User:Breakinguptheguy

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My major contribution to Wikipedia is on pages relating to the alternative rock band Garbage and its lead singer and lyricist Shirley Manson. I created the pages for the band's single releases back in July 2005, and have been contributing to them ever since. I've taken a few months off here and there, and it's only now in mid-2011 that I feel they are beginning to get pretty good. I have collected their releases and memorabilia since 1996, and have over a thousand different items, as well as over a thousand press and magazine articles kept filed away - always great for referring to when contributing. Currently I am writing up prose on the band's American chart history, and sorting out the image art on each of the pages, and also reworking some of the pages that I spent a lot of time on a few years ago but left to get serious work done on some other pages. If anyone queries anything I contribute, or wants to ask me something Garbage-related, feel free to message me on my talk page. I was doing a lot of work on the band's tour entires, but I got bored of that, so I'm gonna leave that for a few weeks and do work on other pages. It helps keep my mind fresh rather than get bogged down on a single article.

So far my favourite articles (the one's I'm really happy with) are:

The rest I have loads to add to, or I've changed my mind how I originally wrote parts of them. I'm happy for others to contribute. Don't be put off!


A "little" bit about me

 

I am breakinguptheguy known offline as Paul Anderson. I am a hardcore fan of the rock group Garbage, and by extension, it's lead singer Shirley Manson, and I also heavily enjoy Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, Madonna, Courtney Love/Hole, Supersuckers and Alphabeat, The Big Bang Theory, The Sopranos, Family Guy, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and James Bond movies.

I was born in Bellshill on May 21, 1983 in Bellshill Maternity and spent my youth watching Thomas the Tank Engine, The Animals of Farthing Wood, bad Eighties horror movies; going off on Stand By Me-style adventures down Strathclyde Park, down the North Calder and South Calder rivers; becoming completely at odds with everything and everyone in high school and getting into rock music, alternative comedy, eyebrow percings, tattoos and glitter nail varnish years before everyone else. Left school as soon as I could, worked in a sandwich factory for three years, before spending a summer on the dole queue but spending the free time drinking, laughing, shopping, clubbing, pubbing and crying at the bottom of a bottle of Smirnoff. After a few false starts within House of Fraser, I began working for the "opulent" (Narf narf) Polo Lounge gay bar/club from late 2001, where I became involved in scandals, bitching, serving cocktails and falling in love over... and over and over and over again. After leaving the fold after five and a half years, I've spent the last year and a half wondering where the hell have I been while the world turned for everyone else?

I have worked in the hospitality industry for nine years; I have worked long-term for four major companies and one independent. I have just graduated from a two year further education course at Glasgow Metropolitan College studying HND Hospitality Management and Licensed House Operations. I was nominated in my first year to recieve a financial scholarship from the Incorporation of Maltsmen of Glasgow; while doing my course I also achieved the BIIAB Certificate for Personal License Holders to enable me to apply for a Personal Licence to sell alcohol under the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005; the REHIS Intermediate Food Hygiene certificate and the WSET Intermediate Wines and Spirits certificates.

I was taught at Standard Grade level and have credit passes in English, Art & Design and Geography, as well as further passes in Mathematics, Latin, Technological Studies, Music and Physics. I have also completed a Religious Education National Unit, 'Issues of Belief' and have a 'Performing Manufacturing Operations' Scottish Vocational Qualification at Level 2.

On Wikipedia, I focus mainly on editing Garbage articles, and may work in other branches (such as adding wee things here and there). I am currently focusing on finishing the Garbage Singles and Albums pages of which I started most of the pages for in June 2005. I made basic templates, using information I had already written on my own personal Garbage fan site (which I could never be bothered with), and never really got around to finishing them. I am now... Two articles I have contributed to are rated, one is a Good Article and the other is a Featured article.

I have been collecting Garbage audio and video releases, print articles and memorabilia since 1996. I have been involved with Garbage fansites, forums and message boards since 1999, and do a lot of research on the band in my spare time and I definitely know what I'm talking about! It's one of my two passions in life! I loved seeing Shirley in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and I'm hopeful her solo album sees the light of day soon. I met her for the first time in 2009 at a Homecoming event in Edinburgh.

