Mark
My blogs
| Industry | Communications or Media |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Introduction | Writing again for myself. This is a record of it. |
| Interests | Reading, writing, DJing, travelling, concert-going, reviewing music, watching films, sipping single malt scotch, collecting records, tinkering with vintage hi-fi equipment, riding Raleigh vintage racer, drinking wine, smirking, loathing, sulking and glaring. |
| Favorite movies | Kubrick, Fellini, Scrosese, Coppola, Welles, Peckinpah, Godard, Hitchcock, Coen Brothers, Von Trier, Tarrantino, Woody Allen, Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Terry Gilliam, Wes Anderson, Jean-Pierre, Melville, Bresson, Jacques Becker, Billy Wilder, Mike Hodges, Winterbottom, and David Lynch |
| Favorite music | About 800 CDs + 250 vinyl records + 35 12-inchers = No sense starting to list. Some of it's jazz, alt-country, trip-hop, underground hip-hop, new wave, folk/country, grime, blues, Brazillian psych, downtempo, nu-jazz, electronica and indie (whatever the hell that is) Top 20: 1. Pulp 2. Wilco 3. Radiohead 4. Pavement 5. Joy Division 6. Bob Dylan 7. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds 8. The Velvet Underground 9. Silver Jews 10. DJ Shadow 11. Blur 12 Bonnie "Prince" Billy 13. Bjork 14. Portishead 15. Wu-Tang 16. Okkervil River 17. Madlib 18. Dizzie 19. James Brown 20. A Tribe Called Q.U.E.S.T. |
| Favorite books | Greene, Heller, Vonnegut, Thom Jones, Steinbeck, Twain, Bukowski, Camus, Tim O'Brien, Henry Miller, Irvine Welsh, Shakespeare, Graham Greene, Nietzsche, Tobias Wolff,William Kennedy, Michael Chabon, Sinclair Lewis, Burroughs, Jeffrey Eugenides, Capote, Salinger, Dr. Thompson, Orwell, Nelson Algren, Neil Duncan, Richard Price, Tom Wolfe, Garth Ennis, Alan Moore, Royko and Woodward. |