Getting people to sign my petition for Carbon Rationing at: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Carbon-Rationing/, Writing, Reading, Guitar playing, Travelling, Asia, Buddhism, Festivals, Living, having a party; walking; dancing; cooking
Music
Seize the Day; Chumbawamba; Trance - Above the Sky, Fogtrance, ITWT etc; Los de Abajo; Le Cod Afrique; Mordekkers; Tarantism; Billy Bragg; Kangaroo Moon; Celtica;
Afro Celt Sound System; Les Yeux Noir; Punk; Ska; Political Music; The Pogues; Arambol Music
Something new every year....
Movies
Betty Blue;Les Amants du Pont Neuf; Silent Running; Dark Star; Wild at Heart; The Secretary; The Kiss of the Spider Woman; Hero; Two land Blacktop; Electroglide in Blue; Woodstock the movie; Good Night and Good Luck; The COnstant Gardener; Intelligent films - not big hollywood blockbusters
Television
Don't have one
Books
Ali Smith - The Accidental; On the Road; The Grapes of Wrath; Enduring Love; The Cement Garden; The Magic Toyshop;
The Drifters; The Dharma Bums; If on a Winter's night a traveller; Sacred Games;
Heroes
Anyone who campaigns for what they believe in;
Anyone who spends their lives trying to achievetheir dreams; Anyone who tries to enjoy every moment of their life;
About me: I'm an unpublished author. I write full time. I completed my first novel for Teenagers: Year Zero - A Suffolk Sister's Adventure in 2006, after 2 years of work. That novel has received good feedback from professional readers, but so far lacks an agent or publisher. It is a teenage political travel adventure set at an elitist finishing school on a private island off the coast of the UK, and in Cambodia.
I started the sequel in December 2006: The Old Man of the Woods - set at the school and in Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo). I stopped work on it in March, because I wanted to concetrate on an adult novel until such time as a Suffolk Sisters book was published. It seemed limiting to only persue one form of writing without a publisher.
I am now writing a travel adventure for adult readers. It follows six characters as they escape, abandon, leave their current lives in the West, to embark on travels in Asia.
Before becoming a full-time writer I was a Consulting Director in the European Operations of American Software Corporations.
I'm happily married and have two daughters from a previous marriage. I live half the year between Reading and Henley, and half the year in India...
NB: To hear some of my writing - try the player on this page or visit http://www.myspace.com/alexkentwords where there are four pieces.
Who I'd like to meet: The Dalai Lama, Writers, Editors, Agents, Thinkers, Activists, People who like to talk, Musicians, Artists, Arundhati Roy, Philosophers - Anyone interesting. People who want to sign my petition for Carbon Rationing at: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Carbon-Rationing/
Hello, It's so great to hear from u. I'm living in Bournemouth now, have a grown up job and am becoming very settled! I do manage to go back to USA each summer which is as exotic as I get at the moment, how bout you? Still travelling? If you're ever about this end of the world it'd be great to meet up. Keep well, Love J x PS Liz is based in London :)
