lambs, Speed, Spider-Man trilogy, South Park: Bigger; Longer and Uncut, Starsky & Hutch, Star Wars: Episodes I-III, Super Size Me, Taxi (original version), Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny, Terminator trilogy, There's Something About Mary, This Is Spinal Tap, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Transporter, Troy, Wayne's World I and II, Whoops! Apocalypse, X-Men trilogy, Young Frankenstein, Zoolander

Television:

FAVE TV DRAMAS:
24
THE SOPRANOS
LOST
HUSTLE
LIFE ON MARS
FAVE TV COMEDIES:
SEINFELD
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
TRIGGER HAPPY TV
WORLD SHUT YOUR MOUTH
THE MIGHTY BOOSH
LOVES:
2DTV, The Apprentice, Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The Day Today, Dead Ringers, Fairly Odd Parents, Family Guy, Futurama, Goodness Gracious Me, Harry Hill’s TV Burp, Have I Got News For You, Johnny Bravo, Lenny Henry In Pieces/The Lenny Henry Show etc., Malcolm In The Middle, Modern Toss, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Peep Show, Prison Break, Red Dwarf, The Simpsons, The Smith & Jones Sketchbook/Alas Smith & Jones etc, South Park, SpongeBob SquarePants, Time Trumpet, Torchwood
LIKES:
8 Out Of 10 Cats, Da Ali G Show etc, American Dad!, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Balls Of Steel, Beavis And Butt-Head, Black Books, Bo' Selecta!, Borat's Television Programme, Bottom (wanna see The Young Ones though), Bremner, Bird and Fortune, Celebrity Deathmatch, Deal Or No Deal, Doctor Who (2005 onwards), Dom Joly's Happy Hour, Dragons' Den, Extras, Father Ted, Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, The Friday Night Project,, The IT Crowd, Jackass, King Of The Hill, Kombat Opera Presents, Later...With Jools Holland, The League Of Gentlemen (only seen series one though), Little Britain, Look Around You, Man Stroke Woman, Max and Paddy's Road To Nowhere, Monkey Dust, Monty Python's Flying Circus (would love it more if I saw more), Mr Bean, My Name Is Earl, My Wife and Kids, Nathan Barley, The Office, Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights (only seen series one though), QI, Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, Room 101, Shooting Stars, Skins, Spaced, That Mitchell & Webb Look, Ugly Betty, Vic and Bob in Catterick, Viva La Bam

Books:

Animal Farm, Dude, Where's My Country?, Silas Marner (I don't read that many books. I ought to read more.)
Comedians Comedians underlined are those that I've had the pleasure (usually) of seeing live
Alan Carr, Alan Davies, Andy Parsons, Armando Ianucci, Bill Bailey, Chris Morris, Dara O'Briain, Dave Gorman, Dave Spikey, Dead Ringers team, Dom Joly, Dylan Moran, Eddie Izzard, Eddie Murphy (back in the day), Ed Byrne, Frankie Boyle, the Goodies?, Goodness Gracious Me team, Harry Enfield, Harry Hill, Hugh Dennis, Ian Hislop, Jack Dee, Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Carr, Jon Stewart, Larry David, League of Gentlemen team, Lee Evans, Lenny Henry, Mark Steel, Marx Brothers, Matt Lucas & David Walliams, Mel Brooks, Mitchell & Webb, The Mighty Boosh, Monty Python, Nick Frost, Omid Djalili, Paul Merton, Paul Whitehouse, Peter Kay, Richard Pryor, Ricky Gervais, Rik Mayall, Rob Brydon, Rory Bremner, Russell Brand, Russell Howard, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sean Lock, Simon Pegg, Smith & Jones, Stewart Lee, Stephen Merchant, Steve Coogan, Two Ronnies (to an extent), Vic & Bob

