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Who Are You?: A fly in the ointment (can i say that?)
Where Are You?: at my computer screen, Cambridge What Are You?: PhD student, dreamer and occasional schemer What do you make?: Bread, pizzas, curries, mincemeat of Kafka and others who should have known better What do you love?: Being in love with love What do you hate?: Systems, institutions, needless bureaucracy- hey, vitriol is underrated What do you listen to?: Warne Marsh burning up the tarmac on his tenor sax, Devoto, Momus- things with brains and guts What do you watch?: Any Cassavetes film, film noir (Jean Gabin in Touchez Pas au Grisbi if i had a copy!), those obscure titles Dan Treacy namedrops- does he still watch them? What do you drink?: Espresso the king of drinks, Stella/Grolsh, Black Bush, Amaretto What do you smoke?: Not fussy What do you take?: Not enough time What do you believe in?: The tortoise beating Achilles When We Were 16 Where were you?: Stuck- marooned in HitchinWhat were you?: Miserable schoolboy, octane was in short supply in those days What did you wear?: Maroon uniform- daren't remember what else What did you listen to?: Smiths, McCarthy, Fall, prime Bodines, GoBetweens Felt, Peelie and Rickshaw (Kershaw?) What did you watch?: Formula 1, too much dross otherwise What did you love?: Joe Orton, Colin Wilson, meatballs, socialist ideals What did you hate?: That Catholic block Sonic Youth sang about What did you drink?: Not enough, Lawrence and Morrissey made sure of that What did you smoke?: Ditto What did you take?: Masochistic delight in the extent of my obscurity What did you want to be?: A well-oiled Futurist machine- am still trying Who did you fight?: Rule-makers, family coercion Who/What did you believe in?: Vaguely cranky spiritual leanings, school of Colin Wilson Where did you go?: First class ticket to a lonely place What did you learn?: Self-reliance, self-absorption |
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