Ross Eldridge

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Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Writer
Location Amble by the Sea, United Kingdom
Introduction One lives a simple life by the North Sea, with a miniature dachshund for company.
Interests Reading, 'riting, but not 'rithmetic, history, walking, photography, political satire, correspondence, music, genealogy
Favorite Movies 2001: A Space Odyssey, Women in Love, A Room With a View, The Hours, Atonement, In Bruges, Life of Brian, Moby Dick (1956), Romeo and Juliet (1968), The Fearless Vampire Killers (or Pardon Me, but Your Teeth are in my Neck), Stardust, Carry on Nurse.
Favorite Music I like just about all music. If I had to take a very few CDs to a desert island ... Joni Mitchell, Darren Hayes, The Kaiser Chiefs, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, and recordings of anything composed by Mozart.
Favorite Books Authors: Virginia Woolf, DH Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, EM Forster, Andre Gide, Thomas Mann, Yukio Mishima, Alan Hollinghurst, Alan Bennett, William Shakespeare, etc. Nowadays, I mostly read biographies and histories, though I have been rereading books I read as a very young boy (Enid Blyton, for example)

You've been entered in a shadow puppet contest. What's your best pose?

As Thaksin Shinawatra who sang "Thai me to the Moon" and "Come Thai With Me". I pose as a former Prime Minister from South-East Asia boarding an airplane at midnight ... Could it get more shadowy than that?