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Paul

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About Me



My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Other people with an innate curiosity for the spiritual in ourselves and in the universe. Appreciators of strategies and tactics for living and loving. Watchers of the weather. The defiant against alienation and despair, whether it be the mundane or grander varieties. Those with a home without a residence (even if they still have a residence). The lost and somewhat damaged. The converters of the system's faeces into soul worthy gold.

Music:

Manic Street Preachers, The Donnas, TISM, the Beasts of Bourbon, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Tool, Pearl Jam, the Dirty Three, RollinsBand, The Mark of Cain, Smashing Pumpkins, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gil Scott-Heron, Foo-fighters, Faith No More, Sonic Youth, Midnight Oil, Radiohead, Iggy Pop, Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, Soundgarden, You Am I, Jimmy Eat World, The Strokes, Powderfinger, Jeff Buckley, The Ramones, New Order, Led Zeppelin, Beth Orton, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Joy Division, The Smiths and of course Spinal Tap.

Movies:

Movies: The Machinist
- V for Vendetta ("people shouldn't be afraid of their governments, the governments should be afraid of their people")
- Trainspotting ("I might as well have stuck 'em up my arse for all the good they've done")
- Look Both Ways ("What? Cancer cancer?")
- 24 Hour Party People ("who gives a shit? we're going to sell fuck all")
- Apocalypse Now
- The Deer Hunter
- Star Wars one thru six ("I've got a bad feeling about this")
- Amores Perros
- The Matrix ("not too bright either")
- Fight Club
- Empire of the Sun ("Hey kid! Do you want a Hershey's bar?")
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Trust
- Brazil ("and here's your receipt for my receipt")
- Bambi:First Blood
- A Clockwork Orange
- Dr Strangerlove (or how I stopped worrying and learnt to love the bomb) ("Gentleman! You can't fight in here, this is the war room!")
- Taxi Driver

Favourite actors: Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Geoffrey Rush, Christian Bale, Robert De Niro, Eric Bana.

Television:

Red Dwarf, The Chaser, Carnivale, Battlestar Galactica (the new one), Coupling, Little Britain, The Office, Doctor Who (the new one with David Tennant), Black Books, Extras.

Books:

"Dorian" + "Cock and Bull" Will Self
"The Dispossessed" Ursula Le Guin
"The Dice Man" Luke Rhinehart
"Catch-22" Joseph Heller
"The open society and it's enemies (Volume 1)" Karl Popper
"Crime and Punishment" + "The Possessed" Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Stand on Zanzibar" John Brunner
"The Second Sex" + "The Mandarins" Simone de Beauvoir
"Beyond Good and Evil" + "Twilight of the Idols" Friedrich Nietzsche
"Don Juan" Lord Byron
"Now Wait for Last Year" + "A Scanner Darkly" Philip K Dick
"American Psycho" Bret Easton Ellis
"Unlimited Dream Company" JG Ballard
"The Rebel" Albert Camus
"Red Mars" + "Green Mars" + "Blue Mars" Kym Stanley Robinson

My Blog

Ten things.

I got tagged to do one of these things. So I have to do it before Laura gets elbowed in the head.Ten random things about me.1. I used to have a pet stumpy tailed lizard. In fact, I've still got one of...
Posted by Paul on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:08:00 PST

Quitting smoking: Sneaking around the edges, preparing for another all out assault

Still smoking? Yep. I'm annoying myself. For most of the last week I've been not so happily smoking away, but for the most part concentrating on doing something else. That is, keeping myself busy so I...
Posted by Paul on Mon, 21 May 2007 04:40:00 PST

Quitting smoking: Finding my limits so I can avoid them later

I gave in. So much for that determination. It's gone, I suppose you're thinking. Well, sort of. Truth be told it hasn't gone. I gave in because it was too damn painful. The intense feeling was strippi...
Posted by Paul on Sun, 13 May 2007 07:35:00 PST

Quitting smoking: Two days gone by

Last night at about the twenty hour mark since last smoking the nasty vibe in my body was getting turned up to eleven. It cleared after a bit. It was the first major hurdle for my will power to cross....
Posted by Paul on Sat, 12 May 2007 05:21:00 PST

Quitting Smoking: The last time (again)

I'm about to quit smoking again, again. Just had my last smoke from the last pack. I'm over it. Over the whole smoking thing. I'm so fucking over it. I'm sick of smoking. I'm sick of thinking about wh...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 10 May 2007 08:22:00 PST

Quitting Smoking: Going to new lengths (reposting this one cause I accidentally deleted it)

My efforts to quit smoking have continued and this time I've managed to get through four days without a puff. This time I've feeling very strange at this stage. I've still got the vagueness and the we...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 10 May 2007 03:41:00 PST

Quitting Smoking: Metaphysical conundrum

I've given in and had a smoke. Naught me. I can hear it now. I'm a quitter!!! I quit quitting. Why? Was it due to lack of will power. Well yeah, but not in the way most would think. I actually ga...
Posted by Paul on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:20:00 PST

Quitting Smoking: Day Three

Another day without a coffin nail. I've been tense most of the day. I've just been for a two hour ride which has blown away a few cobwebs. The aches and pains have subsided today. It seems to me the c...
Posted by Paul on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:03:00 PST

Quitting Smoking: Day Two

OK, the fucking novelty has fucking worn off. Do I seem tense? Damn straight. I'm still feeling weird. Disorientating buzzing sensation in my arms and legs and back. And I'm still thinking about havin...
Posted by Paul on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 03:01:00 PST

Quitting Smoking: Day One

Almost twentyfour hours without a cigarette. Not too bad. A bit heavy on the flatulance last night. The most annoying thing today has been trying to find things to do. I'm not working at the moment so...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:12:00 PST