Richard

Saints FC. The fact I suffer clinical depression is entirely coincidental.History. The future. Life, the universe and everything. Reading. Writing. The long term plan is to be writing scripts professionally. Sent my first script to the BBC aged 14, and would have continued to pester them if I hadn't dicovered I was even better at drinking gallons of alcohol.The 12+ years I was drunk were (The) wasted years, and sobering up (unwillingly!) in 2004 was like coming out of a coma. It really does feel like being a teenager again mentally, but finding the body has got into a bit of a state while I've been out of it... It's only when you stop drinking that you realise how much you have changed, and how far you've strayed from your path. As my health has returned, so have my youthful ambitions.I'm in the process of tidying up the mess my life got into during those years, and when I'm fixed up I intend to resume bothering the Beeb.Music is my other obsession, the overriding obsession - primarily underground/independent music. I went on a bit of a rant here, so I have shifted it to the blog.

I'd like to meet:

A representative from Camelot.
................Hirosima mon amour
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Music:

THE FALL
What, you need more???!!! Okay then, but I really think you are being a bit difficult...
10,000 Maniacs 13th Floor Elevators 14 Iced Bears 33.3 4Heads in a Fishtank 5678s 70 Gwen Party 808 State 999 A Guy Called Gerald A Tribe Called Quest Abba AC Marias AC/DC Adam and the Ants Adam F Add N to X Adicts Adverts Afghan Whigs Afrika Bambaataa Agathocles Air Alexander Robotnick Alice Cooper Alien Sex Fiend Altered Images Altern 8 Alternative TV Althea and Donna Amazing Space Frogs Amon Duul Amon Guru Anal Fleas Andy Capp Ancient Ones Animals Animotion Anita Ward Anti Pasti Aphex Twin Arab Strap Arcade Fire Artery Ash Astralasia Atari Teenage Riot Au Pairs Augustus Pablo Avengers B52s Babes in Toyland Back to the Planet Bad Manners Bambi Slam Bananarama Bang Bang Machine Bangles Barbecue Bob Barbel Bardots Bark Psychosis Bauhaus BBC Radiophonic Workshop Beach Boys Bears Beastie Boys Beat Beatles Beatmasters Beck Bee Gees Beethoven Belly Berlin Bert and John Big Black Bikini Kill Bill Haley and the Comets Billy Childish Birthday Party Bivouac Black Dog Black Grape Black Sabbath Blancmange Blessed Ethel Blondie Blue Cheer Blue Orchids Blur Bo Diddley Boards of Canada Bob Dylan Bob Marley and the Wailers Body Snatchers Bodycount Bomb the Bass Bonnie Prince Billy Booker T and the MGs Bow Wow Wow Boys Brainticket Bratmobile Brave Captain Breeders Broadcast Bronski Beat Buddy Holly Butthole Surfers Buttsteak Buzzcocks Byrds Cabaret Voltaire Can Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band Carcass Cardigans Carl Orff Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine Chaka Khan Chapterhouse Charlatans Charlottes Chemical Brothers Cherubs Chic Christian Death Chuck Berry Clash Claude Denjeane Cluster Cocteau Twins Colourblind James Experience Comet Gain Comsat Angels Conlon Nancarrow Consolidated Cookie Crew Cooper Temple Clause Cornershop Cowboy Killers Crabs Cramps Cranes Crass Crazy World of Arthur Brown Cream Creatures Crispy Ambulance Cud Cult Culture Culture Club Cure Cure, The Curve Daisy Chainsaw Dalek I Love You Damned Dandy Livingstone Darkside Darling Buds Datbylgu David Bowie Dawn of the Replicants De La Soul Dead Can Dance Dead Kennedys Dead or Alive Death Cult Death in Vegas Delgados Delia Derbyshire Delta 5 Depeche Mode Depth Charge