smithers profile picture

smithers

About Me

border="0"

My Interests

Theatre, wildlife, armchair football (you'll never walk alone, Russia, the King Arthur legend, wine, Rembrandt, music, Rothko, birds of prey, masks, ancient burial sites, films, Port Meadow, holidays, castles, Greek tragedy, orchids, Vladimir Mayakovsky, the Simonside Hills, the Intrepid Fox (RIP), dim sum, waterfalls,

Music:

Music with passion and guts: Wagner, Radiohead, Queen Adreena, Shostakovich, Sex Pistols, Hole, Mogwai, Verdi, Slayer, Pantera, Howling Bells, Kurt Weill, Berg, A Perfect Circle, QOTSA, Madness, Pixies, Janes Addiction, Stravinsky, PJHarvey, Placebo, Babes in Toyland, the Kills, the Cure

Movies:

Grosse Point Blank, The Seventh Seal, Pirates of the Caribbean, American Beauty, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Pushing Tin, the Big Lebowski, Team America, Hilary and Jackie, Gladiator, A Few Good Men, Alexander Nevsky, Ghostworld, Nightwatch

Television:

Um, not much telly really. Buffy, old sitcoms like Porridge and Citizen Smith, Spooks, Sensitive Skin..that's about it. Wayyy too much cheap reality tv...bleurgh

Books:

Alice in Wonderland, Crime and Punishment, Wind in the Willows, Labyrinth, The Master and Margarita, A Harp of Fishbones, The Good Soldier Svejk, the Northern Lights trilogy, All Families are Psychotic, The Adventure of English, A Girl from Schindler's list