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I'd like to declare myself Agnostic - but I can't be quite so sure...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Laurel and Hardy.

Music:

Paco De Lucia, The Jam, Beth Orton, Robyn Hitchcock, Nouvelle Vague, Bob Dylan, Sex Pistols, George Formby, Hawkwind, Ash, Kate Bush, Alabama 3, Pogues, Kinks, Cardiacs, Noel Coward, Arctic Monkeys, Chopin, Iggy, Bjork, Traffic, Gotan Project, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Who, Sigur Ros, Levellers, Grandaddy, Serge Gainsbourg, XTC, Ulrich Schnauss / VIDEO - Manu Chao, Rainin' in ParadizeBuzzcocks, Can, Scott Walker, Air, Flaming Lips, Jacques Brel, Ruts, Thin Lizzy, Lole y Manuel, Smashing Pumpkins, Abba, Stranglers, Cornershop, Richard Thompson, Four Tet, Blur, The Killers, Yardbirds, Undertones, Joni Mitchell, Planxty, Teardrop Explodes, David Bowie, Bimbo Jones, Squeeze, Bucha Effect, Beatles, Willy Mason, Django Reinhart, Beta Band, Alex Harvey, Doves, Country Joe and The Fish / VIDEO - Gogol Bordello, Not A CrimeTalking Heads, Aim, Lee Hazelwood, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Burt Bacharach, The Cure, Julie Driscoll, Third World, Syd Barret, Specials, Karen Dalton, John Martyn, Selecter, Patti Smith, Psychedelic Furs, Eels, Beck, The Damned, Asian Dub Foundation, Jimmy Cliff, Ian Dury, Pixies, Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Cave, Devo, Violent Femmes, Nick Drake, Arcade Fire, Velvet Underground, Toots and the Maytalls, Captain Beefheart, The Beat / VIDEO - Flaming Lips, Do You Realise?Gong, Seven Kevins, Dexy's Midnight Runners, 2000 DS, Nina Hagen, Incredible String Band, Devandra Banhart, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Primal Scream, Nino Rota, Madness, Frank Zappa, Badly Drawn Boy, Small Faces, Morphine, Negresses Vertes, Snuff, The Clash, The Stone Roses, Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Eno, Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Massive Attack, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Lamb Chop, Graham Parker, Muddy Waters, Sly and The Family Stone, The Cinematique Orchestra, The Verve, Jesus and Mary Chain, Neil Young / VIDEO - Gotan Project, Santa Maria (Del Buene Ayre)Terry Callier, Dead Kennedys, Leonard Cohen, Chemical Brothers, Temptations, Kim Weston, Ozric Tentacles, Lemon Jelly, Miles Davis, Pulp, Lionel Hampton, Spacemen 3, Rain Parade, Charlie Parker, Woodentops, Orbital, Watercress, Killing Joke, Current 93, Bach, Happy Mondays, Ry Cooder, Camper Van Beethoven, Oasis, Echo & The Bunnymen, Godfathers, Groundhogs, Ikara Colt, Tom Waits, Eartha Kitt / VIDEO - Kinks, Dead End Street

Movies:

