33. Personal Info
Activities:
Balancing on tube trains using an umbrella
Straightening bent umbrellas on tube trains
Interests:
The only 6 things of any use in this goddamn world: art, sport, science, reflection, conversation and food.
Everything is a permutation of the above.
Favorite Music:
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Mansun, Mogwai, Blur, The Beta Band, Yes, XTC, GY!BE, The Boredoms, The Fiery Furnaces, The Cure, Oceansize, The Cooper Temple Clause, Pulp, Roxy Music, Slint, Talk Talk, The The, Soundgarden, Pink Floyd, Spiritualized, Orbital, The Electric Soft Parade, Wilco, Mercury Rev, Beck, Explosions In The Sky, Primal Scream, Radiohead, Soft Machine, Earth, Isis, The Blood Brothers, The Beatles, Blue Jam, Duran Duran, Ride, Slowdive, Elbow, Crash Test Dummies, Steve Harley, The Chemical Brothers, Vivian Stanshall, Squeeze, Underworld, Foetus, Mr. Bungle, The Mars Volta, Suede, Secret Machines, Aereogramme, The Teardrop Explodes, Pink Grease, Super Furry Animals, Hood, Bark Psychosis, Six By Seven, Engineers, Jesu, The Boo Radleys, Ultrasound, Lusk, Hum, Red Sparowes, Porcupine Tree, The Wildhearts, Quickspace, Catherine Wheel, Chapterhouse, Dark Star, Gomez, Cardiacs, The Monsoon Bassoon, Levitation, Working For A Nuclear Free City, Youthmovies, Air Formation, Barry Adamson, Koenjihyakkei, My Computer, Mew, Ulver, 65DaysOfStatic, Battles, Ulrich Schnauss, Caribou, Chrome Hoof, Thighpaulsandra, Barry Adamson, William Orbit, Half Man Half Biscuit, Porn Sword Tobacco, Earl Brutus, Caina, Deathspell Omega, Mclusky, Cardiacs again, everyone who likes Cardiacs, everyone who tries to approximate the genius of Cardiacs
Favorite TV Shows:
Arrested Development, nothing else is worthy of mention here*. When we students (260+ Facebook appreciation societies, and rising) grow up and gain influence, this programme will be regarded in the same light as, well...nope, it'll be regarded as the greatest thing the small screen has ever produced. Ever. Everever.
*OK, I guess that Monkey Dust is also worthy. Just about. Possibly Father Ted as well. And Peep Show. And Fawlty Towers. And Look Around You. And South Park. And The Thick Of It.
And anything by Chris Morris, although his finest hour (and quite possibly finest programme ever made) was his radio show, Blue Jam
Favorite Movies:
Oldboy, Braindead, The Big Lebowski, Brazil, Fight Club, Being John Malkovitch, Spirited Away, The Bourne Supremacy+Ultimatum, The Fallen Idol, Stapler Fahrer Klaus, Superbad, Night Of The Hunter, A Scanner Darkly, Bringing Up Baby, Croupier, Irreversible
Favorite Books:
Tristram Shandy, Melmoth The Wanderer, A La Recherche Du Cricket Perdu, Three Men In A Boat, Pnin, Atonement
lots of Objectivist poetry (coincidentally my dissertation topic)
Favorite Quotes:
"I've had this nail varnish on for two straight weeks now." - Me
"Two STRAIGHT weeks?" - Jamie Cartwright
"Totus tuus siminimus canus costacurta baggio..." - Dougal Maguire's inimitable Last Rites
About Me:
"an unwanted noise but which is the sign that all is about to rock, a battery which is interfered, which is acclaimed, the step of race, the escape ahead, the insane race, éperdue, the heart which is beating wildly not to break completely, a pouring rain which falls us above, as much outside than inside, one would like to shout, one cannot, so much the tears, the anguish and a despair dense and whirling involves us towards the depths, to go in simple tee-shirt, stupefied under the hot rains of one storm at mid-July, in the middle of the flashes, `to regret everything, everything, everything, everything, I regret everything, everything, everything, everything, everything,?'"
I find truth in poorly-translated music reviews.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 23:53 (eighteen years ago)