The Leveller
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | furniture maker |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I am a furniture maker and have been active in politics since sending a week's pocket money to the Anti Apartheid Movement when I was fourteen. |
| Interests | Making furniture, Marxism, libertarian socialism, green politics, cycling (in theory), food, traditional music, classical music, jazz, blues,singing, eating |
| Favorite movies | The Big Lebowski, Apocalypse Now, Kes, Paris Texas, Cinema Paradiso, Il Postino, Night at the Opera, Duck Soup, Death in Venice, Breathless, Bagdad Cafe, Catch 22, Woodstock |
| Favorite music | JS Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Vaughn Williams, Delius, Britten, Bill Evans, Miles Davis (cool period), Coltrane, Irish traditional music - and English, and Scottish, anything by Ry Cooder,the Blues, Ali Faka Ture, Mothers of Invention, more or less anything by Dick Gaughan, Martin Carthy, Leon Rosselson or The Exiles |
| Favorite books | News from Nowhere, The Disposessed, Heart on the Left, Bleak House, David Copperfield, Making of the English Working Class, Design for the Real World, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Small is Beautiful, Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the World, Homage to Catalonia, Their Dark Materials trilogy, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, the Oxford Book of English Verse, the Fine Art of Cabinet Making, Communist Manifesto, English Historic Carpentry, Speak One More Time, Fat Man on a Bicycle, Guerilla Days in Ireland, To Have or To Be, French Provincial Cookery |