Derrero Derrick May Derrick Morgan Desmond Dekker Desperate Bicycles Devo Dexyâ€™s Midnight Runners Dick Dale Dickies Digital Dance Dils Discharge Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy DJ Pierre D-Mob Done Lying Down Donna Summer Donnas Donovan Doors Dr and the Crippens Dr Feelgood Drag Racing Underground Drones Drugstore Drum Club Duane Eddy Dubmatix Dumpy's Rusty Nuts Duran Duran Early Boo Radleys Early Elton John Early Michael Jackson Early U2 Early UB40 Earth, Wind and Fire Eater Echo and the Bunnymen Echobelly Ecstasy of St Theresa Eddy Grant Edward Greig Einsturzende Neubaten Eisshock Elastica Elecktrafixion Electric Wizard Emily's Sassy Lime Ennio Morricone Erasure Eurythmics Exploited Extreme Noise Terror Ezee Possee Faces Falco Fall Family Cat Farm Farmers Boys Fast Eddie Fatboy Slim Fatman Riddim Section Faust Felix Felix Da Housecat Felt Field Mice Fleetwood Mac Flipper Flowered Up Four Tops Frank Zappa Frankie Goes to Hollywood Frantic Elevators Freddie King Free Front 242 FSK Fun Boy Three Galaxie 500 Gallon Drunk Gang of Four Gene Gene Pitney Generation X Ghost Dance Girls at our Best Go! Team God is my Co-pilot God Machine Godspeed You, Black Emperor Goons Gorkyâ€™s Zygotic Mynci Grace Jones Grandaddy Grandmaster Flash Grateful Dead Green Magnet School Green River Grifters Grinderman Gun Club Guns â€˜Nâ€™ Roses Guru Gyro Hair and Skin Trading Company Half Man Half Biscuit Half Pint Handel Happy Mondays Harmonia Harry J Allstars Hawkwind Headcleaner Heavenly Heinz Burt Hermanâ€™s Hermits Hives Hole Hollies Holly Golightly Hot Chocolate House of Love Howard Jones Howlin Wolf Huggy Bear Hugh Cornwell Band Human League Humanoid Huski Hydroplane I, Ludicrous Ian Dury and the Blockheads Iggy and the Stooges Ikara Colt Ike and Tina Turner Imagination Inca Babies Inspiral Carpets Iron Maiden Ivor Cutler Jackson 5 Jacobâ€™s Mouse Jah Wobble Jam James James Brown Jamiroquai Jan Hammer Janeâ€™s Addiction Japan Jean Michel Jarre Jerry Lee Lewis Jesus and Mary Chain Jethro Tull Jilted John Jimi Hendrix Experience Jimi Tenor Joe Jackson John Cooper Clarke John Fahey John Foxx Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Joy Division Juan Atkins Judas Priest Jules Verne Julian Cope Justin Hinds and the Dominos Karasmov Katastrophe Wife Kid 606 Kill Laura Killing Joke Kills King Crimson King Prawn King Tubby Kinks Kitchens of Distinction Kleenex/Lilliput Kool and the Gang Kraftwerk L7 Laibach Lamb Las Late of the Pier Le Tigre Leadbelly Led Zeppelin Lee Scratch Perry Leftfield Lene Lovich Levellers Levitation LFO Liars Lightning Slim Link Wray Linus Little Richard Lloyd Cole Lo Fidelity All Stars Longpigs Loop Louis Armstrong Love Lush Mad Professor Madder Rose Madness Magazine Main Mamas and the Papas Mambo Taxi Man or Astroman Manfred Mann Mantronix Manufactured Romance Marilyn Mason MARRS Marvin Gaye Mary Springs Massive Attack Matching Mole Matthewâ€™s Southern Comfort Mazzy Star McClusky MC5 Medicine Medusa Cyclone Mekons Members Men Without Hats Mercury Rev Messiah Micragirls Millie Small Ministry Miranda Sex Garden Miss Mend Misunderstoods Moby Model 500 Mo-dettes Mojave 3 Moody Blues Morrissey Mortician Motorhead Mott the Hoople Move Muddy Waters Mudhoney Muffs Mungo Jerry Musical Youth My Bloody Valentine Napalm Death Necropolis (Southampton) Nedâ€™s Atomic Dustbin Neil Young Neu! New Model Army New Order New York Dolls Newcleus Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Nightingales Nirvana Nitzer Ebb NWA Offspring One Speed Bike Only Ones Orange