Seán

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About me

Gender Male
Occupation Wage Slave
Location United Kingdom
Introduction "A little gem, the kind of blog that is so personal and varied it seems at once intimate and universal.A real mishmash which defies characterisation and could best be described as an "indy blog"...But the sheer variety of topics is also part of what makes it good." http://www.politics.co.uk/
Interests Football, politics, film, reading, theatre, travelling, swearing, anti-thatcherism.
Favorite Movies City of God, Throne of Blood, Kes, Land and Freedom, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Double Indemnity, Jules Et Jim, V For Vendetta, The 25th Hour, Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanours, Withnail and I, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Vertigo, The Life of Brian, The Pianist, Pierrot Le Fou, Zero de Conduite, Germinal, L'Atalante, The Terminator, Sin City, Hell Boy, Shrek, Riff Raff, His Girl Friday, Matewen, Wild Strawberries, 1900, Brazil, Breathless, Chinatown, Cinema Paradiso, Dirty Pretty Things, Elephant, The Holy Grail, The Jerk, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, La Haine, Grosse Pointe Blank, Taxi Driver, Casablanca, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, A Short Film About Killing, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Duck Soup, M*A*S*H, Goodfellas, Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, The Graduate, My Life As A Dog, Groundhog Day, The Grifters, Spartacus, The Night of the Hunter, The Others, Belle de Jour, Thelma and Louise, Blade Runner, Cyrano De Bergerac, Ed Wood, Hero, The Machinist, Paradise Now, Secretary, Dr Strangelove, Fight Club, Some Like it Hot, Shakespeare In Love, A Taste of Honey, This Is Spinal Tap, Seven Samurai, Together, Wages of Fear, Zatoichi, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Godfather, Groundhog Day, The Ice Storm, Jackie Brown, Toy Story, A Very Long Engagement, Trainspotting, Tsotsi, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, The Devil’s Backbone, The Educators, Good Bye Lenin, The Motorcycle Diaries, 400 Blows, Through A Glass Darkly, Le Gout Des Autres, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Psycho, Raining Stones, Reservoir Dogs, Sideways, Spider-Man, Sunset Boulevard, Team America - World Police, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Producers, Videodrome, The Corporation, Cool Hand Luke, Purple Rose of Cairo, Wings of Desire, Touch of Evil, The Wizard of Oz, Badlands, White Heat, The Last Picture Show, The Apartment, Angels With Dirty Faces, Central Station, Paris Texas
Favorite Music The Smiths, Morrissey, Arcade Fire, The Flaming Lips, Jarvis Cocker, Miles Davis, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, The Clash, Mozart, Air, Damien Rice, Jonny Cash, Richard Hawley, Talking Head, The Specials, White Stripes, The Zutons, Amy Winehouse, Public Enemy, Nirvana, The Jam, The Pogues, Joy Division, Bjork, Billy Bragg, Duke Ellington
Favorite Books The Great Gatsby, The Handmaid's Tale, Crime and Punishment, The God of Small Things, The Brothers Karamzov, The Idiot, The Catcher in the Rye, Catch 22, 1984, Brave New World, We, Dubliners, Great Expectations, Hard Times, David Copperfield, Kim, U.S.A, Ulysses, Trainspotting, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Beloved, Slaughterhouse-Five, Master and Margarita, The Communist Manifesto, The Age of Reason, Gulliver’s Travels, Tropic of Cancer, His Dark Materials Trilogy, The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, The Secret History, The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Heart of Darkness, The Passion, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Illiad, The Odyssey, Invisible Man, The Old Testament, The New Testament, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Christopher Marlowe, David Mammet, Edward Albee, William Blake, WB Yeats, e e cummings, TS Elliot, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Miscellaneous Great writers, Karl Marx, Thomas Hardy, George Orwell, Niccolo Machiavelli, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Gore Vidal, Antonio Gramsci, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Chandler, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolfe, Mark Twain, James Ellroy, Nikolai Gogol, Milan Kundera, Umberto Eco, Orhan Pamuk, John Bunyan, Graham Greene, Tom Sharpe, H. G. Wells, Ian Rankin, Philip Pullman, Franz Kafka, Christopher Hill, EH Carr, John Pilger, John Ronson, Philip K Dick, Jeannette Winterson

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