Si-Mo

'Come, let us go while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time ...'It is so hard not to write a load of self-absorbed arse when you try and think about ... yourself. I'm not even sure WTF 'me' is, but I know this: I like some things and I don't like other things, here is a list of things that help to define the 'me' in me, and helped infulence who I am becoming:My two awesome little girls. The feel of damp short grass on bare feet. MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC. Beer as a food source. Goofy plastic toys. Frantic, desperate art. My guitar. My inability to play my guitar anywhere near as well as I'd like. Noam Chomsky - for being the freak at the corner of the stage. Ovid - for the loves. Solzhenitsyn - for Denisovich. W.B. Yeats - for being a pompus twat. SofaKings. Single-Speeds in general. Celeste Green. PUNK MUSIC. Watching clouds all day. 12inch records. GI 51-pattern parkas. Black as a color and a statement. Bush for making me hate again. Cheney for wanting to kill-every-last-MFing-one-of-them. Frank Black - just a treasure, if not as sexy as Bob Mould. Wishing presta's were just a wee bit more durable. Carbon Fibre. CNC machining as an art form. Rothko's color fields. Hockney's photo-composites. The Violent Femmes for making life tolerable. Punk girls - thank their little pierced hearts. Black-and-white photos. RadioHead - for pushing everybody's buttons, the Clash for still sounding relevant, the Jam for just kicking ass. Loathing of religion and the religious; you have created a hell for us all. The smell and sound of leather. The experience of going to see a movie. Skull and crossed bones motifs and logos, Japanese animation. Sushi, and noodles, fish and chip shops, and street food. Maps in general, and old maps in particular. I love storms and violent weather. I don't like Shallow, sexist, racist people generally, and I loathe the aforementioned people if they even attempt to justify their ignorant hatred with what they believe to be logical intellectual argument. English weather, selfish drivers, cold rain, mullets, 70’s ‘Prog Rock’, everyone getting off commuter trains at the same time, the English disease of getting pissed up and beating or smashing everything in sight, people who beat and abuse women and children. Politicians, insurance companies, the notion of legality controlling human endeavour … and so by default lawyers, apathy, violence, corruption, bad fast-food, representative democracy … which is the poorest of all democratic choices. People who ignore their kids, people who abandon their kids, tweekers, and reality TV shows (it might have been a laugh for the first few, but it’s just rotting people’s brains now). I have little time for boring, stupid, intellectually stunted bigots …. So now you know.