Traveling
Places where they don't care at all
Empty libraries with flickering lights at 2am
La vie in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The smell of damp earth in a marrow plot at twilight.
Growing things - plants along the window frames and house.
The Frontline Club
Creative 30
Amnesty International
Smile Train
Teenage Cancer Trust
The Turquoise Mountain Foundation
Alzheimer's Research
Voluntary Service Overseas UK
Music
"Wonderful World (Don't Know Much)" - Herman's Hermits.
If they're on my Friends list, I'll dance, drink to or with them anytime.
Oh, and "Ca Plane Pour Moi" by the wonder that is Plastic Bertrand.
Movies
Austen, On The Road, M*A*S*H (Elliot Gould c.1969 does things to me),Death In Venice, Blow Up!, Amelie, Wonder Boys, Dans Paris, the Edukators, Goodbye Lenin!, , Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Becket, Tom Jones, original Italian Job, Ipcress File, Dr Strangelove, Little Murders, If..., Lost In Translation, The Long Goodbye, Little Miss Sunshine, Bedazzled, Fanny och Alexander, Jules et Jim, The Baader Meinhof Complex, Oh! What A Lovely War, Kelly's Heroes, The Long Goodbye, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Italian Job (with Micky Caine), el Camiante, The Triplets of Belleville (amazingly done), Dr. Strangelove, Cookie's Fortune, The Constant Gardener, The Butterfly Vote, Bronson
Cosy films for clan gatherings: Dan In Real Life, Night at the Museum (got a problem with that?), Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Mummy (fond memories of my sister's post-Christmas dinner straw invention), Big Fish, my sister's DVD collection
Television
Black Books, Spaced, Green Wing, Q.I., Have I Got News For You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Room 101, Imagine, Newsnight, Horizon, documentaries, The Culture Show (I've a strange thing for Andrew G-D), Panorama, Wide Sargasso Sea, Columbo, Midsomer Murders (I used to sit in Biology and wish I was watching it...), Gormenghast, Michael Palin, Newsnight, but I disagree with News 24 - it's said by politicians active at the time that if it have been in operation during the Cold War, the Governments involved would have felt so much journalistic pressure that action would have been taken.
The Daily Show - I find Jon Stewart strangely attractive and it keeps my knowledge of American politics tip-top.
The Inbetweeners (for imaginative fish use),
Books
Odo Hirsch, Sertillanges, Bruce Chatwin, William Goldman, Wilde, A.A. Milne, Mervyn Peake, Richard Yates, Alan Benett, John Kennedy Toole, Rodrigo Fresa, E.M. Forster, Susanna Clarke, William Dalrymple, Matthew Pearl, Christopher Fry, David Mitchell, Ted Hughes, Ryszard Kapuscinski, 'London Recordings' - David Sylvester, 'Salt' - Jeremy Page, 'Gods, Mongrels & Demons', Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Dickens (sometimes), Charlotte Bronte, Laurence Sterne, John Buchan, Fydor Dostoevsky, Norman Mailer, O Henry, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Ved Metha, Victor Hugo, Thackery, P.G. Wodehouse, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Frederick Jackson Turner, George Orwell, Chekov, Paul Ferris, Thomas Paine, Dylan Thomas, Stephen Poter, Virginia Woolf, Tolstoy, C.P. Snow, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman, Blake, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Christina Rosetti, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.E. Housman, W.B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Edwin Muir, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Issac Rosenberg (better than Owen), Cecil Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, Henry Reed, Laurie Lee, ERskine Childers, Kipling ('Kim'), Jonathan Swift, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Corso, Jack Kerouac, Joseph Connolly, Anne Enright, Gombrich, Hemingway, Italo Calvino, C.S. Lewis, Steinbeck, Colm Toibin, William Golding, J.D. Salinger, Francis Beaumont, Colete, Capote, 'Pistache' - Faulkes, Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), Carter, Updike (on sex), Margaret Atwood, David Foster Wallace,Rosanna Warren, Ted Hughes (to the ends of the Earth), Charlie Smith, Edmund White, A.R. Ammonds, Primo Levi, Umberto Eco, John le Carre, Edward Gorey, James Merrill & David Jackson - 'The Plato Club', Rachel Wetzstoen, Philip Roth, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Tennesse Williams, Chinua Achebe, John Mortimer, Henry Miller
Cookbooks: Allegra McEvedy, Nigella Lawson, Jimmy Doherty, Nigel Slater, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall...
and far too many others.
Heroes
Glenn Gould for saying no more.
Kingsley Amis' liver
Vaughan Smith for conflicts and gunshots.
Fannie Lou Hamer for vocal electricity and rights.
Ranulph Fiennes for sheer bloody temerity.
Rory Stewart.
Those who admit to having heroes.
Beanie's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Body type:
5' 4"
Zodiac Sign:
Pisces
Children:
Someday
Education:
High school
Beanie : I like having chocolate up to my wrists... Posted 20 hours ago view more
its the gift that keeps on giving, beanie girl......
our current 'status' is from a very old blues song...... just loved the idea that the misery of life can leave you speechless & thus you dont have the words to say the very prayers that might redeem you......
if it wasnt for these little conundrums we'd never get out of bed.......
Discover one of the new side projects of the Jack The Ripper's musicians : The Fitzcarraldo Sessions featuring Moriarty, Joey Burns (Calexico), Stuart Staples (Tindersticks), Dominique A, Syd Matters, Tuxedomoon... First album out !
Thanks, if you get a chance please let us know what you think of our online jam 'concept' or if you would like to participate, it would be great to hear from you.
Just letting you know I've uploaded a new demo called 'Spread the News' and again I would really appreciate it if you could have a listen and let me know what you think?
Not too late to get advance tickets for my shows coming up - including two tickets for £5 for my Birmingham gig (3 Nov). And remember I'm playing with Ebb at the ICA in London (9 Nov) - this is a very special performance and it would be great to see you there. /MaJiKer
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