I like free jazz and free drinks. Especially free drinks.
I'd like to meet:
Any girl who plays the serpent and/or the ophicleide, has a hot body, can quote Emily Dickinson and understands jokes about flat ninth chords.
i.e. Q Why did the flat ninth chord cross the road? A To get to the tritone substitution!!!
Music:
Permanent favourites: Joe Henderson, Eric Dolphy, Sam Rivers, Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor, Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear, Miles, Brecker, Rollins, Parker, Stravinsky, Bartok and many more...
Currently listening to: Outhouse, Blink, Jason Moran, Mozart, James Galway and Bach to name a random selection.
Movies:
I have seen some, but they made little impression on my life.
Television:
Dr Who. wooo-ooo nangananow nangananow nangananow wooo-oo! etc.
Mitchell + Webb, Pushing Daisies, the Simpsons obviously, and it's not really television but I really love Radio 4. Sad.
Books:
I like novels: Joseph Heller, George Orwell, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Robert Rankin, Solzhenitsyn, Robert Jordan (WoT), Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov and lots of others.
I like short stories also: Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Hemingway etc
And I love poetry! EE Cummings, WH Auden, TS Eliot, WB Yeats, Philip Larkin, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes, Kingsley Amis, Brian Patten, Emily Dickinson are some names in ane ever-growing list.
I like writing poetry but consider myself somewhat shit compared to the above list.
