Paul Sturdee
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Writer/Publisher |
| Location | Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I'm a refugee from modern life. I've worked in the NHS, in business, and in academia, but now prefer to live on the edge of society looking in at it. The ludicrous sentiment that it's better living in the big tent pissing out of it rather than on the outside pissing in is completely lost on me - there have always been far more people outside the big tent who've drunk far more beer! The illusion that any kind of progress characterises our culture and society has long ceased to deceive me. I believe that if the human race had progressed in any direction after coming down from the trees we wouldn't have people like Bush in the White House and Brown at No.10. Apart from taking a jaundiced view of politics and any human pretensions of any sort, I still have some hair on my head and play the guitar. I have a Border Collie dog and live with my partner in state of relaxed disillusionment. Despite all this, I still believe it's worth trying to make the world a better place - the more so because it inevitably involves pissing off those people who would like to have things all their own way. |
| Interests | Society, Culture, Politics, Religion, Philosophy, Anything to do with Guitars |
| Favorite movies | Blazing Saddles, Blues Brothers I & II, Oh Brother Where Art Thou? |
| Favorite music | Blues of any sort, especially John Lee Hooker, some rock and pop, Classical of almost any sort |
| Favorite books | The Torture Garden (Octave Mirbeau - if you want to know why the human race will probably never improve itself, this is the book to read), The Land Where the Blues Began (Alan Lomax), Blues Fell This Morning (Paul Oliver), The Big Book of the Blues (Robert Santelli. |