Being a chef i'm well into experimenting with food, fusing different styles and flavours to create new dishes for my menu's, my other main passion is writing and music journalism. I also love tracking and collecting vinyl, checking out live arts of any kind, mainly music, travelling the world and sampling new cultures, Mods and Vespa/Lambretta scootering, Liverpool F.C, Bourbon and red wines, ALSO...trying new shit and laying off the old shit! generally being happy and having fun whenever possible!!!!
I'd like to meet:
I do like meeting new people...Anyone with something to say really, but not talking shite for the sake of conversation!! Interesting folks and humorous characters are always welcome! Someone with a bit of that unexplainable spark about them or with an inner glow!! Genuine people and genuinely nice people!!! No time for cunts!!! I like individuals who say what and how they are feeling and who stand up for what they believe in. Obviously, it makes it easier if we have something in common but that's not essential. In fact that really doesn't matter at all...I'm talking shit!!!
So in short....I'll talk to anyone and every fucker, providing they've got something decent to say! Stay cool wont'cha!!
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Music:
Influences growing up as a kid (through my mum and sisters!) varied from Elvis, Soul/Motown and Mod groups to 60's pop, Glam and Bowie. First music I bought for myself was T-Rex "21st Century Boy", i was about 11 and from that day i've also loved....Kraftwerk and anything electro growing up in the 80's including Erasure (Yeah, I know FUCK OFF!!!), Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode and Ultravox / Visage....onto my real loves...... The Doors, Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, Love, The Kinks, The Beatles and Lennon, Rolling Stones, The Who, The Small Faces, Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett, The Yardbirds, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppellin....Neil Young, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, The Jam, Joy Division, The Clash...Bob Marley, Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Reggae....then the explosion of Detroit Techno and Chicago House.... The Charlatans, Inspiral Carpets, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Primal Scream, New Order....The Acid Jazz years..Mother Earth, Corduroy, Brand New Heavies, James Taylor Quartet, Jamiroquai, Gilles Peterson & Talkin' Loud....Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Classic Jazz....Funkadelic/Parliament, Gil-Scott Heron, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Bobby Womack, Stevie Wonder.....Wu Tang Clan, N.W.A, Public Enemy, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Jurrasic 5, De La Soul, Juba Dance.....Innovative British Techno..Cristian Vogel, Neil Landstrumm, Si Begg, Tobias Schmidt, etc, Super_Collider......Nirvana, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, Cast, Shed Seven, Kula Shaker, Gomez, The Verve, Turin Brakes,.......Beck, Ian Brown, Unkle, Death In Vegas, The Bays, David Holmes, Mr Scruff, St Germain, Portishead, Elliot Smith, Paul Weller, Finlay Quaye, Beth Orton, Amy Winehouse, Morcheeba, Zero 7, Big Boss Man......Matt Deighton, The Libertines, The Mooney Suzuki, Kings Of Leon, The Black Keys....Jamie Lidell, Matthew Herbert, DJ Format, Kasabian, The Coral, The Zutons, The Bees, Babyshambles, The Dirty Pretty Things, Jet, Arctic Monkeys, Humanzi, The Rapture, Archie Bronson Outfit, Little Barrie, The New Mastersounds, The Sunshine Underground, The Go! Team, The Fratellis, The Greenhornes, Figure5, Gossip, Foals, The Draytones, Howling Bells, Guillemots, The Rumble Strips, Noisettes, 1990's, The Enemy, The On-Offs, The Law, Guile, The Bongolian, Does It Offend You, Yeah? and local unsigned's The New Delamores, The Voltaires, Samuel Thornton, Shatner, ..plus loads of other cool shit I forgot!!!!
Movies:
Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, From Dusk till Dawn, Reservoir Dogs, Casino, El Mariachi, Kill Bill, Goodfellas, Desperado, Jackie Brown, Panic In Needle Park, Mean Streets, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, Natural Born Killers, Donnie Brasco, True Romance, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Rocky (1-4), The Wicker Man (original!), Once Upon A Time In Mexico (& America!), Apocolypse Now, The Game, Scum, The Firm (UK), Scarface, Donnie Darko, Star Wars, Quadrophenia, McVicar, Made In Britain, The Wall, Trainspotting, The Doors, Dead Man's Shoes, The Shining, Porn, Nil By Mouth, Carlito's Way, Enter The Dragon, Shaun of the Dead, Easy Rider, The Deer Hunter, 24Hour Party People, Deep Throat, Rambo:First Blood, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, The Matrix(Trilogy), Bad Lieutenant, Shawshank Redemption, Latin Onion Booties 3, The Lost Boys, Sexy Beast, Vanilla Sky, Arlington Road, Zoolander.....and more recently... Wedding Crashers, Nacho Libre, A Scanner Darkly, Smokin'Aces, Little Miss Sunshine, The Last King of Scotland, Hot Fuzz, Factory Girl, Zodiac, American Gangster, No Country For Old Men, Rambo, Control and The Happening (which is much better than most PRICK critics make out!!)
Television:
Mighty Boosh, League of Gentlemen, Peep Show, Extras, Saxondale, Porn, Match of the Day, 4 Music, The Office, Pheonix Nights, Blue Planet, Any Wildlife, Nighty Night, Shameless, My Name is Earl, Everybody Loves Raymond, Jackass, Steve-O, Alan Partridge, Starsky and Hutch, The A Team, The Fall Guy, Knight Rider, The Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, Cow & Chicken, World's Strongest Man, Family Guy, Jonathon Ross Show, Soccer A.M, Later With Jools Holland, Transmission, Seven Ages Of Rock.... Big Brother!!! (Fuck Off I'm Joking!!)
Books:
Hunter.S.Thompson (The Man!), Irvine Welsh (Glue, The Acid House, Filth, The Maribou Stork Nightmares, Trainspotting & Porno), Aldous Huxley, William Burroghs' 'Naked Lunch' & 'Junky' , J.G.Ballard....The Sharper Word, Kiss Me Judas, The Damage Done, Scar Tissue, Killing Pablo, The Dice Man, American Psycho, Mr Nice, Addicted, No One Here Gets Out Alive, On The Road (..and more Kerouac), Margrave of the Marshes, Instant Party, John, 1984, The Darlings of Wapping Wharf Launderette (Do magazine's count??..ah well...!!) Vibrations, Rhubarb Bomb, No-Title, NME (for my sins!!), Crash, Mojo, Reverb, Uncut, Plan B....
Heroes:
No REAL heroes, My sisters are cool as fuck and my best (girl?)friend Gina is a delight!! The rest are just cool folk, whom I respect??..John Lennon, Steve Mariott, Jim Morrison, Pete Townshend, Steven Gerrard........
