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James

Rust never sleeps

About Me


TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: James
Birthday: 23 June, 1978
Birthplace: Hastings
Current Location: Brighton!
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 6'1"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Mostly right
Your Heritage: Huh?
The Shoes You Wore Today: Converse
Your Weakness: Heights and Brunettes
Your Fears: Hmm. You know those really small lifts that only take 2 or 3 people? Then those.
Your Perfect Pizza: Plain old Margherita. Maybe some olives?
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Swim the channel!
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: Don't use it
Thoughts First Waking Up: Open eyes?
Your Best Physical Feature: You tell me
Your Bedtime: Do people really have 'bedtimes'?
Your Most Missed Memory: Six-week summers
Pepsi or Coke: Dr. Pepper
MacDonalds or Burger King: McDonalds for milkshakes. And yes I have seen Supersize Me
Single or Group Dates: One on one is better
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Er, neither thanks
Chocolate or Vanilla: Tough. Vanilla?
Cappuccino or Coffee: Starbucks Grande Latte every time
Do you Smoke: Negative
Do you Swear: Fuck no
Do you Sing: Badly
Do you Shower Daily: Of course
Have you Been in Love: Hasn't everyone?
Do you want to go to College: Been there, got the t-shirt
Do you want to get Married: Maybe
Do you belive in yourself: Hell yeah!
&..39;Do you get Motion Sickness:' No
Do you think you are Attractive: Maybe, in the right kind of light
Are you a Health Freak: Sometimes
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Of course
In the past month have you Smoked: Nope
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: No, unfortunately
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yeah, but didn't enjoy it
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Nope, can't get them here
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Nah
In the past month have you been on Stage: The whole world's a stage. But otherwise, 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
Ever been Drunk: Um, yeah
Ever been called a Tease: Probably
Ever been Beaten up: As MJ once said: I'm a lover not a fighter
Ever Shoplifted: No
How do you want to Die: Suddenly
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Spaceman?
What country would you most like to Visit: Japan. Or Tibet. Or South Africa. etc

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My Interests

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Music:

The first album I ever owned - on tape - was Michael Jackson's Bad, which I can remember buying from Woolworths when I was about 10. I was a bit obsessed with MJ back then: practising the Moonwalk at every opportunity, putting plasters on my fingers for no reason etc etc. The last thing I bought was Jukebox, by Cat Power. In between I've listened to the following:Al Green | Alejandro Escovedo | Alela Diane | Animal Collective | Arcade Fire | Band of Horses | The Beach Boys | Beastie Boys | The Beatles | Beck | Beirut | Big Star | Bjork | Boards of Canada | Bob Dylan | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Brakes | British Sea Power | Bruce Springsteen | Buck 65 | Buena Vista Social Club | Calexico | CAN | Cat Power | cLOUDDEAD | David Bowie | DJ Shadow | De La Soul | The Decemberists | Dusty Springfield | Electrelane | Elliott Smith | The Flaming Lips | Four Tet | Giant Sand | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Iron & Wine | Jeff Buckley | Jim O'Rourke | Jim White | Joanna Newsom | Johnny Cash | Josh Rouse | Joy Division | The Killers | Kings of Convenience | Kraftwerk | LCD Soundsystem | Lambchop | The La's | Laura Veirs | Loose Fur | Low | M. Ward | Martha Wainwright | Marvin Gaye | Mercury Rev | Miles Davis | Mogwai | Mum | My Bloody Valentine | The National | Neil Young | Neu! | Nick Drake | old Motown stuff | Pavement | Pixies | Primal Scream | R.E.M. | Radiohead | The Rolling Stones | Ryan Adams | Sigur Ros | The Smiths | Smog | Sonic Youth | Sparklehorse | Spiritualized | The Stone Roses | Sufjan Stevens | Tom Waits | Tortoise | The Velvet Underground | Wilco | Willard Grant Conspiracy | Yo La Tengo | et cetera.

