| General | Writing, films, music, art, walking about, reading, plays, science, astronomy | | Music | I like bands like Taproot, The Bravery, Breaking Benjamin, P.O.D, Blindside, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Killswitch Engage, System Of A Down, My Chemical Romance, The Killers, Metallica, Slipknot, Snow Patrol, The White Stripes, Seether, Drowning Pool, Feeder, Deftones, Linkin Park, Bloc Party, Billy Talent, Mudvayne, The Pigeon Detectives, Hard-fi, Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Orbital, DJ Shadow, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Alkaline Trio et al | | Movies | The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, X-Men, Spiderman, Serenity,The Matrix, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball, foreign films like La Haine, Cinema Paradiso, films by Francois Truffault and Pedro Almodovar. | | Television | Family Guy, The Simpsons, most sci-fi, CSI, Law & Order, Heroes, Becker, Scrubs, The Sky at Night, The Daily Show, Bremner, Bird and Fortune. | | Books | H.G Wells, Kafka, Hesse, Calvino, Steinbeck, Iris Murdoch, Lionel Shriver, Sue Monk Kidd, J.G Ballard, H.P Lovecraft, Neil Gaiman, Raymond Carver, Hemingway, Camus, Bradbury, Philip K Dick, James Thurber, Umberto Eco, Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Attwood, Joyce, J.D Salinger, William Burroughs, Chinua Achebe.
Just some of my favourites. I read pretty much anything
Love drama and poetry, esp Ibsen, Mamet, Beckett, Shaw, Tennessee Williams, the beat poets, T.S Eliot, Amy Clampitt, Adrienne Rich, Basho, Seamus Heaney, John Burnside, Rimbaud, William Carlos Williams, Maya Angelou,
Plath, Neruda, Rilke, Goethe, Hughes, W.B Yeats, Wilfred Owen, Tony Hoagland, Ruth Stone, Jacob Polley, Leontia Flynn, Richard Price, Tobias Hill, Meirion Jordan, Catherine Smith, Elizabeth Bishop
(Just some of my favourites, not an exhaustive list)
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