I'm Paul, from County Durham (UK). I'm very very tall.
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Growing vegetables. Festivals & live music. Travel. The varying hallucinogenic properties of sativa, psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide . Cognitive Psychology (which is handy after all that lot). Technology. Fractals .. ohhh look at the colours man!
St Francis of Assisi - "It is said that one day while Francis was traveling with some companions they happened upon a place in the road where birds filled the trees on either side. Francis told his companions to “wait for me while I go a preach to my sisters the birds.†The birds surrounded him, drawn by the power of his voice, and not one of them flew away." (Wikipedia) .. you've got to admire a bloke who can do that
Sir Roger Penrose, author of "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and The Laws of Physics" heavy going but bloody amazing!
Joni Mitchell - because I fell in love with her when I was 17 and never really grew out of it.
Kathy Burke - because she's just lovely - and this fella ..
Currently - and old Funk, Arctic Monkeys, Kooks, Dirty Pretty Things, Morrisey, Zutons, Plan B, Kate Rusby
The Mighty eek ...
DJ Shadow and a bit of Leonard Cohen. Also - Grateful Dead (acoustic stuff), Spoon (thanks Lann!), White Stripes, Flaming Lips -quite a lot of Psychadelic trance (particularly 'Hallucinogen') and Techno - Sven Vath .. that kinda thing. Love traditional folk music too, and bluegrass. And The Cure and New Order. And Nick Drake.
Paris Texas - ...
Cinema Paradiso
Top Gear, Gardeners World, 24, Lost
hubba hubba
Honestly .. I *never ever* say 'hubba hubba'
;-) Simpsons, South Park (when I can be bothered) ...
I read a lot. Here's some books I've read in the last few of months with marks outa ten ..
Currently reading 'If on a winter's night a traveller' (Italo Calvino) 8/10
A short history of tractors in Ukranian (Marina Lewycka) 9/10 .. very funny
A long way down (Nick Hornby) 7/10
One big damn puzzler (John Harding) 7/10
Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut) 10/10 .. my kinda book that one!
Blink (Malcolm Gladwell) 8/10 .. just buy it, you won't regret it
True history of the Kelly gang (Peter Carey) 8/10
Round Ireland with a Fridge (Tony Hawks) 6/10 ... it only worked becuase of the publicity he got 'cos he was already a 'celeb'
No more heroes any more