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Chris Magnetic PUNK

it's not that far.....as the crow flies

About Me

Hi
My name is Chris and I live in the West End of Glasgow with my beautiful girlfriend Fey, a rabbit called Hunter and an ever expanding collection of guitars.
By day I sell tickets at the SECC box office, which is a job not short on perks and a distinct improvement on any other mode of employ at this point in my career path.
By night, Im a singer/songwriter and guitarist working on an number of fun projects. More will follow on this.
I hold what is dear to me close, andf push everything else awasy,. cause I have learned to my cost that most people are selfish, using parasites. I love my girl without question, and would shed blood, tears and worse for my true friends, should they but need it. As for everyone else, you are at best scenery and at worst an obstacle soon to become roadkill on my onward path.
I also like to read books (sci-fi, fantasy, educational), watch movies (action, comedy, horror) and TV (wrestling, 24, CSI, NCIS, the X Factor), play computer games (football, RPG, strategy), drink (coke, apple juice, beer, bourbon), eat (italian, stir fry, indian, sunday dinner) all the while formulating plans for world domination.
If you're a friend, I'll see you at the bar, mines a pint of lager with a jack daniels chaser.
Slainte
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My Interests

Music
Reading
History
People
Drama
Politics
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Spirituality
Cooking
Visual Art

I'd like to meet:

Any like minded folks for chats about stuff, and jamming with guitars.

Music:

VAST
Foo Fighters
Nine Inch Nails
Metallica
Deftones
Coheed & Cambria
and so much more from acoustic folk, through hard rock to electronica....

Movies:

Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Forever (just for Jim Carrey)
Batman Begins
the Dark Knight
The Matrix
The Crow
Mi:II
Star Wars Trilogy
The Lost Boys
Blade Trilogy
Die Hard
The Lion King
Williams Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
Moulin Rouge
Some Kind of Monster
Se7en
Fight Club
What's Easting Gilbert Grape
The Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
The Princess Bride

Television:

WWE Wrestling
CSI
The Shield
Battlestar Galactica
Supernatural
24
I REALLY MISS
Twin Peaks
The X Files
Dark Skies
Angel
Millenium
American Gothic
Masters of the Universe
Thundercats

Books:

Anything by...
Iain M Banks
Janny Wurts
Raymond E Fiest
Robin Hobb
JRR Tolkein
Julian May
David Eddings
Oscar Wilde
WB Yeats
and Terry Pratchett!

Heroes:

Papa
James Hetfield
Jon Crosby
Dave Grohl
Jerry Cantrell
Terry Pratchett
WB Yeats
Oscar Wilde

My Blog

Various Nonsense

Ah, my net connection works for more than five minutes at a time - what a marvel!  Anyways, onto the usual ranting and reviewing of things. Wanted Hmmnnn....it was a good popcorn movie, but not t...
Posted by Chris Magnetic PUNK on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:23:00 PST

The State of the Art 1.0 - Kyrbgrinder/Forsaken @ Ivory Blacks

The State of the Art - Issue 1.0 Kyrbgrinder/Forsaken @ Ivory Blacks 11/05/08   You could be forgiven for writing London's Kyrbgrinder (http://www.myspace.com/kyrbgrinder) off as a ban...
Posted by Chris Magnetic PUNK on Fri, 16 May 2008 12:56:00 PST

The State of the Art. 0.0 - Introduction

The State of the Art - Issue 0.0 Introduction, Mission Statement and Disclaimer   Hi, my name is Chris and I am a musoholic, not to mention a musophile.  I love to listen to, play, watch, t...
Posted by Chris Magnetic PUNK on Fri, 16 May 2008 12:54:00 PST

VAST @ King Tut’s - (Support - Scanners)

OK, so it's taken a while, but I was net impoverished for ages and it's only now I have time to collect my thoughts etc.Thiose of you who have known me for a while, or have even taken the most cursory...
Posted by Chris Magnetic PUNK on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:41:00 PST

First THREE gig reviews of the year - don’t say I don’t love you!

First up, I've started a new way to rate gigs, after my usual impertinent commentary, I'll rate the headliners on Musicianship, Stagecraft, Crowd, Emotional Attachment (i.e. how much I personally FEEL...
Posted by Chris Magnetic PUNK on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:08:00 PST

BDB, stolen from JC

This is from the blog of Jon Crosby from VAST, I think it's amazing and oh, so painfully true - so Im gonna share it with all my regular readers. Chris. ------------------------------------------...
Posted by Chris Magnetic PUNK on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:58:00 PST

XXVI

It may seem unecessary, or even a display of the most crass hubris imaginable, but given the way I seem to be rampantly misunderstood, even by some supposed 'friends', a mission statement is requ...
Posted by Chris Magnetic PUNK on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:27:00 PST

Foo Fighters / Nine Inch Nails / Silversun Pickups @ Meadowbank Review

God how much had I looked forward to this!  Two of my favourite bands on the same bill, two bands that personify two completely different, yet complementary aspects of my musical taste. ...
Posted by Chris Magnetic PUNK on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:22:00 PST

Real bands, Calvin?

I was heartily amused to hear that Calvin Harris threw a huff at Live @ Loch Lomond on Sunday when some mud was thrown at him onstage. He then cuts his set short and dives in to the crowd to attempt t...
Posted by Chris Magnetic PUNK on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:37:00 PST

Ideology

As a thinking, individual person and more specifically as a musician and a fan of music, as opposed to trying to 'fit in', be popular or change my tastes and styles to fit the current fashions, I am o...
Posted by Chris Magnetic PUNK on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:17:00 PST