gfunkera | graeme buckley

shameless self promotion

The who:

When not sleeping, drinking, eating or sitting, I take the form of a human being, Graeme Buckley.

The where:

I was born in Stockport, England and moved to a small town in England called Baildon, which is near Bradford. I have recently moved into a flat in Rawdon, which is on the doorstep of the great city of Leeds.

The what:

My schooldays are a blur, so we'll forget that! Leeds Met Uni was where I picked up a BSc (Hons) in Multimedia Technology; which broadly encompasses visual and audio authoring. To summarise, my skills range from web design, image engineering, photography, to video editing.

The when:

I am currently employed by a company called Infoserve, which is located on Leeds Bradford Airport where I work as a Web Designer.

The why:

All this has lead me to slowly produce this little website which sports my very own given nickname, cool eh?! Pointless but cool!

Which leaves us only with the how; and therein, as the Bard would tell us, lies the rub...

I am allergic to Penicillin and Ariel washing powder
I once fell into the River Wharfe and almost drowned
I own (and actually enjoy) The Best Of Girls Aloud
I eat with my knife and fork the wrong way round
I do not mind injections or the dentists
I suffer from claustrophobia slightly
I do not have a signature
I actually really like the films Mean Girls, Clueless and Grease
I can mimic sounds of F1 cars & Velociraptors freakishly well
I broke my left foot whilst dancing like a stupid idiot in 2008
I randomly like the song "Heartbreaker" by Mariah Carey
I can not say "didn't they" or "favourite" without slurring
I was born with the name 'Walter' which my parents later changed
I often open packets of crisps with the label facing down
I walk with my feet turned in slightly and have done since birth

This is just a quickfire list that gives thanks for stuff that I think are absolutely brilliant, or "top banana!"

"Gratitude is the sign of a noble soul." So "take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude, remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not."

I love films! In their vast genre range, differing styles, old or new. I especially like the work of Steven Spielberg, Orson Welles, Sergio Leone, Michael Mann, Oliver Stone, Sam Peckinpah and Stanley Kubrick.

Westerns like Once Upon A Time In The West, The Wild Bunch & 3:10 To Yuma. Old school action like Die Hard, The Rock & Broken Arrow. Quality heroic films like Indiana Jones & James Bond. Dark and delicious film noir like Touch Of Evil. Adventures like Back To The Future & The Rocketeer. Classics like Citizen Kane, The Godfather & Dr. Strangelove. Thrillers like The Usual Suspects, Heat & Training Day. Great films made by people at the top of their game like Blade Runner, Nixon, JFK, Batman Begins & The Matrix.