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Neil McGrath

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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Internet
Occupation	Internet Adventurer
Location	https://, Ireland
Introduction	Internet Adventurer.
Interests	Playing music, listening to music, writing music, reading about music, acting like I was some sort of authority on music, avid follower of all things Hip Hop, I fucking LIVE for the internet: e.g. IMDB/Wikipedia/YouTube it's mostly for reading cos I'm insatiable when it comes to reading and the net is the biggest fucking book ever (with the exception of a Hotspur annual I got for xmas 1991 which I'm pretty sure was even bigger than the internet), I love most things to do with computers cos altho I'm not a computer nerd that holds LAN partys or any of that geekish shit I'm a child of the 80's and I grew up with them starting with the Atari & Commodore 64 which was the beginning of a beautiful relationship that still remains today, the Back to the Future films (along with Commodore 64's) also had an overwhelming influence on my imagination as a child, chilling out with friends, deserted beaches, forests, camping in the mountains, baileys & brandy, girls with big bootys, girls with really big bootys, anything funny and taking the piss out of anything that isn't funny, reciting Biggies lyrics to whoever will listen, Pitch & Pizzle, Golf (but only with seriously strong weed and electric golf carts), recording ridiculous videos on the phone and sticking them on YouTube, sleeping, making sure everything on the table in front of me is positioned symmetrically (and in the Golden Ratio whenever possible), debunking and poking holes in Lost overall plot theories, studying songwriting and lyrics like I was tryna get a PhD or something, swimming, surf-skiing, xBox 360 Online Gaming with the whole headset talking/shooting at weirdos around the world buzz goin on, Religious & Philosophical literature (yeah I know u think I'm being smart here), Box Sets, The Moon (fave type of moon is "The Old Moon In The Arms Of The New"..ever hear that before? Thanks to Uncle Ger for that one..), Texas Hold-Em Poker, Pride & UFC, Cooking, Maths, Science, Documentaries, Daydreaming
Favorite Movies	3:10 to Yuma, A Beautiful Mind, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, A Room for Romeo Brass, Amadeus, American Psycho, Annie Hall, Apocalypse Now, Back to the Future I, II, III, Batman Begins, Beetlejuice, Bigger Stronger Faster, Biggie and Tupac, Blackboard Jungle, Blow, Boogie Nights, Bowling for Columbine, Boyz n the Hood, Braveheart, Breaking the Waves, Casino, City of God, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Dancer in the Dark, Dead Man's Shoes, Death Note (Desu nôto), Deliverance, Desu nôto 2 (Death Note: The Last Name), DiG!, Drugstore Cowboy, E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial, Edward Scissorhands, Fade to Black, Fargo, Forrest Gump, Ghostbusters, God Grew Tired of Us, GoodFellas, Hannah and Her Sisters, Hotel Rwanda, I Am Sam, I'm Not There, Immortal Beloved, Last Crusade, Temple of Doom, Inside Man, JCVD (Van Dammage), Juice, Kes, Kingdom of Heaven, Kurt & Courtney, Kurt Cobain About a Son, Labyrinth, Lolita, Man on Fire, Manhattan, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Mighty Aphrodite, Nikola Tesla: The Genius Who Lit the World, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, No End in Sight, Notorious, Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Platoon, Prison Song, Pulp Fiction, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ravenous, Recount, Rescue Dawn, Rocky, Runaway, Saving Private Ryan, Scoop, Scum, Sicko, Stand by Me, Stander, Standing In The Shadows of Motown, Star Wars IV, V, VI, Stardust Memories, Stoned, Sweet and Lowdown, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, The Bourne Trilogy, The Breakfast Club, The Dark Knight, The Deer Hunter, The Doors, The Game, The Goonies, The Idiots, The Last of the Mohicans, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Machinist, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Prestige, The Road To Wellville, The Secret of Nikola Tesla, The Truman Show, The Wicker Man, This Is England, Trainspotting, Tupac - Resurrection, Velvet Goldmine, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, W, Walk the Line, We Were Soldiers, Young Frankenstein, Zabriskie Point, Zeitgeist: The Movie, Zelig
