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James

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About Me

Working and thinking, but never at the same time, unless I'm thinking about giving up work. Waiting for the next bit to start.Spending a lot of time driving about and lingering anywhere where old cars might be lying around, particularly old racing cars. Can be a pain in the arse, but can also be amazing. Selecting those parts of reality which I refuse to accept and ranting about them in a tedious fashion.Here's a typically unrevealing survey:
The Official Myspace Survey
Name: James
Birthday: Feb 4
Birthplace: Truro
Current Location: Craphole
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Blond
Height: 5' 11"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Cornish/Welsh
The Shoes You Wore Today: Too hot for shoes today
Your Weakness: Goddamn, I have no weaknesses
Your Fears: People with no weaknesses have no fears :o)
Your Perfect Pizza: Can never eat a whole one
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Not quit my job
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: The raised eyebrow smiley
Thoughts First Waking Up: God, not again
Your Best Physical Feature: Eyes
Your Bedtime: Anywhere between 1am and 5am :o
Your Most Missed Memory: What?
Pepsi or Coke: Either/both
MacDonalds or Burger King: Neither, I like food
Single or Group Dates: Single, I suppose
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Bleurrgh
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Bleurrgh again
Do you Smoke: nooooo
Do you Swear: Bollocks
Do you Sing: Not in public
Do you Shower Daily: Usually
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: Not again, no
Do you want to get Married: Maybe :p
Do you believe in yourself: No weaknesses, no fears - sure, what do you think!?
Do you get Motion Sickness: Depends on who's driving
Do you think you are Attractive: Not really
Are you a Health Freak: Not really
Do you get along with your Parents: Yup
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yeah, but only the ones that like me
Do you play an Instrument: Not really
In the past month have you Drunk Alcohol: No, I don't think so
In the past month have you Smoked: No
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: No
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: No
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Not this side of the Atlantic, no
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: No
In the past month have you been on Stage: No
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No, for God's sake - but I was imprisoned once for being a wizard
Ever been Drunk: Ever? I reckon so
Ever been called a Tease: No
Ever been Beaten up: No
Ever Shoplifted: No
How do you want to Die: Without realising
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: If I haven't grown up yet, I never will
What country would you most like to Visit: USA
In a Girl...
Favorite Eye Color: Any
Favorite Hair Color: Any, but less keen on blonde
Short or Long Hair: Either, not fussy
Height: Anything average-ish
Weight: And again
Best Clothing Style: Not bothered, and neither should you be
Number of Drugs I have taken: None
Number of CDs I own: 3-400
Number of Piercings: None
Number of Tattoos: None
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Nothing big
TAKE THIS MYSPACE SURVEY

My Interests

F1 and any kind of motorsport, music - gigs and records, cinema, animals, travelling to weird places - the usual kind of guff. My interests do not include shopping, sitting around in pubs with people I don't really like, sitting on beaches, rugby, reality TV, soaps, people who say "Grow up", people who say "Whatever", people who only hang out with good-looking people - stop me before I go on all night :o)

I'd like to meet:

People who add without taking away. People who are complementary, not compromising. People who don't write pretentious stuff like that on MySpace. I could list actual people I'd like to meet, but would they want to meet me? I'll only say I want to meet the Queen when she mentions me in this section on her MySpace page. Can I list the people I don't want to meet? Dammit :o(I don't want to meet people who just can't manage more than 4 seconds without their mobiles - I mostly like people who drop their mobiles in buckets of water whilst washing the car, then take 3 months to get round to buying another one. There are exceptions though... I don't want to meet people who say things like, "Oh, just get over it and move on!" or "That is just soooo yesterday!" Those people would say things like that in any circumstances, e.g. My entire family has been taken to Guantanamo Bay and tortured to within an inch of their lives - "Oh, just get over it! Move on!" In an ideal world I'd have those people walled up with some killer bees. Is this you? Sod off then :oI

Music:

Early Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green and Danny Kirwan, Thin Lizzy, Free, AC/DC, Beatles / Stones / Kinks, Sabbath, Steve Miller, Big Star / Alex Chilton, Captain Beefheart, Fernando Arbex / Inaki Egana, early Judas Priest, Bukka White, Bob Weston, Stranglers, The Who, Fountains of Wayne - For a small girl, Barbara sure has got a big crush, the kind that makes you wanna break stuff, and blame it on a man you don't know - the list goes on. And on.

Movies:

Almost anything - as long as it didn't start life as a comic book. Disaster films are a favourite. I also like foreign films. No films for children thinly disguised as films that all humanity must must must see. No films with goblins, wizards or people with pointed ears.

Television:

Almost nothing - Green Wing and similar things, some American imports like CSI and Lost, but not much else. No programmes in which people who should know better pretend they can entertain humanity with their dubious talents, only to be publicly humiliated for our enjoyment. No programmes in which a dozen or so of the most obnoxious freaks in the country are rounded up and locked in a house for a few weeks, while their hideous antics are recorded for posterity. I'd prefer a programme in which the aforementioned freaks were left in the house to rot and/or eat each other - I realise this is no doubt in the pipeline for next season.

Books:

Ancient sci-fi/dystopian stuff, biographies. It's always better to read a book that no-one's ever heard of, that way it's clear that you discovered it yourself, and you're not reading it just because every other sod is reading it.

Heroes:

Can't go round having heroes - they get involved in scandal and make you look stupid. Dead heroes are OK - they can't embarrass themselves further.