Simon Baddeley
- Age: 66
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Government
- Occupation: Flâneur
- Location: Handsworth, Birmingham : The Midlands : United Kingdom
- Audio Clip
About Me
Tourist in my own land, flâneur, but not so detached, urban cycling, sailing, walking, rail travel, cities, sokaki, σοκακι, food-miles, growing old, learning, aún aprendo, still learning, Goya, Norbert Elias, dislike piped music, TV screens in public places, phones during meals, bedrooms with phones in them, flytipping. I really like jackdaws (corvus monedula).
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
My feet
Interests
- Cities
- curiosity about the future
- civility
- Balkans
- Modern Greece
- Japanese culture
- Goya
- Tolstoy
- jackdaws
- corvus monedula
- Shakespeare
- Socrates
- stoicism
- Ano Korakiana
- Κερκυρα
- Ανο κορακιανα
- mystery
- Corfu
- maps
- Epirus
- Lawrence Durrell
- political skills
- integrity
- public domain
- public policy
- governance
- democracy
- totalitarianism
- surveillance
- Shoah
- The Holocaust
- civilising process
- decivilising
- Norbert Elias
- wine
- retsina
- Greek Civil War
- conversation
- jackdaws
- Kapodistria
- Byron
- friends
- reading
- small things
- detail
- the banality of goodness
- folding bicycle
- Brompton
- travelling lightly
- Man in Seat 61
- urban cycling
- urban cycling
- sailing
- walking
- rail travel
- sokaki
- evolution of technology
- ecology
- environment
- climate change
- history
- politics
- reading
- poetry
- music
- film
- waste disposal
- theatre
- archaeology
- architecture
- built environment
- carfree cities
- trains
- trams
- weather
Favorite Movies
- Bladerunner
- The Spy who came in from the cold
- The Weeping Meadow
- The Third Man
- Trois Couleurs Bleu
- Three Colours Blue
- Alien
- Terminator
- Predator
- Gladiator
- Silence of the Lambs
- Enemy Mine
- Witness
- Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- The Cruel Sea
- Dr Strangelove
- Petrina Chronia
- The Stone Years
- Schindler's List
- A Man for All Seasons
- The Train
- Bondachuk's War & Peace
- Some Like it Hot
- first two Indiana Jones
- From Russia with Love
- The Ipcress File. Women in Love
- Three Colours Blue
- The Searchers
- The Shootist
- Shane
- High Noon
- Jaws
- The Wooden Horse
- Princess Mononoke
- The Seven Samurai
- Collateral
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources
- Richard 111 (Olivier's)
- Henry V (Olivier's)
- Conspiracy
- Close Encounters
- Schindler's List
- Waterloo
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- The Elephant Man
- King Kong (original)
- Jurassic Park
- The Sound of Music (except the Austrian bits)
- Psycho
- Leon
- Seven
- Coppola's Dracula
- Das Boot
- Don't Look Now
- Twins
- Unforgiven
- The Good the Bad and the Ugly
- Dirty Harry
- Saturday Night Fever
- Strictly Ballroom
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Long Weekend
- The Client
- Mystic River
- Bone Collector
- Andromeda Strain
- Best in Show
- Fatal Attraction
- The Piano
- 39 Steps
- (Hitchcock's)
- to mention a few ...
Favorite Music
- Theodorakis
- especially
- Axion Esti
- Hadzidakis
- Handel
- The trumpet shall sound
- Eleni Karaindrou
- Zbigniew Preisner
- and many many more.
Favorite Books
- Seferis
- Cavafy
- Konrad Lorenz
- King Solomon's Ring
- Katzantzakis
- Philip Pullman
- Elytis
- Axion Esti
- Simenon
- Maigret
- Henning Mankell
- Wallender
- Michael Dibden
- Zen
- Camilleri
- Montalbano
- Conan Doyle
- Sherlock Holmes
- Donna Leon
- Brunetti
- Raymond Chandler
- Marlowe
- Robert Wilson
- Javier Falcon
- Rex Stout
- Nero Wolfe
- Joshua Slocum
- Sailing Alone Around the World
- Dr.Johnson
- Boswell
- Kazantzakis
- Zorba
- The Fratricides
- Edmund Keeley
- Inventing Paradise
- Lawrence Durrell
- Prospero's Cell
- Norbert Elias
Simon Baddeley's Blogs
| Blog Name | Team Members | |
|---|---|---|
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Democracy Street | podnosh linbadd |