Subhuman #45 Only Happy When It Rains #27 Queer #20 Stupid Girl #8 Milk #8 Push It #9 I Think I'm Paranoid #7 Special #8 When I Grow Up #6 You Look So Fine #16 The World Is Not Enough #12 Androgyny #22 Cherry Lips #17 Breaking Up The Girl #26 Shut Your Mouth #24 Tell Me Where It Hurts #16

June 5th, 1995 - Vow (Alternative) June 12th, 1995 - Vow (Video) June 20th, 1995 - Vow (Retail) August 14th, 1995 - Queer (Alternative/Video) AUGUST 15TH, 1995 GARBAGE October 31st, 1995 - Queer (Top 40) November 11th, 1995 - Queer remixes (12" clubs) January 4th?, 1996 - Only Happy When It Rains (Alternative) Janaury 20th, 1996 - Only Happy When It Rains (Retail) February 12th, 1996 - Only Happy When It Rains (Video) March 26th, 1996 - Only Happy When It Rains (Single remix) (Top 40) May 6th/13th?, 1996 - Stupid Girl (Alternative) June 18th, 1996 - Stupid Girl (Todd Terry remix) (Top 40) July 9th, 1996 - Stupid Girl / Driving Lesson (Retail) August 5th? - Stupid Girl (Active Rock) August 6th, 1996 - Stupid Girl remixes / Driving Lesson (12" retail) October 15th, 1996 - Supervixen (Alternative) October 22nd, 1996 - Milk (AAA) October 29th, 1996 - ROMEO + JULIET OST/#1 Crush (Nellee Hooper mix) (Alternative) November 6th, 1996 - Milk (Top 40) November 11th, 1996 - Milk (Video) November 12th, 1996 - Milk (Retail) November 18th, 1996 - Milk / Queer remixes (12" retail) NOVEMBER 12TH, 1996 GARBAGE HOME VIDEO March 30th, 1998 - Push It (Alternative) April 6th, 1998 - Push It (video) April 21st, 1998 - Push It (Retail) MAY 12TH, 1998 VERSION 2.0 June 1998 - Push It (Calderone mix) (12" clubs) July 13th, 1998 - I Think I'm Paranoid (Alternative) October 12th, 1998 - Special (Alternative) October 14th, 1998 - Driving Lession (Digital single) October 20th, 1998 - Push It / I Think I'm Paranoid (12" retail) December 6th/13th?, 1998 - Special (video) December 15th, 1998 - THE FACULTY OST/Medication January 4th, 1999 - Special (AAA) January 26th, 1999 - Special (Pop mix) (Top 40) April 4th, 1999 - When I Grow Up (Alternative) June 14th, 1999 - When I Grow Up (Video - Big Daddy) June 15th, 1999 - When I Grow Up (Alt Pop remix) (Top 40/Hot AC) July ? 1999 - Special / When I Grow Up (12" retail) October 4th, 1999 - The World is Not Enough (Chilled Out remix) (Alternative/AAA) August 27th, 2001 - Androgyny (Top 40/AAA/Hot AC) September 10th, 2001 - Androgyny (video) OCTOBER 2ND, 2001 BEAUTIFULGARBAGE October 11th?, 2001 - Androgyny (Neptunes remix) (Hot AC) November 19th, 2001 - Breaking Up the Girl (Alternative) November 26th, 2001 - Breaking Up the Girl (AAA) January 18th, 2002 - Breaking Up the Girl (Smooth Jazz - wtf) January 21st, 2002 Breaking Up the Girl (Video - Daria premiere) February 19th, 2005 - Why Do You Love Me (Alternative/AAA) March 8th, 2005 - Why Do You Love Me (Digital single) APRIL 12TH, 2005 BLEED LIKE ME May 9th, 2005 - Bleed Like Me (Alternative/AAA) July/August? 2005 - Bleed Like Me (E. Kupper mixes) (12"/clubs) AUGUST 24TH, 2007 ABSOLUTE GARBAGE March 15th, 2012 - Blood For Poppies (Free download) March 20th, 2012 - Blood For Poppies (Alternative) March 26th, 2012 - Blood For Poppies (AAA + Digital) April 20th, 2012 - Blood For Poppies (Record Store Day) MAY 15TH, 2012 NOT YOUR KIND OF PEOPLE (Digital) MAY 22ND, 2012 NOT YOUR KIND OF PEOPLE (Retail) August?/Sept? 2012 - Control (Remix) (Alternative) April 19th, 2013 - Because the Night (Record Store Day) May 13th, 2013 - Because the Night (Digital) May 28th, 2013 ONE MILE HIGH...LIVE (Digital/Retail) April 19th, 2014 - Girls Talk (Record Store Day) May 6th, 2014 - Girls Talk (Digital) April 18th, 2015 - The Chemicals (Record Store Day) June 2nd, 2015 - The Chemicals / On Fire (Digital) OCTOBER 2ND, 2015 GARBAGE: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (Retail (CD)/Digital) NOVEMBER 23RD, 2015 GARBAGE: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (Record Store Day) April 20th, 2016 - Empty (Digital) May 27th, 2016 - Even Though Our Love Is Doomed (Digital) JUNE 10TH, 2016 STRANGE LITTLE BIRDS (Retail/Digital) July 14th, 2017 - No Horses (Digital) JUNE 22ND, 2018 VERSION 2.0: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (Retail/Digital) JULY 6TH, 2018 VERSION 2.0: THE OFFICIAL REMIXES (Digital) November 23rd, 2018 - Destroying Angels (Record Store Day) Janaury 4th, 2019 - Destroying Angels / Starman (Digital)