Music (especially live), drinking establishments, art, cosmology, anthropology, linguistics, human origins & ecological place, history, sci-fi & other fiction, chess, Anarchism, complexity, quantum physics & so on & so on...
Anyone with anything interesting to say (humility preferred)about anything in my profile or, for that matter, anything else! I do have wide interests. I'll always reply to messages and I like to get a good dialogue going.
South African Township Jive and Jazz, Abdullah Ibrahim, Bheki Mseleku, Zila, Moveable Feast, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Art Pepper, Thelonious Monk, Wynford Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Willie Dixon, Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, Tony Williams,Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Fulton Allen, Hubert Sumlin, Howling Wolf, Elmore James, The Rolling Stones, Flaky Jake, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Winston Rodney, Lee Perry, The Congos, The Gutter Brothers, The Jesus Underground, Toupee, Blues Abuse, Bill Clift, Deni Bonet, Glenn Tilbrook, Siobhan Parr, Bob Dylan, Roy Harper, Leon Rosselson, Cocteau Twins, Satie, Bruch, JS Bach, Chopin.
Life of Brian, Going South, World Police: Team America.
CSI, Have I Got News For You, Later, The Simpsons.
The Dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin. The Quark & the Jaguar: Murray Gell-Mann. Bobby Fischer's 60 Memorable games. Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy: Douglas Adams. Maya Angelou: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. The Origin of Species: Charles Darwin. Anything by George Orwell and most things by Philip K Dick.
Emma Goldman, Capablanca, Dudu Pukwana, Abdullah Ibrahim, Louis Jordan, Douglas Adams, George Orwell, Bob Dylan, Bessie Smith, Maya Angelou, Ursula Le Guin. Murray Gell-Mann, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Einstein, George Orwell, Kropotkin, Jacob Bronowski, AJP Taylor, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Nelson Mandela, A.S. Neill, Noam Chomsky, Ivan Illich, Paulo Freire, Paul Foot.