Alex - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hi, Im Alex. 26 years old, living back in Sheffield after moving over to South France didn't work out as I had hoped.
Its just a shame that it took me 10 years of studying French to realise I dont like French people...
Oh well- C'est la vie.
My main hobby is playing guitar, and I used to be in a rock n roll band, Ecanasia / Painkiller Jane, which toured and played a few lesser festivals. We had one official release -an album, RockRollDanceDestroy, which was sold in HMV amongst other places. It was a lot of fun and I have many tales to tell.
I feel a bit like the guy in Creme brulee from league of gentlemen now...
I also enjoy watching and playing football, and several years ago was co-founder/player-manager of the mighty Graves Park Rangers FC who I believe are still playing to this day in some Sheffield League.
Nowadays I play 5 a side once a week in a desperate attempt to balance out the terrible effects of my rock n roll lifestyle of chinese food, beer, fast women and quotidian footlong subways.
I often listen to songs and find they remind me of the most random tunes for no apparent reason. This strange and dubious talent lead me to creating my alter-ego, DJ Captain Crossfader, who mixed vaguely-resonant tunes spanning genres and eras to find a sound which would restore parity to his life. His second (and by far his greater) album and also his debut gig were sadly cut short by hardware problems. However, he may return one day...
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My Interests

Music, takeaways, football, women (not in that order)

I enjoy playing spot the difference 2 on pub quiz machines, and I often win money by using my freaky jedi-like skills. I'm like a difference spotting machine. I think I would even give Johnny 5 a run for his money probably... So if anything has changed, I'll tell you, don't you worry about that. Just you leave it to me, yes siree.

I am a firm advocate of 5-a-day and start every morning with a delicious fruit smoothie. I found it has done me the world of good and I dont know how I ever functioned before I won a smoothie maker at the works christmas party!

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people, musicians, hot girls. If you ticked all the above, head through to the VIP lounge and tell 'em Al sent you. ..!

Music:

Ok, Im not gonna use the cliche "I like any type of music" because I hate garage and Crazy Frog. Anything else is ok though...
Oh and country & western music, I hate that too.

My main influences on my own music are Matt Bellamy (Muse) Tom Morello (RATM/Audioslave) Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead) Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) and Jimi Hendrix (erm... The Jimi Hendrix Experience)

Movies:

The Godfather I&II, Swingers, The Doors, Back to the future trilogy (ok, so III's a bit crap, but it isnt really complete without it...) Return of the Jedi.

Television:

I'm Alan Partridge
Whose line is it anyway?
Most Haunted
Peep Show
The Mighty Boosh
Takeshi's Castle.

Books:

The Dice Man :Luke Rheinhart
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus :Ludwig Wittgenstein
Mr Tickle :Roger Hargreaves

Heroes:

Eric Cantona (vive le roi!)
Howard Moon (Jazz Maverick)
Francesco do Mosto (Italian Guru)

My Blog

Alone without a phone

Ok so my phone broke on tuesday, and my whole world collapsed! Not only did i not have anyone's number, but the house phone wouldn't work and I use my phone for internet as i currently don't own a com...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:35:00 PST

Cornish Suicide

Take a half pint glass, add one shot of Absinthe add one shot of Blue Aftershock fill to the top with cider and the drink is ready. Put on a fake Northern Irish accent and the world is your lobster. I...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:20:00 PST