About Me

  • About Me: Buy the ticket, Enjoy the ride

More About Me

  • Nicknames: dickhead, shitface, scumbag, greek god... you call it, I answer to it
  • Heroes: Messrs. Jack Daniels and Johnny Walker... What can I say?? They've had a big influence on my life.
  • Expertise: Too many to list
  • Occupation: Journalist
  • Industry: Media. Newspaper

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Here goes nothing: red hot chilli peppers (freaky stylee, mothers milk and of course, blood, sugar sex magik... the rest is shite), iron maiden (where do i even begin???), dreamtheater, nickelback, motley crue, mariliyn manson (antichrist superstar and the golden age of grotesque... brilliant!!), CSNY, jimi hendrix, john digweed, the who, R.E.M (the IRS albums.... classic blues tempered with soul and lil' bit of punk...), rolling stones, linkin park, mos def, muddy waters, motorhead, metallica, led zeppelin, stone temple pilots (purple!!!!), the kinks, the ramones, KISS, toad the wet sprocket, leonard cohen, michael jackson, nine inch nails, robert johnson, howlin wolf, the killers, the clash (london calling, sandinista!... when punk was king!!), rage against the machine (battle of los angeles, renegades and the self titled rage against the machine.... their music does make you think), audioslave (a natural progression from Rage), aarmin van buuren, ferry corsten, gabriel and dresden, tiesto, mike foyles, judge jules....the list goes on and on and on....
  • Favorite Lyrics: "Riders on the Storm" - The Doors, "Free Bird" - Lynyrd Skynyrd, "The Future" - Leonard Cohen
  • Songs I repeat the most: "Girls, Girls, Girls" - Motley Crue, "Be quick or be dead" - Iron Maiden
  • Band I wish I was in: Definitely red hot chilli peppers, R.E.M or Maiden....no one makes better music.... maybe Rage..

Books

  • Favorite Books: Too many to list
  • Favorite Authors: tom sharpe, tom wolfe, jack kerouac, truman capote, irvine welsh, kurt vonnegut (hocus pocus and breakfast of champions are fuckin classics!!), roddy doyle, frank mccourt, marcus aurelius (meditations...read it!!), agatha christie, woody allen, philip roth, wu ming, sun tzu, paulo lins, thomas l. friedman, chuck palahniuk, tom holt, john pilger, eric schlosser, hunter s. thompson, francis wheen, munshi premchand, ruskin bond, minegishi nobuaki, tsuchiya garon
  • Favorite Genres: Esoteric
  • Favorite Characters: Holden Caulfield, Sal Paradise, Dean Moriarty, Mark Renton... Icons in their own right.
  • Favorite Quotes: "All morons hate it when you call them a moron." - Holden Caulfield in "The Catcher in the Rye."
  • Recent Reads: Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck, Age of Consent - Manifesto for a New World Order - George Monbiot, Globalisation and its discontents - Joseph Stiglitz

Movies

  • Favorite Actors: Difficult..very difficult..... they're all really good and better looking than me...lol
  • Favorite Directors: Most films by the following auteurs: quentin tarantino, oliver stone, takeshi miike, darren aronofsky, cameron crowe, steven soderbergh, michael mann, brian de palma, billy wilder. Add to that - hitchcock, bertolucci, polanski, michaelangelo antonioni. Closer to home - shyam benegal, wong-kar-wai, park chan-wook, john woo
  • Favorite Genre: mind-numbing action, thrillers, film noir, comedy, spaghetti westerns
  • Favorite Soundtracks: The Sergio Leone trilogy soundtracks by Ennio Morricone, Natural Born Killers, Lord of the Rings, Bladerunner.
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." — Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando), "On the Waterfront."
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Chris Farley - let's be honest here

Travel

  • Places I've been: too many to list..
  • Places to see before I die: rio de janeiro, the pacific islands
  • Dream Vacation: anywhere with Jessica Rabbit

Television

  • Favorite Shows: comedy central, south park, little britain, the simpsons, boston legal, law and order - special victims unit, seinfeld, the daily show hosted by conan o' brien, fawlty towers, scrubs, criminal minds, the tonight show hosted by jay leno, the travel and living network...am a frickin couch potato.....
  • Most Addictive Show: The Simpsons, South Park, 24, Scrubs, Law and Order, Johnny Sokko and the Flying Robot, 21 Jump Street... TV at it's fuckin best..
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel
  • Characters you relate to: Bill Waterson's Calvin - the resemblance is scary!!
  • Favorite Theme Song: Theme song from Knight Rider...absolutely kickass!!!
  • Show I Secretly Watch: Magnum P.I., Didi's Comedy Show

Contact Info

  • MSN: thriving on chaos
  • Yahoo: biswarupgooptu

Video Games

  • Games I Play: Halo, Age of Empires, Quake II and III, Need for Speed, Grand Theft Auto
  • Consoles: XBox 360
  • Gaming Alias: Carnage Crow