Sidney Roundwood

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About me

Gender Male
Location St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Introduction Enjoying the wargaming hobby, and the friends it brings, since 1981...
Interests Wargaming, boardgames, painting wargame figures, terrain making, modelling, military history, cultural history, The Great War, swimming, cycling, reading, film and cinema, Victorian London, weather forecasting, London War Memorials
Favorite Movies Sunset Boulevard, Un Coeur en Hiver, The Maltese Falcon, La Regle du Jeu, Le Jour Se Leve, La Bête Humaine (1938), Cat People (1942), Odd Man Out, Chinatown, Double Indemnity, Touch of Evil, The Big Sleep, Cyrano de Bergerac, Nosferatu, Night of the Hunter, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 3.10 to Yuma (1957), The Magnificent Seven, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, The Duellists, Paths of Glory, American Beauty, Heat, Ran, The Double Life of Veronique, Andrei Rublev, The Seventh Seal, The Sacrifice, Daughters of Darkness, Rashomon, Dr Strangelove, Wild Strawberries, Once Upon A Time In The West, Memento, 8 1/2, The Third Man, Deathwatch, Viridiana, The Draftsman's Contract, Belly of an Architect, Paris Texas, La Grande Illusion, Histoire de Marie et Julien, Winter's Bone, The Tree of the Wooden Clogs, Three Colours Blue, Three Colours Red, Inception, Don't Look Now, Greed (von Stroheim)
Favorite Music Salt Tank, Muse, Dredg, Paul Oakenfold, Deep Forest, Orbital, Chicane, Robert Miles, Peter Gabriel, Linkin Park, The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, Garbage, Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, David Sylvian, Terra Firma
Favorite Books Hawksmoor, White Chappell Scarlet Tracings, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, The Fencing Master, Deliver Us From Evil, Aegypt, At the Mountains of Madness, The Crimson Petal and the White, Fingersmith, Uncle Silas, M. R. James' Ghost Stories, The Golden Bough, The Sign of Four, The Illustrated Man, The Great War and Modern Memory, The Gambler, The Trial, The Art of War in the Age of Marlborough, London Labour and the London Poor, The Player of Games, Against a Dark Background, Eisenhorn Trilogy, Ravenor Trilogy, Gaunt's Ghosts, Neuromancer, Crime and Punishment, The Magic Mountain, War Land on the Eastern Front, The Hell They Called High Wood, Absalom Absalom, Moby Dick, Restoration, Copse 125, Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man, Storm of Steel, Fahrenheit 451, The Turn of the Screw