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Saint Gut-Free

Whaddu i get for ten dollars huni?

About Me

So, is this for real? Or is St. Gut just an on-line character constructed as part of a immersive ethnographic research project into post-industrial social networking? Those who know me know it's for real. But it is the other thing too. Complex. So....all the usual stuff. Vegan boy. World traveller. Yanno - trekking accross the Himalayas, driving muscle cars across the Arizona desert, riding motorcycles to Geneva and Prague and back and suchlike. Squirreling around race ciruits...

Silverstone, (Mark No. 3)...............
Silverstone Stowe, (Mark No. 20)..
Silverstone, (Mark No. 3)...............
Silverstone Stowe, (Mark No. 20)..

Mallory Park,(no number).............. MyGen Profile Generator

Also irredeemably attached to the unnecessarily complex and gratuitously contrarian bipolar cases.... its driving me incrementally more nuts every day. And i'm all good with that... ;-)

My Interests

we like...Distance running, Jiu-Jitsu, Kick boxing, Ashtanga Yoga: mountain bikes, global travel, economics, politics, motorcycles, hot nekkid chicks,
takin' all these photos (all mine, including the background, apart from the ones of me riding bikes, duh!)
Treking up mountains, like my 2004 Himalayan mission:
Annapurna

Or July the 2006 Isle of Skye mission:

Arizona desert, Sedona, and Grand Canyon expedition October 2006:

Cathederal Rock:

Cartoon version of Mark in the Arizona desert: Cartoon version of Mark doin' yoga in the Sussex woods:

I'd like to meet:

Key search words: (Vegan)(rocker)(glam)(biker)(chicks). Cute like us.
Y las psicóloga glam rock chics, obviamente, jeje...estan las estrellas... ;-). And anyone who can help with my language 'skills'.

Music:

Quiero artistas similares a Kiss.
Y tambien...
Tool
A Perfect Circle
NIN
Filter
Rollins
Stone Temple Pilots
Soundgarden
Jane's Addiction
Army of Anyone
Incubus
RATM
Alice in Chains
Godhead
Jerry Cantrell
Fu Manchu
Monster Magnet
Buckcherry
Hank III
Pearl Jam
RHCP
Rolling Stones
Peter Frampton
Deftones
Zodiac Mindwarp
Cult
Black Crowes
Ted Nugent
Veruca Salt
Iggy Pop
And Wagner. Scares the hell out of the VC and my boys love it.

Movies:

Apocalypse Now
Buffalo 66
Pi
Two Lane Blacktop
Paris Texas
American Beauty
Fight Club
Natural Born Killers
Salvador
This is Spinal Tap
Vanishing Point
Dazed and Confused
One From the Heart
Lots of Peter Greenaway
David Lynch
Coppola
et al...

Television:

I can't watch TV anymore. Can't do it.

Books:

Brett Easton Ellis
Chuck Palahniuk
Umberto Eco
Martin Amis
Douglas Coupland
Joseph Heller
Angela Carter
Kathy Acker
JG Ballard
Peter Ackroyd
Robert M Pirsig
William Burrows
Thomas Pynchon
William Gibson
Naomi Klein
Noam Chomsky

Heroes:

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Noam Chomsky
Richard Dawkins
Charles Darwin
David Hume
Adam Smith
John Maynard Keynes
Isaac Newton
IK Brunel
Mahatma Ghandi
Simon Sylites up that pole
et cetera..
et cetera...

My Blog

Pinky, are you pondering what im pondering...

I've been doing some research into North American light confectionery. For serious. It's what I do, k? Anyway, I found out today that you can apparently get something called a "Newton Fig".  Is t...
Posted by Saint Gut-Free on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:40:00 PST

Stalkers, as a modern phenomonen

Everyone has a stalker these days, apart from me. As a consequence, Im feeling socially excluded and emotionally disadvantaged. Back in Edinburgh, my buddy Dave used to find notes slipped under his w...
Posted by Saint Gut-Free on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:31:00 PST

Im a loser, baby&

  This account will probably bore the living daylights out of anyone whos not a runner or whatever, so if ynot dudes, maybe best to get out now!   Regular readers will be aware that for t...
Posted by Saint Gut-Free on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:25:00 PST

If you need a work out....

Hmm, well, I wouldn't normally post an advertisement or anything so crass, but a pal of mine has just set up a website for her yoga classes, so i feel rather compelled to give her a bit of promotion. ...
Posted by Saint Gut-Free on Sun, 04 Dec 2005 02:42:00 PST

Nutritional breakthrough

  You know what? I cant imagine why I ever thought doing a half marathon was such a big deal. I did my first half-marathon distance training run on Saturday afternoon. It was a piece of piss. To...
Posted by Saint Gut-Free on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:37:00 PST

You can only formulate so many denials! ;-)

Well, this week really has turned around very well indeed. I'm so looking forward to finally getting over to Atlanta. And it's great to still have a job. And to have my MBA paid for in full. And my si...
Posted by Saint Gut-Free on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 03:29:00 PST

Homo Economus

Everything is about economics. Well it is for me, anyway. Im obsessed with it. I see it everywhere.   I used to believe that the most useful thing (by which I mean academic discipline) to be goo...
Posted by Saint Gut-Free on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:30:00 PST

These list things

Can't abide these list things, but on another site I was 'tagged' by a pal of mine to write 20 interesting things about myself. Hmm. We here's 20 items, as to whether or not they ar interest...
Posted by Saint Gut-Free on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:14:00 PST

Half Marathon Man

Is it safe?                 Are you talking to me?Is it safe?         & nbsp; &nbs...
Posted by Saint Gut-Free on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:45:00 PST

Happy Samhuinn!

This being an example of how celebrate it in Edinburgh... Btw, anyone know how to post pics when commenting on friends' journals. I'd wanted to do that with this image, but couldn't figure out h...
Posted by Saint Gut-Free on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 06:37:00 PST