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Dave

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About Me

Hullo there good people. Just a wave to all those people that are not good. This is despite the face that I fear we may have more in common. I won't say too much about myself for fear a nemesis will use it to destroy me. You know who you are! Apart from "H" from Steps. I believe he is unaware that I am his enemy. I was ordained on the internet so am technically a Reverend and as of September 2006 I am studying medicine at the University of Swansea. This is all part of my desperate quest to be able to tick the "other" box instead of "Mr" on official forms. I have been described as overly apathetic although I would prefer to think of myself as selectively reactive. Or sometimes just as "neurgh" accompanied with a shrug. I don't like to be touched unless necessary and/or by someone who has earned it. This is determined contextually. One of my favourite things is doing something small that nevertheless makes someones life a little bit better. One of the things I find most annoying is when you open a door for yourself and someone else barges through it and then thanks you. I hate being thanked for something I haven't done. I perform stand-up comedy which people seem to find reasonably funny. You are of course welcome to come and see this and judge for yourself. I have an almost supernatural inability to learn language and hope one day to overcome this. That or learn to play the guitar. I hope you enjoyed getting to know me and will now consider revoking the restraining order. Or at least reducing its distance so we can exchange pleasantries at an increased volume. Have a lovely day...This is me doing some stand-up comedy.This is me doing more stand-up comedy. Some references only made sense on the night. For example the sound guy talking to the MC (Lloyd Langford, very funny) said he ran over a dog and once shot someone in the eye. I feel justified in calling him a psychopath. I'm not sure where apples come into it.A IMG{ border-style:none;

My Interests

Caffeinated beverages,stand-up comedy, medicine,combinations of medicine and comedy,reading, TV/Music/Film, general nonsense,pointless but interesting facts, psychology, travel to exotic lands, evolution, mocking religious/spiritual tomfoolery and my congregation.

I'd like to meet:

The restraining order from humanity severely limits the people I can meet... Your results:
You are Batman Batman 55% Robin 52% Superman 50% Spider-Man 50% Catwoman 50% Hulk 45% Green Lantern 40% Supergirl 35% Iron Man 35% Wonder Woman 20% The Flash 20% You are dark, love gadgets
and have vowed to help the innocent
not suffer the pain you have endured.
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

Music:

The Divine Comedy, Foo Fighters, Barenaked Ladies, Feeder, U2, Guns'n Roses, Barry White, Marvin Gaye, Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Electric 6, Tenacious D, Gorillaz, REM, Muse, Coldplay,Greenday,James Brown, The White Stripes, Jack Johnson, Oasis, Blur,Razorlight, Stevie Wonder, The Jam, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Coral, Ben Folds, of course Small Town Girl by Journey, Elvis, Queen the Beatles and many more similar to these.

Movies:

As Good as it Gets, Withnail and I, The Goonies, The Back to the Future trilogy, This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, American beauty, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, both Spiderman films, all three X-Men Films, Shaun of the Dead, Batman, Indiana Jones trilogy, The Prophecy, The Spy Who Loved Me, the original Star Wars Trilogy, The Royal Tennenbaums, Ed Wood, Man in the Moon, Anchorman, Dodgeball, Zoolander, Bad Boys, Life of Brian, The Mystery Men, Mallrats, King Kong, Dogma and Masters of the Universe.

Television:

Scrubs,House, Neighbours, Lost, ER, Crocodile Hunter, Derren Brown's Trick of the Mind, Family Guy, Futurama, The Office, Extras, Spaced, Thundercats, Green Wing, Spooks, The Wright Stuff, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Frasier, Peep Show, The A-Team and Knight Rider.

Books:

Terry Pratchett's Discworld Series, American Gods (Neil Gaiman), Anansi Boys (Neil Gaiman), Downunder (Bill Bryson), Join Me (Danny Wallace), Yesman (Danny Wallace),The Melancholy Death of Oysterboy (Tim Burton), Googlewhack (Dave Gorman), The Blank Slate (Steven Pinker), Guns, Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond), Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood), Devils Chaplain (Richard Dawkins), anything by Oliver Sacks, Robert Winston and Steve Jones,the Very Short Introduction Series from the Oxford University Press and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kinsey).

Heroes:

Dr Greg House Obviously. Like Spiderman with a limp, no super powers and a lot of docterly knowledge.

My Blog

Devon was a place on earth

Hello hello Firstly my standard apologies for taking so long to write another one of these. This is due to busyness, illness, illness due to busyness and busyness due to illness. A veritable Venn diag...
Posted by Dave on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:11:00 PST

Devon knows how they make it so creamy

Good day (damn, started too formal) What's up dudes. (damn, too much like an idiot). Nevermind. I know it has been ages since I last wrote one of these but I wanted to time it so I looked like an inte...
Posted by Dave on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:51:00 PST

Every silver cloud has a smaller darker cloud in front of it

Hello Well for those of you who care/want to see me perish/care about seeing me perish I am back in the world of blog proper style. Things have been going reasonably well. Mmmm suspicious. For starter...
Posted by Dave on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:58:00 PST

Your brain on drugs

Apologies to anyone who had to witness the dribbling wreck that I was when doing some comedy while being "a wee bit tipsy". Actually a more accurate phrase would be to say that I was non-viable. My ex...
Posted by Dave on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:45:00 PST

Ignorance is horrifying.

In this week of exams I actually have a day free of the wretched things tomorrow with one to go on Friday. How have they gone so far? Since I need to get back to revision I will sum the process up wit...
Posted by Dave on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST

They're loose!

I may be horrendously behind the times but I have just heard they are going to be making a Thundercats film and are currently writing the scripts. Shall I revise or write an exhaustive list of who sho...
Posted by Dave on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:41:00 PST

Examageddon

I am about to vanish for about three weeks. This isn't an amazing magic trick, although I am sure it will be welcomed by all who know me. Sadly once again a season of exams is upon me (and the others ...
Posted by Dave on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:18:00 PST

Bloody hell

Hello. What did you do today? I saved 8 newborn babies. No, no thanks are required. I am pretty amazing. Hooray for me. Cake and reward tea can be e-mailed to me. Sadly as you will have worked ou...
Posted by Dave on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:05:00 PST

In touch with my emotion

Warning: this blog may contains sentences of slight ire. This week I have felt a lot of rage. Some brief and some more ongoing. For example I briefly found out out today that the people that make Mar...
Posted by Dave on Sun, 20 May 2007 11:50:00 PST

My weekend in pictures

Hello If it you get the vague impression that I was in a good mood while I wrote this then you would be half right. I am drinking a cup of tea. No biscuit though. For shame. This weekend I was in Card...
Posted by Dave on Wed, 16 May 2007 08:28:00 PST