I enjoy socialising, dancing like my Dad, losing gloves and jumpers, persuading people they're wrong when they're obviously not, and hoarding vinyl. I DJ ska in my spare time, and I sometimes read about psychiatry and genocide. It's a yin yang thing. I love eating. I'm the hungriest person I know. I like to try new things, and I consider myself to be tenacious, but not inflexible - like a bendy thing as opposed to a stick.
Pompous people who apologise, dead rock stars, a carefree goth, Primo Levi, NoMeansNo, Tommy Cooper, Tom Lehrer, God, anyone who doesn't buy the Daily Mail and perhaps some ancestors.
Jamaican Ska, Punk Rock, all forms of dance music, Johnny Cash, Ian Dury, Art of Noise, NoMeansNo, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Marvin Gaye, Alice Donut, Mojo Nixon, Prince Buster, Skatalites, Primus, Fugazi, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Madness, Fishbone, Jello Biafra, Asian Dub Foundation, The Pale, The Temptations, Millions of Dead Cops, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Tommy McCook, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Ennio Morricone, Goldie Lookin' Chain, NOFX, Moby, The Supremes, Two Tone, Kate Bush, Juno Reactor, bits of Dvorák, and more ska.
Harvey, The Long Good Friday, Life is Beautiful, Happiness, Secrets and Lies, Come and See, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Manufacturing Consent, Get Carter, Nil By Mouth, All Quiet on the Western Front, High Noon, Dead Man, Scum, City of God, anything by Takeshi Kitano, Shane Meadows or Mr Scorcese, oh, and I have a soft spot for Ken Loach.
Only if I'm round someone else's, and then I'll watch any old cack and find it fascinating. I shouldn't, but I do. It's like chewing a fruit pastille, slapping a child or bursting a spot.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, If This is a Man, Mrs Pepperpot, and Spike Milligan's version of Wuthering Heights. Anything about mental health, history, drugs, comedy, genocide, politics or ska. And the occasional novel.
You wouldn't know 'em. Most of them were folk I nursed, or in some cases their families, and it's my privilege to keep them a secret. The real heroes do it without encouragement, recognition, or an audience. That's what I think. So there.