Markomaniac's Page

Why do you want to join?

To join my friends

Your name on Tribe.net:

Markomaniac

Location:

Nottingham UK

Gender:

male

Age:

older than I feel

Peanut butter:

makes me gag

Pickles:

sandwich stackers

Marshmallows:

make me shudder

Your blog:

http://people.tribe.net/revo101

5 Random Things About You:

1.Hazel eyes
2. Silver ring
3. No ink
4. Why?
5. and other stuff

Official job, in life as we know it:

Self-employed management consultant

Superpower(s):

Charm

Fav food:

Good food

Fav movies:

Fight Club ; 1999 Film Directed by David Fincher. Writing credits Chuck Palahniuk
House of the Flying Daggers ; 2004 film Directed by Yimou Zhang
Fellini's Roma; (1972)Fellini's Roma is a virtually plotless autobiographical tribute to Rome, Italy, featuring narration by Fellini himself and a mixture of real-life footage and fictional set pieces.
Chocolat (2000) ; Directed by Lasse Hallström
Amelie (2001) ; Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2001 - A space odyssey ; Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece (1968)
High Fidelity ; Directed by Stephen Frears (2000),Nick Hornby (book)
The Battleship Potemkin ; A 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein
A Clockwork Orange (1971) ; Producer-director-screenwriter - Stanley Kubrick adaptation from Anthony Burgess' book.
Southern Comfort (1981) ; Director - Walter Hill Worth it for Music by Ry Cooder
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ; Directed by Guy Ritchie
Blade Runner ; Directed by Ridley Scott (1982)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ; Director - Peter Greenaway (1989)
Closely Observered Trains ; Director - Jiri Menzel (1966) - Virginity and growing up

Fav books:

The Whole Earth Catalogue in the 70s
PURPOSE - We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far, remotely done power and glory - as via government, big business, formal education, church — has succeeded to the point where gross defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma
The I Ching
Gave me a new view
The Mind Map book by Tony & Barry Buzan
Helped me teach my children how to open up their minds
The Dice Man by Luke Rheinhart
The cult classic that can still change your life...Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart -- and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anyt
The Complete Works of William Shapespeare
All of life, love and death (&more) is contained here!
Knots by R.D. Laing
knots, tangles,. fankles, impasses, disjunctions, whirligogs, binds. ...

Fav music:

