Usual suspects.
Art, Travel, Music, Old Cars n Bikes, Reading, Cinema........yadda yadda...;-)
I'd like to meet:
Surprise me! I can talk to anyone about anything & I'm always happy to do so..
Music:
My taste in music changes almost as quickly as Irish weather (every 5 mins) but normaly is'nt as depressing as our weather...
I listen to just about everything n anything except chart crap or most 80s hairspray type junk...The late great John Peel has taught me well.
Movies:
I'm a total sucker for the old Anti-hero road movies of the 60s & 70s. Easyrider, Zabriski Point, Vanishingpoint... ect.Apart from that my fave comedy is Blazzing Saddles.
I love Fear & Loathing in LasVegas, Withnail & I, Akira, MadMax,Quadrophenia, 1984, Metropolis, The Wicker Man & Jaws.
Television:
Father Ted, Young Ones, Bottom, Dukes of Hazzard..ALL 70s Cop Show's especialy Kojak, The Sweeny & The Professionals.I love most Travel shows like Lonely Planet & Globe Trekker, Ben Dark's Australia, Billy Connoly's World tour of Australia /Irelan......Waaay too much to list.
Books:
Orwell- 1984White Oleander- Janet FitchKingdom of fear- Hunter S. ThompsonMcCarthy's Bar- Pete McCarthyAutobiograph of Malcolm X-Just a few of many..............
Heroes:
Joey Dunlop.
"Strap a camera on the tank n I'll show you a lap."Sir Jackie Stewart.
"I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular." "The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings. "Gerry Marshall.
"Only Here For The Beer. ""Never in the history of mankind has so much space on a circuit been occupied by so few cars going so sideways."Paddy Hopkirk.
"The fact that the snowplow had been on the roads, they were very narrow so it suited a small car, we were also well prepared, it was a very . . . grounded car." "Some people said it(speed) affected your judgement but nothing affects your judgement more than falling asleep at the wheel!"Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.
"If I Find Myself In A Copy Mode, I Quickly Shift To A Lower Gear And Wheelie Out."Malcolm X.
"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change." "You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to be is an intelligent human being!"Hunter S. Thompson.
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." "Myths & legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension thet provide, the illusion of near infinite possability to erase the narrow confines of most mens reality. Weird heros & mold breaking champions exist as living proof for those who need it that the tyranny of the rat race is not yet final!"Flann OBrien.
"Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with."
"The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads."Pete McCarthy
"No court in the land could convict me! How dare they, I've never had a non-alcoholic beer in my life!"
"It was half past five in the morning as I lurched through the front door of the B&B. Mrs O'Sullivan appeared just in time to see me pause to admire the luminous Virgin holy water stand with integral night-light, and knock it off the wall. Politely declining the six rounds of ham sandwiches on the tray she was holding, I edged gingerly along the hallway to the wrong bedroom door and opened it."George Orwell.
"But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit."
"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome."Marty Feldman.
"I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician." "Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules."Charles Rennie MacIntosh.
"There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist.""Life" is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but "art" is the flower which embodies its meaning."John Peel.
"I think I was a handy safety valve for some time. If people called up to complain about the safe and predictable nature of the station's playlist, someone could always tell them, "Well you can always listen to John Peel. He plays strange discs." "In earlier days there were times when senior management at Radio One seemed to be rather surprised that I walked upright and used knives and forks!" "Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, "Listen, mate, *life* has surface noise."Michael Palin.
"I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.""Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future."Jack Kerouac.
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."“But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.â€
