Doug - ProfilesArchive

About Me

....there is a rather wierd bloke called Doug, a 44 year-old married father of 2. Mild-mannered and unassuming, he goes about his daily business - work, eat, sleep - yet secretly harbouring dreams of status and adulation. His short, stocky, be-spectacled, slightly balding appearance conceals the inner turmoil of frustrated artistry. He has never learned to play a musical instrument, has not the patience or attention-span required to write a novel, can only draw cartoons, and has searched in vain for a word that rhymes with 'pint'. His existence seems to consist of taxi-ing his wife & children back and forth to their various activities - a thankless task - while sacrificing his own preferred state of relaxed 'private space'. Yet despite this semi-detatched, hum-drum lifestyle.........

My Interests

.......are many and varied. Music, beer, sci-fi/fantasy novels, beer, cartoons, rum, nature, crisps, rugby union, more beer, badminton, beer, stand-up comedy, and more beer....

I'd like to meet:

...Any Talking Head band member, Robert Fripp, Kelly Brook (dressed in a minimalistic bikini preferably!), Terry Pratchett, Joe Pasquale, Any of Gentle Giant's band members, Tom Holt, Ken Dodd, Bill Oddie, David Attenborough, Fern & Phil, the GMTV presenters (Penny & Clair if poss.), The bugger who crashed into my parked car at 4am 2 years ago, and drove away without leaving any details (surprise, surprise), and the YES Car credit girl. .....plus many, many more.....

Music:

....is my lifeblood! I LOVE prog-rock (King Crimson, Gentle Giant, procol Harum, porcupine tree, Mostly Autumn, Caravan, Rush, Yes, Peter Gabriel, Spock's Beard, Pink Floyd, etc...), but also other genres. Fave band ever - Talking Heads. Other great bands = Kinks, Garbage, REM, Neil Finn, Neil Young, Zappa, Parliament/Funkadelic and many, many more....

Movies:

....Lord of the Rings, Wallace & Gromit, Way Out West, The Music Box, Hellzapoppin', Zulu, Pulp Fiction, Arplane/Naked Gun type movies, Duck Soup, Dumb & Dumber, Chicken Run, Broadcast News, True Grit, Where Eagles Dare, and many, many more....

Television:

....Nature programmes (Bill Oddie/David Attenborough), sitcoms, The Simpsons, Takeshi's Castle, have I got News For You?, Due South, Tom & Jerry, Looney Tunes, any good sci-fi series.

Books:

....the Terry Pratchett Discworld series, Tom Sharpe, Tom Holt, Gerald Durrell, Three Men In A Boat, Tolkien, Peanuts/B.C./Wizard of Id/Crock, Jennings books, Nature books, funny non-fiction, travel books, Ted Hughes' poetry, etc., etc.,.....

Heroes:

Robert Fripp, David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, Matt Groening, Joe Pasquale, Sid James, Terry Pratchett, Phil Bennett, Neil Jenkins, Gareth Edwards, Wallace, Bugs Bunny, and one or two others......

My Blog

Lemming In My Living-room

Lemming In My Living-Room There's a lemming in my living-room, Reading all my comics, Eating all my buttered scones, And sipping Gin and Tonics. His feet are up on my armchair, He's flickin...
Posted by Doug on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:04:00 PST

Arrows' Reputation At Stake

'Arrows' Llewellyn, Master of Darts, Practised, and practised in pubs 'round these parts. His exploits upon the world stage were revered, 'Five Hundred and Ones' in an instant were cleared. Tips made ...
Posted by Doug on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:47:00 PST

Significance?

Though it may be raining, the droplets run down the panes. Though wind tears at the rooftops, and the howling starts again. With every crash of thunder, every fork that lights the sky, I jus...
Posted by Doug on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:31:00 PST

You Always Bring The Summer Back To Me

As cloudy skies replace the blue, and harvest's seeds fall free, And birds migrate to Southern lands, across a greying sea, Green to gold, gold to brown, so drops the leaf from tree. You al...
Posted by Doug on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:33:00 PST

Window To The Soul

THE WINDOW TO THE SOUL by Doug He walks a long and lonely road, Digging in the darkest shadows of his soul. The shadows lenghten, grip, and hold, His eyes turn inward, black as coal. He we...
Posted by Doug on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:13:00 PST

Gavin Saves the World by Doug

From out of the marsh, strode Colin the Dragon, Swigging neat Kerosene out of a flagon. Lurching and leaning from pillar to post, Belching, and turning the hedges to toast. ...
Posted by Doug on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:37:00 PST

Lyrics Quiz

Without looking these up, how many can you get (There are some easy ones, some hard ones, and some that very few people will get)? (Source - My CD/LP collection) 1. Walking round the roo...
Posted by Doug on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:41:00 PST

Peg-Table - by Doug

I have a wooden table, each corner has a leg, With little drawers at each end in which I keep my pegs I collect the pegs from everywhere, as I go about my days, They're beautiful and functional in man...
Posted by Doug on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:09:00 PST

Why Animals Don't Go On Picnics - by Doug

The woodland creatures stopped, and stared at what was flashing past, Sir Kenneth, in his new pyjamas, running very fast! 'He's late for his duel to...
Posted by Doug on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:03:00 PST