I love photography. Photoshop is my alternative artist's studio when I'm not writing. Check out my pics and please leave me comments.
In addition to writing my own novels, I write film reviews and post them on my blog . Let me know what you think!
I also love to go travelling.
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Got 10 minutes? Then give blood . I donate platelets once a month.
Also, please take a moment to learn about this:
I'd like to meet:
I've already met so many great people recently!!
A big thank you to dj Tim Wedgewood and producer Katie at BBC Radio Stoke for having me on as their guest recently. They were wonderful people to have met, and I was able to have a good natter about the book on air too. Thanks guys. All the best for 2007 and I'll stay in touch.
Thanks to everyone who came along to my booksigning in Kent! It was a great success and I managed to meet lots of people. I really will have to crack on with the second book now!!!
Thanks also to all the pupils I've met (so far) at Alsager School - your questions have been fascinating and your feedback really helpful to me. Hope you all have a great time over Christmas & the New Year and maybe see you again sometime in 2007.
I shall be arranging some events around Manchester, Staffordshire and Cheshire over the coming months, so keep a lookout on my page for these!
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Music:
I made this playlist at MyFlashFetish.com .
Check out this MySpace MP3 Player !
So many across the last 50 years of rock and 300 years of classical, but you're not getting me on a desert island without these three:
And these guys have stood the test of time:
Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra, Kate Bush, Pulp, Jeff Buckley, Prince, Puccini, Verdi, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Howard Shore, John Williams, Muse, The Cardigans, Ella Fitzgerald, Scissor Sisters, Velvet Underground, Radiohead, The Divine Comedy, The Orb, The Beatles, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Oasis, Queen, The Smiths, Mew, Beck, The Stone Roses, Nick Drake, Primal Scream, The Rolling Stones, The Strokes, Madonna, The Verve, Air, Etienne de Crecy, Kraftwerk, Goldfrapp, Daft Punk, Yann Tiersen, Editors, Television, Supertramp, Neil Young, Muse, Imogen Heap, Van Morrison, Roger Waters, The Band, Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx, Belle & Sebastian, The Beta Band, Glibert and Sullivan, Roxy Music, Scott Walker, Ozzy Osbourne, A Camp, Johnny Cash, The Police, Teenage Fanclub, Beach Boys, The Coral, The Open, The La's, Paul Simon, Jesus Jones, The Feeling, Bruce Springsteen, The Jam, Joy Division, Spiritualized, James, Kate Rusby, Joss Stone, Mylo, "Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran..."
As for new stuff, Bauer are excellent (and from Manchester, too).
Movies:
The Last King of Scotland, Titus, Salvador, Blood Simple, Paris Texas, The Fifth Element, The Big Blue, Leon, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Rear Window, The French Connection, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Throne of Blood, The Untouchables, Solaris (original), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Withnail & I, The Princess Bride, Capote, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Amelie, Star Wars, Annie Hall, The Godfather, The Apartment, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lost In Translation, Clerks, Laura, Jaws, The Great Muppett Caper, Go, Downfall, Pulp Fiction, Seven Samuri, Trois Couleurs Rouge, Gladiator, Manhattan, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, Alien, Goodfellas, Ghostbusters, Batman, Goonies, Batman Begins, Back to the Future, When Harry Met Sally, Se7en, The Usual Suspects, The Philadelphia Story, Amores Perros, The Big Sleep, Metropolis, From Russia With Love, Shaun of the Dead and loads more!!!
Recently, I've thought 'Little Miss Sunshine', 'Borat' and 'The Departed' have all been good and loved 'Casino Royale'.
No sorry not
that one, Woody.
Television:
Not a lot. I will watch DVD's of great shows like The Simpsons, Friends, Blackadder, The West Wing, Family Guy, The Sopranos, 24, Rome, Weeds, Fawlty Towers, The Shield and Morse. I try to catch 'Scrubs' whenever I can. I'm excited about 'Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip' coming over here in February. I think Aaron Sorkin is a great writer.
Books:
Available from 01/11/06, my first novel, The Fatal Verse of the Valley. Click the picture to buy!
As for what I like to read, I admire Saul Bellow's work greatly, but find it cold; am equally flabberghasted and infuriated by Thomas Pynchon, enjoyed 'Kavaliar and Clay' by Michael Chabon (soon to be a movie I hear), love 'The Catcher in the Rye' by J.D. Salinger, read Bret Eaton Ellis' 'American Psycho' agape at my own emotions, and have since maintained a desire to wear Oliver Peoples glasses with non-prescription lenses and crepe silk ties, but have resisted buying any albums by Phil Collins or Huey Lewis.
I love 'The Lord of the Rings' by J.R.R. Tolkien beyond measure or logical justification (as with most loves), and would suggest to anyone who loves it as I and hasn't yet gone on to read either 'The Silmarilion' or 'Unfinished Tales', that they do so with great haste. Ben Okri's 'The Famished Road' is a wonder of a book, as is Stephen William's (now out of print) 1948 cureo 'Come to the Opera!' and dashed useful it is too as a reference.
Going to have an Art/Photography section here too:
I resonate with these pieces and I'm happy I don't know why. I like people who concern themselves with big ideas and themes and try to communicate something about them - life, love, war, death, peace, belonging, success and failure, beauty, knowledge.
You're not here forever, why not shoot for the stars?
Turner
Klimt
Rothko
Monet
Heroes:
My whole family, I love them all so much.
