Gender	Male
Location	London TV region, United Kingdom
Introduction	The Blogger formerly know as David Abstract (DavAb.)
Interests	Ranting, raving, digging, levelling, pontificating and gesticulating.
Favorite movies	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Victim, Trainspotting, Local Hero, Clockwork Orange, Goodfellas, Glen or Glenda?, Heathers, In Bruges, Catch-22,Ginger Snaps, Brazil, The Life of Brian, Withnail & I,
Favorite music	The Beatles, Beethoven, The Clash, David Bowie, Shostakovich, The Kinks, Hawkwind, Motorhead, Pink Floyd, Pulp, Woody Guthrie, Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Eels, Abba,
Favorite books	The Adventures of Endil Swift, – Richard Horne, The Wouldbegoods, – E. Nesbit, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, - Douglas Adams, Only You Can Save Mankind!, - Terry Pratchett, Moab is my Washpot, - Stephen Fry, The Crow Road, – Iain Banks, Backroom Boys, - Francis Spufford, C: because cowards get cancer too, – John Diamond, Calvin and Hobbes, – Bill Waterson, English Journey, – J. B. Priestley, The Sandman, – Neil Gaiman, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, – Milan Kundera, Swamp Thing, – Alan Moore, The Periodic Table, – Primo Levi, The Corrections, – Jonathan Franzen, Power and the Idealists, – Paul Berman, Lanark, – Alasdair Gray, The Golden Notebook, – Doris Lessing, Flaubert’s Parrot, – Julian Barnes, The Songlines, – Bruce Chatwin, Life After God, – Douglas Coupland,

You can whistle and steam can whistle, so why do you sing in the shower?

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