i watch a lotta movies. movie nerd that reaches for the halliwell guide before commiting to an hour and a half or so. BEER BEER BEER and a few gin and tonics(with lime,not lemon)i do enjoy the pub it has to be said. hasn't the same appeal it used to for me tough. waste quite some time a week shooting things to bits on the PS2/x-box, but hell it keeps the frustration in check. i'm not the total "goff" i appear to be either. i dislike most of the modern goth music. i tend to dismiss it as noise generally. always a good conversation starter with new people!!!! i love my wardrobe. i like to dress up for an occasion but i'm no fashion victim. i come from the 80's school of goth/alt. live on my own with my cat Ginger. whos the worlds biggest shit, as cats go hes got the personality of a rabid rottwiler, i have a new feline guest these days whom we call "lucky pompey". once a month i like to go to the cigar shop (decent cigar shop on grafton street, only place to shop) get a big stogie, find a nice warm beer garden, blaze up and settle down for a few hours with a good book and beer. it may not be exciting to you but dammit i've earned it. like to see at least one gig a month if i can. as for clubs...well those in dublin will know we ain't got much choice here. but i do go every now and again to catch up with everyone.
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bauhaus, love & rockets, queens of the stoneage, foo fighters, sex pistols, damned, nina simone, john lee hooker, bb king, fall, p.i.l., kooshen, fluke, apollo 440, jimi hendrick, led zeppelin, peaches, iggy pop, alabama 3, cocteau twins, clash, stone roses, nirvana, beatles, cult, janes addiction,Depeche Mode, t-rex, The Cure , Siouxsie & The Banshees, Joy Division, The Sisters Of Mercy, new order, mozart, handal, bach, cramps, underworld, orb, smiths, sonic youth, L7, The Pixies, Queen Adreena, white zombie, velvet underground, orbital, madness, specials, leftfield, daft punk, curve, thin lizzy, kyuss, Placebo, green day, nin, ramones, johnny cash, gorillaz, rolling stones -nothing past the 70's, doors, chemical brothers, gary newman, echo & the bunnymen, wedding present, house of love, atari teenage riot, portishead, flaming lips, talk talk, yellow lorry red lorry, ghost of lemora, dead kennedys, goldfrapp, virgin prunes, white strips, pink floyd, cream, big black/rapeman, rev. horten heat, death in vegas, john lennon, air, dreadzone, senor cocconut, happy mondays, black grape, art of noise, aphhex twin- highlights not a whole album, the the, blondie, public enemy, grandmaster flash, ice t, bodycount, breeders, lush, kate bush, cowboy junkies, gay bikers on acid, billy chidish, holly golightly, this mortal coil, colour box, shakespeares sister, john coltrane, cure, curve, s.l.f., jesus and mary chain, pure blind panic, police, muse, everything but the girl, m.a.r.r.s., killing joke, faithless, Dinosaur Jr, bastard sons of boris karloff, vnv nation, meteors, ,......
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adopt your own virtual pet!Some Like It Hot, Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia, evil under the sun, death on the nile, murder on the orient express, Doctor Strangelove,
Sunset Boulevard, Casablanca, Young Frankenstein, Clue, Murder By Death, Star Wars, Matrix, Carry on Screaming, Shining, Gosford Park, M.A.S.H., Evil Dead 2 & 3, This is Spinal Tap, 2001, sleepy hollow, mars attacks, old hammer horror movies, roger corman slock, ealing comedies, interview with a vampire but never ever mention the queen of the damned film to me...grrr. shadow of the vampire, bram stokers dracula, the hunger, all the pixar movies and ice age, catch 22, sahara (1944), The Searchers, fist full of dollors etc, bubba-ho-tep, terry gillam & monty pyton movies, shawshank redemption, amadeus, apocalypse now, fight club, breakfast club, anchor man, dodgeball, adams family, shaun of the dead, dogma, jay & silent bob, snatch & lock, stock..., peter sellers movies, from dusk to dawn, name of the rose, zardoz, aliens, fifth element, starship troopers, predator 1,2,3, van helsing, underworld, lair of the white worm, seven, withnail & i, 24 hour party people, rocky horror, blazing saddles, blues brothers,lord of rings, 300, batman begins, the dark knight, betty page movie, hot fuzz, and on and on and on......
lately i have been watching; not a lot apart from the comedy channel repeats ad nausum. there seems to be fuck all on the box at the moment. roll around autumn.rare that i'll actually see absolutly all of a programme as i'm one of those irritating fucks who keep channal surfing like it was going out of fashion but when i do stop; family guy rules, futurama, american dad, simpsons, Rome, sky at night, c.s.i., paramount comedy channel,scrubs, 2 and a half men, comic strip presents, history channels, lost, blackadder, red dwarf, sharpe, hornblower, black books, spaced, porrige, the horror channel, sci-fi channel. stargate sg1/atlantis, battlestar galactica, adult swim- the best being robot chicken. have you seen their list of voices? fuckin A. looking forward to this being on dvd. things i loath on tv; game shows, big brother and all that other "reality" shit, afternoon talk shows, soap operas. Also i have a dark tv addiction past; i admit it i used to be adicted to star trek. not just bits but all of it. i feel dirty now. think i need a shower.
at the moment i am reading; "tyrant" by valerio massimo manfredi. generally lot of sci-fi, history, alt. history/speculative (holy blood, holy grail etc) and generall fiction. biographys are always a good stopgap in between books. especially old movie star ones from the 30's to 50's. gregory benford, david brin asimov, peter f hamilton, kevin j anderson,elizabeth kostova, susanna clarke, graham hancock, anne rice, arthur c clark, china mieville, ian banks, philip k dick, terry pratchart,laurell k hamilton, robert rankin, neil gaiman, alan moore, tom holland, used to be a big comics fan still got my 2000ad's and tankgirl/deadline comics,(batmans, watchmen, sandmans, v for vendetta, elf quest, doonesbury) phillip pullman,jean auel, h p lovecraft, todd grimson, richard morgan, poppy z bright, t e lawrence, herodotus, tacitus, joesphus, armistead maupin, edgar allen poe, bram stocker, robert a heinlein, richard matheson, brian aldiss, joseph heller, harry harrison, ....more to be added as they arrive i soppose.