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Ian

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My Interests

Music:

Punk, especially early 80s US hardcore punk - can't be beat: Circle Jerks, Bad Brains !!!, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty !!!, Dead Kennedys, DOA, ; plenty of ska (old skool), some 60s mod & soul, some classical (check Prokofiev). Shit, anything that's not what the mainstream BB watching masses go for:)

Movies:

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Love and Death, Ghost World, Delicatessen, Nightmare Before Christmas, Soylent Green, Sleeper, Dawn of the Dead (both versions), Edward Scissorhands, Young Frankenstein (Fronkenshteen!), Beetlejuice, Kingpin, Animal House, Silent Running, Logan's Run

Television:

Watching the re-runs of the Sopranos from series 1! Dexter, Family Guy, Monkey Dust, Heroes, QI, Green Wing, Miami Ink, Simpsons, Mark Steel Lectures, Futurama

Books:

Just finished: Moab is my Washpot - Stephen Fry Recently: Get In The Van - Henry Rollins
Ska'd for Life - Horace Panter. Burton on Burton. Dance of Days (Two decades of DC Punk). The greatest alternative histories of the 20th century. To Reach the Clouds - Philippe Petit (diary of a highwire walk between the twin towers in the 70s). Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby; Ursula, Under - Ingrid Hill, A Life Stripped Bare (my year trying to live ethically) - Leo Hickman, American Gods - Neil Gaiman; Capacity - Tony Ballantyne. Faves: Any Chuck Palahniuk, Neil Gaiman, Alfred Bester, Philip K Dick, William Gibson, Weaveworld - Clive Barker; Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy - Tim Burton