The Great Bandini
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Location | Preston, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | A rambling man on the lost highway. This blog began as a project for a journalism masters course at the University of Central Lancashire. It is now a collection of published and unpublished work, and a forum for some idle ramblings of an idiot. Feel free to leave a comment. |
| Interests | Sleeping, Music, Music, Music, Reading, Guiness, real ale, leap-frogging post boxes, Dreaming, Skepticism, Science, film, reading, Atheism |
| Favorite Movies | The Big Lebowski, There Will Be Blood, A Serious Man, Goodfellas, The Philadelphia Story, It's a Wonderful Life, The Godfather, Ikiru, Harvey, Raging Bull, All the Presidents Men, Dead Man's Shoes, No Direction Home, Aguirre: Wrath of God, The Bicycle Thieves, Frost/Nixon, Gone Baby Gone, Farewell My Lovely, Build My Gallows High |
| Favorite Music | Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Captain Beefheart, Nick Cave, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie, The Band, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Gene Clarke, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Arctic Monkeys, The Coral, Super Furry Animals, Joanna Newsom, Doves, Devandra Banhart, My Morning Jacket, M. Ward, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, The Felice Brothers, Grandaddy, The Sleepy Jackson, British Sea Power, Midlake, The Strokes, Animal Collective, Wild Beasts...this could take a while. |
| Favorite Books | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and anything else by Hunter S. Thompson, Ask the Dust and Road to Los Angeles by John Fante, Ham on Rye by Bukowski, 1984 by Orwell, The Outsider by Colin Wilson, Lester Bangs, Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan, 1984 by George Orwell, Nausea by Satre, Candide by Voltaire, Dispatches by Michael Herr, A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan |
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” Epicurus