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Jackcantsleep

she said I look like a 1920s east London jewish tailor

About Me

I don't like it when people say 'Myself' our 'yourself' when 'me' or 'you' are fine Its the sort of thing people who work at the bank say. like tea,almost all types

My Interests

wearing a fez and wizard Japes.

I'd like to meet:

Accordion teachers, explorers. specialists is obscure sciences and the cramps and the misfits, cookery writers and circus folk.

Music:

Iron and wine,Bob Dylan,Arlo Guthrie,Burt Jansch,Joanna Newsom,Deerhoof,Rachel's,Young Marble Giants,The decemberists Prince,Bat for lashes,Serge Gaisnbourg,Edith Piaf,Odetta,Sea shanties, spiritual music,Bach,Beethoven,John Barry,the Ramones,all musicians when they go through the period where they have move to Berlin wear ridiculous trousers and make records with huge saxophone solos. perma drunk aristocrats rum coves deviants double agents and wandering minstrals .

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Movies:

romance and cigarettes,(for James Gandolfini's singing)The Third man,Empire Strikes Back,Waterloo,Belleville Rendez vous,Spirited Away,Rebecca,Brief Encounter,Oh brother where art thou,the man who wasn't there,Casino Royale,(Niven and Sellers take a bow)The Wicker man,I'm allright Jack,Grosse Point Blank,Garden state,a bout de soufle,In the soup,Bad Education,the constant Gardener,I don't like remakes of old films Nicholas Cage in the wicker man what the fuck!

Television:

the history Channel, and repeats of dads army.

Books:

The Flashman Papers, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Jean Genet, Orwell, His Dark Materials trilogy, Roald Dahl, Graeme Greene, where the wild things are,by Maurice Sendak Cookery books written by haughty women who are long dead such as Elizabeth Davids.

Heroes:

Is saying Bob Dylan to obvious? well tough, Bob Dylan for theam time radio hour.Harry Paget FlashmanAccordion players,People who persist in doing stuff everyone else thinks is crap even if nothing comes of it.People who use the word Quixotic or plethora on a regualer basisScarlett Pimernel,over rich people who build follies in thier gardens,the Baron philip de Rothchild for having a zedbra drawn coach and importing Muntjack Deer into Bedfordshire Wolfie Smith (because I used to live in Tooting)

My Blog

how I spent my summer (I got over my short lived Racism by the way)

Faulkner (Richard Burton), a British mercenary, is hired by merchant banker Sir Edward Matherson (Stewart Granger), to rescue Julius Limbani, the former leader of a central African country, who is due...
Posted by Jackcantsleep on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:38:00 PST

oh dear you've done it now

For three months Ive been working evenings cooking gastro pub food in the Junction Tavern and getting paid a decent wage and being fairly comfortable. But then no. I spent time moaning about working e...
Posted by Jackcantsleep on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:02:00 PST

me and Bobby Gillespie

Pete writes reviews for fact magazine. Fact sent him plus one to the corenet to review the Horrors. Allah be praised  his Missis is out of town so I was the substitute plus one (so to speak). we ...
Posted by Jackcantsleep on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:45:00 PST

prentensious, moi? how dare you! how very dare you!

"Get Drunk!", by Charles Baudelaire One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time's horrible burden one which breaks your shoulders a...
Posted by Jackcantsleep on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:41:00 PST

Culinary Sellout

So, It started in the village. I was offererd a well paid job in Radlett which I took. Now every day I get the train to this small suburban town arrive and clean musscles or shell prawns while Jorge t...
Posted by Jackcantsleep on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:46:00 PST

Billy Bragg the job center and I

I basicly have no money. Its getting ever so slighty worrying. Its also not true its more like I can't accsess it. I seemed to have negleted to pay back a credit card and Halifax bless them,...
Posted by Jackcantsleep on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:13:00 PST

so far in 2007 ive been a little worried about money.

making lists is a fools ocupation, ho hum.Ok best things about 2006 musicBeirut;a hawk and a hacksaw;Patrick wolf;the long blonds;silver jews;Bob Dylan on radio 6;the decemberists;Joanna Newsome;Tom W...
Posted by Jackcantsleep on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:28:00 PST

films. yeah

Whats the deal with the  television schedules over Christmas. I havn't seen any of the following, Indianna Jones (any of them), James Bond (any of them) the great escape or anything like that, da...
Posted by Jackcantsleep on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:54:00 PST

the wind blows right through you its no place for the old/self control

Shane Mcgowen drinks in the pub on the corner. I have been in a pub where someone famous has been drinking and think "better to just let him/her drink and talk with his/her friends" this is my policy ...
Posted by Jackcantsleep on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:50:00 PST

Hissy Fit

Today I dropped my coffee spilling it all over the stove, I'm not going to clean it i'm too depressed. I read about England's second innings in Australia. Its not that I hate Shane Warne I hate how po...
Posted by Jackcantsleep on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:41:00 PST