Dan Flynn

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About me

Gender Male
Location Sowerby Bridge , West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Introduction I still like Manchester though West Yorkshire is stunning.
Interests Life
Favorite Movies Some Like It Hot. The Usual Suspects, Kes, Get Carter (the original of course), Red Road, Oh Brother Where Art Though, The Big Lebowski, Fargo.
Favorite Music Talking Heads, Basement Jaxx, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earl, Mozart, Bach, anything with a cello. Salif Kieta's magnificent album 'Soro', Joanna Newsome's 'Ys'. Any of the early Cafe del Mar albums but only those produced by Jose Padilla. Anything by the Alabama 3
Favorite Books The Lost Honour of Katherina Blum by Heinrich Boll; anything by China Mieville; Rivethead by Ben Hamper; Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre; anything by Mark Steel; The Great Gatsby; Wuthering Heights; anything by Stephen Jay Gould; Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley. The collected stories of Chester Himes; Ian McEwan's Attonement but not the ridiculous 'Saturday' which is best thought of as his vanity project. Any Raymond Carver short story. Pat Barker, Regeneration Trilogy; David Mitchel, Ghostwritten; Haruki Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle; Banana Yoshimoto, hardboiled/hard luck; Ryu Murakami, Almost Transparent Blue; Allasandro Baricco, Silk; Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood.