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Gareth

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About Me

Neither genius, nor idiot. Either busy or not. Likely drunk than funk!
Time began in the mid 80's, with a haze of Bash Street Kids, Thundercats, Search for the Lost City of Gold and the Broom Cupboard. Going Live! Schofield and Green...don't waste my time...get Trevor and Simon on!! (Swing yer pants) Snow went up to your chest in serious cold winters! (I know I was only 5ft...but they just aren't the same anymore). Fireworks were shit...and we accepted it! Standard did exactly what it says on the tin ...now we get skuds every 5th!!). Junk food was a pleasure, and parents weren't knocked for taking kids for burgers and fries (party at Wimpy's everyone!). Later memories involve pain around football...'Waddle launches ball into space' and Wednesday losing more matches against Arsenal than one team should be allowed!
10 years on from school, and all is still a haze (drunken it may be). The same old shit appears at 6 everyday, politics...the greatest show on Earth!! Why do they keep pretending...lets have a politician who wakes up and says: "Shit...everyone...corporations have my balls in a vice and I can't do a damn thing to stop them". But they won't, we'll just play their games.
Letters have become scarier! Days, weeks, months, years feel shorter (Pay day syndrome). Music was great, then good, then bad, now better! TV is a test of nerve! Sheffield is the finest 7 hills ever to have been settled on! But i'm not saying it's the dog's testicles!

My Interests

Gigs, The Vine, music, The mill, Mckee, Hendersons relish, writing, Rolling Stone Magazine, life and the pursuit of its many meanings, Staying in bed when it's pissing down with rain, The Peak District, Lowry, Italian Food, The Sim, Laughing, Good Booze, Sharrowvale Road and it's Street piano, Fred Perry, The genuine and good people I'm lucky enough to meet, The Owls, Woody's sandwich bar, Brighton Beach club night!! The Dover Road team, Tea, Russia and it's crazy history,

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who enjoys the essence of fun, who keeps an open mind while having an opinion!

Music:


Spiritualized, The Libertines, New Order, The Jam, The Clash, The Kinks, Small Faces, Beatles, Stone Roses, Bob Dylan, Led Zepplin, Doves, The Beach Boys, Belle & Sebastion, Love, Joy Division, George Harrison, Kasabian, John Lennon, Super Furry Animals, Clock DVA, The Doors, Pink Floyd, REM, Kings of leon, Pearl Jam, White Stripes, The Coral, The Velvet Underground, The Strokes, The Who, Joni Mitchell, Dirty Pretty Things, Cabaret Voltaire, Babyshambles, Pulp, Prodigy, Milburn, Primal Scream, Little Man Tate, Harrisons, Elbow, Fleetwood Mac, Ocean Colour Scene, Rolling Stones, Arctic Monkeys, The Echo, Gomez, Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Days Before Television, Talking Heads, Oasis, Delays, The Charlatans, The Verve, Boy Kill Boy, and on....

Movies:

Dead Man's Shoes, Syriana, The Constant Gardener, The Motorcycle Diaries, Python, Blazing Saddles & Brooks, V for Vandetta, Royal Tenenbaums, Russian Ark, Lost in translation, Clockwork Orange, Goodbye Lenin, 25th Hour, Raging Bull, Big Fish, Napoleon Dynamite, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Yellow Submarine, Goodfellas, 24 Hour Party People, Star Wars, Crash, Back to the future, Planet of the Apes, Fear and Loathing, Spinal Tap, The Usual Suspects, Doctor Zhivago, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, See no evil-hear no evil, Dr. Strangelove, Citizen Kane, Quadrophenia, Memento, Apocalypse Now,
Bobbi Flekman: You put a *greased naked woman* on all fours with a dog collar around her neck, and a leash, and a man's arm extended out up to here, holding onto the leash, and pushing a black glove in her face to sniff it. You don't find that offensive? You don't find that sexist?
Ian Faith: This is *1982*, Bobbi, c'mon!
Bobbi Flekman: That's *right*, it's 1982! Get out of the '60s. We don't have this mentality anymore.
Ian Faith: Well, you should have seen the cover they *wanted* to do! It wasn't a glove, believe me.

Television:

Mighty Boosh, Spaced, League of Gents, Brass Eye, Quantum Leap, Blackadder, Partridge, Farty Towels, The Day Today, Python, Catterick, Mark Thomas, Two Ronnies, Simpsons, Porridge, Only Fools, Album chart,


Books:

Orwell, Hobsbawm, E.H. Carr, Steinbeck, Tressell, Salinger, Benn, Hawks, Ronson, Boulle, Townsend, S Thompson, Solzenitzen, Thomas, A.A. Gill, Moore,

Heroes:

Eternal heroes Mum & Dad!
The all seeing bigger Bro The bearded one Nickoli Bell Grandmaster Love Flash Paul T Acoustic Boy Gary T Costa Penny Danny Rope! MK Boy Stevie 'retro' B Chris 'the drinker' Leek Matt 'the finish' Man Tony 'tells it like it is' BennWe are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. Tony Benn
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. Friedrich Nietzsche
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. John Locke
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. John Steinbeck
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. Hunter S. Thompson
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? John Lennon
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. Francis Bacon
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. Charlie Chaplin
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov
After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity. Catherine Zeta-Jones
"To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service." Clause IV, (drafted by Sidney Webb) adopted by THE LABOUR PARTY in 1918....Ditched in 1997!