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Quiet Talks and Summer Walks
Tableaux from the 'unfathomable deep'
Created on 2004-07-14 05:16:20 (#3807694), last updated 2009-03-20
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Basic Info| Name: | tom_may |
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| Birthdate: | 1982-09-27 |
| Location: | Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom |
BioA teacher, a writer and idiosyncratic musician, who wants to fight back against the Cameron-Blairite tide that seems too oft to have engulfed blighty. have recently dabbled in short film-making, hope to do some editing, and possibly further personal, more avant garde film-making (influences: Shane Meadows, Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman and Patrick Keillor). I have made music (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=175555837) recently in a dub-electro pop style, with dense sample-scapes. Pet Shops Boys-meets-Ghost Box might be considered an *aim* in terms of sound.
Passions include William Morrisian socialist politics, literature, music, mainly British television (esp. 1960-90 era) and film. Graduated in English (BA) at Cambridge University in June '04, and in Film (MA) at Northumbria University in late '05, and wondered a long time about where I was headed next. Curiously enough, after a stint working at a cinema, I am now a lecturer at Newcastle College, teaching General Studies and Key Skills - a very challenging posting which is enabling me to develop the craft of teaching very quickly.
Still living in Sunderland, but may not be now for long, having joined the ranks of the bourgeoisie, financially speaking. Newcastle-upon-Tyne awaits, as do all manner of creative projects.
I am making this Live Journal to make connections, in all sorts of ways. To dabble in critical writing on matters cultural and political (see my C.S. Lewis-Sudden Sway); to engage with like minds and establish new friendships. There will be some diaristic writing, much that may be politically didactic (e.g. for the pro-European cause, about which I feel strongly); there may be film reviews and raptures concerning certain records: all hopefully connected into an expansive world-view.
Nothing should be written about in complete isolation; 'nothing is ever forgotten'.
Passions include William Morrisian socialist politics, literature, music, mainly British television (esp. 1960-90 era) and film. Graduated in English (BA) at Cambridge University in June '04, and in Film (MA) at Northumbria University in late '05, and wondered a long time about where I was headed next. Curiously enough, after a stint working at a cinema, I am now a lecturer at Newcastle College, teaching General Studies and Key Skills - a very challenging posting which is enabling me to develop the craft of teaching very quickly.
Still living in Sunderland, but may not be now for long, having joined the ranks of the bourgeoisie, financially speaking. Newcastle-upon-Tyne awaits, as do all manner of creative projects.
I am making this Live Journal to make connections, in all sorts of ways. To dabble in critical writing on matters cultural and political (see my C.S. Lewis-Sudden Sway); to engage with like minds and establish new friendships. There will be some diaristic writing, much that may be politically didactic (e.g. for the pro-European cause, about which I feel strongly); there may be film reviews and raptures concerning certain records: all hopefully connected into an expansive world-view.
Nothing should be written about in complete isolation; 'nothing is ever forgotten'.
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'the problem of england', abba, al bowlly, alan bennett, alan garner, alice in wonderland, basil bunting, bonzo dog band, braithwaites, breaking away, busby berkeley, buster keaton, cambridge, cary grant, charles mingus, chris morris, chris petit, cricket, david lynch, david thomson, dennis potter, derek jarman, disco, doctor who, douglas sirk, drama, edward thomas, ever decreasing circles, fats waller, film theory and criticism, film-making, giorgio moroder, harold pinter, history, house music, jacques tati, james joyce, jimmy cagney, kate bush, kind hearts and coronets, laugharne, laurel and hardy, literature, luke haines, michael bracewell, mike leigh, monty python, murnau, music, neil innes, newcastle, north yorkshire, north-east england, paddy mcaloon, patrick keiller, paul morley, penguin classics, pet shop boys, peter cook, peter sellers, peter tinniswood, politics, powell and pressburger, prefab sprout, press gang, pro-european, psychogeography, reading in the bath, reginald perrin, richard hoggart, robert wyatt, rumpole, saint etienne, samuel beckett, socialism, stanley spencer, stuart hall, television, the avengers, the church of me, the office, the prisoner, the shortwave set, tobias smollett, todd rundgren, tony harrison, trevor horn, twin peaks, under milk wood, victorian melodrama, vivian stanshall, whitby, wind in the willows, york
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