User:TheScrubby

Favourite bands/artists

 * Pink Floyd
 * The Animals
 * The Beach Boys
 * The Beatles
 * The Byrds
 * The Doors
 * The Jimi Hendrix Experience
 * The Rolling Stones

Honourable Mentions

 * Chuck Berry
 * Black Sabbath
 * David Bowie
 * John Coltrane
 * Cream
 * Creedence Clearwater Revival
 * Miles Davis
 * Deep Purple
 * Duke Ellington
 * Jefferson Airplane
 * Simon & Garfunkel
 * The Easybeats
 * The Mamas And The Papas
 * The Monkees
 * The Who
 * The Yardbirds
 * The Zombies
 * Muddy Waters

Bands/Artists I've seen live

 * 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

Favourite films

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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)