Jonathan S.

the Beatles, Billy Bragg, Robyn Hitchcock, The Beautiful South, Philip Glass, Wire, Cracker, John Adams.

The Spirit Level, I Claudius, Claudius The God, The First World War (Martin Gilbert), The Hobbit, Use Of Weapons, Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking, The Joy of Cooking, Seamus Heaney, Iain Banks, Patrick O'Brian, Wilfred Owen, Martin Gilbert, Pat Barker, Richard K. Morgan, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, William Shakespeare

The Shawshank Redemption, Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V", Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge, Casablanca, anything not based on a book by Jane Austen

Shows: Doctor Who, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate: SG1, Torchwood, Rome, I Claudius, Firefly, South Park, Iron Chef (the cheesy Japanese original), Good Eats. , Actors: Ewan McGregor (except for Star Wars), Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlisle, John Geilgud, Derek Jacobi, Paul Bettany, Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, anybody but Tom Cruise.

Glasgow, which no matter how many years I spend away from it is and always will be home; Rome ( forever), Madison, (Wisconsin- a welcoming liberal island in the conservative upper Midwest), Seoul, (the most different but fascinating place I've ever been).

Chess, wine, good coffee, Cooking, pottering about with computers, reading and writing poetry (the second far more selectively than the first), home improvement (mostly plumbing and electrical with a bit of carpentry thrown in for fun)

Scottish Nationalist

Atheist

University of Louisville