A keen phrenologist. Fitba', the hooligan aspect anyway. Hibernian FC. Cats. Age of Sail. Writing, literature, music, travel.
I'd like to meet:
Folk I've lost touch with (sorry, folk, I'm just rubbish at keeping in contact). And anyone who burns, burns, burns.
Music:
small c catholic tastes: old skool (notice I spelled it with a K children) hip hop, americana, Wilco, Johnny Cash, Screamin' Trees, P Funk, Led Zep,Nirvana, Flaming Lips, Lucinda Williams, Camera Obscura, Aimee Mann, The Doors, Billy Bragg, Woody Guthrie, Springsteen's Seeger Sessions, Public Enemy, De la Soul, Old Crow Medicine Show, Gillian Welch, Beastie Boys, Regina Spektor, White Stripes, and tons of other really cool shit.
Movies:
Goodfellas, Dr Strangelove, A Bout de Souffle, Dumb and Dumber, Double Indemnity, Third Man, (any film noir, really), Ice Cold in Alex, Clockwork Orange, Spinal Tap, Le Corbeau, Anchorman, O Brother Where Art Thou, Fargo, Big Lebowski (what happened to the Coens post O Brother, anyway?), Pulp Fiction, Squid and the Whale, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic with Steve Zizou, Some Like it Hot,
Television:
Not really one for the box, but: Daily Show, Peep Show, The Office, Spaced, Seinfeld (although I see it now and it's not so funny anymore - can comedy ever last? Discuss), Curb Your Enthusiasm, 24, Family Guy has its moments
Books:
Blood Meridian, A Fan's Notes, A Confederacy of Dunces, Love in the Time of Cholera, Ulysses (yes I am a pretentious wanker), all the Patrick O'Brien Aubrey Maturin series, any Denis Lehane or Henning Mankell (actually not that shit book he wrote about Africa), Master and Margarita, any Elmore Leonard, Bartleby the Scrivener (yes, a short story not a book - stop being so pedantic), Brighton Rock, Dead Man in Deptford, Three Musketeers, 20 Years After (I do like my buckle swashed occasionally), Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Wall and Piece, End of Mr Y, The Stornoway Way, most TC Boyle, Ian Rankin, Ginger Man, Dante Club, Burr, Julian, Subterraneans, Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions, On the Road
Heroes:
um, Gandhi? Dennis Johnson, Denis Johnson, Fred Exley, John Kennedy Toole, Voltaire, James Douglas Morrison, Banksy, James "Whitey" Bulger
