John
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | writer |
| Location | North Adams, Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | I am the arts and entertainment editor for the a daily newspaper in Massachusetts - you can find me here as well. |
| Interests | Doctor Who, New Wave music, evolution, British comedy, French pop music, atheism, cosmology |
| Favorite movies | It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, A Face in the Crowd, The Quatermass Experiment, Mystery Train, Vertical Features Remake |
| Favorite music | Randy Newman,Stereo Total, Barry Gray, Oingo Boingo, Les Negresses Vertes, They Might Be Giants, The Decemberists, Madness, Serge Gainsbourg, Tenpole Tudor, Frank Sinatra, Thelonious Monk, Fun Boy 3, The Pixies, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Ella Mae Morse, The Cramps, Kid Creole and the Coconuts,Balkan Beat Box, Bis, Nick Lowe, XTC, Jools Holland, Mano Negra, Nouvelle Vague, Thelonious Monk, Pianosaurus, Pop Will Eat Itself, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Slim Gaillard, Stan Ridgway, T Bone Burnett, Tom Waits, William Shatner |
| Favorite books | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, most things by Iain Banks,most things by Paul Theroux, From Hell by Alan Moore, His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman, most things by Paul Auster, anything by Luc Sante, anything by Russell Hoban |