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Hamish

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About Me

Hi my name is Hamish, I'm 25, from Braintree in Essex and currently live in London. I'm a ranting communist, and member of Socialist Appeal of The International Marxist Tendency. After years of procrastination, I have decided that my plan is to do nothing less than change the world (or at least play a microcosmic role in it). A cliche I know, but believing in anything is halfway to making it happen, and, well, if I'm wrong, I plan to study Bussiness managment and lobby for the reintroduction of slavery."All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." T. E. Lawrence

My Interests

Politics, History, poetry, music, film, sociology, Communism, grown-up stuff, bands that don't arbitrarily add you but are actually good.

I'd like to meet:

Communist ManifestoG8 Summit add-Please watch!!

Music:

Leonard Cohen is a god, Billie Holiday, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Junior Wells- (any early grainy blues music), Django Reinhardt, Various Classical, REM, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd. Bloody loads more but I cant remember any.

Movies:

Like films of most genres, particularly comedy and tragic-romance but cannot be arsed to name them all. You will probably know from my music taste and pithy lines that they are going to excellent films. Thought provoking reflections of our little time and place as we hurtle though the history of humanity. And Rocky 4.

Television:

Rupert Murdoch is a great man, and would be a great leader of the world, although he is not and it would be libellous to suggest he is. He has been like a father to me, even more so than my own father. When at an early age I became dissatisfied and disillusioned with a world that lacked the gloss of Technicolor, appalled at the abhorrent acts of violence committed by mankind, emotionally prostrate by the years of psychologically honed advertising and socially dislocated for having not met the standards set by marketing execs, I found I always had Friends to tune into, and if I hadn’t I would have probably self-harmed, and rightly so.

Books:

Stranger Music & Flowers for Hitler by Leonard Cohen, Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and The Whitsun Weddings by Phillip Larkin. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. Fea And Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson, Hubris and Nemesis by Ian Kershaw, What Is To Be Done by Lenin, Left-wing Communism; An infantile Disorder by Lenin, The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky, The General Strike by Rosa Luxemburg, A history of Bolshevism by Alan Woods, The Unbroken Thread by Ted Grant.

Heroes:

Lenin, Marx, Trotsky, Che Guevara, Hugo Chavez, Malcom X, Sylvia Pankhurst, Rosa Luxemburg, Leonard Cohen, Jarrow Marchers, Herodotus, Sidney James, Rupert Murdoch