Blogging, performing music, travelling, other languages and cultures. I'm not into Coldplay, Star Wars, ...the belief that non-drivers are second-class citizens, ... the assumption that everyone wants to move to London and the South East to live and work... the assumption that the guitar, rather than any other instrument, is the universally acceptable passport to musical credibility... the UK's belief that foreign language skills are a 'handy addition' to an employee's skills, not a valuable and increasingly rare asset. So there you go. That's me!
I'd like to meet:
Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Peter Kay, Audrey Tatou, Neil Finn...
Music:
Roddy Frame, Crowded House, Arcade Fire, Elton John, Eva Cassidy, River City People, Siobhan Maher-Kennedy, David Bowie, The Beatles, James, Bic Runga, Cerys Matthews, KT Tunstall, Stevie Wonder.
Movies:
Goodbye Lenin!, Amélie, The Edukators, La vita e bella, Philadelphia, Schindler's List, Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, Together, My Life As A Dog, No Man's Land, Dirty Pretty Things, Educating Rita, Moulin Rouge.
Television:
Phoenix Nights, Parkinson, The Simpsons, Bullseye, Question Time, EastEnders, Dragon's Den.
Books:
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby, Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland... almost anything by Ben Elton.
