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Rob

I am a little tin soldier who wants to jump into your fire

About Me


Online Now IconsI am opinionated and passionate. I love movies and rock music almost as much as I love making people happy. I like to think that i'm intelligent, witty (sometimes), modest (couldn't resist), and almost always tell the truth which is either fantastic or awful depending on what you were expecting to hear. People often don't know how to take me but I'll grow to become loveable, or you'll hate me, one or the other. I have a very caustic sense of humour but am also very compassionate. Friends I will stand by until I die. I think too much and often need someone to slap me round the face every 10 minutes or so, or thrust a beer in my hand, whichever you prefer. Actually no, I take that back, definitely go with the beer. I am moving to Bournemouth in September to do a Masters in Multi-media Journalism so in three years time I will be forcing you all to listen to what I say in the media, mwahahahaha. By forcing I do of course mean suggesting. Oh yes.
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My Interests

Watching and reviewing movies, writing, having beers with friends, loud rock music, being a big geek about Marvel comics, travelling, ancient civilizations, questioning everything.

I'd like to meet:

A girl between 20 and 30 who wants to share my love for movies and rock and quite happily accept that I like buying Transformers. A lot. My ideal girl would be a brunette or a red head, have a strong personality, be affectionate, intelligent, healthily cynical yet easy going, and enjoy me ripping their clothes off quite often as it's bound to happen.

adopt your own virtual pet!

Music:

AC/DC, Eels, Super Furry Animals, Deep Purple, Green Day, Pentagram, White Stripes, Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Ramones, The Crocketts, Fleetwood Mac, The Groundhogs, Led Zeppelin, The Jam, The Jeevas, Kula Shaker, The Who, The Univited, Guns 'n' Roses, Iron Maiden, Tom Petty, Thin LIzzy, The Wildhearts, Supergrass, Stereophonics, Spacehog, The Small Faces, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Paul Simon, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Golden Earing, Black Sabbath, Sons and Daughters, The Pixies, The Levellers, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix

Movies:

Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American History X, The Fifth Element, The Dish, Rear Window, any Hitchcock it's all great, Memento, I Heart Huckabees, Toy Story, Evil Dead Trilogy, The Thing, Sky High, Batman Begins, Spider-man, Ghostbusters, Ghost World, American Beauty, The Ice Storm, Master and Commander, Heat, Oldboy, The Taste of Tea, Transformers: The Movie, Wallace and Gromit, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Reservoir Dogs, The Wild Bunch, Desperado, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bubba Ho-Tep, Casablanca, Serenity, Star Wars, 12 Angry Men, Leon, Seven, Touch of Evil, Sin City, Brazil, Terminator 2, Twelve Monkeys, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Fargo, Millers Crossing, The Big Lebowski

Television:

Firefly, Futurama, Deadwood, not a big TV fan really, it's cartoons or movies for me

Books:

The Time Machine, Dancers at the End of Time, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Terry Pratchett, Nabokov, Marvel Comics

Heroes:

E from Eels, Steve Buscemi and God on earth Bruce Campbell

My Blog

Entourage

A new series from HBO (The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Deadwood) focusing on four guys trying to make it in Hollywood that has garnered wide praise and awards in America.  The first two episodes ai...
Posted by Rob on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:12:00 PST

The Death of Cinema

They're remaking The Wild Bunch.  One of the most seminal and fantastic films ever made and it's being re-written by the man who wrote The Fast and the Furious.  For the love of God why?&nbs...
Posted by Rob on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:08:00 PST

A Scanner Darkly

Three cheers for Richard Linklater for providing the first decent movie I've seen at the cinema in months.  Of course it was immediately going to be the best thing I've seen in months simply by v...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:31:00 PST

The Edinburgh Festival

So, I was in Edinburgh from Thursday til Tuesday and fully conscious for at least 3 hours of it thanks to my startling inability to get to sleep or stay there once slumber finally took hold.  Re...
Posted by Rob on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:47:00 PST

Superman Returns

Brian Singer does a wonderful job of convincing me that Superman is an incredibly uninteresting character by producing a dull, uninspired and overlong blockbuster that falls short in just about every ...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:57:00 PST

Butterflies and windows

Every summer when I've been back here from University there are always numerous days where I end up with a red admiral butterfly coming through the window into my bedroom and then trying to get out th...
Posted by Rob on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:58:00 PST

Escape From New York

I watched Escape From New York for the first time ealier.  Shockingly I hadn't seen it before.  It's dated quite badly in places but it's still unmistakedly John Carpenter.  I find John...
Posted by Rob on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:39:00 PST