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Brian

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About Me

Will the real Brian Willis please introduce himself?Contestant #1; Hi, my name's Brian Willis, I'm only twenty years old but in my short life so far I've discovered the cure for the common cold, solved the problem of world hunger, written a Booker-shortlisted novel, composed eight symphonies and given a simultaneous multiple orgasm to the entire Australian ladies beach volleyball team. My hobbies include chess, calculating pi to the four-millionth decimal place, and deriving esoteric and profound truths from the ingredient labels of Pot Noodle. Currently, I live in a hollowed out volcano in the south seas where I plot World Domination while surrounded by my elite bodyguard of kick-boxing supermodels.Contestant #2; Hello, my name is Brian Willis, I'm fifty-seven years old and I live in a supermarket car park in Neath, South Wales (one day they'll work out that I'm not an abandoned trolley). My interests include drinking Toilet Duck, swearing at lamp-posts, and amassing a fine collection of skin diseases, some of which have never been recorded by medical science in anything other than badgers.I would like it to be known that I am now separated from the strange fungal growth on my foot, but we are still good friends.Contestant #3; Hi, I'm Brian Willis, 44 years old (though this will probably change, dammit), father of three wonderful kids, writer of several short stories, 1 novel (SCORPION, co-written with Chris Poote) and editor of the British Fantasy Award winning anthology HIDEOUS PROGENY. I'm also a keen and active member of the Swansea Little Theatre, and have cracked the boards in several productions.AND THE WINNER IS- bugger, I can't remember.

My Interests

Books (both the reading and writing thereof), music, movies, theatre, and various types of naughtiness.

I'd like to meet:

Chris Moyles, Jeremy Clarkson, Davina McCall, Jamie Oliver, Jordan, Derek Acorah, Simon Cowell, anyone who has ever been on Big Brother, and numerous other pollutants of the airwaves. Of course, when I meet them, I'll be packing a Kalashnikov; "SAY HELLO TO MY LEEETLE FRIEND..!"I would have put Bush/Blair/Osama etc. on the list, but almost everybody would 'like to meet' those guys... You Are Batman
Billionaire playboy by day. Saving the world by night.
And you're not even a true superhero. Just someone with a lot of expensive toys! What Superhero Are You?

Music:

Jeff Buckley,Kate Bush,Debussy,Miles Davis,Genesis,Talking Heads,Beatles,Beethoven,Captain Beefheart,Nick Drake,David Bowie,Tom Waits,Radiohead,Richard Thompson,Steely Dan,Elgar,Pink Floyd,Muse,Delius,Mahavishnu Orchestra,Pixies,Mozart (list subject to constant update)

Movies:

2001;A Space Odyssey,It's A Wonderful Life,Lord Of The Rings,Withnail & I,O Brother Where Art Thou,Akira,This Is Spinal Tap,Enter The Dragon,Eraserhead,Nosferatu,Hero,JFK,Excalibur,Taxi Driver,Ed Wood,Dogma,Carry On Cleo,Scarface,Dr Strangelove,La Belle Et La Bete,Fantasia,Fight Club,Brazil,Shaun Of The Dead,Millers Crossing,Blue Velvet,Modern Times,Being There,Annie Hall,The Man With Two Brains,Chasing Amy,The Thing(1982),Citizen Kane,Planet Of The Apes(1968),Saving Private Ryan (List subject to constant update)

Television:

Doctor Who,The Simpsons,Spaced,I Claudius,The Mighty Boosh,Cosmos,Family Guy,The Day Today,Babylon 5,Monty Python,Torchwood,Frazier,Fawlty Towers,The Office,My Name Is Earl

Books:

Fiction-Terry Pratchett,Iain Banks,Angela Carter,Charles Dickens,Tom Robbins,Ursula LeGuin,H.G. Wells,Alan Moore,Ian Rankin,Mary Shelley,Philip Pullman,Edgar Allen Poe,Dashiell Hammett,Stephen King,Ian Fleming,William Burroughs,Douglas Adams,Oscar Wilde,Phillip K. Dick,Ray Bradbury,Neil Gaiman,H.P. Lovecraft,Arthur Conan Doyle. Non-fiction-Richard Dawkins,Hunter S. Thompson,Daniel Dennett,Carl Sagan,John Gribbin,Robert Anton Wilson

Heroes:

Bill Hicks,Richard Dawkins,Peter Cook,Oscar Wilde,Buckminster Fuller,Miles Davis,Chris Morris,Derren Brown,Hunter S.Thompson,Robert Anton Wilson

My Blog

Hour Of The Wolf

The mornings are the worst. You lie there in bed (having woken at 3 am; the 'hour of the wolf', when most people are born or when they die, when all the stuff in the world that's darkest and sca...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 28 May 2007 03:47:00 PST

Scum sucking b*****ds

This e-mail has been doing the rounds of some of the news agencies. I quote it in full here. Just when you thought that the media circus around the Madeleine McCann disappearance had reached its absol...
Posted by Brian on Sat, 19 May 2007 04:35:00 PST

A Song For The Lost

  A Song For The Lost   At first, I didn't even notice them. They didn't come close enough to chance into my line of sight; and besides, I was so caught up in the music that they would have ...
Posted by Brian on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:56:00 PST

ROBERT ANTON WILSON 1932-2007

Robert Anton Wilson, one of the greatest and most criminally neglected figures in modern American literature, died this week after a long illness. To try and explain what Wilson and his work meant to...
Posted by Brian on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:11:00 PST

You have got to be fucking kidding...

Finally the greatest cult trilogy of all time is coming to the stage and with a musical to boot. Its Evil Dead the Musical!If you dont know the plot Five college students go to an abandoned cabin in t...
Posted by Brian on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:14:00 PST

Featuring Yours Truly...

  Release Date: July 2006Editor: Ian FarringtonFormat: HardbackRRP: £14.99 (£16.50 non-uk) ISBN: 1-84435-191-2 There is nothing special about Edward Grainger. His life is much like any other - f...
Posted by Brian on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:51:00 PST