reggae music, beer, poetry, old films, military history, Leyton Orient FC
Music
Eek A Mouse, Trinity, Dillinger, I Roy, Ranking Dread, General Echo - dancehall reggae, rocksteady, ska.
Tighten Up crew - London's top sound!
This week: Elijah Rockin' With Soul - Hank Jacobs, Bus Dem Shut - the Wailers, Keep On Keeping On - Curtis Mayfield, Fat Boy - Billy Stewart, Wicked a Fe Dress Back - Earth and Stone, Mother-in-Law - Nicodemus
Movies
Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films, old time kung fu, Warren Oates, Babylon (Ital Lion gonna mash up Shaka feisty yout'), Das Boot, the Duellists, Night of the Demon, the Hustler, Cisco Pike, White Heat, Victim, Town on Trial, Welcome to Hard Times, the Sea Wolf, Hardcore (the George C. Scott film), The Good Die Young, The Million Pound Note
Television
The Sweeney, the Old Grey Whistle Test, Jason King, Raffles, Oz, Jeeves and Wooster, Seinfeld, Phoenix Nights, Gangsters, Revolver, the Duchess of Duke Street, Helping Henry, Wrestling!!! Sgt Bilko
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Books
Ernest Hemingway, Richard Brautigan, Flannery O'Connor, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Robinson Jeffers, Sei Shonagon, Frances Chung, Fred Voss, hard boiled poetry
About me: I live in East London and was a skinhead for time. These days I still follow London's top sound - Tighten Up. I listen to way too much reggae and am also a chronic scribbler. I write poems and am on tour doing readings a lot, mostly in the US. I edit a poetry 'zine which, I'm happy to say, has the best bad reputation in poetry.
I'm a 'business consultant' and find that pubs get 'er done.
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To no avail, my persnickety self was trying to lable this photo: Ménage à Paw... Well Photobucket isn't of the francophone ilk, apparently. Hope all is well, Megs
Thanks for finding me Mr Wells Sir, please feel free to check out my new SKA band on wwww. myspace. com/thedancebrigade I get the feeling you might like our version of SKA all the best from Jen. X
I am proud to announce the imminent arrival of the BEST EVER compendium of photos and words (I can say that modestly because the contributors made it with minimal interference from my monkey self) So... PREPARE FOR CULTURAL ANNIHILATION! THE END OF RUBBISH PHOTO ZINES IS AT HAND! The first ever Illustrated Ape PHOTOGRAPHY issue is coming: PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE URBAN APOCALYPSE, designed by the incredible James&Joe, featuring exclusive photography by David Sims, Paul Wetherall, David Hughes, Holger Pooten, Alessandra Tisato, Marcus Oakley, Kristoff Verscheuren, Daniel Sannwald, Modern Toss, and other geniuses of the flashbulb, with Honey Manko, Amy Winehouse, Chrys Columbine, Natalie O'Conner, featuring searing words from Kim Rickcord, prize winning poet Tim Turnbull, Molly Doolittle Slade, Haruko Haga, Jack Gabriel, Ian Armer, Dina Begum, Vanessa Pelz-Sharpe, Nigel Burch, and Tim Wells. Check out www. theillustratedape. com for more info.
hiya mate - good to hear from you. Seen lotsa your stuff about so glad all's goin' well 4u. I have been a full-time poet for last 3 yrs now and all's well here but would love to see you. How goes it? N
