Simon King
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | My name is Simon King. I completed degrees in Comparative Literature (BA) and Film Studies (MA). I am interested in the creative arts, philosophy and politics. |
| Interests | Literature, creative writing, film, many forms of music, the countryside, Latin-American culture, avoiding people, facile humour, football, caffeine, politics, history, unschooled philosophy. |
| Favorite movies | 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blue Velvet, The Producers, Heimat, Through A Glass Darkly, Psycho, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Bicycle Thieves, A Man Escaped, Aguirre The Wrath of God, Alphaville, Vivre Sa Vie, La Grand Illusione, Dr. Strangelove, Branded to Kill, Annie Hall, Videodrome, Pickpocket, Stalker, Andrei Rublev, The Seventh Seal, The Green Ray, The Passion of Joan of Arc |
| Favorite music | Igor Stravinsky, The Fall, Bela Bartok, Miles Davis, Gyorgy Ligeti, Captain Beefheart, Hector Berlioz, Edgard Varese, Paul Hindemith, Richard Strauss, Simon King, Iannis Xenakis, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Mauricio Kagel, Frederic Chopin, Can, Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Napalm Death, Joanna Newsom, Scott Walker, Slayer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Harry Partch, Morton Feldman, Robert Wyatt, Frank Zappa, Eric Dolphy, Elliott Carter, Charles Ives, Charles Mingus, Olivier Messiaen, George Gershwin, Eric Satie, Maurice Ravel, Otomo Yoshihide, Mr Bungle, Claude Debussy, Anal Cunt, Brutal Truth, Tom Waits, John Coltrane, Sergei Rachmaninov, Decapitated, Sun Ra, Victor Jara, Duke Ellington, Anton Webern, Kayo Dot, Johnny Cash, Jacques Brel, Toru Takemitsu, Alban Berg, Gustav Mahler |
| Favorite books | Fictions, The Aleph, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom Absalom!, Light in August, As I lay Dying, Bestiary, End of the Game, Hopscotch, Crash, Empire of the Sun, The Unlimited Dream Company, The New York Trilogy, The Invention of Solitude, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground, The Trial, Metamorphosis, Pedro Páramo, The Burning Plain, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, The Outsider, The Plague, A Brief Life, First Love and Other Novellas, If This is a Man, Lolita, The Secret Agent, The Martian Chronicles, Naked Lunch, The Obscene Bird of Night, Brave New World, Journey to the End of the Night, A Confederacy of Dunces, A Clockwork Orange, Gravity's Rainbow, Life: A User's Manual, Doctor Faustus, Zama, Edgar Allan Poe |