Michael - ProfilesArchive

About Me

about me: I like music A LOT, I like literature A LOT. I dislike pretty much EVERYTHING ELSE. I am obsessive and didactic and therefore terrible company. no point pretending otherwise. thankfully I have a gorgeous wife. she is a rock. not literally.

I am somewhat of a modernist.

I greatly dislike religion. luckily god is dead.

I am an exile from the Republic of South Yorkshire. I live in London.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
William S. Burroughs

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov

I was working on the female figure before I started thinking of it as spiritual work.
Leonard Nimoy

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Music:

center

dull nick cave, siouxsie and the banshees, pj harvey, british sea power, the national, the cramps, the flaming stars, gallon drunk, john coltrane, tindersticks, the chameleons, bauhaus, the fall, sonic youth, tom waits, pulp, serge gainsbourg, scott walker, gang of four, magazine, the sound, sad lovers and giants, PIL, wire, birthday party, the stooges, joy division, modern lovers, interpol, blah-de-blah

Books:

search refs: charles bukowski, louis ferdinand celine, ray carver, franz kafka, albert camus, jack kerouac, william s burroughs, fyodor dostoevsky, samuel beckett, friedrich nietzsche, heinrich von kleist, harvey pekar, hunter s thompson, vladimir nabokov, saul bellow, knut hamsun, john fante, henry miller, raymond chandler, erich maria remarque, andre gide,

Heroes:

snappy dresser...fictitious wife...well maintained vehicle...glass eyeball