User:TheScrubby
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Some of my interests
[edit]Favourite bands/artists
[edit]- Pink Floyd
- The Animals
- The Beach Boys
- The Beatles
- The Byrds
- The Doors
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- The Rolling Stones
Honourable Mentions
[edit]Bands/Artists I've seen live
[edit]- 2012 & 2018 - Roger Waters - The Wall Live and Us Them Tour
- 2012 - The Beach Boys - The 50th Reunion Tour
- 2014 - The Rolling Stones - 14 On Fire
- 2015 - Alice Cooper & Mötley Crüe - Mötley Crüe Final Tour
- 2016 - Black Sabbath - The End Tour
- 2016 - Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls World Tour
- 2017 - Sir Paul McCartney - One On One
- 2019 - The Monkees (Micky Dolenz & Michael Nesmith) - The Mike and Micky Show
- 2022 - Foo Fighters - (ft. The Meanies and Amyl and the Sniffers) - Live at Geelong Stadium (worked as security)
- 2022 - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Return Of The Curse Of Timeland
- 2023 - Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets - The Echoes Tour
- 2023 - Sir Paul McCartney - Got Back
- 2023 - Devo - The Farewell Tour Celebrating 50 Years
- 2024 - Todd Rundgren - 2024 Live at the Corner Hotel
- 2024 - Graham Nash - Sixty Years Of Songs & Stories
- 2024 - Alice Cooper, Blondie, Wolfmother, Wheatus, and The Psychedelic Furs - Pandemonium Festival
- 2024 - Pearl Jam and Pixies - Dark Matter World Tour
Favourite films
[edit]- A Clockwork Orange
- A Night to Remember
- American Graffiti
- Animal House
- Carrie
- Casino
- Das Boot
- Don's Party
- Downfall
- Goldfinger
- Goodfellas
- Groundhog Day
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
- Idiocracy
- Midnight in Paris
- National Lampoon's Vacation
- Office Space
- Pink Floyd – The Wall
- Rat Race
- Stalingrad
- Stripes
- The Boat That Rocked
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Godfather & The Godfather Part II
- The Graduate
- The King of Comedy
- The Party
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again
- The Poseidon Adventure
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Titanic
- Whiplash
My 5-star picks from the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die challenge
[edit]- Häxan
- Sherlock Jr.
- Battleship Potemkin
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- The Invisible Man
- The Petrified Forest
- Modern Times
- My Man Godfrey
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Now, Voyager
- Casablanca
- The Ox-Bow Incident
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- Brief Encounter
- The Lost Weekend
- A Matter of Life and Death
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- It's a Wonderful Life
- The Snake Pit
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- Sunset Boulevard
- Rashômon
- The African Queen
- Ikiru
Interesting people born on the 11th of October
[edit]- 1552 – Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1553)
- 1671 – Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
- 1738 – Arthur Phillip, 1st Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
- 1739 – Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician (d. 1791)
- 1827 – Afzal-ud-Daulah, Asaf Jah V, 5th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1869)
- 1844 – Henry J. Heinz, American businessman, founded the H. J. Heinz Company (d. 1919)
- 1872 – Emily Davison, English educator and activist (d. 1913)
- 1884
- Friedrich Bergius, German-Argentinian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
- Eleanor Roosevelt, 39th First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)
- 1885 – François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- 1909 – Sir Ken Anderson, Australian politician (d. 1985)
- 1919 – Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader (d. 1990)
- 1926 – Neville Wran, 35th Premier of New South Wales (d. 2014)
- 1927
- Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (d. 2005)
- Jim Prior, English politician and soldier (d. 2016)
- 1932 – Barry Jones, Australian politician and lawyer
- 1937 – Sir Bobby Charlton, English soccer player and manager
- 1946 – Daryl Hall, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1947 – Lucas Papademos, 183rd Prime Minister of Greece
- 1953 – David Morse, American actor
- 1956 – Nicanor Duarte, 47th President of Paraguay
- 1957 – Dawn French, British actress, comedian and screenwriter
- 1960 – Nicola Bryant, English actress
- 1962
- Joan Cusack, American actress
- Andy McCoy, Finnish musician
- 1965 – Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor and producer
- 1966 – Luke Perry, American actor and producer (d. 2019)
- 1967 – Artie Lange, American actor and comedian
- 1968 – Jane Krakowski, American actress and singer
- 1976 – Emily Deschanel, American actress and producer
- 1985 – Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
Interesting people who died on the 11th of October
[edit]- 1303 – Pope Boniface VIII (b. 1235)
- 1347 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
- 1809 – Meriwether Lewis, American captain, explorer, and politician (b. 1774)
- 1850 – Louise of Orléans, 1st Queen of the Belgians (b. 1812)
- 1935 – Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
- 1960 – Richard Cromwell, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1961 – Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
- 1963 – Jean Cocteau, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1889)
- 1965 – Walther Stampfli, 50th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1884)
- 1971 – Chesty Puller, American general (b. 1898)
- 1988 – Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
- 1991 – Redd Foxx, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)
- 1993 – Andy Stewart, Scottish singer and entertainer (b. 1933)
- 1996 – William Vickrey, Canadian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
- 1998 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1999 – James Franklin Hyde, American chemist and inventor (b. 1903)
- 2000 – Donald Dewar, 1st First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
- 2004 – Keith Miller, Australian cricketer and pilot (b. 1919)
- 2005 – Edward Szczepanik, 44th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Werner von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (b. 1915)
- 2013 – Erich Priebke, German captain and war criminal (b. 1913)
- 2014 – Bob Such, Australian politician (b. 1944)
- 2019
- Robert Forster, American actor (b. 1941)
- Alexei Leonov, Soviet/Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
- 2022 – Dame Angela Lansbury, Irish-British American actress and singer (b. 1925)
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