music writing travel drinking those drinks with the little umbrellas in them scuba diving painting hiking horseback riding bar and cafe culture cooking festivals painting stained glass natural science daydreaming history guitar bodhran long road trips beadcraft the next thing
Christopher Brookmyre, who writes the best books ever and anyone who can explain DADGAD. I thought it was the easy tuning. Big fibbers. My faraway pals in faraway places, that upside and downside of travelling - loads of folk you can visit but sadly are very hard to just go for a quick pint and catch up with. It's the unsolvable problem of friends living far further-flung than stagger-distance away.Travelers, writers, painters, plumbers, whatever you do. In fact anyone with stories to tell.
The Iron Horse Legacy Tom Waits Altan Afrocelts Nina Simone The Balsowood Flyers Baka Beyond Kate Bush Nine Inch Nails Eliza McCarthy The Corries The Chieftans Patrick O Flaherty Dirty Vegas Capercaillie The Doors Dr John Peter Gabriel Fleetwood Mac Goodbye Mr MacKenzie The Humpff Family Eillen Ivers The Killers Kila The Levellers Ronnie Magri Betsy McGovern Susan MacKeown Madonna Rory Mcleod Nina Simone My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult Dean Martin and the rest of the Pack Zydepunks The Cure Dolly Parton U2 Rob Zombie Free Eddi Reader Bohola Portishead Rock Salt and Nails Steve Earle Nirvana No Doubt Santana The Smiths Southern Culture On The Skids The Squirrel Nut Zippers Big Bad Voodoo Daddy The Waterboys Underworld Mike West The Wonder Stuff Vangelis Mozart Redgum Rage Against The Machine Stabbing Westward Violent Femmes Tricky Filter Dusty Springfield Judy Henske Queen Clandestine Ewan McColl ZZ Top Voice Of The Beehive Johnny Cash Everlast Lloyd Cole Clannad Blondie Louis Prima Talking Heads Jet Louis Armstrong and Ella Ray Charles Oasis Maria McKee Jeff Buckley John McGregor Ruby Blue Shooglenifty Paul Weller Elvis Lucinda Williams CCR Correo Aereo anything out of Sun Records and the list goes on...
God no time to type all the movies I have watched The worst one that still springs to mind was Wolf Creek Somehow the accent just killed me Sorry to all Australian serial killers Sin City 300 Go Frank Miller The Shreks Pirates of the Caribbean The Lord of the Rings Sean of the Dead Cat People Rebecca The Ghost and Mrs Muir Predator Arsenic and Old Lace Elizabeth The Mask of Zorro Grindhouse Very very funny Hot Fuzz brilliant I LOVE Simon Peg Arent the lads just fantastic
Rome CSI Las Vegas Dirt Planet Earth The Daily Show Comedy Central History Channel lot about the WW II isnt there the Dog Whisperer (no idea) Scrubs Dr Who Father Ted
Andrew Vachss Great stuff Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire being one of the best historical fiction books ever written Tried out the new Hannibal Rising just to see if it was as silly as Hannibal Not quite Actually it was ok I have a soft spot for Lecter and I love Harris style Its kinda sly The Winter War by Antti Tuuri the Finnish stand against Russia if it wasnt true it would have to be invented amazing people Anything by Terry Pratchett a man both wise and funny books you can read on the beach laugh at and come out of with a totally unsentimental but uplifting view of the world Alistair McLeod from Nova Scotia whose collections of short stories The Lost Salt Gift Of Blood No Great Mischief and Island are stark and beautiful Ray Bradbury Mary Renault everything she writes is golden the Alexander the Great trilogy defies words Nick Hornby Tove Jannsonn Oh the Moomins George MacDonald Fraser Go Flashman Truman Capote Hemingway Elroy and his dark places Stephen King and fellow rocker Amy Tan Poe Faulkner Christopher Brookmyre The Far Arena if you can find it Greek Celtic Norse Asian mythology Graphic novelists Ultimate Spiderman I love the art work Sunset Song Cloud Howe and Grey Granite if you want to really have a window into the scottish psyche you cant go wrong there Stephen Hawkins Bill Bryson Billy Connolly the last ones I read were Stiff and Spook by Mary Roach A Drink With Shane McGowan by himself and long suffering spouse and Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros The Road Cormac MeCarthy and the rest of his books Leon Garfield 'The God Under The Sea'is the perfect book the melding of prose and artwork Gridlock High Society by Ben Elton Sunset and Sawdust anyone who has had a bad breakup needs to read that book brilliant Seal Morning Ring of Bright Water Trilogy The Sharpe series Scottish Love Stories the one about the seal trousers and meeting Sean Connery were fab The Stolen Child by Kieth Donogue Rebecca's Tale City of Fallen Angels Harry Potter The Last Legionary series Prince Ombra Niel Gunn The Silver Darlings Irvin Welsh Angela Carter Kine Hunter's Moon Kipling P.O.R.K. Winterwood David Gemmels Troy trilogy The Savage Garden and the list goes on..
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