Playing guitar, writing songs, dancing, sleeping, watching movies, falling in love, falling out of love, travelling on trains/planes, spending too much time in the National Library of Scotland, and eating cheese! Oh, and of course mostly despairing at watching the misfortunes of my beloved Manchester City F.C.
I'd like to meet:
The t**t who stole my bass amp!Too many of these are dead, does that say something about me or the world we live in?George Orwell, Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon, Mick Jones, Colin Bell, Antonio Gramsci, Bob Marley, Paul Robeson, Gil Scott Heron, Che Guevara, Eduardo Galeano, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Thomas Paine, Billy Bragg, Aneurin Bevan, Gwyn A. Williams, A.J.P Taylor, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Richard Pryor, Chuck D, Gene Hunt, Audrey Tautou, Nina Simone, Kevin Smith, Billie Holiday, and Joe Mercer.Maybe in the next life, maybe in the next life!
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Music:
Dead Monkey, The Clash, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Feast, Therapy?, Auldboy, Husker Du/Sugar/Bob Mould, Buzzcocks, The Ruts, Joy Division, The Redskins, Magazine, The Stranglers, The Beat, Echo and the Bunnymen, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Wah Heat!, The Jam, Stiff Little Fingers, Penetration, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Ramones, Rancid/Tim Armstrong/Lars Frederiksen/Transplants, The The, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Cousteau, The Go-Betweens, Billy Bragg, Big Black, B.R.M.C, Death Cab For Cutie, The Smiths/Morrissey, The Chameleons, Deftones, The Adverts, System Of A Down, Grant Lee Buffalo/Phillips, The Aggrolites, Queens Of The Stone Age, Nirvana, Biffy Clyro, The Velvet Underground, The Byrds/Gene Clark, David Bowie, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Amen, Fugazi, Rage Against The Machine, Alkaline Trio, Howling Bells, Pete Yorn, The Shins, James, Dinosaur Jr, Bad Religion, Sublime, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Social-D, Slightly Stoopid, Prince, Tom Waits, Mark Lanegan, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Jamie-T, 10,000 Maniacs/Natalie Merchant, Blue Nile, Manic Street Preachers, Aimee Mann, Thea Gilmore, The Bathers, Crowded House, Josef K, Roddy Frame, Orange Juice, The Fire Engines, Jenny Lewis/Rilo Kiley, Joni Mitchell, Eels, Gil Scott Heron, Everlast, Massive Attack, People Under The Stairs, Roots Manuva, Cypress Hill, Mos Def, Immortal Technique, Wu Tang Clan, Public Enemy, The Roots, Jurassic 5, EPMD, IAM, Giant Panda, Dälek, Spearhead, Curtis Mayfield, Hip-Hop - World Wide 1982 - Present, Bob Marley, The Gladiators, Dennis Brown, Toots and The Maytals, Gregory Isaacs, Steel Pulse, Lee 'Scratch' Perry/The Upsetters, Sly and Robbie, Mikey Dread, Trojan Records, Studio One, 70's and 80's Reggae, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, 60's and 70's Motown, Stax, and just about every other genre of music that has some integrity and self belief! Jesus, I just love music and the boy certainly has eclectic taste; file me under non-aligned, and miscellaneous, which used to be called punk!
Movies:
Taxi Driver, Dogma, Clerks, Clerks II, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Garden State, So I Married An Axe Murderer, The Castle, Hollywood Shuffle, Fear Of A Black Hat, King Of Comedy, Blue Collar, See No Evil - Hear No Evil, Stir Crazy, Angel-A, La Haine, Billy Liar, City Of God, The Great Escape, The Goonies, Pan's Labyrinth, Serenity, Little Miss Sunshine, Best In Show, Oldboy, Land and Freedom, Spinal Tap, House Of Flying Daggers, Paths Of Glory, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Saving Private Ryan, The Shawshank Redemption, Ghost Dog, Mystery Train, Night On Earth, Down by Law, Good Night and Good Luck, Betty Blue, High Fidelity, Rockers, Rude Boy, Babylon, The Harder They Come, To Have and Have Not, Dark Passage, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Passport to Pimlico, Whiskey Galore, The Ladykillers, The Lavender Hill Mob, In Which We Serve, Dunkirk, The Cruel Sea, Double Indemnity, Goodfellas, Made In Britain, American History X, The Duellists, The Searchers, Animal House, Fistfull Of Dollars, Star Wars 4, 5 and 6, god I just love movies!!!
Television:
Life on Mars, NYPD Blue, Shameless, A Place in the Sun (I know it's sad), Ten Years Younger (I know it's even sadder), The Office, Extras, Monkey, Phoenix Nights, Match of the Day (which I generally hate with a passion!), The Simpsons, South Park, Futurama, American Dad, Family Guy, Chappelle Show, The Daily Show, Scrubs, Arrested Development and the BBC News!!! Radio: 5 Live, and KROQ!
Books:
George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London , Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, Coming Up for Air, Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Eduardo Galeano: Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire), El libro de los abrazos (The Book of Embraces), Football in Sun and Shadow: An Emotional History of World Cup Football. Umberto Eco: The Name Of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum. Patrick Hamilton: The Siege of Pleasure, The Plains of Cement, Twenty Thousand Street Under The Sky, The Slaves of Solitude. Keith Waterhouse: Billy Liar. Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea, The Roads To Freedom, The Age Of Reason, The Reprieve. Primo Levi: If Not Now When?, If This Is A Man, The Truce, The Periodic Table. Oscar Wilde: The Picture Of Dorian Gray. Lyn MacDonald: 1914 - The Dawn Of Hope, 1915 - The Death Of Innocence, They Called It Passchendale, Somme, To The Last Man - Spring 1918. I also love pretty much everything by Steven E. Ambrose and Steven King, and wow this could take years, and I don’t have time to list everything!
Heroes:
Prefer the term Inspirations: Mum and Dad, George Orwell, Joe Strummer - The Clash, Colin Bell, Dennis Tueart, Antonio Gramsci, Bob Marley, Paul Robeson, Che Guevara, Eduardo Galeano, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Thomas Paine, Gil Scott Heron, Chuck D, James Larkin, James Connolly, Billy Bragg, Aneurin Bevan, Gwyn A. Williams, A.J.P Taylor, Eric Hobsbawm, R.H. Tawney, Humphrey Bogart, Han Solo, Gene Hunt, Richard Pryor, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, and Joe Mercer.