Elvis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Hollies, The Everly Brothers, The Tornadoes, The Shadows, Billy Fury, Roy Orbison, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Mussorgsky, The Cream, Sergei Rachmaninov, The Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, Them, The Troggs, Procol Harum, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Bob Dylan, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Canned Heat, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Byrds, Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Mayall, The Yardbirds, Pretty Things, The Animals, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Booker T. & The MG's, Dave Clark Five, The Fortunes, The Who, The Spencer Davis Group, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Kinks, The Small Faces, Chris Farlow, Georgie Fame, Van Morrison, The Lovin' Spoonful, Bert Janch, Joe Cocker, The Incedible String Band, Nick Drake,The Nice, Rimsky-Korsakov, MC5, Derek & The Dominoes, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, Rory Gallagher, The Band, Donovan, JJ Cale, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, Spirit, Moby Grape, The Doors, Love, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Van der Graaf Generator, Quicksilver Messager Service, Electric Prunes, Joni Mitchel, Crosby Stiills and Nash, Buffalo Springfield, Janis Joplin, Beethoven, Traffic, Free, King Crimson, Badfinger, Frank Zappa, Deep Purple,Emerson, Lake & Palmer, J.S. Bach, Blind Faith,The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Erik Satie, Cat Stevens, Solomon Burke, Long John Baldry, Robert Johnson, The Velvet Underground, Toots & the Maytals, Al Green, The Quintet of the Hot Club of Paris, Gustav Holtz, The Inkspots, The Andrews Sisters, Count Basie Big Band, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday, Dr. John, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, Santana, The Groundhogs, East of Eden, Charles Mingus, Edgar Broughton Band, Billie Holiday, Joe Cocker, Pink Floyd, Yes, Soft Machine, The Incredible String Band, Jethro Tull, Fleetwood Mac, James Brown, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Charlie Parker, Sam & Dave, The Faces, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, David Bowie, Philip Glass, Lou Reed, Percussions de Strasbourg, Humble Pie, Dr. Feelgood, Joe Walsh, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Bob Marley, Scratch Perry, The Wailers,Stevie Wonder, The Specials,The Clash, The Undertones, Madness, XTC, The Beat, Robert Palmer, Little Feat, Tower of Power, Donald Fagen, Richard Thompson, The Average White Band, Steely Dan, Bonnie Raitt, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Ry Cooder, The Pretenders, The Police, Style Council, Kraftwerk, Heaven 17, ABC, Human League, Karlheinz Stockhausen, African Drumming, John Martyn, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Brian Eno, The Stranglers, Blondie, Level 42, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, John Coltraine, Terence Trent D'Arby, Sade, Celia Cruz, The Jam, Grandmaster Flash, Prince, Eurythmics, UB40, Tracey Chapman,Charlie Parker, Fine Young Cannibals, Steve Miller Band, Talking Heads, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Peter Gabriel, Thompson Twins, Go West, Terry Riley, Paul Weller, Back Door, Scritti Politti, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Fat Boy Slim, D'Angelo, Underworld, Chemical Brothers, Blur, Primal Scream, Elastica, Nash, Black Grape, Massive Attack, Stereophonics, Moby, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Beverley Knight, MC Cole, Roger Sanchez, Neville Brothers, Gorillaz, Ludovico Einaudi, Jill Scott, Masters at Work, Basement Jaxx, Foo Fighters, Buena Vista Social Club, Jeff Buckley, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Afro Cuban All-Stars, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Miguel 'Anga' Diaz, Alicia Keys, Bebel Gilberto, Brian Eno,Pat Metheny Group, Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Madeleine Peyroux, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Jimmy Smith,Chet Baker,Us3,The Headhunters,The Black Keys..............to be continued

Fav artists or designers:

Andy Goldsworthy
Richard Long ; Walks, sculptures, textworks................
Anthony Gormley ; The human body in space..............
Mark Rothko ; The room at Tate Modern.............black & maroon.....
David Nash ; Our conversation has always stayed with me......
Banksy ; Spray the paint sparingly onto the stencil from a distance of 8 inches.
Rembrandt van Rijn ; Rembrandt House Museum
Bridget Riley ; Op that art - love her coloured work
James Turrell ; New deer shelter work
The Boyle Family ; Boyle Family are a family of collaborative artists based in London.

Passions & Obsessions:

Visual Arts, Latin and Cuban music, Percussion, Red wine, Tai Chi, stuff, Albert Eistein, Paul Klee, Anish Kapoor, Billy Cobham, Samuel Beckett, pre-historic sites, Celtic arts, Blues(bottle neck), jazz, complexity theory, cricket, soccer, rugby, green and white tea, recycling, fair trade, local farmers markets, supporting local business, Karl Popper, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Plain english campaign, David Nash, Brancusi, Kandinski, Joseph Beuys, orange, Bon, circles, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, ley lines, dowsers, laughing until I cry!, Banksy, knots, Tim Berners-Lee, spirals, my children, stone circles, crosswords, geometry, galuphing, the Lake District, Kaleidoscopes, English cathedrals, belly-button fluff, bad taste (Kitch), social enterprise, people not taking themselves too seriously, yo-yos, Pétanque, games (Chess, nine men morris, checkers, etc.), dry stone walls, marbles, composting, recipes for cooking, colour, Jack Russells, walking, fungi......

Thing(s) you'd save / treasure in the post-apocalypse:

..and the point would be?

Thing(s) that should be wiped from the face of the earth:

I do not have time to think about this.

Person(s) on your awesomeness list:

People that don't say "awesome"

Person(s) that should be rocketed to the sun:

People that say "awesome"

Anything else you'd like to share:

Life is a woven web of guesses. Some are mazes, some cul-de-sacs, some puzzles, some problems, some shallow, some deep and meaningful.