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About Me

"Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top.At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles -- a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other-that kept me going." - Dr Hunter S Thompson

My Interests

Books, history, walking, current affairs, politics, football, music, cinema, hiking, rock'n'roll, travelling (in Ireland and elsewhere), art, museums, street culture, cooking, activism, nature, ecology - but please, none of that "alternative" medicine crap - quacks should be sold into slavery.

I'd like to meet:

"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are"
Yeah, and I absolutely hate cars.

Music:

Garage, punk, psychedelic, jazz, classical, prog-country, Captain Beefhart, Hawkwind, 13th Floor Elevators, The Sonics, Miracle Workers, The Cramps, Beck, Sonic Youth, The Magnetic Fields, John Spencer Blues Explotion, Dylan, Hendrix, White Stripes, The Who, Beethoven, Roky Ericsson, Mozart, Brahms, Motorpsycho, Nirvana, Sepultura, Pixies, Iggy and the Stooges, music with a beat, music with a groove, music with a punch, music with heart, music with balls.

Recently: Leningrad

Movies:

Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, Godard, Kurosawa, Jeunet & Caro, Emir Kustorica, Pasolini, Tim Burton, Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Apocalypse Now, Bad Boy Bubby, Peter Greenaway, Dracula, Metropolis, Terry Gilliam, Monty Phyton, Kung-Fu, Sergio Leone, John Ford, Hal Hartley, Star Wars Episodes IV-VI (original version), Wallace & Gromit, Casablanca, Film Noir

Television:

Hate televison. Make me stupid. It evil.

Books:

Umberto Eco, Graphic Novels, Beat, Tom Wolfe, Ben Okri, Hemingway, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S Thompson, Robert Fisk, Murokami, Dostojevski, Zola, Beckett, Joyce, Hamsun, Bjorneboe, books about pirates (!), beat, history, politics, current affairs, ecology, biology, popular science, dictionaries, maps,

Heroes:

activists, rebels, hell-raisers, freaks, outcasts, Hunter S Thompson, Robert Fisk