Garbled Communications is a non-profit based online magazine, set up in July '99. Covering tv, film, music and humour, the idea behind the site was to have four sites in one, opinionated, intelligent content (and as much of it as possible), but at the same time, not to take things too seriously...
Garbled Communications is written by the following people:
Day Job: Editor for Sirius Tv.
But also: Web-designer, and editor of this site.
Favourite Films (in no particular order): Happiness, Amelie, Short Cuts, The Third Man, Better Off Dead, All About My Mother, Donnie Darko, Lost In Translation, The Big Sleep, All films by David Lynch, the Coen's (bar Intolerable Cruelty), Woody, Kubrick and Welles.
Favourite Tv: Jam, The Shield, The Simpsons until about five years ago, early Dennis Potter, Six Feet Under, Spaced, The Sopranos, King of the Hill, Queer as Folk, Brasseye, GBH, Twin Peaks, The Larry Sanders Show, Buffy.
Favourite Music: Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, The Strokes, Pulp, Hefner, Belle & Sebastian, The Delgado's, The Libertines, The Dandy Warhols, Mercury Rev, Radiohead.
Firm Convictions: Melody Maker should be brought back. Chris Morris will one day be funny again. The new Dr Who series will be superb, but will still get cancelled by the Beeb after one series. Tv ratings aren't representitive of what we're watching in the slightest.
Newspaper: The Guardian.
Day Job: UNIX & Web Team Leader for international media company.
But Also: Regular contributor to Linux magazines, sometimes writes the www.theitportal.com newsletter, holder of an M.A. in film studies from the University of Westminister.
Favourite Films: Wild at Heart, Withnail & I, Notting Hill, most Hammer Horrors.
Favourite TV: The Prisoner, Blake's 7, League of Gentlemen, BrassEye.
Favourite Music: Smiths, Cure, Wonderstuff, EARLY Cranberries, OMD.
Firm convictions: Hugh Grant is a great movie star, Stardust by Neil Gaiman is a fantastic novel and would make a superb film, Peter Jackson has proved his devotion to Satan by cutting Christopher Lee out of Return of the King - hopefully Jesus will strike back and make King Kong a big flop.
Car: Rover 75 1.8 Classic (It's just like driving a Jag, honest!)
Football Team: Spurs
Daily Newspaper: Replaced by http://news.bbc.co.uk
Sunday Newspaper: The Sunday Times.
Occupation: Business Graduate looking to make his mark on the world of journalism
Icons: Steve Buscemi, Johnny Depp, Jack Lemmon
Hopes: Substance will reclaim its rightful place away from style.
Favourite TV: OZ
Favourite Music: Divine Comedy, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, Muse, Ben Folds Five, Mansun, Suede, and anything else that falls between Classical and Slipknot/Tool type stuff
Car: Peugeot 106 XS
Favourite Guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
Favourite Songwriter: Neil Finn or Paddy McAloon
Favourite Director: Barry Levinson
Classified Ad: Guitarist, living in the Midlands, looking to join or form band. Music interests span from the Carpenters to Tool. If interested, e-mail forrestbyrne@hotmail.com
Day Job: Freelance writer, aspiring PR guru, Vodka drinker...
Favourite Films (in no particular order): Nikita, Heat, Almost Famous, North By Northwest, Seven, The Deerhunter, Donnie Darko, Jesus Of Montreal, Ghostbusters, At Close Range.
Favourite TV: Cracker, Spaced, Twin Peaks, ER, Alan Partridge, Phoenix Nights, Mighty Boosh.
Rocks my stereo: Longview, Elbow, Bernard Butler, Embrace, Lamb, Janes Addiction, Fila Brazillia, Nightmares On Wax, Aim, Tricky, Beta Band, Grand Drive, Haven, Interpol, Damien Rice, Old Madchester, The Drake and The Buckley.
Car: Old Golf convertable currently falling apart in style.
Motto: Has tha nowt moist?
Things that sum me up: Music and more music, pizza, Jaffa Cakes, dancing like a windmill, cosmopolians, New York, spaz pool playing, flip flops, stripey scarves, silly hats and general woollen stuff.
Most likely to be found: In a lounge bar throwing Margeritas down my neck whilst dribbling over boys with indie hair.
