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Who Are You? |
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Name : Andrew Lake |
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DOB : 28 November 1978 |
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Hair : Scruffy and Red(ish) |
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Eyes : Hazel |
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Nose : Regular shaped, not that bad looking actually |
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Siblings : One brother, elder; Peter. One sister, younger; Kathryn. |
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Current place of abode:
Inverness, Scotland. Sharing a flat with a friend, name of Jane, and having a wonderful time up in the cold. |
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Jane and Me - 2001 |
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Occupation : Hostel Assistent in the Inverness Millburn SYHA |
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Pets : One bear, Dru (she's in love with Scotland, her homeland). One beaver, Kittyfantasticobeaver (she's a bit strange, doesn't like the rain much either, and tends to fight a lot with Spike, but there ya go). One Moose, who is currently without name. Ernies, from Sesame Street. And Cookie Monster, who is the only living creature from the list...and he's a purple plant that adorns my windowsil - what can I say? I'm a sad wee man! |
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I was born in Leeds, UK but I only lived there for about a year or two and I don't remember those years at all. We moved then to Treharris, Wales - a wee mining town near to Merther Tydfyll in the valleys (and no, I don't choral sing) - my first memory in that place was when I went to the library by myself one afternoon after school and spent a couple of hours just reading books. Not a great anecdote I grant you. We lived there for about five years before moving to Portlethen, on the North East coast of Scotland about 6miles from Aberdeen where I spent my juvenile primary school years. Lots of memories, lots of fun, plus my first visit to Loch Ness was squeezed into this time, so yay. We moved once again when I was eleven to Caldicot, back in Wales but further south and east and close to the border. Had my secondary school years here, nuff said :-) |
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I left school three years ago, and started work at a video store for some cash, turned into a pseudo career and I stayed there for 20months. Then I started travelling... |
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We don't have cable so we have to make our own fun. |
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Aside from travelling, which I think is fairly obvious as being a major interest of mine considering I have a website set up for the thing, I do have passions lying in a vast number of other avenues. The main one being film...I have loved this genre of art for many many years so it should come as no surprise that I am currently studying it at college. This goes for TV and photography also, the whole visual medium just has a massive pull for me. I also read, and write, and sit, and ponder and eat food. Food is a big interest, most likely because it's so yummy and all. My favourite meal would have to be something simple - either sausage egg and chips, jacket potato or pasta. Gotta love some pasta. So yeah, that's pretty much all aside travelling I get up to...I'm including walking and hiking in the whole travelling shenanigans, because I do that a lot as well. Just take off every day for a quick/long stroll somewhere that takes my fancy. |
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Top 10 Movies of All Time |
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Top 10 Movies of 2000 |
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Local Hero
A sublimely slow paced film from writer/director Bill Forsyth. I urge you all to see a piece of cinema beauty.
Field of Dreams
It may be Kevin Costner and it may be about baseball, but by giving this a chance you�d find out it�s actually about something completely different.
Slacker
One of the finest no budget movies ever made. Excellent writing and directorial debut by Richard Linklater.
It�s a Wonderful Life
Nuff said.
Citizen Kane
Ditto.
Say Anything
Featuring the all out wonderful John Cusack in one of his most memorable roles. Watch it, fall in love with it.
Beauty and the Beast
Disney doing very, very, very good film.
Chasing Amy
Kevin Smith�s most perfect movie so far. Beautiful script, beautiful themes, beautful performances.
Rear Window
Hitchcock doing what he does best. Jimmy Stewart doing what he does best.
Box of Moonlight
Excellent indie film with John Turturro and Sam Rockwell (pre Hollywood),wonderful stuff. |
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MAGNOLIA
Being John Malkovich
O Brother Where Art Thou
High Fidelity
Memento
Toy Story 2
New Waterford Girl
Sleepy Hollow
Man on the Moon
American Beauty |
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Small movies that are worth it |
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AFTERLIFE
Last Night
Happy Texas
Zero Effect
Metropolitan
The Hanging Garden |
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Favourite TV Programmes |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Highlander
Doctor Who |
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Some of my favourite songs |
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Some of my favourite singers/groups |
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Dust in the Wind. Kansas
Bonny Portmore. Loreena McKennitt
Paradise by the Dashboard Light. Meatloaf
Hallejulah. Jeff Buckley
Through the Bamboo Forest. Tan Dun
Summer of �69. Bryan Adams.
Journey to the Line. Hans Zimmer
Momentum. Aimee Mann
Ol� �55. Tom Waits
For the Love of a Princess. James Horner
I Will Remember You. Sarah McLachlan
Little Plastic Castle. Ani di Franco |
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The Waterboys, Tom Waits, Bryan Adams, Shooglenifty, Sarah McLachlan, Loreena McKennitt, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Jeff Buckley, Ani DiFranco, Kansas... |
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Currently in the CD player |
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The Fellowship of the Ring Howard Shore
Moulin Rouge OST. Various
White Lillies Island. Natalie Imbruglia |
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Top 5 Books of All Time |
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Quest for a Kelpie
Excellent book by Frances M. Hendry. Read as a child, still read as an adult.
The Hotel New Hampshire
Sprawling family epic by John Irving...superb.
The Crow Road
Another sprawling family epic, only this time by Iain Banks.
Kidnapped
Scottish classic by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Lord of the Rings
By J.R.R Tolkein, need I say more? |
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Currently Reading |
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His Dark Materials (trilogy). Phillip Pullman |
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I Laugh in the Face of Danger... |
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As I mentioned above my favourite show has got to be Buffy, I mean it has everything. Sexy female leads, sexy male leads, killer dialogue and characters that burst out the TV, grab you by the socks and scream in loud voices "I'm about as real as you're gonna get from a show goddamnit!"
There's so much I could go into with Buffy but we'll stick with the basics.
But hey! I could talk Buffy all day, alas this site isn't Buffy themed so for all your Buffy related shenanigans I recommend a search for 'Buffy' on any engine - or you could swing by Constancy In Motion which is a darn cool site with lots of great fanfic - hard to pick a fave, they're all amazing - and tons of other goodies. |
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Top 12 Episodes |
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Top 5 Characters |
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Hush. Season 4
Earshot. Season 3
Passion. Season 3
Dopplegangland. Season 3
Restless. Season 4
When She Was Bad. Season 2.
Lover's Walk. Season 3
Surprise. Season 2
I Only Have Eyes For You. Season 2
Becoming Part 1. Season 2
The Wish. Season 3
The Pack. Season 1 |
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Faith. Eliza Dushku
Willow. Alyson Hannigan
Spike. James Marsters
Giles. Anthony Stewart Head
Oz. Seth Green |
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Top Quotes |
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"Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love, the clarity of hatred and the ecstasy of grief," Angelus
"Feeling out of the loopy" Willow |
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