Graffiti Living
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Technically in Japan, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | James studied English in North Wales and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Bath. His poetry and short stories have been published in books, anthologies, community publications, and literary magazines, and have been adapted for both the stage and short films. James has performed at a variety of literary events across the country. He is a creative writing tutor on several residential courses and is a sub-editor and professional proofreader. He offers mentoring, manuscript appraisal and proofreading services on a freelance basis. For more information visit www.graffitiliving.wordpress.com |
| Interests | activism, world domination, apple macs, art, bill hicks, cats, creativity, dogs, dreams, free speech, philosophy, publishing, haiku, history, imagination, inspiration, kickwriting, learning, music, literati, literature, magick, manuscripts, monkeys, movies, mythology, narratives, novelists, occult, old books, originality, painting, philosophy, plays, poetry, politics, psychology, publishing, rats, ranting, reading, sarcasm, satire, short stories, sleep, sonnets, spontaneous prose, stories, subversion, beat generation, thinking, tragedy, vampires, wisdom, words, workshops, writing, noam chomsky |
| Favorite movies | bladerunner, the pillow book, delicatessen, the city of lost children, amelie, leon, nikita, batman, la haine, pulp fiction, reservoir dogs, from dusk til dawn, donnie darko, fight club, seven, the usual suspects, naked lunch, dust devil, hardware, angel heart, seven samurai, the crow, the matrix, cronos, natural born killers, man bites dog, betty blue, wild at heart |
| Favorite music | madrugada, nick drake, skinny puppy, tori amos, pj harvey, einsturzende neubauten, nine inch nails, ben harper, tom waits, tricky, whale, death in vegas, aphex twin, leftfield, dead kennedys, lisa germano, come, delicatessen, strangelove, lou reed, pixies, liz phair, bjork, butthole surfers, kmfdm, elf power, ratm, nin, godflesh, jesus and mary chain, sisters of mercy, p, bjork, pavement, mazzy star, beth orton, coptic rain, nick cave, nick cave and the bad seeds, air, fugazi, bettie serveert, the clean, rosa mota, kristin hersh, throwing muses, belly, james, fields of the nephilim |
| Favorite books | albert camus, allen ginsberg, bill hicks, chuck palahniuk, fyodor dostoevsky, elmore leonard, ernest hemingway, fight club, franz kafka, haruki murakami, hubert selby jr, jack kerouac, jd salinger, lord of the rings, naked lunch, on the road, philip larkin, raymond carver, samuel beckett, william shakespeare, sylvia plath, virginia woolf, vladimir nabokov, william burroughs, noam chomsky, the catcher in the rye, american psycho, a wild sheep chase, waiting for godot, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, ariel, hunger, new york trilogy, paul auster, the outsider, young adam, metamorphosis, no logo |
What's the earliest you've gotten up to watch cartoons and what did you see?
Batfink at 5am, though technically I didn't get up as I never went to bed.