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Steve Banting

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About Me

I play bass for a band called Smerin's Anti-Social Club, which is quite good fun. When I have time, I like to write. If you like, you can see some of the evidence in my blog.

My Interests

Music, Books, Films, Travel...

I'd like to meet:

Experienced time travellers.

Music:

In no particular order: Parliament, Funkadelic, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, Charles Mingus, Coldcut, Iggy and the Stooges, The Clash, Tom Waits, The Cure, James Brown, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Propellerheads, Portishead, The Beastie Boys, Flaming Lips, Future Sound of London, Massive Attack, P J Harvey, Dizzy Gillespie, Aphex Twin, G Love and Special Sauce, The Meters, The Specials, The Beta Band, Primus, Lee Perry, Bjork, Led Zeppelin, Jane's Addiction, Thelonius Monk, The Smiths, The Herbaliser, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, John Lee Hooker and loads of others that don't spring to mind at the time of writing.

Movies:

The works of Charlie Kaufman, Belleville Rendezvous, The Wicker Man, Magnolia, Loads of horror and zombie films...

Television:

The Mighty Boosh, Chris Morris, League of Gentlemen.

Books:

Martin Amis, J.G. Ballard, Raymond Carver, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Graham Greene, Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Toby Litt, Ian McEwan, Jon Ronson, Jonathan Safran Foer, Will Self, Zadie Smith, Carol Ann Duffy, Shane Koyczan

Heroes:

See above

My Blog

Heavy Sleeper...

  HEAVY SLEEPER A lumpen dreamer, anchor-like I sank to deep abyssal sleep; a thousand leagues then pressed me down against my bed, my sleep's mad currents rushed and roared and wafted dark d...
Posted by Steve Banting on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:34:00 PST

Still The Balloons...

STILL THE BALLOONSby Steve Banting  Still the balloons sail up and past me: bulbous membranes in jellybean colours, translucent as they pass across the autumn sun.  The first  red  c...
Posted by Steve Banting on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:06:00 PST