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.Piera.

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About Me


Faux pas.

My Interests

Music, traveling, writing...combining the three; also, tending to my Flickr page.

I'd like to meet:


"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation".

-Oscar Wilde

Music:

Miscellaneous sounds that shake the nether regions of my soul:

The Who, The Kinks, The Small Faces, The Yardbirds, The Cramps, Cream, The Beatles, Pete Townshend, Ray Davies, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Link Wray, Johnny Cash, T.Rex, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, The Move, The Pretty Things, Love, Memphis Minnie, Son House, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, J.B. Lenoir, Skip James, Carl Perkins, Eddie Cochran, Ray Charles, Django Reinhardt, Mose Allison...

Movies:

Quadrophenia, A Hard Day's Night, The Who: Live at the Isle of Wight, Rock-N-Roll Circus, Tommy, Born to Boogie, The Kids Are Alright, No Direction Home, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ghost World, Some Like it Hot, American Beauty, Wilde, Fight Club, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Shawshank Redemption, Dog Day Afternoon, Ordinary People, and a few Vincent Price and Bela Lugosi films.

Television:

In the Attic, Father Ted, I'm Alan Partridge, The State, Reno 911!, Little Britain, Saturday Night Live, MONK, Only Fools and Horses, Anything ever created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, I Love Lucy, Mr. Bean, Family Guy, Graham Norton chat shows, YouTube...Also, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry comedies...

Books:

P.G. Wodehouse

'Bill Graham Presents' by Bill Graham, 'Cash' by Johnny Cash, 'Moab is my Washpot' by Stephen Fry, 'Full Moon' by Dougal Butler, 'Moon' by Tony Fletcher, 'Everything Is Illuminated' by Jonathan Safran Foer, 'The Gun Seller' by Hugh Laurie, 'The Day of the Locust' by Nathanael West, 'Talk of the Town' by Ardal O'Hanlon, Arthur Conan Doyle, and of course, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

Heroes:

My dad for being the hardest working person I've ever met, and me mum for being equally generous.

Also, Pete Townshend. Oh, and also distant runner-ups Reginald Jeeves and Gregory House for always keeping one step ahead of the game.

My Blog

Missing things

I miss things. I miss London.I miss eating cheap curry from Sainsbury's.I miss my £2 Sub-of-the-Day specials from Subway.I miss walking down the street of where I lived and having Big Ben staring at m...
Posted by .Piera. on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:00:00 PST

Consider this my two week notice...

In my seven straight years of working part-time jobs, never have I been so sad to give my two week's notice. I've got but a fortnight left before I'm due back home.  The last few weeks I've spent...
Posted by .Piera. on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:43:00 PST

$50 FOR A NIGHT AT THE CINEMAS

Or £25 in English terms.Will it be worth it?  Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey are rumoured to be in attendence at the Odeon Theatre in Kensington to do a Q&A with the audience.  I ...
Posted by .Piera. on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:31:00 PST

Its all about the Benjamins, baby...

Marmite taste like shit, anyway: http://www.yahoo.com/s/696432
Posted by .Piera. on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:23:00 PST

Today...

Today I woke up at 10 a.m., worked, went to the gym, had my boss cook me England's take on Mexican food, worked again, and then a load of punters had me take shots with them because they like my accen...
Posted by .Piera. on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:59:00 PST

The Song Is Over

July 9th was The Who's last gig for the forseeable future.  It is possible that they may never tour again...who knows?  The Who know. I managed to see them play eight different tim...
Posted by .Piera. on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:20:00 PST

World's shortest Who concert

40 seconds long...Part one: Part deux: ...
Posted by .Piera. on Sat, 26 May 2007 06:01:00 PST

Paddington Bear was Peruvian.

The story of Paddington Bear is as follows:  He and his Aunt Lucy lived in Peru.  She was very old and had to check herself into the "Home for Retired Bears" center in Lima, Peru.  Beca...
Posted by .Piera. on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:01:00 PST

A few more months, and I'll have a marketing degree in my hand...

...and what have I learned in my five years pursuing said degree?  I've learned not to be a twat like Bono.  All the more reason to hate him:   Costly Red Campaign Reaps Meager $18 M...
Posted by .Piera. on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:15:00 PST

Louisiana

Going back April 1st for a whole week.  I am happy.
Posted by .Piera. on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:41:00 PST