Fellini, Michael Winterbottom, Jodorowsky, Downfall, Alexander Payne, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Consequences of Love, Grand Hotel, Paper Moon, Dr. Strangelove, Piccadilly, Kontrol, Videodrome, Summer with Monika, Atom Egoyan, Tokyo Story, Baby Doll, Rossolini, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Dario Argento, Tod Browning, Bonnie and Clyde, Company of Wolves, Jim Jarmusch, Salo, Werner Herzog THIS FILM CLIP = 'Toby Dammit' by Federico Fellini. (1968). One quarter of the horror-glam movie compendium 'Spirits of the Dead.' Terence Stamp struggles to cope with the fakery and vagaries of the Italian film industry. If, Georges Méliès, Spielberg, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Terrorist, Quills, Christopher Nolan, Possession, Gone With the Wind, The Wages of Fear, The Battle for Algiers, Gaslight, Being John Malkovitch, Kenneth Anger, Powell and Pressburger, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man with the Golden Arm, Three Days of the Condor, Metropolis, The Manchurian Candidate, Blow Up, Come and See, In the Mood for Love, Sid and Nancy, The Ipcress File, Soldier Blue, Battle Royale, Dusan Makaveyev. THIS FILM CLIP = 'The Holy Mountain' by Alejandro Jodorowsky. (1973). 'Christs for Sale.'An acerbic and surreal take on the mass reproduction of religious symbolism and the commercialisation of spirituality. James Bond, Once Were Warriors, Brighton Rock, Clockwork Orange, Carol Reed, Pretty Village: Pretty Flame, Balkan Cabaret, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The Lost Son, Lavender Hill Mob, Fifth Element, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Eyes Without a Face, The Lost Weekend, The Bicycle Thieves, Dog Day Afternoon, Some Like it Hot, Les Diaboliques, Oliver!, Photographing Fairies. THIS FILM CLIP = 'Nosferatu' by Werner Herzog. (1979). Gothic neo-expressionism. Klaus Kinski and Isabelle Adjani shiver and smoulder respectively with fear and desire. Sergio Leone, Straw Dogs, Requiem for a Dream, The Butcher Boy, John Landis, Regeneration, Brian de Palma, Get Carter, Polanski, Mary Poppins, Evil Dead, Ken Russel, Planet of the Apes, Face, The Time Machine, Mona Lisa, Ice Cold in Alex, The Elephant Man, Cassavetes, Fassbinder, Sexy Beast, Hitchcock, A Touch of Evil, Wings of Desire. THIS FILM CLIP = 'Angels with Dirty Faces' by Michael Curtiz. (1938). Classic Jimmy Cagney. An arrogant and hard-hearted villain is lead to the electric chair. Yet will he face the final judgment with rancour or regret? Wicca Man, Sleuth, Nicolas Roeg, John Schlesinger, Brazil, Life of Brian, Stephen Frears, Scorcese, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Barberella, Saturday Night Fever, L'age D'or, The Matrix, Holy Grail, The Long Good Friday, In the Name of the Father, The Shadow of the Vampire, The Raggedy Rawny, Passport to Pimlico, The Godfather, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Terminator, Missing, The Servant. THIS FILM CLIP = 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane' by Robert Aldrich. (1962). Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in their dotages, languishing in a twisted swan-song of misery and psychosis. Mildred Pierce, My Own Private Idaho, The Italian Job, Marathon Man, Breaking the Waves, Michael Haneke, The Libertine, Creep, Forbidden Planet, Quadrophenia, The Golem, The Devil's Backbone, Time Bandits, Being There, Barbara Albert, Tim Burton, Apocalypse Now, Donnie Darko, The Ladykillers. THIS FILM CLIP = 'Dr. Strangelove' by Stanley Kubrick. An acting masterclass from Peter Sellers. A satirical portrayal of world leaders negotiating the terms of the apocalypse. As poignant as ever.

Television:

- the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation Trippy Trick

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Books:

Aldous Huxley, Tao Te Ching, Mandy Sayer, Graham Greene, Dion Fortune, Timothy Mo, Shakespeare, Henry MIller, Milan Kundera, George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Franz Kafka, James Meek, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Cooper Clarke, Mikhail Bugalkov, Keith Thomas, Harold Pinter, Charlotte Bronte, Dostoyevsky, J.D Salinger, Jack Kerouac, John Webster, Isabelle Allende, William Gibson, Theodore Sturgeon, Colin Wilson, Italo Calvino, Anthony Burgess, Chekhov, Herman Hesse, Sarah Kane, Jim Cartwright, Camus, Liz Jensen, Pedro Juan Gutierez, Brian Patten, Foucault, E. Evans Pritchard, Nathaniel Philbrick, Matthew Sweet, Thomas Hardy, John Wyndham, C G Jung, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Mikhail Bakhtin, H.G Wells, Aleister Crowley, Maurice Sendak, Anonymous.

Heroes:

Tank Man in Tiananmen Square, Aung San Suu Kyi, William Booth, Mother Theresa, Alexander Fleming, Albert Hoffman