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Ceri

I'm so bored of MySpace. *sigh*

About Me

Hello, I'm Ceri.
I come from the unpredictable geographical soup of chavs and emos that is the city of Cardiff; and I am inexorably bored with it. Don't believe the hype, kids; Cardiff is a no horse town. I have an awesome boyfriend, and my Mum rocks more socks than a lorry delivering socks to Topshop from somewhere far. I'm off to Bristol Uni in September to pursue a masters in Philosophy (the philosophy of physics and epistemology, specifically).
My likes include philosophy, theoretical physics (especially of the quantum variety), noisy guitar music, dancing like there are ants in my pants, stripey things, small furry animals, and random road trips.
My dislikes mainly revolve around the improper use of the English language; for example, 'txt spk' makes me want to gouge my brain out through my nose with rusty fish hooks. However, I have many a 'pet hate,' such as chavs who play tinny and repetitive 'music' from their 'phones' on public transport.
Oh--and if my profile looks odd to you, it's because you have a crappy browser. Everything is best viewed in Apple's Safari browser. Fact.

My Interests

The philosophy of science, deconstruction, French and German existentialism, going to random local gigs, randomness in general, fashioning gifts for my friends out of card and glitter in a Blue Peter styley, Japanese cartoons, pistachios, tattoos, Mac OS X, writing html and css the good old fashioned way in Notepad, going round the pub with my buddies, dancing, laughing, eating, drinking, walking, breathing; the usual

I'd like to meet:

I don't add anyone I don't know - yes; that includes you, random bands, musicians, and providers of services! Peddle your wares on your own websites!

Links:

Weird and wonderful webcomics
xkcd ♥
Indexed
The Perry Bible Fellowship
White Ninja Comics
Savage Chickens
Questionable Content

Resources
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Lissa Explains it All

Utilities
For Windows
Apple's Safari browser
Mozilla Thunderbird
For Mac OS
Adium

Random and stupid
Urban75's Useless Games Gallery
Fail dogs

South Wales bands you need in your life

All buttons made from bands' own artwork. No stealing.

Music:

AFI, Against Me!, Alanis Morissette, Alkaline Trio, The Arteries, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Avenged Sevenfold, Bad Religion, Battles, The Beastie Boys, Black Flag, Blink 182, The Bloodhound Gang, The Bouncing Souls, Brand New, The Cramps, Dinosaur Jr, The Dresden Dolls, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Fall Out Boy, Far, Finch, Foals, Head Automatica, Heavens, The Henry Rollins Band, The Innercity Pirates, Interpol, Jamie T, Jimmy Eat World, Jonah Matranga, Khoma, Kimya Dawson, Lily Allen, The Maccabees, Matt Skiba, Maximo Park, mewithoutYou, The Moldy Peaches, The New 1920, New End Original, New Found Glory, The Offspring, Onelinedrawing, Panic! At the Disco (the first album), Paramore, Plain White T's, The Postal Service, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Shins, The Slowdance, The Smashing Pumpkins, Taking Back Sunday, Therapy?, This Hidden Switch, Thrice, Tool, Transplants, Weezer, The Wombats, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Movies:

Juno, Transformers, Anchorman, Old School, Napoleon Dynamite, Clerks 2, Mallrats, Dogma, Team America: World Police, Wayne's World 1 & 2, Garden State, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Fearless, Akira, Howl's Moving Castle, My Nieghbour Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, The Lord of the Rings

Television:

Heroes, Scrubs, Futurama, Family Guy, American Dad, Naruto Unleashed, Bleach, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI

Books:

Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis, Silly Verse for Kids - Spike Milligan, Sun Boiled Onions - Vic Reeves, Existentialism is a Humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre, The Outsider - Albert Camus, On Suicide - David Hume, The Oxford Book of English Verse - Christopher Ricks (ed.), The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

Heroes:

Eddie Izzard, Max Planck, Chris Norris, Andrew Edgar, Huw, Mart

My Blog

14.1.08 - Radiohead, Arcade Fire, and other bands you have to "get."

Here it is, folks: Ceri's annual rant/blog. Welcome to my deconstruction of that certain niche in music which one has to "get" in order to enjoy. I hope it makes you cogitate.I am one of what appears ...
Posted by Ceri on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:12:00 PST

1.5.07 - Assembly election cheaters: the new First-Past-The-LibDems system

I know I should be writing up that essay, but I've produced enough bile on the subject that I just have to spew it.The LibDems have adopted a bitesize, friendly-faced indoctrination strategy, and it r...
Posted by Ceri on Tue, 01 May 2007 09:47:00 PST

24.4.07 - Song de jour. Just because.

Brand New - Okay I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don'tI am heaven sent.Don't you dare forget.I am all you've ever wanted, what the other boys all promised.Sorry I told.I just needed you to know.I think...
Posted by Ceri on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:19:00 PST

20.4.07 - I'VE GOT MY MOJO BACK!!!!!!11oneleven

Oh yes. I'm back in the game!I used to be able to pretty much pull a 2000 word essay out of my arse in approximately 48 to 72 hours, but since being ill over December, January, and to be fair, most of...
Posted by Ceri on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:31:00 PST

17.4.07 - Ohnohedidn't! Marx bitch-slaps the philosophers: My final gripe with Marxism

Apparently, Marx once said that "[t]he philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."Well well, sounds like we have a wisenheimer on our hands!Phil...
Posted by Ceri on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:29:00 PST

7.4.07 - Baby can't you help me, you know I hate dancing by myself! (woop woop!)

I went to The Take's last ever gig last night, and it was bloody awesome. I feel somewhat hard done by that my first time seeing them was also my last! They were utterly brilliant, and it really is a ...
Posted by Ceri on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:34:00 PST

2.4.07 - expletives not deleted

I really don't have anything interesting or insightful to write about at the moment, so why I've decided to come on here and ramble at you truly is beyond me.I am now beginning to get a bit worried ab...
Posted by Ceri on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:18:00 PST

17.3.07 - Teething (and stuff)

Has anyone else noticed how unbelievably crap wisdom teeth are? I have this horrible ineffacable stinging in my gum which no amount of Bonjela or oil of cloves seems to do anything about. We are not ...
Posted by Ceri on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:12:00 PST

8.3.07 - &stuff... (random splurge)

I've been feeling notably chipper for the last week or so, which has been a rare occurrence of late with the amount of work and pressure I've been dealing with and the shameful lack of chances to get ...
Posted by Ceri on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:27:00 PST

27.2.07 - Sweet Grandmother's spatula! Glorious news!

I've been accepted onto the Philosophy MA at Brizzle Uni. It's conditional on a 2:1 (and what end of the 2:1 my grades are at), but still, awesome times! That's the second time the smarmiest uni besid...
Posted by Ceri on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:52:00 PST