David Altheer
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Freelance journalist |
| Location | No 1 City, England |
| Introduction | david.altheer@gmail.com and tweets: @lovingdalston. All text and photographs copyright 2010 David Altheer unless otherwise stated. Usage by agreement. I am a freelance writer since taking voluntary redundancy from Fleet Street after working in production journalism, and acting for staff as a member of the National Union of Journalists (this site abides by the NUJ code of conduct; nuj.org.uk/innerPagenuj.html?docid=174). Progenitor of the first London International Gypsy Film Festival, a multimedia event staged in four Central London cinemas in spring 2006. Foundation member of the Conservation Area Advisory Committee for Dalston. A photograph seemed a way of helping readers to understand my approach. So here's a sturdy typewriter. |
| Interests | Random order: newspapers, BBC radio-listening, music, cinema, nature, ambling, architecture, aesthetics, chess, traditional beers, wine, cycling, pubic transport, food, lots of it |
| Favorite movies | IRO: Urga, Il Conformista, Fish Tank, The Big Lebowski, Withnail and I, Everything is Illuminated, Yojimbo, Black Robe, Trop belle pour toi, Tous les matins du monde, Mephisto, Dom za vesanje [that's enough foreign stuff, thanks] |
| Favorite music | NIOOP: Schubert, Mozart, opera, pre-1980s country & western (obviously), renaissance choral music, ipirotika (aka epirot music), Balkan Romany & Sinti gilia... oh, lots of stuff, including (gulp) Del Amitri and Barclay James Harvest. No sniggering, please. |
| Favorite books | George Monbiot's No Man's Land, Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, uhm... |