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Jeff

Your life is YOUR life. Dont let it be Clubbed into Dark Submission.

About Me


Itinerant Scottish Artist
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I'm mostly into art, books and films. For a long time I used to drink alot but I'm finished with it, as Billy Connolly said 'I drank it all in a wann'r'. The truth is life is better when your sober. Sobriety sees colour, when your drunk you only see shadows of your self.
That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself reposed Under a shade of flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how, Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound
Of waters issued from a cave, and spread
Into a liquid plain, then stood unmoved
Pure as the expanse of heaven; I tither went
With unexperienced thought, and laid me down
On the green bank, to look into the clear
Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky.
As I bent down to look, just opposite
A shape within the watery gleam appeared,
Bending to look on me. I started back;
It started back; but pleased I soon returned,
Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks
Of sympathy and love. There had I fixed
Mine eyes till now, and pined with vain desire,
Had not a voice thus warned me: 'What thou seest,
What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself;
[Paradise Lost, Book IV]

My Interests

P ainting and Drawing, Ive been reading about Palestine lately (Palestine, graphic novel by Joe Sacco), its interesting how differently each side views the situation. I think Galloway's right when he says that we only hear one side of the argument in the West. I suppose the middle east is the great conflict of our time engineered by Britain and the West. It's an eye opener to see things from the arab point of view when you've only ever really heard one side of the story.

Im a socialist and I tend towards the artwork of Ken Currie, Diego Rivera, Filonov, Brueghel and Ive recently been reading the poetry of Charles Bukowski

I'd like to meet:

Dunno, Any suggestions?.

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Movies:

Films

I think I might be a movie buff, im not as bad as some but there's nothing I like better than getting a tall glass of cola rattling with ice, a pizza, a bag of popcorn and sitting down to watch a few films.
    All Time Goodfellas The Godfather(PtI&II) The Caine Mutiny Rocky The Matrix Pulp Fiction The Deer Hunter Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe

    Top British Films Ealing Comedies(All) Hammer House of Horror(All) Trainspotting Dr Strangelove The Life of Brian This sporting Life Just a boys Game Kes A Night To Remember

    60's Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid The Good the Bad and the Ugly Cool Hand Luke The Odd Couple This Sporting Life Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe The Great Escape
    70's Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Superman 2001 a space odyssey One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest The Taking of Pelham 123 Taxi Driver

    80's Breakfast Club E.T. Terminator Raiders Of The Lost Arc Back To The Future
    90's The Matrix Dumb and Dumber Schindlers List Casino Reservoir Dogs Ghostbusters

    00's Shrek Farenheight 911 The Machinist Memento The Hills have eyes.
Most Over RatedBlair Witch Project Lord Of The Rings Harry Potter (All) Citizen Caine The Village
    Best Actors James Cagney Jack Nicholson Christopher Walken Robert DiNiro Paul Newman Marlon Brando Sean Connory Richard Burton Alistair Simms
    Best Actress Elizabeth Taylor Cathy Bates Meryl Streep Lauren Bacall
Other categories, animated, war films, gangster, pre-war, bio-pics(Jolson and Jolson Sings Again no contest).
I'll leave it at that for the moment

Television:

Television

Eighteen months ago I wrote to the BBC and told them they could keep their programs and I would keep my money. Ive got a little portable DVD player now. From the library I got out the soprano's season 1&2. Treeemendous.

Its amazing what a library card can do.

Books:

Books

    Top-5 On The Road 1984 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists The Catcher in the Rye Catch-22.

I like Horror and Science Fiction as well and read Stephen King, he can be a bit cheesy at times but good entertainment. Peter Straus is disturbingly brilliant and I like Arthur.C.Clarke and Asimov. Im a bit of a geek when I think about it

    Worst-5 The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings
Took me two Years! But I didnt give up. Was the film more or less boring? mmmm At least when I was reading it I didnt have to listen to that boring music.

Heroes:

Heroes

    Top-5 Mohammed Ali Superman Henrick Larsson Dave Gilmour My Dead Dog Axel

My Blog

Its been a busy time lately.

The last few months have been pretty frantic. First I moved back to Glasgow from Leeds. It was brilliant to be back in a city that has a pulse, it felt like I was back among civilisation again after b...
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:57:00 PST

Discussion on Corporate Conceptual Art

My buddy chito got the ball rolling in this discussion with this statement   chito M/42 Posted:  20 Jul 2007, 10:40 It is my dream to win the Saatchi art idol (Showdown) bec he's ...
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:07:00 PST

People with the cold suck.

Ive got a sore throat now. People who give you the cold are shits. Why cant they just stay in their beds? I know who it was. Mr Sneezey who sat behind me on the train. Fuck you I thought, I'm not sitt...
Posted by Jeff on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:32:00 PST

Terror Attacks on Glasgow

As a Scotsman of Irish and Scottish decent, living in Glasgow, the events that have taken place in the middle-east throughout my life have always been something that I have been interested in, but in ...
Posted by Jeff on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:49:00 PST

Going Home

Im, going back home to Glasgow Next week, im being booted out of my residence. Things are going to be tough for a while. I'll Need to get a job doing anything, to get the money for a place to live. Su...
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:45:00 PST

My Wilderness Year

Ok, a little about me. Im from Glasgow but Im living in Leeds at the moment. I was at art school here last year, but the place didn't suit me. The course was too focused on so called concept...
Posted by Jeff on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:00:00 PST