phelimmacc
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Law |
| Location | Brighton, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Socialist, anti-fascist, trade unionist. Main interests are LGBT rights and human rights. International Coordinator on the Green Party's National Executive with Farid Bakht. One of 2 National Spokespeople for the Green Party's LGBT Group and an activist in Brighton and Hoveactually. Generic trouble making aside, I enjoy swimming in the sea from April through October, real ale, singing and music making. Attained a double first class joint honours degree in Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths College. Have my MPhil in History of Art (thesis on psychogeography, colonialism and visual culture) so photography, cinematography, architecture as well as painting all switch me on. |
| Interests | art, music, current affairs, theatre, swimming in sea, green/red/black/ pink political influences include: Edward Said, Constance Markievicz, Black Panthers, Arundhati Roy, Gramsci, Emma Goldman, James Connolly, Jim Larkin, William Morris, Sylvia Pankhurst on the art front there's lots: Wassily Kandinsky, Barbara Hepworth, August Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Anish Kapoor, Anthony Gormley, Louise Bourgeois, Willie Doherty, Liubov Popova, Leon Golub, Clive Limpkin, Sebastio Salgado, Dorothy Cross, Mona Hatoum, Raphael, Caravaggio, Banksy, Zarina Bhimji. Comedy wise Eddie Izzard and Father Ted |
| Favorite movies | Fight Club, Man with a Movie Camera, LOTR, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Metropolis, Star Wars, Jaws I, La Haine, To Kill a Mocking Bird (esp that commanding performance from Gregory Peck), Shaun of the Dead, In the Name of the Father, Motorcycle Diaries, The Pianist, Fifth Element, London by Patrick Keiller, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Lives of Others, |
| Favorite music | Muse, Orbital, Beethoven (Particularly his only opera 'Fidelio' and the Piano Concertos), Smashing Pumpkins, Gustav Mahler, John Adams' "On the transmigration of souls", Saint Etienne, Ruben Gonzalez, Ani DiFranco, Teenage Fanclub, Wagner's Ring Cycle, Nitin Sawhney, Songs from the Shows, Rage Against the Machine, Nina Simone, Philip Glass, Manu Chao, Faithless, Cesaria Evora, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Chillis, Billie Holiday, Shostakovich, Green Day, Chopin, McAlmont and Butler (remember their enticing duo?), Snow Patrol, Portishead's old stuff, Khachaturian, and on occasion there's nothin like a bit of bangin dirty drum and bass... |
| Favorite books | The Rebel Countess (biography of Constance Markievicz), The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Wilde, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Ulysses, Cry the Beloved Country, The Pink Triangle, Benjamin's Illuminations, My Life by Emma Goldman, Beevor's Berlin: the Downfall 1945, The Invisible Man, The Sleeper Awakes, Frolich's biography of Rosa Luxemburg, Power Politics and Culture by Edward Said, Scholars and Rebels by Terry Eagleton |