Name:

David Faylin

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July 13, 2009

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Country:

Ireland

Occupation:

Novel-writing aspirant

Hobbies:

Chocolate and dogma

Movies:

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Brazil, No Country for Old Men, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Breakfast Club, Kung Fu Hustle, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Taxi Driver, August Rush, Once, In Bruges, Fargo, Scum, Ghost Dog, The Lives of Others, Some Like It Hot, Rashomon, Fist of Fury, Rumble in the Bronx, Black Mask, Into The Wild, As Good as It Gets, The Crow, Ronin, Spy Game, On The Town, Blade, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Citizen Kane, The Great Escape, A Clockwork Orange, Tombstone, Heat, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory [Gene Wilder, please], Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Seven Samurai, Great Expectations [John Mills], Taxi Driver, See No Evil Hear No Evil.

Music:

Genre-independent; any decent, good beat, strikes-a-chord, rings-a-bell, nods-yer-head sounds: IDM, DnB, mod Jazz, Scandanavian Death Metal to plain ol RnR and 80s sheeeet.. Armaand Van Buren, Autechre, Alec Empire, Archie Bronson, Audioslave, Bauhaus, Bizet, Charlotte Hatherley, Chase&Status, Cocteau Twins, The Cribs, The Crystal Method, The Cure, Deadmau5, Death Cab for Cutie, Deekline&Wizard, Doors, Duke Ellington, Eurythmics, Felix Da Housecat, Flaming Lips, Grieg, Grandmaster Flash, Gehenna, Herbie Hancock, Iggy Pop, Impaled Nazarene, Inspiral Carpets, Japan, John Adams, Joy Division, Kate Bush, Killing Joke, Kraftwerk, Led Zep, Lo-Fi-Fnk, Man or Astro Man, Mansun, Method Man, Metric, Miles Davis, Mouse on Mars, NIN, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Carl Orff, Placebo, Portishead, Puccini, QOTSA, Queen Adreena, Ramones, Radiohead, Rob Zombie, RZA, Sex Pistols, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Soft Cell, The Specials, Steve Reich, Stone Roses, Stranglers, SubFocus, Sunna, Talk Talk, Tangerine Dream, TC, Telescopes, Thelonious Monk, Thom Yorke, Tiesto, Trentemoller, U2, Ultravox, and Visage, Waterboys, Wendy-Walter Carlos, The Who, Win, Wu Tang Clan, every bloody thing [and hundreds more besides.

Books:

Contemporary fantasy, Sci-fi, China Mieville, Charles de Lint [Newford Series], Iain M Banks [The Culture ], Neil Gaiman, Classics any:, Franz Kafka, Dickens, HP Lovecraft, Christopher Marlowe, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, The dystopians: Huxley, Orwell. Notwithstanding, I'd revisit these frequently Reasons and Persons [Parfit], Don Quixote, The Count of Monte Cristo, Oliver Twist / Great Expectations, Dracula, Justine [and anything on Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade himself], Crowley's Autohagiography [and anything on Aleister Crowley], Capone [Kobler, and anything on Capone or the era], Anna Karenina, Thus Spake Zarathustra / Beyond Good and Evil, Mountains of Madness, Art of War [Sun Tzu], Hagakure [Yamamoto Tsunetomo], Bruce Lee Tao of JKD, Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere [most all martial arts-related books, specifically Aikido]. Really anything by VS Ramachandran, Rupert Sheldrake, Steven LaBerge and the like. And also miscellaneous theological notions: LaVey/Satanic Bible, Principia Discordia, Qur'an, KJV, Torah, Dawkins, Lennox, Hitchens etc.