Heroes:

the better word is INFLUENCES
PERSONAL:
my father, for many reasons
MUSICIANS:
James Hetfield/Lars Ulrich, Bruce Dickinson/Steve Harris, James Dean Bradfield/Nicky Wire/Richey James/Sean Moore, Liam and Noel Gallagher, Burton C. Bell/Christian Olde Wolbers/Dino Cazares (when he was in Fear Factory), Jam-era Paul Weller, Verve-era Richard Ashcroft, Morrissey/Johhny Marr, Ian Brown/John Squire/Mani, Matt Bellamy, Dick Valentine, Jimmy Pop, Chad Kroeger, Michael Stipe, Eddie Vedder, Alex Kapranos/Nick McCarthy, Dave Mustaine (there might be some more but aren't that influential enough)
COMEDIANS:
Jerry Seinfeld/Larry David, Dom Joly, Lenny Henry, The Mighty Boosh, Jon Stewart, Ian Hislop/Paul Merton, the Marx brothers, Harry Hill, Chris Morris, Smith & Jones, Monty Python
ACTORS:
Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro/Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Kevin Spacey
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS:
George Costanza/Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld), Denzel Crocker/Dinkleburg/Timmy Turner's dad (Fairly Odd Parents), Greased Up Deaf Guy(Family Guy), Tony Blundetto (The Sopranos), The Moon (The Mighty Boosh), Johnny Bravo, Homer Simpson, Gene Hunt (Life On Mars), Mark Corrigan (Peep Show)
POLITICIANS: Boris Johnson

My Blog

Download Festival 2007

WHATEVER HAPPENS...I AM NOT SLEEPING OUTSIDE DERBY TRAIN STATION LIKE LAST YEAR! So I got there on Sunday at 1:30pm after the quick shuttle bus ride from Derby Station to Donington, and especially aft...
Posted by Shahan on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:15:00 PST

manic street preachers...for the 2nd time!!!

i would use a quote from a writer like the manics usually do but i dont know what quote i shall use or what writer to use. shahan miah LEFT LEG GONE DEAD. A CROSS-DRESSING (KINDA) BASSIST. A SUPPORT B...
Posted by Shahan on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:08:00 PST

seeing family for the first time in a long time

IF YOU WERE EXPECTING A BLOG ABOUT THE END OF COLLEGE, YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT IF YOU WERE EXPECTING A LONG BLOG, THEN SORRY, I'M NOT DOING ONE (MAYBE I SHOULD...) came back last night from london....seei...
Posted by Shahan on Tue, 29 May 2007 01:14:00 PST

My MySpace: 12 months on

4TH APRIL 2006My first proper blog? Well................I'm finally going to Reading this summer  and managed to sort this webpage that you see at this moment in time, or a second ago, but still....
Posted by Shahan on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:26:00 PST

BIRTHDAY WEEKEND-ISH 2007

28th January 1989 - 28th January 2007A lot can happen in 18 years...ok, shitty intro over Alright...anything I can do that's better than my disappointing 17th!This year: no work, no worries, more frie...
Posted by Shahan on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:01:00 PST

Scream for me, Cardiff! SCREAM FOR ME, CARDIFF!

"...we focus on being a live performance band providing a show that people will walk away from and hopefully never forget" - Steve Harris, October 2002 So I arrived in Cardiff Central station at 5:30p...
Posted by Shahan on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:10:00 PST

NEW ORDER in Wembley, London: before/it/after

OK...where do I begin? So yeah...I ended up in Wembley (by myself, mind) at around 3.15 in the afternoon; after several train journeys and tube journeys. I was really chuffed that I was the first...
Posted by Shahan on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:57:00 PST

international talk like a pirate day

i know that i be postin' this as a bulletin earlier, but i be postin' as a blog too! ahoy, mateys!today be a great, grand day!yet i be the only sailor that had gone and dressed up like a sprog!look at...
Posted by Shahan on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:13:00 PST

POST-SUMMER

Well today was my first day back at college, and it felt different, obviously because I'm doing some AS courses once again...something this time last year I thought I'd not do again. Anywho, this summ...
Posted by Shahan on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:19:00 PST

READING!!!

So, after being back in Bristol for a few days now, I have finally found the time/effort to write about how I was at the greatest music festival in the world...! Second (proper) music festiv...
Posted by Shahan on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:31:00 PST