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I spend time with my kids. I love the sea and I love the hills. Music is very important to me. Politics (making the planet safe) i.e. anti nuclear, anti racism, ecology, socialism, the environment, alternative energy, cooperation rather than competition and building community. I read a lot and I am spending more and more time on the PC but I love being outdoors cycling(particularly mountain biking, hill walking, Skiing (telemarking), sailing (on old boats), sea fishing. I also enjoy good food and good malt whisky.
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Most kinds of Rock Music,Reggae,R & B,world music, folk,(I love gaelic singers) Jazz, Trance etc , etc. Specific favourites in my collection include Keith Jarrett, Can, Massive Attack, Blue Nile, Daniel Lanois, Martyn Bennett,(http://www.martynbennett.com), The Residents , Antony & The Johnsons, The Waterboys,Nick Drake, The Clash, Levellers, Blur, Pulp, Radiohead, Ali Farke Toure, Shooglenifty, Dylan, Traffic, Orange Juice, Josef K, Sex Pistols, MC5,Franz Ferdinand, The Grateful Dead, Stone Roses, John Martyn, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Emmylou Harris, Television, Trashcan Sinatras, Talking Heads, Culture, King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry,Sly & Robbie, Eno, Miles Davis, Coltrane,Talking Heads, Keith Jarret, System 7, Gong, Hendrix, Zappa, Roy Harper, Beefheart, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Gong, Buzzcocks,Pere Ubu, James Blood Ulmer, Cocteau Twins, Velvet Underground, Tom Waits,The View(great new bad from Dundee), Jesus and Mary Chain,Robert Wyatt, Phillip Glass,Elvis Costelloe
Bladerunner,Casablanca, Amelie, Diva, The Godfather, The Duellists, Goodfellas,Solaris, Delicatessen, 'Ladri di biciclette', Belleville Rendezvous and Eraserhead. I am a great fan of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (I know where I'm going, A matter of Life or death and Black Narcissus) and I like Fellini movies.
We all watch too much of the hypno-box so I try to be selective. I have enjoyed: Shameless, West Wing, Monty Python, Jools Hollands show, The Office, Doctor Who, The Simpsons
I love reading, I read conflake boxes, anything with words I just love books, apart from Kellogs my favourite authors include Kafka, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alistair Gray, Neil Gunn, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Joyce, Ian McEwan, Robin Jenkins, Sartre, Camus ,Thoreau, Paul Bowles, Lewis Crassic Gibbon,Janice Galloway, A.L. Kennedy, Andrew Greig, James Robertson, Alan Spence, Irvine Welsh, . I like Oscar Wilde, TE Lawrence, Lao-Tze's The list could go on and on.I also read poetry like Heaney, , Burns, Plath, Blake, and Baudelaire. Some of the key writers that have impacted on my life were Marx, Paulo Friere, Hesse, MacDiarmid, Huxley . Fromm and Pirsig,
I do not have heroes in the traditional sense. The real heroes are all the unspoken, unnamed volunteers’ or the doctors and nurses that treat the wounds and care for those victims of war and famine. I admire the small people who stand up and say "no more". The trade unionists, the demonstrators anyone who knows what’s right and does something about it.