Movies:

The Straight Story | Vertigo | Three Colours Red | The Big Lebowski | Cinema Paradiso | Chungking Express | Pan's Labyrinth | 21 Grams | The Shawshank Redemption | Zatoichi | The Deer Hunter | George Washington | Sideways | Touching the Void | Withnail & I | A One and a Two | The Thin Red Line | It's a Wonderful Life | Blade Runner | Bonnie & Clyde | Short Cuts | Lost in Translation | Taxi Driver | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Groundhog Day | Together | Wild Strawberries | The Last of the Mohicans | Schindler's List | Pi | Mulholland Drive | Hero | Etre et Avoir | Assualt on Precinct 13 | Donnie Darko | Dekalog | The Killing Fields | The Royal Tenenbaums | Brokeback Mountain | Planes, Trains & Automobiles | Hidden | Beautiful Girls | Spirited Away | Secrets & Lies | Heat | etc

Television:

The Sopranos!

Books:

Lately: The Wild Places - Robert Macfarlane | Heat - George Monbiot | Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Granta 99 - What Happened Next | Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad |All-time: On the Road | White Noise | 1984 | Ulysses | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Beloved | The Great Gatsby | Heart of Darkness | Midnight's Children | everything by Geoff Dyer | The Outsider | Invisible Cities | The New York Trilogy | Disgrace | Straight is the Gate | Great Expectations | To the Lighthouse | Atonement | The Crying of Lot 49 | The Corrections | Howl & Other Poems | The Waste Land | Bonjour Tristesse | The Emigrants | The Trial | The Little Prince, and so on..

Heroes:

Bill Murray | Jack Kerouac | Bob Dylan | Lance Armstrong | Michael Palin | Toni Morrison | Aung San Suu Kyi | Tom Hurndall | Ray Mears | Bill Hicks | Ansel Adams | Louis Theroux | Wayne Coyne | Bill Watterson | Geoff Dyer | Ricky Gervais | Steve Coogan | Freddie Flintoff |

My Blog

Keith Richards

Ah, the legend that is 'Sir' Keef: 'Keith Richards admits ingesting all manner of substances in his time. But none quite as bizarre as he reveals in his latest confession: he snorted his father's ashe...
Posted by James on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:35:00 PST

Jean Baudrillard

From today's Guardian: Jean Baudrillard's death did not take place. "Dying is pointless," he once wrote. "You have to know how to disappear." The New Yorker reported a reading the French sociologist g...
Posted by James on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:13:00 PST

Apocalypto

Just watched Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. Seriously, I haven't been this blown away at the cinema since the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan. It's a stunning, stunning film - visuall...
Posted by James on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:21:00 PST

Albums of 2006

Is it too early to be doing this sort of thing? Oh well. Here, in no particular order, are my favourite albums of 2006. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go ...
Posted by James on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:58:00 PST

Love

Just got the 'new' Beatles album today. The overhaul isn't quite as radical as I had expected but there are some great moments: a backwards version of Sun King [Gnik Nus] that leads into George's Some...
Posted by James on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:56:00 PST

Disgrace

Today the Observer voted Disgrace, by J.M.Coetzee, the best novel of the past 25 years. Booker rules apply, so only Commonwealth writers could be considered [so no Roth, DeLillo, Morrison et...
Posted by James on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 09:47:00 PST

Bada bing!

The sixth, and final, series of the Sopranos starts tonight. In just over two hours in fact. I'm like a little kid - I can hardly contain myself! Will there be another dream sequence episode? Wil...
Posted by James on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:00:00 PST

Damaged

Sitting here listening to the new Lambchop album, which is a real beauty. Again Kurt finds a kind of poetry in the everyday stuff most of us take for granted. Paperback Bible, for example, is taken fr...
Posted by James on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:25:00 PST

I want to ride my bicycle!

Today someone stole my bike. I know - bastards!  It isn't even worth that much - not in material terms anyway. But it's been everywhere with me: Scotland, France, The Lake District...
Posted by James on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:04:00 PST