richard - ProfilesArchive

About Me

British. Lost in Chicago, but enjoying it. I split my time between Bucktown, where I live, and Hyde Park, where I work. Would be most eager to meet people for socialising and stuff; quite peculiar to move away from one's entire friendship group, so I'm keen to meet new pals.

My Interests

Music, cinema, literature, pretentious posing.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting, intelligent people in Chicago who are open to exploring the town and finding new places to hang out.

Music:

Love, Velvet Underground, Doors, Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Nico, Byrds, Gene Clark, Johnny Cash, Lambchop, Sparklehorse, Grandaddy, Sufjan Stevens, Magnetic Fields, Pink Floyd, Jeff Buckley, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, Elvis Costello, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Tallis, Bach, Beethoven, Sibelius, Mahler, Shostakovich, Ligeti

Movies:

Solaris, Stalker, Seven Samurai, Ikiru, American Beauty, Taxi Driver, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Television:

Simpsons, the Office, League of Gentlemen, Black Books, Father Ted, Little Britain

Books:

The Master and Margarita, The Magic Mountain, Stefan Zweig, Saki, PG Wodehouse

Heroes:

Walter Benjamin

My Blog

employment and pastures new

So job prospects are looking better. I've just been offered a great post by the London School of Economics, for six months. And next week, I'm off to Chicago for an interview about a four year post at...
Posted by richard on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 02:03:00 PST

the waste land

I've been reading Eliot's "The Waste Land" (and I'm not too proud to admit that I used to write that as one word) lately, having been encouraged by someone to look properly at poetry. For some reason ...
Posted by richard on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:05:00 PST

mild optimism

I shall tempt fate (I'm mighty superstitious for all my hoitytoity academic outlook) by saying I'm feeling almost positive about the future for the first time in a while. The thesis is coming on okay,...
Posted by richard on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:55:00 PST