Juice Orb Orbital Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark Orchids Orko (Southampton) Ozric Tentacles Pain Teens Pale Fountains Pantera Passions Patti Smith Paul Hardcastle Pavarotti Pavement Peaches Penetration Perez "Prez" Prado Pet Shop Boys Petticoats Phuture Ping Pong Bitches Pink Floyd Pioneers Pissed Jeans Pixies Pixies PJ Harvey Placebo Police Polvo Pond Pop Will Eat Itself Popol Vuh Portishead Possessed by Paul James Pre-90s Genesis Presidents of the USA Pretenders Pretty Things Primal Scream Prince Buster Prodigy Prokofiev Psychedelic Furs Psychic TV Public Enemy Public Image Ltd Pulp Purple Gang Pussy Galore Pussycat Trash Quadrant Six Queen Queers Question Mark and the Mysterons Quickspace Supersport Radial Spangle Radiohead Rage Against the Machine Raincoats Ramones Raouel Red Hot Chilli Peppers Red Red Meat REM Renegade Soundwave Rezillos Richard Strauss Ride Righteous Brothers Robert Wyatt Robots in Disguise Rod Stewart Rolling Stones Rollins Band Ron Grainer Ronettes Roni Size Rosa Mota Rose Royce Roxanne Shante Roxy Music Roy Orbison Run DMC Ruts Sâ€™Express Salad Scientist (dub reggae) Scientist (rave) Scientists Schoolgirl Bitch Scorn Scrawl Screaming Trees Scum of Toytown Sea Urchins Section 25 Seeds Selecter Senser Sepultura Sewer Rats Sex Gang Children Sex Pistols Shadows Shadows of the Night Sham 69 Shamen Shellac Shirelles Shop Assistants Silverfish Simon and Garfunkel Simple Minds Siouxsie and the Banshees Skatalites Skeletal Family Skids Skinned Teen Skinny Puppy Slade Sleater-Kinney Sleeper Slits Slot Slowdive Sly and the Family Stone Small Faces Smashing Pumpkins Smiths Soft Cell Solex Sonic Violence Sonic Youth Sonics Soundgarden Soup Dragons Southern Death Cult Spacemen 3 Spandau Ballet Sparks Spear of Destiny Specials Spencer Davis Group Spiral Tribe Spiritualized Spizz Energy Splintered Squeeze Stackridge Status Quo Stephen Duffy (in his London Girls days) Steppenwolf Stereo MCs Stereolab Stevie Wonder Stiff Little Fingers Stimulators Stone Roses Strangelove Stranglers Subhumans Submarine Subway Sect Subways Suede Sugarcubes Sugarhill Gang Suicide Sultans of Ping FC Sun Ra Sundays Supremes Suzi Quattro Sweet Swell Maps Swirlies Symarip T9 Tad Talk Talk Talking Heads Talulah Gosh Tangerine Dream Tar Tchaikovsky Teardrop Explodes Tears For Fears Technotronic Teenage Fanclub Television Television Personalities Telex Telstar Temptations Ten Benson Ten Pole Tudor Thâ€™ Faith Healers That Dog That Petrol Emotion The Men They Couldnâ€™t Hang Thee Cybermen These New Puritans Thin Lizzy This Mortal Coil Thompson Twins Three Johns Thunderclap Newman Tights Tim Buckley Tindersticks Ting Tings Tiny Masters of Today Tiny Monroe Tony Chin Toots and the Maytals Tornados T-Rex Tricky Triffids Troggs Tubes Tubeway Army and Gary Numan TV on the Radio Tyrannosaurus Rex UK Subs Ultramarine Ultravox Undertones Unsane U-Roy US3 Vangelis Vapors Vaselines Velvet Underground Veruca Salt Verve Vibrators Vice Squad Village People Visage Viscous Pink Vivaldi Wah! Walker Borthers Weather Prophets Wedding Present Weezer Weirdos Westworld We've got a Fuzzbox... Whale White Stripes (not so much the last couple of albums) White Zombie Who Wild Swans Wings Wire Wizzard Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wonderstuff Wool World Domination Enterprises World of Twist Would Bes X X Press X Ray Spex Xmal Deutschland XTC XX Teens Yardbirds Yazoo Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yello Yo La Tengo Zager and Evans Zero Zero Zeros Fall Fall Fall

