Name:

john

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Country:

United Kingdom

Occupation:

writer, humorist,marketing consultant

Companies:

Media Ink

Schools:

University of Liverpool

Hobbies:

Writing,soccer,guitar,poetry,France, reading,politics, current affairs,cinema, drink,women (like women,but sexually a one-woman man), painting (acrylics, and one room,two coats - half an hour),meaning of life,quantum physics,watches,gardening and neurology. Bored by car mechanics,cricket, most blokes, shopping, dysfunctional egos, Greens(with one lovely exception),horse jumping,wealth, insurance, accountancy, legal jargon, management consultancy drivel, actors (two exceptions), other luvvies, art directors (three exceptions), Chelsea FC, vegetarians (three huge exceptions). Firm belief that the exception not only proves the rule, it makes life worth living.

Movies:

Have I got News for You, Andrew Marr on Sunday, Spitting Image, Paul Whiteouse, Hancock's Half Hour, Cook & Moore,Python. Movies: The Producers (original wth Zero Mostel),Casablanca,Dead Poets Society, Good Morning Vietnam,Four Weddings & a Funeral, La Dolce Vita, Cousin Cousine,Das Boot, Die Untergang, Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 original), Gone with the Wind, The Candidate (1972, R.Redford), Long Good Friday, Dam Busters, Last Tango in Paris...we could be here all day. Play/Show: The Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion, An Inspector Calls, Room at the Top, The Caretaker,Oliver, Noises Off, Equs, Getting On, A Question of Attribution, Separate Tables,The Vortex, The Deep Blue Sea,Amadeus....

Music:

rock n roll 1955-59; pop 1962-70; bluenote jazz, female singer-songwriter, Ry Cooder, JJ Cale,Sinatra (1940-1956); classical - Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, Dvorak, Satie, some Beethoven,some Tschaikovsky.

Books:

Wind in the Willows, Scoop, Vile Bodies, Put out more flags; anything by George Orwell,Richard Condon, Jake Arnott, Sebastian Faulks, Alain Furst, Mickey Spillane, David Nobbs; A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Little Women, Northhanger Abbey, Vanity Fair, L'Etranger,The Naked and the Dead, Catch 22, Portnoy's Complaint, Crime & Punishment, And Quiet Flows the Don, Cancer Ward, The First Circle, We Never make Mistakes, Last Exit from Brooklyn, The Rainbow, Sons & Lovers. Non-fiction: Hitler a Study in Tyranny, A Talent to Amuse, Shout, Awopbopaloobop, The Pendulum Years, The Kennedy clan - Dynasty & Disaster...