Kenny Shovel
Kenny Shovel
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101 years old
Colchester,
United Kingdom



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    Kenny Shovel's Interests
GeneralSport - Cricket, Football (Soccer), Rugby (Used to play until I sustained a back injury) History, Art (The Tate Modern in London is probably my favourite museum), Current Events. Literature (Russian, Czech & Japanese particalur favs), Writing, Films, Music…you know, the usual.. Travelling, bit of a Russianophile, as I have a number of Russian friends both in the UK and Russia/Ukraine. I also speak about 2-300 words of the language very badly…
MusicLove most genres of music, here are some favs:

Arctic Monkeys, Band of Holy Joy, John Barry, Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Chuck Berry, Big Star, David Bowie, James Brown, Johhny Cash, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, The Chemical Brothers, The Clash, John Coltrane, The Coral, Elvis Costello, Cowboy Junkies, Miles Davis, The Divine Comedy, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Cocteau Twins, De La Soul, Steve Earle, John Fahey, Faith No More, The Fall, Ibrahim Ferrer, The Flaming Lips, !Forward Russia!, Aretha Franklin, Gang Of Four, Gorillaz, The Go Team, Woody Guthrie, Happy Mondays, P J Harvey, Billie Holiday, Lightnin Hopkins, Howlin’ Wolf, Iggy Pop, Mahalia Jackson, The Jam, Jane’s Addiction, Robert Johnson, Joy Division, Kings of Leon, King Tubby, The Kinks, The La’s, Leadbelly, Madness, Bob Marley, MC5, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi John Hurt, Neil Young, New Order, Nivarna, The O’Jays, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, Roy Orbison, Stone Roses, Bessie Smith, Suede, Supergrass, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Teenage Fanclub, The Temptations, The The, Pere Ubu, The Pixies, The Pogues, Prodigy, Primal Scream, Public Enemy, Pulp, Sex Pistols, The Streets, Talk Talk, The Ramones, R.E.M., T Rex, Van Morrison, Scott Walker, The White Stripes, The Who, Jackie Wilson, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Movies
Favourite Filmmakers:


Pedro Almodovar:

All About My Mother
Talk To Her
Matador

The Coen Brothers:

Fargo
The Big Lobowski
The Man Who Wasn't There

Jean-Pierre Jeunet:

The City Of Lost Children
Delicatessen
Amelie

Wong Kar-Wai:

In The Mood For Love
Chungking Express
Happy Together

Kryszof Kieslowski:

Dekalog
Three Colours Trilogy
Blind Chance

Stanley Kubrick:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket

Akira Kurosawa:

Seven Samari
Rashomon
Yojimbo

David Lean:

Lawrence Of Arabia
Bridge On The River Kwai
Great Expectations

Powell and Pressburger:

Life & Death of Colonel Blimp
A Matter of Life and Death
Black Narcissus

Andrei Tarkovsky:

The Sacrifice
Stalker
Solaris
BooksMy Ever expanding book shelves


American Literature:

John Fante:
Ask The Dust

Ernest Hemingway:
The Old Man And The Sea

Joseph Heller:
Catch-22

Harper Lee:
To Kill A Mockingbird

John Kennedy Toole:
A Confederacy Of Dunces


British Literature:

Graham Greene:
The Quiet American

Nick Hornby:
High Fidelity

Aldous Huxley:
Brave New World

George Orwell:
1984

Irvine Welsh:
Trainstopping


Czech Literature:

Karel Capek:
Apocryphal Tales

Jaroslav Hasek:
The Good Soldier Svejk

Bohumil Hrabal:
I Served The King Of England

Franz Kafka:
The Trial

Ivan Klima:
No Saints Or Angels


Japanese Literature:

Yashunari Kawabata:
Thousand Cranes

Yukio Mishima:
The Sound Of Waves

Haruki Murakami:
The Wind-Up Bird Cronicle

Kenzaburo Oe:
Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids

Banana Yoshimoto:
Goodbye Tsugumi


Russian Literature:

M Bulgavov:
Master and Margarita

A Chekov:
Collected Plays

F Dostoeyevski:
Crime and Punishment

N Gogol:
Dead Souls

V Grossman:
Life and Fate

V Pelevin:
Oman Ra

A Pushkin:
Eugene Onegin

L Tolstoy:
Hadji Murat

I Turgenev:
Fathers and Sons

V Voinovich:
Adventures of Ivan Chonkin


     Kenny Shovel's Details
Status:In a Relationship
Here for:Networking, Friends
Body type:5' 10"
Zodiac Sign:Taurus
Smoke / Drink:No / Yes

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About me:
I dream of a day when the minds of the brilliant but ageing can be transplanted into the bodies of healthy, young, dumb people.
Who I'd like to meet:
I'm more than happy to talk to anyone who can hold down a decent conversation but I'm not really looking to meet anyone in the "will you plump my pillows" sense, thanks all the same...

