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Name:
John
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About Me:
Country:
United Kingdom
Occupation:
Retired. In my early 60s.
Schools:
English degree, some time ago...
Interests:
Listening to music, messing around with guitar, birdwatching, general natural history, beer. Gadgets of all kinds except mobile phones. Reading here and there. Formerly, wildlife photography (the avatar is a Kestrel shot). At the moment I'm trying to learn some Polish, though with difficulty... Witam na mojej kanał.
Movies:
Casablanca, Wizard of Oz, Terminator 2, No Direction Home (Scorsese on Dylan). TV: QI, Have I Got News, Armstrong and Miller, Mock The Week, Prime Suspect. Radio: Just A Minute, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Favourite eccentrics: Ivor Cutler, 'John Shuttleworth'.
Music:
Bob Dylan, Mississippi John Hurt, Nick Drake, Nanci Griffith, Eva Cassidy, Joni Mitchell, John Martyn, Paul Simon, Fleetwood Mac, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Sharon Shannon, Ofra Haza, Dory Previn, Cyndi Lauper, Amy Winehouse, Skip James, Fred McDowell, Enya, Django Reinhardt. The finest rock guitarist of our time, Keith Richards. Ska and early reggae, Peter Tosh above all, a bit of dancehall, especially King Yellowman. African music. And from way back, Grateful Dead, Byrds, Zappa, Beefheart. Not keen on rap or metal, but each to their own! Last but definitely not least, Mozart and Beethoven. And anything else which sounds like music and has some passion, really.
Books:
Authors: Douglas Adams, Samuel Beckett, Alan Bennett, Ray Bradbury, Bill Bryson, Joseph Conrad, Richard Dawkins, the late British journalist John Diamond, Sebastian Faulks, EM Forster, Robert Frost, Stephen Fry, Ben Goldacre, Phillip Larkin, Vladimir Nabokov. (And in the comics genre, Gilbert
Shelton and Robert Crumb).
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