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I'm 36, Irish, a doctor... I'm "not crazy, just a little bit odd". I have a "forthright pragmatic here & now approach"!



These are a few of my favourite things:
Books/Authors: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and everything else he has written)Douglas Adams; His Dark Materials Philip Pullman; Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder; Brave New World Aldous Huxley; Catch-22 Joseph Heller; John Diamond; J.D. Salinger; Sylvia Plath; Saki; Neil Gaiman

Movies: Amélie; Finding Neverland; The Shawshank Redemption; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Buzz Lightyear of Star Command; The Lion King; LOTR; Hackers; Shrek; American History X; The Power of One; Pretty Woman; Fight Club; Intermission; Bring It On; Serenity; Night Watch (Ночной Дозор); Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were Rabbit; March of the Penguins; Atonement; The Princess Bride; Stardust

Music: The Frames; The Beatles; Queen; Jeff Buckley; The Divine Comedy; Damien Rice, Tori Amos, Mic Christopher, Aimee Mann; Arcade Fire; The Shins; The Zutons; The Monkees; Robbie Williams; The Minimum Requirements; The Blizzards; Muse

Countries:New Zealand; Ireland; Germany; Mongolia; Trinidad & Tobago

Poems: Funeral Blues WH Auden; Anything by Emily Dickinson

Songs:This Used to Be My Playground Madonna; The Devil Went Down to Georgia The Charlie Daniels Band; Hallelujah Jeff Buckley; Disappointed The Frames; Wired to the Moon The Revs; Everybody Hurts REM; We are the Champions Queen; Anything but Ordinary Avril Lavigne; Arclight The Fat Lady Sings; Gin Soaked Boy The Divine Comedy; Crazy Britney Spears; Cows With Guns Dana Lyons; Don't Speak No Doubt; No Regrets Robbie Williams; Everybody Here Wants You Jeff Buckley; Silent All These Years Tori Amos; Mad World Michael Andrews, Gary Jules; If You Were Gay Avenue Q; New Slang The Shins; The JCB Song Nizlopi; Final Countdown Europe; Rocky Took a Lover Bell X1; Fantasy The Blizzards

Animals: Penguin, Gecko, Elephant

TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Angel; Firefly; Dollhouse; Ally McBeal; BlackAdder; Supernatural; Home and Away; Skins; Doctor Who

Sports:Trampolining; Hurling

Actors:Edward Norton; Jonny Lee Miller; Morgan Freeman; Hugo Weaving; Emma Watson; Emma Stone; Jennifer Lawrence

Quotes:You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true. - Will, The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman

What is the chance of something being created from nothing? Or the opposite, of course: how great are the odds that something could have existed forever? - Jostein Gaarder

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. - Barbara Hall

Ha but my life is but a box of wormgears! - Marvin, HHGTTG, Douglas Adams

Shine like a shard of glass on the forest ground - Arclight, The Fat Lady Sings

Young boys should never be sent to bed - they always wake up a day older - J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp), Finding Neverland

You think more than I, and of things I would not otherwise consider - Picking up the Pieces, AfterEver

Life is but a draft, a long rehearsal for a show that will never play - Hipolito, Amélie

Anything this time of day is like climbing Everest the difficult way - I Wasn't Built To Get Up, The Supernaturals

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word,
That what I have seen is unsurpassable - Gitanjali, Rabindranath Tagore

No one ever said it was easy.
No one ever said it would be this hard - The Scientist, Coldplay

Can't even shout, Can't even cry,
The Gentlemen are coming by.
Looking in windows, Knocking on doors,
They need to take 7 and they might take yours.
Can't call to Mom, Can't say a word,
You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard. - BtVS Season 4, Hush


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