See above in background for music!
History especially the history of radicalsim in this country,
Chile and Euskal Herria. ******
The British Wars.********
Women's History but not so much as I used to cos at last women are being included in mainstream history.********
The Basques (ARE NOT SPANISH!!) .********
Historic Clothing especially 17th century English.*******
Reading.********
cooking, curry, and new favourite sushi ( a cross between cooking, conceptul art and finger painting my suhi taste better than they look!)********
people of all ages but especially babies and really old people with good/imaginative memories.********
Chimps, well Bonobos specifically, I've gone of chimps since watching Chimp week. i've realised what arseholes they are, especially the males, that Frodo is a complete twat. Bonobos wouln't have let him get away with it.*****
Viz cos it makes me laugh but I wish they would bring back Pathetic Sharks.
Noggin the Nog.******
Shouting at the tele and radio*******
Developing cycling gear especially gloves that would rip of the side of a car as you politely bang on the side to let the driver know that you are there. I try to be a good polite cyclist and I follow the highway code. I might not pay road tax but I'm not fucking up the environment, clogging up the roads and wasting the earth's precious resources anywhere near to the same degree as cars!!
Learning Spanish. What a brilliant sensible language compared to some othe european languages I've tried to learn. i have two very good reasons to learn spanish.1) so I can talk to non Euskara speaking Basques and 2) so my daughters lovely boyfriend, Hans can understand me better and I can talk to people when I eventualy get to visit Chile
I'd like to meet:
helen Mirren, johnny Lydon , Joe Strummer, Wreckless Eric,Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, Alexandra kollantai, anyone who is Basque, My long lost son, Mark, Michael Foot, Lenin, germaine Greer, Antonio Gramsci,Victor Jara, Violetta Para, Christopher Hill, John Peel ( though I did go to his gig at the poly in '88) gerrard Winstanley, john Lillburne,Oliver Comwell. Anne Boleyn. oh lots of people.
Music:
Why didn't I scroll down before I ranted on about music earlier. Will sort it out later!!
Television:
I love TV.Current Favourites, Shameless, The Bill (sorry!) hollyoaks(sorry) History programmes but I'm sick of getting excited about seeing a prog on The Civil War coming up on UK History (note the UK bit) and finding out it's about the American civil War. This doesn't mean that UK History should only have progs about Uk history but surely they should call it American Civil War?My Name is Earl is wonderful. i really enjoyed the first episode.Older progs, anyone remember 'Hot Metal'? Operation Good Guys, especially the Christmas one with the 'Snow'******
actually this is the hardest bit to write cos I love the TV.
Books:
Crumbs, of all the things I love books are top of the list. I have soooooo many favourites. 'Here's a few, A Suitable Boy' Vikram Seth. 'The Basque History of the World' 'Missing', 'His Darl Materials Trilogy', Phillip Pullman, anything by Anne Rice, Stephen King, Christopher Hill, David Cressy, 19th century english fiction especially 'real' gothic novels 'Mysteries of Udolpho' is genuinley creepy and made me jump when I was reading it. Trashy women's magazines, I could go on but I'm not pissed like I was when I first joined Myspace.
Heroes:
Gerrard Winstanley, Germaine Greer, Violetta Para, Victor Jara, Mikel Urdangarin, Alexandra Kollantai, David Lynch. my old boss, Goizeder Cotano. The Suffragists, Christopher Hill, The late great John Peel, Mary Woolstonecroft, Noggin The Nog, Freedom Fighters everywhere.