Movies:

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Blade Runner (Directorâ€™s Cut)
And now the rest...For A Few Dollars More A Fistful Of Dynamite Jacobâ€™s Ladder The Seventh Seal Alien Aliens The Terminator Predator Dirty Harry and sequels The Warriors Highlander Caught on a Train Our Day Out First and Last Zulu Fallen Jaws 1+2 The Ladykillers Oliver! Flash Gordon Crouching Tiger, Hidde Dragon Zatoichi Stargate Clash of the Titans Planet of the Apes (the original version, of course; and its sequels) The Three Stooges Bedknobs and Broomsticks Star Wars: A New Hope Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Ghostbusters The Goonies Fright Night and the sequel Gremlins The Karate Kid The Never-ending Story Time Bandits Life of Brian Monty Python and the Holy Grail Jabberwocky Any Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Three Stooges 2001 A Space Odyssey 2010 A Fistful of Dollars Gandahar Buffet Froid Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Cartoon version) Jason and the Argonauts Legend The Fisher King Delicatassen Indiana Jones (all of them) Rocky 1-4 Superman 1-3 (Christopher Reeve) All the Star Trek films Escape to Victory Escape From New York They Live The Thing Twelve Monkeys Jerry Lewis and Norman Wisdom Close Encounters of the Third Kind Morons from Outer Space Guest House Paradiso Unbreakable Signs The Journey of Natty Gann Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Krull The Prophecy Films Pirates of the Caribbean 1 Shaun of the Dead This Island Earth The Poseiden Adventure Get Carter Men in Black Harry Potter Harry Palmer James Bond Austin Powers Pink Panther (mainly for the Cato scenes) The Carry onâ€¦ films. Except maybe Carry on Emmanuelle. The Doctor Who Movies with Peter Cushing Serenity Withnail and I Sherlock Holmes (any of the Basil Rathbone films especially) Apocalypse Now Tombstone Taxi Driver Dawn of the Dead Laserblast (donâ€™t ask) Clue The 1976 FA Cup Final The 1966 World Cup Final Labyrinth Total Recall Police Academy (especially the first 3) Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires The Black Hole The Wicker Man (yes, the original) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Scanners Videodrome The Howling Dog Soldiers Four Weddings and a Funeral The Shining Leon The Mummy Beetlejuice Romancing the Stone Howard the Duck Willow This is Spinal Tap Pinball Name of the Rose The Hill Enemy of the State Independence Day Starsky and Hutch Malcolm Tron Beverley Hills Cop Trading Places The Die Hard films Outland The Three Musketeers Unforgiven French Connection A Bridge Too Far The Great Escape Dirty Dozen Magnificent Seven Forbidden Planet Airplane Spaceballs Dark Star The Conversation Logan's Run Soylent Green Near Dark Lost Boys First Blood Split Second 30 Days of Night Catacombs Aeon Flux X Men Les Maitres Du Temps - Time Masters Daywatch/Nightwatch Sixth Sense Dune Pitch Black Battle Beyond the Stars Slipstream Freejack Performance Galaxy Quest Saturn 3 Wayne's World Without A Clue Condorman From Dusk til Dawn Young Sherlock Holmes Three Amigos Innerspace Tarzan: Legend of Greystoke Tarzan (the original movies) Duel Legend of the Shadowless Sword Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (Donald Sutherland version) Vanishing Point Slacker Filth and the Fury Ringu An American Werewolf in London Nosferatu Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder) Silver Streak Cassandra Crossing Beetlejuice Metropolis The Poirot films Pulp Fiction Hope and Glory The Forklift Driver 1300CC Solo Superstitious Man (not the one on Youtube, but an older short with the same premise. I can't find it anywhere. I've probably got the name completely wrong) Dam Busters The Name of the Rose Spiando Marina Repo Man Biggles Usual Suspects Split Second Ladyhawke The Hitcher Fatherland Tremors The Shining Ferris Beuller's Day Off Ghost on the Machine The Omen Nick of Time Warlock Catacombs Good Morning Vietnam ET Flight of the Navigator Clockise The Witches Cube Runaway Big Trouble in Litle China Sleuth (Olivier) High Plains Drifter Hammer Horror before it got just TOO trashy Almost anything with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine (within reason!), Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Boris Karloff, Alec Guinness, Rutger Hauer, Sean Connery, Sid James.
Thereâ€™s lots more, Iâ€™m still thinking. You can probably hear the clanking noises.

