About

About this blog

I like stories. I like them a lot. I connect to people and to the world through stories, and I have done so as long as I can remember. Apart from serving as a platform to massage my ego, this blog is a way for me to talk about stories and storytelling.

Lists

As a taste of what my tastes are, here are some completely arbitrary lists of my favourite films, TV shows and books, which will probably have changed by the time I finish listing them.

Top Ten Films

1. Seven Samurai (1954)
2. The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974)
3. Back to the Future (1985)
4. Rear Window (1954)
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
6. A Serious Man (2009)
7. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
8. Whale Rider (2002)
9. Fight Club (1999)
10. In Bruges (2008)

Top Ten TV Shows

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel
2. Arrested Development
3. Star Trek: The Original Series / Star Trek: The Next Generation
4. Dollhouse
5. Firefly
6. The Thick of It
7. Battlestar Galactica (reimagined)
8. Profit
9. Malcolm in the Middle
10. Wonderfalls

Top Ten Books

1. Harry Potter by Jo Rowling
2. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
3. The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
5. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
6. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
7. Misery by Stephen King
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
9. Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O’Malley
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Albums I Like

• Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
• I’m Your Man by Leonard Cohen
• Yes by the Pet Shop Boys
• Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons
• Who Killed Amanda Palmer by Amanda Palmer
• History of Forgotten Things by Jed Whedon and the Willing
• I Don’t Know What I’m Doing by Brad Sucks
• The Craig Machine by Stephen Lynch
• Actually by the Pet Shop Boys
• Food & Liquor by Lupe Fiasco
• Elephant by the White Stripes
• The Black Album by Metallica
• Alas I Cannot Swim by Laura Marling
• The White Album by the Beatles
• Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones
• Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
• I Think We’ve Made It by Craig Bevan

Elsewhere on the Internet

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My Amazon Wishlist

My IMDb Ratings