Day Job: Technician in Environmental Services, UCL
But Also: Professional Sci-fi Geek
Favourite Films: John Carpenter’s The Thing, Demon Seed, The Apartment, Ed Wood, Crappy B Movies, Hammer/AIP Films
Favourite Tv: The League of Gentlemen, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson’s Creek, Channel 4 on Sunday (great hangover TV and it lasts all day!), Lots of old stuff that isn’t on anymore (Doctor Who, Blakes 7 etc.)
Favourite Music: Super Furry Animals, Manic Street Preachers, Joy Division, Belle & Sebastian, David Bowie, Scott Walker, Walter/Wendy Carlos, Soundtracks by John Barry or Ennio Morricone.
Firm Convictions: That one day I will be Doctor Who and that Sarah Michelle Gellar will be my assistant.Previous Convictions: Have appeared on awful British Real World Clone, The Living Soap.
Car: London Transport
Football Team: 11 People one of whom plays in goal
Daily Newspaper: The Metro (Well its free!)
Day Job: Struggling student learning how to write creatively whilst dabbling with the novels of Jane Eyre and George Orwell. That’s right a BH Hons in English is my goal.
Also: Write a bit for the well-established London Metropolitan University Student newspaper, cleverly titled ‘The metro’ (No relation to the popular London commuter paper!) Contribute to a wonderful music fanzine called ‘BLAM’ showcasing all new bands from the musically fertile hotbed of Tunbridge Wells.
Bands: Mogwai, Arab Strap, Explosions in the Sky, Beach Boys, UNKLE, Squarepusher, Verve, Goldie Lookin’ Chain, Doves and a great new Liverpudlian group called ‘The Open’, I urge you to check them out.
Films: Anything with the deadpan Bill Murray. I believe Ghostbusters to be his best work.
Pretentious fiction: Fear and loathing, Catch 22 and the Da Vinci code by Dan Brown. Please, everyone must read this book.
Talkbox: Brass Eye, The Day Today, (Chris Morris is a genius) Marion and Geoff, Spaced, Simpsons and Family Guy.
Dislikes: Burberry and tracksuit trousers tucked into white socks.
Last Illness: A rather evil bout of the flu. I was bedridden for a whole week and drunk several gallons of original flavour lucozade, alas to no avail.
Favourite Monster Munch: Pickled onion, although having recently tried the retro snack ‘Space Raiders’ in the same flavour, I feel that these savoury treats are the way forward.
Day Job: MA student in International Communications
Also: Television editor of Leeds Student Newspaper, occasional post-Punk meets post-Rock musician and part-time neo-Situationist radical.
Favourite Films: Escape From Alcatraz, Lawrence of Arabia, Donnie Darko, North by Northwest, anything by Sergio Leone/ Ennio Morricone.
Favourite TV: Holidays in the Danger Zone, Father Ted, Neighbours.
Favourite Music: The Smiths, Mogwai, Radiohead, Leeds-based ska band Damn Skippy.
Current Pet Hate: Moaning indie music sung by a man with a cold (that's you Longview….).
Convictions: The language of music and the language of management should never, ever be mixed. Bad poets should not be allowed to buy guitars (that's you Longview, Starsailor, anyone who's ever rhymed 'me' with 'be'….).
But also likes: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the wisdom of Bruce Springsteen, the writings of Guy Debord.
Daily Newspaper: www.iran-daily.com.
Day Job: Production Manager/Copywriter for music-based marketing company.
Also: Freelance writer for various mags & websites, novelist.
Favourite Bands: The Beatles, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Blur, Bluetones, The Smiths, R.E.M., U2.
Favourite Films: The Breakfast Club, Wizard Of Oz, Silence Of The Lambs, Goodfellas, Gladiator, Fight Club, Seven, Blues Brothers, Flash Gordon, I Love You To Death.
Favourite TV: Friends, The Secret Life Of Us, The League Of Gentlemen, Fast Show, Dawson's Creek, Coronation Street, This Life, Star Trek, Monkey (honest!).
Favourite Comedian: Eddie Izzard.
Inspirations: John Lennon, Kay Mellor, Roddy Doyle, Jack Kerouac, Madonna, my mum.
Worst thing(s) in the world ever: Mullet hair cuts, dishonesty, pigeons, prejudice, orange juice with 'juicy bits'.
Day Job: temping at totaljobs.com
But also: very amateur music writer
Favourite Films: Annie Hall, Delicatessen, Cinema Paradiso, Stop Making Sense, Rear Window, High Society, Breathless, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Rocky IV.