Favorite Music	Biggie, Dylan, John Prine, The Beatles, Radiohead, Jay-Z, Burial, David Bowie, Eminem, Elvis Presley, Mic Christopher, Air, Arcade Fire, Beck, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bruce Springsteen, Can, Christy Moore, Daft Punk, Dr. Dre, Ennio Morricone, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, John Martyn, Lil Wayne, Muse, NaS, Nick Drake, Nirvana, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Rory Gallagher, Sam Cooke, T.I., Talking Heads, The Doors, The Game, The Pixies, The Prodigy, The Rolling Stones, U2, Wu-Tang Clan, Abba, Archie Roach, Badly Drawn Boy, Battles, Beach Boys, Beethoven, Bert Jansch, Blur, Bob Marley, Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music, Buddy Holly, Ben E. King, Cake, Chemical Brothers, Crowded House, Death In Vegas, DJ Shadow, Duran Duran, Eels, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Faces, Faithless, Fatboy Slim, Franz Ferdinand, Gnarls Barkley, Hank Williams, Hot Chip, Jackson Browne, Jeff Buckley, Jethro Tull, Joy Division, Kings Of Leon, Kraftwerk, LCD Soundsystem, Leonard Cohen, Madness, Marc Almond, Matisyahu, Mercury Rev, Modest Mouse, Morrissey, Neil Young, New Order, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Ocean Colour Scene, OMD, Otis Redding, Paul Simon, Pete Seeger, Planxty, Prince, Pulp, R.E.M, Rihanna, Robert Johnson, Roy Orbison, Röyksopp, Ryan Adams, Saint Germain, Sean Tyrell, Skream, Soft Cell, Supergrass, The Answer, The Cure, The Dubliners, The Four Tops, The Jam, The Killers, The Kinks, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Wallflowers, The Waterboys, The Who, Tom Petty, Townes Van Zandt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Zero 7, Big L, Big Pun, Busta Rhymes, CunninLynguists, DJ Dangermouse, Eric B. & Rakim, GZA, Ice Cube, Immortal Technique, Jadakiss, Joe Buddens, Ludacris, Minty Fesh Beats, N.W.A, Outkast, Prince Paul, Proof, Royce da 5'9, Snoop Dogg, Styles P, Timbaland
Favorite Books	Last Train To Memphis (The Rise Of Elvis Presley) (Peter Guralnick), Careless Love (The Unmaking Of Elvis Presley) (Peter Guralnick), Leaf Niggle (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien), Wonderland Avenue (Danny Sugerman), Unbelievable (The life, death and afterlife of The Notorious B.I.G.) (Cheo Hodari Coker), Angry Blonde (Eminem), Jesus The Man/Jesus of the Apocalypse/The Book That Jesus Wrote (Barbara Thiering), No-One Here Gets Out Alive (Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman), The Alchemist (Paolo Coehlo), Post Office (Charles Bukowski), Have Gun Will Travel (The Rise and Spectacular Fall of Death Row Records), The Killing Of Tupac Shakur, The Murder Of Biggie Smalls, LAbyrinth (Randall Sullivan & Russell Poole), The All Creatures Great & Small Books (James Herriot/Alf Wright), The Beatles Anthology, Fast Food Nation, Stupid White Men (Michael Moore), Dude, Where's my Country? (Michael Moore), Mr. Nice (Howard Marks), Come As You Are (Michael Azzerad), Whatever You Say I Am (The Life & Times of Eminem), Chronicle Part One (Bob Dylan), Song & Dance Man III (Michael Gray), No Direction Home (Robert Shelton), Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (Howard Sounes), Bob Dylan: Behind The Shades (Clinton Heylin), Bob Dylan: A Biography (Anthony Scaduto), Cash: The Autobiography, One Voice (Christy Moore), Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (Al Franken), Strange Fascination: David Bowie, Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness