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Greg

www.when homelesstakeover theworld.com

About Me

Pics of me in LA, san fran, 1st band = sonic youth, 2nd band = queens of the stoneage, hawaii, fiji & VancouverRingo - Photo Sharing Made Easy
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Pretty much everything in the other columns will give you a good idea of who I am and what I’m into. Other than that, I was born in Auckland, New Zealand. When my parents split up a year later, I lived in Nottingham until the age of 11 and when my mum remarried, we moved to Buckinghamshire (between Milton Keynes *the street mecca* and Aylesbury *the gangster mecca*). Then when I finished school, I worked in the Channel Islands on a small but beautiful island called Herm for 3 months and then started University in Cardiff. I set up this page with the intention of keeping in touch with people while I’m away on my yearlong world trip. There have been too many instances when I have moved to a new place and lost contact with mates, and as I am particularly slack when it comes to texts and emails..this seemed like the easiest way to do it. As soon as I get a camera, I’ll be putting up photos on my blog and will attempt to do a write up of every cool city/town/place that I stop in. I'm taking my bike with me and I’ll be doing the majority of it on my own. I have arranged to meet friends at certain points along the way, but felt it was important to do most of it solo and meet people as I go.The route - STARTING on 17/08/06 -**Canada (Vancouver, Vancouver Island, BC)**,**America (San Francisco, LA)**,**Hawaii (Honolulu, Oahu)**,**Fiji (Viti levu, yasawa island group)**,**New Zealand (all over - road trip)**,**Australia (all over - road trip)**,**Indonesia (Bali)**,**Malaysia (Singapore)**,**Thailand (Bangkok)**.

My Interests

BMX, Guitar, Travel, Skateboarding, Live music, Photography, Chronic, Jack Daniels, Mount Gay Spiced Rum.

I'd like to meet:

Like to have met!

Music:

In no particular order.. AFI, Anti-flag, Aphex Twin, Audioslave, Bob Marley, Black Flag, Dead Prez, Roots Manuva, King Tubby, DJ Shadow, Dj Format, Lemon Jelly, The Go! Team, MF Doom/Viktor Vaughn, Johnny Thunders, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Rage against the Machine, Queens of the Stoneage, Portishead, Avalanches, Air, Groove Armada, Distillers, Rancid, Kyuss, Nick Oliveri/Mondo Generator, Sound Garden, Black Sabbath, Bad Brains, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, TSOL, Pennywise, Cypress Hill, Dilated Peoples, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Black Star, Gangstarr, Bad Religion, Fugees, Deltron 3030, Deftones, Capdown, Adequate seven, Eminem, Dr Dre, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Devo, Test Icicles, Clinic, Wu-tang Clan, MOP, Plan B, The Streets, Dizzee Rascal, Buck 65, Motorhead, Unkle, RjD2, de la soul, Pixies, Joy Division, Interpol, Le Tigra, Folk Implosion, Rolling Stones, Buzzcocks, White Stripes, Gray Matter, Ozomatli, J5, Ty, Saul Williams, David Bowie, Talking Heads, The Who, Blondie, The Killers, Dead Kennedys, The Dwarves, Death from above 1979, Big L, Avenged sevenfold, The vandals, Prodigy, Souls of Mischief, Roni Size, KRS one, Sublime...too many to list.

Movies:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Kids, Scarface, Warriors, 28 days later, The Big Lebowski, The Doors, The Crow, Star wars, The Life of Brian, The Holy Grail, Back to the Future, The Matrix (original), Beatlejuice, Ghostbusters, Blade Runner, Jurrasic Park, South Park bigger longer and uncut, Baseketball, Hurcles' adventures in New York, BMX AND SKATE VIDEOS inc: Girl - Yeah Right, BMX Bandits, S and M bikes - Please kill me, Animal bikes- Can I Eat/All Day, Voices, Neighbourhood Superheros, Baker 3, Almost - Round 3, Etnies - Forward, Little Devil - Criminal Mischief, East - Vapors, Shook - Winteractive.

Television:

Monty Python, South Park, League of Gentlemen, Black Adder, The Simpsons.

Books:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1984, The Rum Diary, Kingdom of Fear, Existencilism, Spliffs 1, Spliffs 2, Spliffs 3.

Heroes:

Hunter S Thompson, Josh Homme, Zach de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Trey Parker, Sacha Baron Cohen, Terry Gilliam, Banksy, Spike Jonze, Dan Price.

My Blog

Bike set up.

I've just spent the last few days completely refurbishing my bike & i've finally just completed it. There is a new paint job and a load of new parts, as well as a full greasing. I don't think i've had...
Posted by Greg on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:18:00 PST

City of Angels?!

We kicked off this trip with yet another cramped and sweaty Greyhound trip, but this one fortunately only took 8 hours. There were three of us on this particular mission, Myself, Graham and Ola (a Nor...
Posted by Greg on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 05:51:00 PST

San Francisco, California.

The Journey from Vancouver to San Fran took nearly 30 hours in total, including delays and stopovers. We stopped in Portland, Sacramento and Oakland before eventually arriving, but it went surprisingl...
Posted by Greg on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:37:00 PST

Vancouver Island

Hey! This is the first Blog I've managed to put up here in some time, (all will become clear as you read on). I've been having the absolute time of my life since throughout this trip. The last time I ...
Posted by Greg on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:19:00 PST

Vancouver...2 weeks in...

  I thought the best thing to do on this update, would be to do bulliet points of all the places /things/stuff i've done over the last week and a half. The photos above give you an idea! *Stanley...
Posted by Greg on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:59:00 PST

Two Days in Vancouver, BC.

Two days in Vancouver... I've been in Canada for two days now...and so far it has been one mental trip...It all kicked off 4 hours into my flight from Heathrow to Vancouver. I was sat in the emergency...
Posted by Greg on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:22:00 PST

Nottingham update...

I've been trying to message people but myspace keeps messing up..so thought i'd do one of these.. To start with...i am spending lots of my money at the moment and i'm still unemployed...but to be hone...
Posted by Greg on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:17:00 PST

Grrr...first blog..second attempt!

OK...so..i just spent over an hour doing my first blog...and lost the whole fucking lot... so i'm gonna go for a ride instead... It's one of those days today..i'll take that as a learning curve, never...
Posted by Greg on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:10:00 PST