Television:

Doctor Who Monkey Blakes 7 Lost Sapphire and Steel The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Yes, Minister Steptoe and Son The Prisoner Drop the Dead Donkey Monty Pythonâ€™s Flying Circus The Muppet Show Fraggle Rock Quatermass Star Cops Rentaghost Johnny Briggs Early Grange Hill (it died when the old theme tune was killed) Wurzel Gummidge War of the Worlds The Likely Lads The Goodies Father Ted Young Ones Bottom New Statesman Red Dwarf University Challenge Mastermind Countdown Kung Fu The Invaders â€˜Vâ€™ Flash Gordon (the black and white ones) Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel Firefly The Sarah Jane Adventures Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Smileyâ€™s People Poirot Tales of the Unexpected Dangermouse Count Duckula Mr Bean Mr Benn Mr Men The Clangers Bagpuss Chorlton and the Wheelies Jamie and the Magic Torch The Magic Roundabout Dark Towers The Boy from Outer Space War of the Worlds Highlander Highlander: Raven Quantum Leap The Dresden Files The Avengers UFO Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (the original version) Columbo Taxi Cheers The Equalizer The A Team Dukes of Hazzard Battlestar Galactica (chiefly the original) Porridge Rising Damp Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) The Phil Silvers Show The X Files (although I find a lot of them havenâ€™t dated so well) Strange Star Trek (and all the spin offs) Stargate The Professionals The Sweeney Inspector Morse Starsky and Hutch Spooks Batman The Adventure Game The Krypton Factor The Crystal Maze (for the presenters, not the idiot contestants) Tom and Jerry Bugs Bunny All the Looney Tunes Boss Cat Lexx Minder Mary Whitehouse Experience Fantasy Football The Incredibile Hulk Spiderman Superman New Adventures of Superman Bionic Woman Rockford Files The Waltons (be fair, I was about 7) Happy Days Bionic Woman Fall Guy Cagney and Lacey Hawaii 5-0 Streets of San Fransisco Miami Vice Million Dollar Man Stig of the Dump Dogtanian Space Sentinels MainzelmÃ¤nnchen Colin's Sandwich Buck Rogers (the pilot TVM) The Wombles Martian Chronicles Play for Today Last Night of the Proms The Proms Ultraviolet Life on Mars Ashes to Ashes The Survivors Day of the Triffids Kojak Threads The Two Ronnies Morecambe and Wise Sorry One Foot in the Grave Tucker's Luck Shelley Boys from the Blackstuff GHB Dramarama Jigsaw Bod Banana Splits Pink Panther Have I got News For You QI Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Rising Damp Kung Fu Up Pompeii West Wing Airwolf Knight Rider Oranges are not the Only Fruit Munsters Addams Family Martian Chronicles Men Behaving Badly Rab C Nesbitt Colin's Sandwich Hancock's Half Hour Littlest Hobo Magnum PI Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett Sky at Night Naked Video Merlin!
Still thinking!

Books:

David Copperfield, The Trial. Tolkien, Philip K Dick, Pratchett. The Invisible Man. Journey to the Centre of the Earth. The Dresden Files. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Justin Richards. John Christopher. Bill Badger. Enid Blyton. The Neverending Story. CS Lewis. Lewis Carrol. Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf series'. Isaac Asimov. Dreadnought by Robert K Massie (even though I havenâ€™t finished it yet. One day, one dayâ€¦) How did I forget this? ...THE FALL, by Albert Camus. I knew something was missing.

Heroes:

John Peel, Tom Baker, Mark E Smith, Kat Bjelland, Tanya Donnelly, Mint Burston, Terry Pratchett, Philip K Dick, Robert Holmes, Terrance Dick, Terry Nation, Charles Dickens, Poly Styrene, Siouxsie Sioux, Pele, Cruyff, Le Tissier (I taught him everything he knows!), Masaaki Sakai, John Lydon, Lawrie Macmenemy, Brian Clough (and I say that as a Saints fan!), Micky Channon, David Gedge, Patrick McGoohan, Brian Blessed, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, HG Wells, Jules Verne, Russell T Davies, Joss Whedon, Isaac Asimov, Steve Parkhouse, Charles Miller, Mary Shelley, Bill Hicks, Lee Evans, Ennio Morricone, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Douglas Adams, Morrissey, Laurel and Hardy, Cleauseau and Cato, Mayall and Edmonson, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine, Alec Guinness, Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Jon Pertwee, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Boris Karloff, Roddy McDowell, Patrick Macnee, Bill Badger, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Audrey Hepburn, Rutger Hauer, Harrison Ford, The Fonz, Ivor Cutler, Heinz Burt, Roald Dahl, Spike Milligan, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur C Clarke, Winston Churchill, Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Bugs Bunny.