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About me

Gender	Male
Location	Southsea, United Kingdom
Introduction	Cynical optimist... Peripatetic perambulator... sometime author... slight poet... lazy git... penniless wastrel... drunkard... sentimentalist... and friend to all the world...
Interests	Travel and looking after my girls(Oh, and a little bit of writing too); Rugby; Watching Bananas grow, Drinking too much, India, Rudyard Kipling, Poetry, Writing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Salvidor Dali, German Romantic Poets; The Life and work of Sim Botchit; Auschwitz; Buchanwald;German and English Literature & writing.
Favorite Movies	Lawrence of Arabia, This is England.
Favorite Music	Anything loud and emotive that comes from the heart including, Soul, Reggae, Jazz, The Killers, The Boss, Graham Parker, KT Tunstall, Carmel, Jeff Buckley, Lene Lovich, Blondie, The Pretenders, Goldfrapp, Chrissie Hynde, Ice House, Paul Weller, Motown, Otis Redding, Django Reinhardt, Stereophonics, David Gray, Wilko Johnson, Robert Johnson, Dr Feelgood, Ian Dury, Eric Donaldson, The Undertones, Jean Michel Jarre, Led Zeppelin, Booker T & The MGs, Robert Palmer, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Joe Jackson, Stiff Little Fingers, The Motors, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Mary Mary, Elvis Costello, The Knight Brothers, Sam Cooke, The Clash, Wreckless Eric, Ducks Delux, Brinsely Schwarz, Nick Lowe, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, Edwyn Collins, Warren Zevon, Delroy Wilson, Earl van Dyke, The Tyla Gang
Favorite Books	No's Knife, (Sim Bodgit), Birdsong, On Green Dolphin Street, (Sebastian Faulks), Schindlers Ark, Kim, Slaughterhouse 5, Shadow of the Wind, Pillars of the Earth, The English Patient, Duncton Wood, White Mughals, Hitlers willing executioners, Catch 22, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Hobbit, The Quiet American, A Clockwork Orange, On Wings of Eagles, Single & Single, The Lawless Roads, The Spy who came in from the cold, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Grapes of Wrath, Norwegian Wood, Winter, Bomber, Goodbye Mickey Mouse, The Naked and the Dead, Smileys People, The Last Mughal, On the road, Carp fishing on Valium, Snow falling on Cedars, The Road Less Travelled, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Iliad, Der Steppenwolf, A Star called Henry, The Prince of Tides, The Lords of Discipline, Engleby, Human Traces, The Blue Flower, Diaries 1915-1918 Siegfried Sassoon, Damned to Fame, Clan of the cave bear, The Glass Palace, All families are psychotic, The Art of War, My life as a Fake, Beach Music, Fragrant Harbour, The White Tiger, The Road.