Andrew Cox
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Marketing |
| Occupation | Dog's body |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | My name is Andrew Cox and I live in Nine Elms, London. I am passionate about what I see as the many injustices that go on in the world. However, I have a nuanced view of contemporary society and believe that the greatest enemy to free thought often comes from the political left these days, namely in the guise of multiculturalism. At present, I am working in market research, but I'm looking to work in financial administration. My interests are wide and varied and although I don't work in the media and cultural industries, I have had five articles published by the best current affairs website on the good old www - Spiked! |
| Interests | Current affairs, learning languages, history, good literature, real life crime literature, (only the good stuff!), crime novels, all types of music (except crap!) and the cinema. |
| Favorite movies | Can I include TV series? Well, I'll cheat and name The Sopranos, The Wire and The Shield as some of the best TV, I have ever seen. In fact, they're too good for TV! Back to the flicks. Here is a 'short' list, as it would take forever to list them all: The Godfather Parts 1 and 2; The Apartment; Some Like it Hot; Get Carter; Y Mama tu Tambien; Downfall; La Zona; Amores Perros; Dog Day Afternoon; La Sombra del Caminante; Los Bastardos; The Battle of Algiers; The Wild Bunch; Oh! What a Lovely War; The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band); The Baader-Meinhof Complex; Gomorrah; Rome, Open City; Central Station; The Man Who Wasn't There; The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick's version only); Kind Hearts for Coronets; The Lavender Hill Mob; It Always Rains on Sunday; Ice Cold in Alex; Goodfellas; Fish Tank, Red Road and Wasp (all by Andrea Arnold); Jar City; The Night of the Living Dead; Rotos Abrazos (Broken Embraces); The Third Man; The Seven Samurai; Citizen Kane; A Touch of Evil; Psycho (only Alfred Hitchcock's); Twelve Angry Men; Los Debutantes; Monster's Ball; Paths of Glory; A Clockwork Orange...to be continued |
| Favorite music | Bruce Springsteen; The Beatles; Robert Wyatt; Bob Dylan; Johnny Cash The Rolling Stones (up to mid-'70s); Fruko y sus Tesos; Buena Vista Social Club; Leonard Cohen; Steve Earle; Love; The Kronos Quartet; Doc Watson; The Stanley Brothers; Bill Monroe & his Bluegrass Boys; Sandy Denny; Tom Waits; The Latin Brothers; Jacques Brel; Scott Walker; Bobby Hutcherson; Dexter Gordon; Dizzy Gillespie; Peruvian boogaloo; Colombian, Cuban and New York salsa; Bill Withers; Tamla Motown; Otis Redding; Toots and the Maytals; The Harder They Come (soundtrack album); Jeff Buckley; Crowded House; Santana; The Velvet Underground; Led Zeppelin; Robert Plant & Allison Krauss; John Williams (the classical guitarist); George Frederick Handel; Wolfgang Amadeuz Mozart; Ludwig van Beethoven; Johann Sebastian Bach; Antonio Vivaldi; Alfred Brendel; Lou Reed; Florence and the Machine; The Byrds; Neil Young; Crosby, Stills & Nash; (the list is endless, but will be continued) |
| Favorite books | To Kill a Mockingbird; 1984 and Homage to Catalonia (by George Orwell); anything by George Pelecanos; Operation Shylock, The Human Stain and Patrimony (by Philip Roth); Austerity Britain 1945-51 & Family Britain 1951-57 (by David Kynaston); Homicide (by David Simon); Gomorrah; The Draining Lake (by Arnaldur Indridason); Culture of Fear (by Frank Furedi);The Penguin History of Latin America (by Edwin Williamson); Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerilla Politics in Colombia (by Steven Dudley); The Tyranny of Health (by Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick); I could go for ever... |