Ian
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Location | Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia |
| Introduction | Studying a PhD (Sociology). I write poetry and some fiction. I enjoy art in just about every medium and expression. I love music in just about all mediums and expressions. I also love reading in most genres also (when I get the chance). I am obsessed with music. I also apreciate good films. |
| Interests | Music, Writing, reading, Music, cinema, music, poetry, travel, music, karaoke, poker, sociology, literature, philosophy, feminism, masculinity, social change, music, postmodernism, challenging knowledge, music, art, photography, music, Nature, politics |
| Favorite movies | Fight Club, American Beauty, Idiot Box, Pulp Fiction, Memento, True Romance, Lord of the Rings (all), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, This is Spinal Tap, Sideways, Matrix, Amores Perros, Pedro Almodovar (any), The Hours, Many forms of Anime, Somersault, Baraka, Dark city, Dead Man (in fact lots of Jarmusch really), Princess Bride, Any Monty Python, Buena Vista Social Club, Fear &; Loathing in Las Vegas (lots of Depp Films I guess), Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill 2... |
| Favorite music | Anything 80's, Ben Folds, 80Aces, Ben Harper, Pearl Jam, Rolling Stones, Duran Duran, Joe Jackson, Jack Johnson, Beastie Boys, Smog, Metallica, Soundgarden, Air, Beck, XTC, Bush, Aphex Twin, ACDC, Donovan, Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, Portishead, Lamb, Goldfrapp, Ladytron, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Tea Party, Peter Gabriel, Manu Chao, James Brown, Afrika Bambaatta, Moby, Basement Jaxx, Jeff Buckley, Smashing Pumpkins, Eric Bibb, Sparks, Pink Floyd, Doves, Green Day, Bob Marley, Chopin, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Vivaldi, Barber, Bert Bacharach, B-52s, Colin Hay, CW Stoneking, Frisky Go Cats, Tank Dilemma, Tankard, Phoenix, Zoot Woman, M, Bruce Spingsteen, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Hole, L7, Spinal Tap, Weird Al Yankovic, BB King, John Lee Hooker, Elvis Presley, Elvis Costello, Jam, Cult, Vines, The The, Kiss, Beatles, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Mentals, Hoodoos, Ottmarr Liebert, Slava Grigoryan, Joe Satriani, Van Halen, Van Morrison, Sex Pistols, Stiff Little Fingers, Gang of 4, Rush, Deep Purple, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Jaco Pastorius, Stone Temple Pilots, Screaming Trees, Jimi Hendrix, Queen, David Bowie, Veruca Salt, Queensryche, Sufjan Stevens, Iron&Wine, Magnet, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Radiohead, Can, Piffen Yonnies, David Gray, Talking Heads, REM, Offspring, Deb Talan, Emmylou Harris, Simply Red, Aerosmith, Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, Clash, New Order, Joy Division, Thompson Twins, Midnight Oil, Fauves, Iron Maiden, RAM, Ministry, ABBA, U2, Stray Cats, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, PIL, Doobie Bros, Steely Dan, America, Chicago, Lenny Kravitz, Peaches, Fridge, Daft Punk, Chemical Bros, Kyuss not enough room! |
| Favorite books | Edgar Allen Poe, Jeanette Winterson, Pablo Neruda, Derrida, Gabriel Garica Marquez, Fantasy, Poetry, Phillip K Dick, David Gemmell, Foucault, Stephen King, Self-Help, music biographies, Virginia Woolf, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Conrad ('The Horror, The Horror'), Emily Dickinson, The Greeks, Whitman, HG Wells, Eliot, Bram Stoker, Ginsberg, Milton, Bible, Jostein Gaarder, Marx, Nietzche, Deleuze-Guattari, Roland Barthes, Italo Calvino, Susan Sontag, Uncut magazine, Mojo magazine... |