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Andy's Interests
General
Music
Boards of Canada. Talk Talk. Baby Ford. Maurice Ravel. Massive Attack. Jim White. The Flaming Lips. Johnny Cash. Bjork. M.I.A. Erik Satie. Future Sound of London. Flamenco. Amadou and Mariam. Acid house. Nick Cave. DJ Shadow. Kate Bush. CSS. Claude Debussy. The Velvet Underground. Mid-Sixties punk-psych-pop. Oscar Peterson. LFO. Gillian Welch. Jhelisa. Four Tet. Leadbelly. Mozart. Old stuff on Soma Records, Harthouse, Rising High & WARP. The Beatles. Of Montreal. Steve Reich. Bongwater. Bluegrass. The Slits. Autechre. Mercury Rev. Billie Ray Martin. Blondie. Early Orbital. Nick Drake. A Guy Called Gerald. Manu Chao. Lee Scratch Perry n bredren. Spacemen 3. Dirty old blues records. Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers. Billie Holiday. Etc.
Movies
Dead Man. Night on Earth. Lost in Translation. Atajanjuat. Finding Nemo. Donnie Darko. Hairspray. Todo Sobre Mi Mama. Amores Perros. Habla Con Ella. Manhattan. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. Once Upon a Time in The West. Desperately Seeking Susan. Amelie. Delicatessen. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Bonnie and Clyde. Dial M For Murder. American Beauty. 24 Hour Party People. Butterfly Kiss. Fight Club. Ratatouille. Alice in Wonderland. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Emerald Forest. The Third Man. The Ladykillers. Belleville Rendezvous. Trainspotting. The Exorcist. The Blair Witch Project. Straw Dogs. etc.
Books
'Persuasion' + 'Pride + Prejudice' - Jane Austen. 'Mythologies' - Roland Barthes. 'Disgrace' - JM Coetzee. 'Fictions' & 'The Aleph' - Jorge Luis Borges. 'The Brotherhood of the Grape' - John Fante. 'The Sandman' - Neil Gaiman. 'Fight Club' - Chuck Palahniuk. 'Sputnik Sweetheart' - Haruki Murakami. 'Footsteps' - Richard Holmes. 'A Room With A View' & 'A Passage to India' - EM Forster. 'Pedro Paramo' - Juan Rulfo. 'The Bell' & 'The Time of The Angels' - Iris Murdoch. 'Love in the Time of Cholera' - Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 'The Never Ending Story' - Michael Ende. 'Wuthering Heights' - Charlotte Bronte. 'A Room of One's Own' - Virgina Woolf. 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' - Muriel Spark. 'Where I'm Calling From' - Raymond Carver. 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' - Ken Kesey. 'Misery' & 'The Shining' - Stephen King. Lao Tzu. Anton Chekhov. Dr. Seuss.
Currently reading: 'The Complete Stories' by Flannery O'Connor and 'Ghosts of Spain' by Giles Tremlett.
Heroes
Rosa Parks, Andy Warhol, Claire Short, Jarvis Cocker, John Peel.
I'm a writer - mainly novels but also haiku - and just starting a PhD in Creative Writing at University of Exeter. If you're interested in the process of writing a novel, you'll find details of the progress of novel number 2 - 'Coma Boy' - on my blog, along with the occasional haiku. If you're interested in reading my work or finding out more about me check out: www.andythatcher.co.uk.
Who I'd like to meet: Fellow writers, cultural obsessives and anyone able to think for themselves.
It was such a treat meeting you in the physical world. Thanks for being in the workshop, and you really added a lot to the atmosphere, and your take on haiku as a novelist.
I hope we can stay in touch outside Myspace, especially as you are moving closer to the Bath area! ;-)
Great to meet you too! Jusat sorry it was at the end of our constant time here, but anyway, anyway come to Italy for Artists workshops, glad that you may become part of the constellation! Lucy x
I like your haiku, Andy! Thanks for that, and thanks for the lovely holiday wishes...Merry Christmas and a brilliant 2008 to you and yours as well! ~B xx
"We Three Kings Of Orient Are!" Or something like that! Have a good holiday and I hope all your plans and hopes for the New Year come true. Love & Peace Res
Strangely, I have no recollection of where my sleeping mind went wandering last night... Glad to know that I can count on you to fill in the blanks. Great to hear from you again, I haven't really Myspaced much in recent months. I'm finding Facebook more effective for 'light' social networking experienece. Are you a member yet?Hmmm, I'll find out for myself. Would enjoy 'properly' catching up soon.
