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Ben

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About Me

I live in Liverpool but was born and raised in Southport, Merseyside. I live in a flat. I moved in on 25th May 2005. Liverpool won the Champions League that night. It was a good day.I work in Marketing in local government which is ace.I have a simply wonderful girlfriend, support Liverpool FC and play guitar and sing in the band, Billy England. myspace.com/billyenglanduk...Life generally is pretty alright.

My Interests

music, Liverpool FC, food, travelling (dream trip: the Trans Siberian Express from Moscow to Beijing via the Trans Mongolian line - I will do this one day), the Lake District, European Political History.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

right.....Fugazi, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Byrds, Pavement, Modest Mouse, Rocket from the Crypt, Girls Against Boys, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, Interpol, Bloc Party, Joy Division, ACDC, Black Sabbath, Nation of Ulysses, Drive Like Jehu, Bruce Springsteen, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Beirut, Arcade Fire, the Beach Boys Kraftwerk, Q & Not U, Minor Threat, Blondie, the Ramones, Television, Stephen Malkmus, Kyuss, QOTSA and Billy England. there are more, but that's all I can be arsed with right now....

Movies:

Spinal Tap, Star Wars, The Shining, The Big Lebowski, Anchorman, Zoolander, Dr Strangelove, The Wicker Man, Threads (and other nuclear war disaster movies) The Omen

Television:

Alan Partridge, The Simpsons, Newsnight, Brass Eye, The Day Today, Jam, Nathan Barley, Peep Show, World at War, Nazis: A Warning from History, mostly anything with Rick Stein or Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall in, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares ("Where are your fucking balls?!"), the 50 Best Hip Hop Collaborations, you know the kind of thing...

Books:

4 broad categories 1. Liverpool FC, 2. Food, 3. Travel, 4. War / Political History

Heroes:

Rafa Benitez, Kenny Dalglish, John Barnes, Robbie Fowler, Vladimir Smicer, David St Hubbins, The Swimming pool attendant on the The Day Today.