25 random things about me.

Everyone is doing one of these, so I’m jumping on the bandwagon to further lower my cool rating.

1. I was in a band for 18 months playing bass guitar. We did 30 gigs, a hundred demos, and I left because they no longer played any of my favourite songs.

2. Here Comes Garfield still makes me cry.

3. I had a great time at the Big Day Out ‘07 and finally got to see Tool, my favourite band, and thought that life was great while I was there. Unfortunately my cat died while I was at the show, and I still miss him.

4. I am a travel junkie. I have stayed the night in an airport twice, have found 1 cent airline tickets 4 times and was once upgraded to first class. I want to visit every country in the world. I’d also like to go to both poles, but have no interest in Everest.

5. I once sent a script to Hollywood. I got three ‘thanks but no thanks’ and two ‘we’re interested’. Of the two who were interested, nothing ever came of it.

6. The best year of my life was when I lived in Sendai, Japan. They have amazing coffee and Indian food there.

7. I like to play D’n’D, though haven’t done it in years. I have never understood the stigma surrounding D’n’D, they’re just all jealous.

8. I have been absolutely hammered just three times in my life. The first was at my parents 25th wedding anniversary, in Ireland with an open bar. The second was in Japan after a vodka drinking competition. The third was in Madrid, not too long ago, after potent sangría and lots of Italians.

9. The British Army taught me how to read a map. And at the time walking for two days with an SA-80 through some forest in the south of England during the winter and camping out at night wasn’t much fun. In hindsight it was fantastic!

10. On my last night of backpacking in ’08 I was in Valencia and saw a free Australian Pink Floyd show, and it blew my mind.

11. When I was six I wanted to be a private eye like Sherlock Holmes. I disliked Sherlock Holmes until I was 25, and then did a 180 and now think he’s fantastic.

12. I hate seeing disabled animals. I saw a video of a cat with its rear legs paralysed crawling around and I couldn’t sleep for hours (and I saw this at 3am, so that’s already a bad sign).

13. I once downloaded a Klingon font onto the family computer and jokingly had it set as the default to everything. Then I realised that I couldn’t read Klingon and didn’t know how to turn it back to English. My brother knew the short cuts and saved the day.

14. I am a sucker for a select few Broadway and off-Broadway musicals. I have some of their better songs favourited from youtube and in particular like Dangerous Game and In His Eyes from Jekyll and Hyde. I’ve also seen Riverdance live twice.

15. On my 17th birthday it was a free dress day at school, I finished the easiest exam I’d ever taken with no more exams for that semester, and then got my braces off. That was a good day.

16. There exists another Oisin Raymond. Seriously. He’s four, lives in Ireland, and his dad found me on facebook. I was seriously pissed off.

17. Not long ago I found my best friend from when I was six online. I never knew how to spell his last name until one day I asked my parents, and googled him. His name was the first one that came up.

18. I day dream for several hours a day, carry on with the same little story for months, which eventually morphs into something else. Currently, it’s ‘what would happen if I had a TARDIS and found Middle-Earth just before Sauron’s downfall?’ Über-geekdom, no?

19. I enjoy telling all of the Europeans here that Australians eat kangaroo. They flip out over it because kangaroos are cute. I then have extra fun by saying that we also eat koalas.

20. I’ve been on TV four times as a kid, in 3 game shows and once in a TV movie.

21. I suck at maths. Throughout high school I had to cheat on every single maths exam and still managed to fail. The ONLY maths exam I passed in high school was my final one, a week before graduating.

22. I did karate when I was 7, tae-kwon-do when I was 9, aikido when I was 13, then karate again when I was 23.

23. I tell people that the second most useful phrase in Japanese is Tsuki ni kawatte oshiokyo. The first most useful phrase is naturally ‘do you speak English?’ When they answer ‘no,’ I tell my listeners that the aforementioned phrase means ‘is there anyone here who does?’ What it really means is: in the name of the moon I punish you. I really gotta learn ‘God it stinks in here’.

24. I have no tattoos, no piercings, I do have five scars, have fractured my wrist once and the day after my 25th birthday I spent the night in the hospital.

25. Earlier this year I decided that I wanted to name my own star. The front-runner is ‘Oisin’s Ego’. I can’t wait to hear the captain’s announcement for when they’re approaching that thing.