Richard English
My blogs
| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I was born in the latter part of the 20th century and expect to die at some point in the 21st (depending on advances in medical science, of course). I'm a writer, occasional stand-up comedian and former local radio DJ. An optician once described my corneas as the largest she's seen in her entire professional career. |
| Favorite movies | Apocalypse Now, Blanche (1971), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Brighton Rock (1948), Chinatown, Culloden (1964), Dawn of the Dead (1978), The Devils (1971), Elle (2016), Excalibur, The Firm (1989), Fitzcarraldo, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, The Great Dictator, Hard to Be a God (2013), Heaven's Gate, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ladykillers (1955), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Long Goodbye, My 20th Century, Paths of Glory, Quatermass and the Pit, Raging Bull, The Red Balloon, Snow (1963), Stalker (1979), Szindbad, There Will Be Blood, The Third Man, The Tin Drum, Vixen! (1968), Zombie Flesh Eaters |
| Favorite music | Associates, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cay, The Cure, The Damned, De La Soul, Franz Ferdinand, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Gravediggaz, Guillemots, PJ Harvey, Hot Club of Cowtown, Kelis, Aram Khachaturian, Kraftwerk, Gustav Mahler, Curtis Mayfield, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Sergei Prokofiev, Pulp, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sly and the Family Stone, Patti Smith Group, Snoop Dogg, The Stooges, Suede, Therapy?, A Tribe Called Quest, Richard Wagner, Wu-Tang Clan |
| Favorite books | 1066 and All That, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, Animal Farm, The Asiatics, Blood Meridian, Cities of the Red Night, Claudius the God, The Code of the Woosters, The Collected Prose of Woody Allen, The Conquest of New Spain, Dead Souls, Doctor Sax, Don Quixote, Empire of the Sun, The End of the Affair, Factotum, Frankenstein, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Goodbye to All That, Great Expectations, Gulliver's Travels, The Hobbit, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, The Last of the Mohicans, Moby Dick, Moll Flanders, The Rock Pool, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Till We Have Faces, Women in Love |