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Toby P

Welcome ladies and gentlemen, they call me Smiley Eyes

About Me

Moving back to Liverpool to bask in the 2008 Capital of Culture. Will be moving into an enormous house. Should be fun. In Herefordshire at the moment.

My Interests

Writing songs and poems, Going travelling, Performing music (singing, guitar playing and any other instruments) Journalism, Drug experiences, Literature of many kinds, clothes, all things Herefordian (my home county).

I'd like to meet:

Paul McCartney, The Queen, Richard Attenborough, Ryan Giggs, Bob Dylan, Shoab Ahktar, Judi Dench, Daniel Craig

Music:

Influences & Inspirations: Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Bert Jansch, The Beatles, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie, John Lee Hooker, Leadbelly, Eddie Cochran Bessie Smith, Iggy Pop & the Stooges, Talking Heads, The Carter Family, The Kingsmen, Ry Cooder, Billie Holiday, The Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Sonny Boy Williamson, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Elvis Presley, Ewan Macoll, Mose Allison, Fred Neil, The Velvet Underground, Mose Allison.Music I Just Love: Bloc Party, Cream, Bob Marley, Toots & the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, Joanna Newsom, Count Basie, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Muddy Waters, Son House, Bukka White, The Drifters, Chocolate Milk, Little Walter, Leonard Cohen, Steely Dan, Pentangle, Little Feat, Del Shannon, Johnny & The Hurricanes, Aphex Twin, Furry Lewis, The Stone Roses, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, The Band, The Clash, The Stranglers, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Sex Pistols, Joni Mitchell, Canned Heat, Ray Charles, Booker T & The MG's, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bo Diddley, Dr. Dre, Dizzee Rascal, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash, Duke Ellington.

Movies:

Rumblefish, The Thin Red Line, Pulp Fiction, Cobra Verde, Casino Royale, Pan's Labyrinth, La Dolce Vita, Throne of Blood, The Big Lebowski, Top Gun, The Fiddler on the Roof, Withnail & I, Avoir et Etre, City of God, Fargo, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, The Fiddler on the Roof, Raging Bull, The Last Waltz, Stop Making Sense, The Shining, Misery, Amelie, Jean de Florette, Gimme Shelter, Waking Life.

Television:

Monkey Dust, South Park, Catherine Tate, Panorama, Brass Eye, I'm Alan Partridge, Fawlty Towers, Father Ted, League of Gentlemen, TV Offal, The Adam and Joe Show, Spiral, The Office.

Books:

The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle Siddartha - Herman Hesse Steppen Wolf - Herman Hesse The Iliad - Homer Moby Dick - Herman Melville Broken April - Ismail Kadare The Thief's Journal - Jean Genet Robert Crumb's Art Book Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde The Asterix books - Goscinny & Uderzo Blows & Bombs: The Biography of Anthony Artaud The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The White Goddess - Robert Graves The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Recordings - Ian MacDonald Animal Farm - George Orwell Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Heroes:

Bob Dylan,Charles Darwin, Muddy Waters, Wilberforce.