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Ian

Trying is the first step towards failure

My Interests

Music:

Neil Young; PJ Harvey; Joy Division; Nick Cave; Jon Spencer Blues Explosion; Johnny Cash; Arab Strap; Kings of Convenience; Papa M; Billy Childish; The Grateful Dead; Richard Hawley; Bob Dylan; Syd Barrett; The Make Up; The Dirty Three; Iron and Wine; Delia Derbyshire

Movies:

The Man Who Wasn't There; Lost Highway; One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; The Apartment; Happiness; Paris Texas; 2001: A Space Odessey; Apocalypse Now; Twelve Angry Men; The Godfather; Goodfellas; Billy Liar; Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; A Taste of Honey; A Kind of Loving; The Servant; Edward Scissorhands; Badlands; Dog Day Afternoon; Come and See; The Pianist; I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang; Vertigo; Point Blank; Get Carter; Sexy Beast; Performance; The Producers; Bonnie and Clyde; Dark Star; Barbarella; King of Comedy; Walkabout; Midnight Cowboy; Downfall; The Odd Couple; Raging Bull

Television:

Peep Show; The Sopranos; The Simpsons; The Singing Detective; Cheers; The Prisoner; The Avengers

Books:

J.G. Ballard; Kurt Vonnegut; Charles Dickens; Tom Wolfe; Peter Bagge; Daniel Clowes; P.G. Wodehouse; Michael Moorcock; William Burroughs; Ken Kesey; Harold Pinter; Samuel Beckett; Richard Brautigan; Non-Fiction - mainly history books and the Argos catalogue

My Blog

My review of Inland Empire

Perhaps Lynch's most realised project; it perfectly captures the zeitgeist of existential trauma that plagues the 21st Century. By foregoing linear narrative in favour of a surrealist dreamlike lands...
Posted by Ian on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:03:00 PST

The Trap: What Happened to our Dream of Freedom

The best documentary series you'll see all year... "Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, re...
Posted by Ian on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:55:00 PST

Sublime

The best ending to the best film. ...
Posted by Ian on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:15:00 PST

Where I live

Taken on the 8th March 1959.Photograph is from the Manchester Local Image Collection. Taken on the 12th February 2007. ...
Posted by Ian on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:43:00 PST

The Great Gambon

Drama doesn't get much better than this: Written by Dennis Potter and directed by Jon Amiel, the six-part serial The Singing Detective (BBC, 1986). is widely regarded as Potter's tel...
Posted by Ian on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:39:00 PST

Sex tape

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Posted by Ian on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:32:00 PST

The age of sepia

More photos of my dad back in the 1930s. The second one also includes my Auntie Edith and the third one shows my dad with my Auntie Marie with unknown friend....
Posted by Ian on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:32:00 PST

Match of the Day

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Posted by Ian on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:13:00 PST

"I believe in America"

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Posted by Ian on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:28:00 PST

Meet the Parents

This is my mum & dad on the North Pier, Blackpool, September 1955.These are my grandparents, Enoch & Norah Collins in 1949.And this is me with my grandmother Mary Jane Calloway in 1963.More family pho...
Posted by Ian on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:34:00 PST