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James

Coffee? Anyone...? No time now ...I Have two Babies!

About Me

I'm 29. I'm very happily married to my beautiful wife, Anna Maria. We have Twins girls Isabella and Poppy. Both are beautiful and by far the best thing I've ever been part of.Being a Dad ROCKS! I work at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham as an Education Coordinator. Any questions about contmeporary art...I'm here to help. I still make my own work, photography, painting, text based stuff. I'm a big music fan and still play my lovely oversized acoustic guitar when I can. I'm in the middle of moving house and I'm sure I can feel a mid-life crisis coming on. I may postpone it till the kids have moved out so I can do it in style, you know... buy a TR7 and start spiking what hair I will have left!

My Interests

Art, music, cooking, eating, film, reading, cooking, drinking wine and staying up late talking about love, music, art, potery and the world, eating, making plans for the future,(& cooking and eating)

I'd like to meet:

Be good to catchup with people from uni I have not seen or heard from in years, general lovely chums and nice people who like music, art and who generally rock in a cool but 'not trying too hard' kind of way.

Music:

John Martyn, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder, Counting Crows, Neil Diamond, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Hendrix,Lenny Kravitz, The Band, Bob Dylan, The Bees, Sigur Ros, Simon and Garfunkle, Joni Mitchel, Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews, Dixie Chicks, Elvis

Movies:

Anything with Gene Kelly, Rumble Fish, the God Father, Amelie, Napolean Dynamite, Anchor Man, Un Chien Andalou, The Jazz Singer (Neil Diamond classic), The Sting,

Television:

At the moment not a huge amount, the news, food programmes and Frasier, Curb your enthusiasm, The Mighty Boosh, MTV

Books:

Anything by Mark Haddon, Wheels on fire, The Food of Love, Kitchen Confidential, A cooks Tour, Larousse Gastronomique,

Heroes:

Gene Kelly, Basquiat, Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Andy Goldsworthy, Marcel Duchamp, Giacometti, John Martyn, My Grandma (Nonna) a legend in the kitchen,