I write reviews on amazon(s) and my main interest is in the economics of markets. I am currently in preliminary work on non-linear dynamics. Diplomacy, Final Demand, 3-D Chess and Monopoly are board games I like to play. My other interests are road running and eastern philosophies.
I'd like to meet:
Joni Mitchell, a lifelong ambition,Yoko Ono, Don van Vliet, Michael Moorcock, J.G. Ballard, all of the wonderful musicians from in and around the Bay area who have given me so much pleasure over the years, the Dalai Lama, friends whom I have not seen for years and anyone who has the time and inclination to say hello...
Music:
I love listening to music especially the Grateful Dead of whom I have been a devoted admirer for almost 40 years, others in the Bay area, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe & the Fish, Pere Ubu, John Cipollina, Barry Melton, It's A Beautiful Day, Moby Grape, the Beatles who were the major influence, Can, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Buffalo Springfield and their progeny, Captain Beefheart,Ed Harcourt, Gong, Katell Koenig, Fugs, Specials, Faust, MC5, Malo, Espers, Chrystal Method, Tim Buckley, Cream, Curved Air, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Osibisa, Ani Difranco, Claire Hamill, the Fairport Convention family, Bridget St John, Kevin Coyne, Hawkwind, John Cale, the Toy Dolls, William Orbit, Family, Dylan, Van der Graaf Generator, Tori Amos, Selecter,Klaus Schulze, Jesus and Mary Chain, Chris Rea, John McLoughlin / Mahavishnu Orchestra / Shakti, Five Hand Reel, Joy Division, Egg, the Beat,BT, Stiff Little Fingers, Poco, Santana, Robert Calvert, Joy Division, Scott Hallock, Beach Boys, Prodigy, Tourists, Sufjan Stevens, Ash Ra Tempel, Asian Dub Foundation, Robert Wyatt, Ozric Tentacles, Human League, the Nice, Chemical Brothers, Roger McGuinn, Incredible String Band, Byrds, David Crosby, Steely Dan, Eddie Jobson, Soft Machine, Undertones, Dire Straights, Michael Moorcock & Deep Fix, Jay Gogel, Quintessence, Roy Harper, Fiona Apple, Zero, Future Sound of London, Peter Tosh, the Wailers, Starry Eyed & Laughing, Velvet Underground, Roy Harper, Starry Eyed & laughing, Gordon Giltrap, Traffic, Beth Orton, Futureheads, Stevie Wonder, trance music, Ravi Shankar, Michael Chapman, Cluster, XTC, Ashley Hutchings, Bally Sagoo, Bhangra, The Orb, Caffreys, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Allman Brothers Band, Dave Taggart, Danceclass,
Saltgrass, Tony MacAnaney, Little Feat, Man, Orbital, Radiohead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, John Coltrane, Peter Gabriel, Soft Machine, Henry Cow, King Cromson, and in the classical field I find the works of Gyorgy Ligeti of the greatest interest but I also like KarlHeinz Stockhausen, Terry Riley, Berlioz, Steve Reich, Bartok, Wagner.
Movies:
I love Farewell My Concubine, Elizabeth and Letter to Breznev, Cache, 2001: a space odyssey, The Tall Guy, Incredible Lightness of Being, Yellow Submarine, Zabriskie Point, Raise the Red Lantern, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, My Beautiful Laundrette, Wetherby, Private Function, Blow Up, Let It Be, The Cook the Thief My Wife & Her Lover, Brazil, Damage, London Kills Me, Life of Brian, Nil By Mouth, Erik the Viking, Ipcress File, The Missionary, Funeral in Berlin, Wonderland, My Son the Fanatic, Quatermass, Jabberwocky, Shanghai Triad, Qiu-Ju, Raining Stones, Lawrence of Arabia, [Red White Blue], 10 Rillington Place, Tank Girl, La Vallee, Black Rain, Ghandi, Demon Seed, the Mother, Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Prospero's Books, Fifth Element,Gorky Park, Wild West, Citizen X, the Queen, Notes on a Scandal...
Television:
Callan, the Sweeney, Taggart, Spooks, any of the Beiderbecke Trilogy, Space 1999, Krypton Factor, Bergerac, Little Britain, University Challenge, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Cracker, Sherlock Holmes (with the outstanding Jeremy Brett), When the Boat Comes In, Auf Wiedersen Pet, Spitting Image, Goodies, Catweazle, Doomwatch, Streets of San Francisco, Terrahawks, Smiley's People, although I always come back to Inspector Morse, Kavanagh QC and I would love to see Spender again. Of course there are the ultimates: Dr. Who, the Prisoner, the Avengers, Please Do Not Adjust Your Set...
Books:
Dune series and the Amber series, most read books would be the Odyssey, Illiad and the Aenid. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Collected Works of Friedrich Hayek, anything by Arthur Seldon, Anarchy State and Utopia by Robert Nozick. The Fearful Void, The Doors of Perception: or Heaven and Hell, Politics of Ecstasy. Fiction, Island, Sidhartha,The Name of the Rose, Report on Probability A, Hothouse, Man in the High Castle, Inverted World, The Reasonable Woman, Galapagos. Anything by J.G. Ballard. Camp Concentration. The Anatomy of Thatcherism. Mike Moorcock's Elric series. Hayek's Challenge. The Chilling Stars. World of Null-A, Pawns of Null-A. The Bastards: Dirty Tricks and the Challenge to Europe. Playpower, Future Shock. Hothouse. Earthworks. That will do for now!
Heroes:
John Stuart Mill, Friedrich August von Hayek,Arthur Seldon, John Winston Ono Lennon, Aung San Suu Kyi
