Bookdreamer
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Location | Bristol, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Who am I? Some who tries to live by these rules: God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change… Courage to change the things I can And Wisdom to know the difference… |
| Interests | Storytelling, Quakerism, Politics, Radical History, Dreaming of writing, Reading and Books, Politics, Music(Listening), Improvisation, Theology, Speculative Fiction, Social Enterprise, Rambling, Cooking for friends, Conversation, Ale, Comedy, Theatre, Surfing, Providing Solutions, Public Speaking, Custard tarts |
| Favorite Movies | Blade Runner, Casablanca, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Double Indemnity, Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, The Godfather, Parts I and II, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Goodfellas, His Girl Friday, It's A Wonderful Life, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lord of the Rings, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metropolis, On the Waterfront, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, Schindler's List, Singin’ in the Rain, Some Like It Hot, Star Wars, A Streetcar Named Desire, Taxi Driver, Unforgiven, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Seven Samurai, Touch of Evil, Battleship Potemkin, La Dolce Vita, The Third Man, Apocalypse Now, Modern Times, Sunset Blvd., The Seventh Seal, The Wizard of Oz, Nashville, The Apartment, Blue Velvet, Manhattan, The Maltese Falcon, Gone With the Wind, Shawshank Redemption |
| Favorite Music | 2pac, 50cent, ABBA, Abdullah Ibrahim, Alanis Morissette, Almma, Ann Reinking and The Boys, Ash, Astor Piazzola, Aswad. Athlete, Augustus Pablo, Baby Shambles, Barry White, Basement Jaxx, the Beatles, Bebe Neuwirth, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Black Eyed Peas, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Sabbath, Bloc Party, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bonnie Tyler, Bowling for Soup, Brad Mehldau, Buddy Guy, Carlos Gardel, Cat Stevens, Cavalleria Rusticana, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Choir of St John's College, Clannad, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, The Clash, Clyde and the KGs, Coldplay, Coleman Hawkins, Conjunto Campesino Cuyaguateje, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Counting Crows, Courtney Pine, Craig David, Daddy Yankee, Danny Kaye |
| Favorite Books | All quiet on the western front, Animal farm a fairy story, Best of Myles Na Gopaleen, Catch-22, Darkness at Noon, Doctor Zhivago, Shantaram, Small Island, Three men in a boat to say nothing of the dog!, The Water of the Hills, The age of revolution : Europe 1789-1848, The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia, Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13, 000 years, Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924, So You Think You're Human?, The Story of English, 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four, Earth abides, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Magus, Star maker, The unbearable lightness of being, The Changing Faces of Jesus, Christian Faith at the Crossroads: A Map of Modern Religious History, The Essential Rumi, Honest to Jesus, The Invitation, The Jesus Sutras, Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture, Liberating the Gospels, Process Theology: A Basic Introduction, Quaker Faith and Practice, Seven Theories of Religion, Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him! the pilgrimage of psychotherapy patients, Images of organisation, Naked Economics - Undressing the Dismal Science, The Seven Deadly Sins: Jewish, Christian and Classical Reflections on Human Psychology, The Tipping Point, Watching the English, The Wisdom of Crowds, The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth, Asimov's New Guide to Science, Eight Little Piggies, Friends in High Places: Who Runs Britain?, How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions, A Short History of Socialism |