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World Literature Forum





Jun 4 2008 7:10 PM

Yeah, the picture's great. Hrabal just looks couldn't-care-less-cool in it. I tried reading Closely Observed Trains last week (if I'm going to use his phot, I should really read him) but kept on getting distracted and couldn't quite get into it. Will try again. But I did like the bits I remember from it. Thanks for introducing me to him, though, regardless of how far back that actually was.
World Literature Forum





Jun 3 2008 11:25 PM

Cheers for the add, Kenny.
Sergey





Feb 9 2008 8:53 AM

Oh, thanks for remembering!
Sergey





Dec 5 2007 8:59 AM

Sorry, I can see only a blank space...
Sergey





Dec 5 2007 8:58 AM

Thanks, but that isn't any new. Putin's party had even better majority after the previous elections.
Actually, this was the first time when I decided not to vote myself.

To have such elections in Russia means a lot of shame for us, I think. But there is nothing we can do about it, save for a lot of talks on many Russian forums... But talks mean nothing against power.
Sergey





Aug 23 2007 8:38 AM

OK, what do you think about this Litvinenko problem now?
And - as our propaganda started a new circle of "spy-qwest", do you remember a "spy-stone", supposedly a state-of-art spying apparatus camuflaged as a stone, that UK spies supposedly installed in Moscow several years ago? Somehow all the story looks so foolish to me...
Sergey





Aug 17 2007 3:43 PM

Yes, in our culture we do not recognise these photos as a proof of Mr. Putin's gay nature. It is very natural to walk around clothed as he does. More than that, on our dacha I usually walk on our own piece of land, having only my swimming shorts on... And I cannot be gay even if somebody offers me an island in Seychelles for trying that...
But you know what I think of our beloved President: he is not a real independent man. What he wears does not matter at all.
Sergey





Jul 30 2007 8:18 AM

How poetical...
And my drug is my work.
And a beer or two, now and then, of course.
Sergey





Jul 28 2007 5:13 AM

Oh yes? OK, I have never tried that...
Sergey





Jul 27 2007 3:22 PM

That's why I like Google Earth: it gives illusion that you actually see it as it is...
Sergey





Jul 27 2007 2:41 PM

Pfui.
Alas, our Russian "Kartografy" has not moved ahead much since the Gagarin flight, and it was more about making problems for spies then than about ordinary citizens' comfort. So lots of roads are in wrong places and new ones are nowhere. Near our dacha one can see a large forest lake on a map, but my wife and me failed to find it after several hours of searching. After that we met some aborigen, and he told us the lake dried out back in 1965...
Sergey





Jul 27 2007 1:46 PM

Maybe, but as we have nothing better... I've found our dacha on it, so I like it a lot.
Sergey





Jul 27 2007 1:36 PM

Well, most of my Finnish colleagues have never mentioned '39 campaign to me. But "Mannergheim line" is still visible from space - check "Google Earth" or other...
Sergey





Jul 27 2007 10:22 AM

Hm... Let me remember who we are on good terms with... Let me see... Finland?
Sergey





Jul 27 2007 7:51 AM

Fools. They do not know difference between honor and foolish stubborness here. Hope VIP at your side have more common sense.
Sergey





Jul 26 2007 3:07 PM

Yes, I have heard it, and of course it could be true or not true.

What I like about your officials is that they stressed it that no steps will be taken against ordinary Russian citizens - no visas problems etc.
Sergey





Jul 26 2007 1:12 PM

Yeah, I heard on TV about nasty behaviour of English teenagers on Crete this very morning... It seems our propaganda gets serious about making everything British look bad... Maybe our ol'friend is too much trouble to have inside borders after all?
Sergey





Jul 26 2007 12:07 PM

She IS a typical teenager.
Maybe slightly more on the reading and learning side, but not too much.

Is the situation any different at your side of the Universe?
Sergey





Jul 26 2007 10:48 AM

Yes, we discussed that option of buying a local sim card, but you know what... She left to UK without her camera, because we denied to get it repaired, and she has never found time to go to the local shop to do it herself...
Sergey





Jul 26 2007 8:18 AM

Actually I just got a message from her: a minute costs her RUR56, that's $2,20 or half that in pound value...
That's because she calls from her mobile, paying to UK mobile operator and rouming fee to our Russian operator as well, and that sums up...

I will send her your advice right now, thanks.
Sergey





Jul 26 2007 3:59 AM

Too bad. What learning could be complete without a good portion of cider?
Dasha asked me to thank you - she said there's lot of good in your advices. Though I think that's only potential - I doubt it wery much she could leave the colledge premises...
I imagine to talk on the phone with Russia from UK costs tons of money - my wife has already paid three or four times $15 - 20, and it never lasted as much as a day... Maybe next time she has to take her boyfriend with her?
Sergey





Jul 24 2007 3:13 PM

Yes, of course that could be very likely the case. Though she has spent not long enough time there to get to all the good things that may be in store...
And again - I remember what I was in that age. So... Of course I care about her, but I understand that I cannot hold her at home near us, protected and safe from anything, so the more she learns about life - the better. She is not a fool after all.
Sergey





Jul 24 2007 1:29 PM

The second type.

That's more lyrical than what we hear from her: studying till 18.00 in the evening... She made only one mistake in the entrance test. So no cider so far, it would seem...
Sergey





Jul 24 2007 12:42 PM

She told us everything's OK there, no need for lifejackets or anything like that. But some Russian students were accused of stealing things from their fellows.
Sergey





Jul 24 2007 10:05 AM

OK, OK, I am dying already.
Our average hooker here is $100 per hour, or $300 per night, but I have no idea what "cheap" or "expensive" means when one speaks of a London hooker...
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