Favourite TV: Big Train, The Day Today, Spaced, Adam and Joe, anything about music that doesn’t involve Jo Whiley.
Favourite music: Smiths, Bowie, Trash Can Sinatras, Pixies, Talking Heads, The Roots, Radiohead, Yo La Tengo, Pavement, David Holmes, The Beach Boys & currently anything on Warp, Rawkus, Grand Central, Chemikal Underground or We Love You.
Newspapers and Magazines: Independent on Sunday, Q, Wire, NME.
Day Job: Tech support at an Internet betting company
Favourite Films: The Big Lebowski, Godfathers I&II, The Exorcist, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Psycho, Vertigo, The Third Man, Seven, The Shining, Dragnet.
Favourite Tv: The Sopranos, Twin Peaks, The Simpsons.
Favourite Directors: Lynch, Scorcese, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Cronenberg, The Coen Brothers.
Football Team: Tottenham
Occupation: IT Consultant working in the city
But also: have lost half a stone since New Year through dieting
Sad fact : My household are officially the best customers at my local video store, having rented out 45 movies during the last six months of 1999 at an average of nearly 2 a week. There are three of us.
Favourite Films: Die Hard, anything by James Cameron
Favourite Actor/Actress: Harrison Ford/Ashley Judd
Favourite TV: Match of The Day, X Files
Favourite Music: The Corrs, Will Smith,
Firm Convictions: The British should stop trying to make action movies (Down Time, Rancid Aluminium), more money and ideas so we can pull our top talent back from Hollywood. Tom Cruise must stop making movies like Cocktail and Jerry Maguire - uuurrrggghhh!
Previous Convictions: Nothing that they could prove. Yet
Car: Taxis
Football team: Aston Villa and England
Daily Newspaper: The Express - Sunday Newspaper: Sunday Times
Day job: Being lazy and looking for a proper job at the same time.
But also: Works part time at Great Mills as a sales assistant. After graduating, you now know why I'm looking for a job!
Favourite Films: Private Parts, Shawshank Redemption, Trainspotting, Full Metal Jacket and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Favourite TV: The 11 O'Clock Show, Trigger Happy TV and ER.
Favourite Music: Shania Twain, Catatonia, Robbie Williams, Madonna, MeatLoaf, The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers and Natalie Imbruglia.
Car: Vauxhall Astra.
Football team: Newcastle Town. NOT United. In the League, Stoke City.
Daily Newspaper: The Sun. Quick and easy. The Evening Sentinel. Only paper that covers Newcastle Town. Sunday Newspaper: Too much crap in Sunday papers.
Occupation: Student (but not for much longer!)
Films: Trainspotting, Boogie Nights, Star Wars Trilogy, Ghostbusters and E.T. - yes, E.T.!
TV: Eastenders, MOTD, Simpsons
Music: Radiohead, Blur, Longpigs, Mansun, SFA, Cornelius, UNKLE and some others
Car: No thanks
Convictions: That anything with Johnny Depp in is usually good and that I WILL go to Glastonbury and Radiohead WILL play there
Dream: To go to Glastonbury (I wouldn't mind being a top actor or musician either!)
Claim to fame: My girlfriend went to school with Jimi Mistry, Dr Fonseca in Eastenders, who also stars in East is East. Incidently, Jimi Mistry is the coolest name for an actor, ever.
Name: Damien Hart
Day Job: Greatest Healer and Mystic the world has ever known.
But Also: Political heavyweight, Kung Fu Master of the 17th Dan, over-agedpaperboy.
Favourite Films: Beethoven, Beethoven's Second, Beethoven's Third, Beethoven's Fourth.
Favourite TV: Anything on Living, except if Derek Acora's in it because he's a rubbish psychic who's not fit to lick the dog dirt off my shoes.
Favourite Music: Jive Bunny, Sonia, Sinitta, Su Pollard.
Firm Convictions: That only the one true messiah is worthy of your worship. And that's me.
Previous Convictions: Fraud, obtaining money by deception, impersonating a police officer, some more fraud, murder (got off on appeal).
Football Team: West Brom
Daily Newspaper: The Mail, even if they are mostly lilly-livered pinko lliberals these days.
Sunday Newspaper: The Sport. Great footie coverage, but not enough naked woman for my taste really.
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