The Starter
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| Gender | Male |
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| Interests | Family, horse racing, music, guitars, my home-built Deluxe Fender Telecaster, my very loud VOX AC50 amp, drums, Spotify, i-Pad, football, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, test cricket, sorry that's just pompous - actually any form of cricket, cultivating close friendships, food, Coonawarra Shiraz, draught Guinness, walking, meditation, Byron Bay, Oak Beach, Waiheke Island, humour, puns, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Goon Show, Major Dennis Bloodnok (IND. ARM. RTD. coward and bar - Military idiot and former plumber's mate), the Internet, Google.com, human behaviour and lack thereof, deciphering political spin, the transference of world domination from the USA to China and India in the not too distant future, the increasingly unserviceable $16 trillion US debt, the development of the industrial proletariat - acknowledging of course that it is absolutely conditioned by the development of the industrial bourgeoisie. Actually ignore the last one - that's just me being silly. |
| Favorite Movies | Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Wondrous Oblivion, Rude Boy, High Fidelity, Blow Up, Quadrophenia, Dr. Strangelove - or - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Easy Rider, The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Billy Elliot, School Of Rock, Waterloo, Fitzcarraldo, The Italian Job, Get Carter, The Wicker Man, Lawrence Of Arabia, The Sound Of Music, A Hard Days Night, To Kill A Mockingbird, Citizen Kane, Key Largo, The African Queen, Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz. |
| Favorite Music | Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Radio Birdman, The Visitors, Deniz Tek, MC5, Magazine, Howard Devoto, Barry Adamson, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave The Bad Seeds, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Roxy Music, Queen, T-Rex, The Clash, Joe Strummer, Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, The Buzzcocks, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Saints, Ed Kuepper, The Laughing Clowns, Television, Joy Division, New Order, Squeeze, Jools Holland, Glenn Tilbrook, Supergrass, Blur, Muse, Kings Of Leon, The Black Keys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Keef, The Yardbirds, Cream, Jeff Beck, The Small Faces, Rod Stewart and The Faces, The Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mitch Mitchell, Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore, Rory Gallagher, Robin Trower, Tommy Bolin, Nils Lofgren, Derek Trucks, Ry Cooder, Adrian Belew, Bob Dylan, Beck, great sixties pop, dub, Lee Scratch Perry, Sly and Robbie, Linton Kwesi Johnson, James Brown, Otis Redding, Booker T and the MG's, Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker, Mississippi John Hurt, Johnny Cash, Tony Joe White, Motown, the Blues, bottleneck guitar, flamenco guitar, classical guitar, Frank Sinatra, Modern Jazz Quartet, Lionel Hampton, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Bach, Mozart, Smetana, Greig, Saint-Saens, Mussorgsky, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Ravel, Vivaldi, Isaac Albeniz, Heitor Villa-Lobos, John Williams, Julian Bream, Paco Pena, Slava Grigoryan, Yo-Yo-Ma. |
| Favorite Books | 1984, The Magus, Lord Of The Flies, The Brand New Monty Python Bok, The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, This Is The South Coast News and I'm Paul Murphy, the 1982 FA Cup Replay Wembley match program. |
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