swordfish
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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Interests | Politics (especially analysing Public Opinion - Opinion Poll demographics and the Geography of the Vote); History (Labour/Social/Cultural), Football (Liverpool/Lincoln City/Inverness/Inter Milan/Werder Bremen); Photography, Graphic Design, Media (incl. the dumbing-down thereof). Television - Monty Python, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson comedy, Fawlty Towers, The Office, The Fast Show, Harry Enfield, The Simpsons, The Royale Family, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Auf wiedersehen Pet, Boys from the Blackstuff, Pre-1984 Last of the Summer Wine (after 1984 it became an embarrassing caricature of its former self), Also have something of a penchant for driving over Mountain Passes with many many Hair-pin bends in Alpine Europe, (One of my favourite days involved driving over 4 absolutely stunning mountain passes - the Oberalp, Furka, Grimsel (my particular fave), and Susten - over an 8 hour period in central Switzerland a few years back), Places I most want to travel to on next trip to UK: North of Scotland/Orkney/Shetland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Norway (especially Bergen, Alesund and the Fjords, the Lofoten Islands and Tromso). |
| Favorite Movies | Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog German 1972), Come and See (Russian 1985), Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa Russian/Japanese 1975), Kagemusha (Kurosawa Japanese 1980), Ran (Kurosawa Japanese 1985), Dark Eyes (Russian/Italian 1987), The Conformist (Bertolucci Italian 1970), The Long Goodbye (Altman 1973), The French Connection I and II (1971 1975), Taxi Driver (Scorsese 1976), Das Boot (German 1981), Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone Italian/American 1984), 1900 (Bertolucci Italian 1976), Nosferatu (Herzog German 1979), The Duellists (1977), The Third Man (Orson Welles 1949), The Navigators (Ken Loach 2001), The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach Irish 2006), Monty Python's The Life of Brian (1979)("Stwike him, centurion and vewy woughly !!!"..."And throw him to the floor, Sir ?", "I'm sowwy ?", "And throw him to the floor, Sir ?", "Oh yes, thwow him to the floor, please !"). |
| Favorite Music | Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Howlin Wolf, John Lee Hooker, The Jam, Madness, The Stranglers, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sax-based modern Jazz, Blues, Billie Holiday, Dave Brubeck, Sade, Early/Mid 60s Brit Pop and Blues, The Yardbirds, Gillian Welch / Appalachian Folk, and the brilliantly eccentric and innovative US band - The Residents. |