Spaghetti Monster
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Being alive |
| Location | Not where you think, Bonny Scotland |
| Introduction | Neither Italian nor Scottish, this particular mongrel turns to writing to think about the pecularities of modern day life. He would like to see himself as a modern day Juvenal or Marcus Aurelius, except without slaughtering all the barbarians and chopping off their naughty bits. But an empire would be nice. Until then he'll just have to grill politics instead |
| Interests | Italy, Scotland, classics, literature, writing, music, philosophy, military stuff, films, politics, theology, gigs etc etc |
| Favorite movies | Brazil, Se7en, Come and See, Rome Open City, Umberto D, Modern Times, The Gold Rush, The General, The Third Man, Amelie, Memento, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Platoon, The 400 Blows, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Xiu Xiu, Dog Day Afternoon, Batman Begins |
| Favorite music | Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Get cape wear cape fly, the Fratellis, Young Knives, King Creosote, Beethoven, Weber, Bonporti, Mendohlsson |
| Favorite books | Herodotus, the Theogony, Works and Days, Elegies, The Persian Expedition, Nichomean Ethics, Oristeia, Oedipus the King, The Bacchae, Lysistrata, Clouds, Frogs, Meditations, Enneads Metamoprhoses, Horace's poems, Ennead, Thyestes, Shakespeare, Gravity's Rainbow, The Divine Comedy, A song of ice and fire, Complicity, The Wasp Factory, The Accidental, In the Miso Soup, Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, La Morte d'Arthur, Leviathan, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, Jude the Obscure, A clockwork orange, the life and times of the thunderbolt kid, the hound of ulster, and a gazillion others |
You've written a hit musical! How will you avoid having fame go to your head?
Gravity boots. Inversion is always a good thing