Robert J.E. Simpson

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性別	男性
職業	Professional Nostalgist
場所	Belfast, Co. Antrim, イギリス
紹介	Professional nostalgist. Grew up at the foot of the Craigantlet Hills on the edge of East Belfast, educated at Campbell College, Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. Background in film studies, supplemented with historical researches. Former librarian, now working with archives. Occasional painter, photographer and freelance writer. Open to all offers of work and commissions and funding to finish my PhD! Currently finishing book on Hammer films, editing a book of memoirs, compiling a photographic project and researching the early history of Hammer/Exclusive films for a PhD at Trinity College Dublin.
趣味	Film, photography, cycling... for more information - strike up a conversation with me!
お気に入りの映画	Plague of the Zombies, Shaun of the Dead, Hitchcock (Rear Window, Rope, Frenzy etc), Singing in the Rain, Man With A Movie Camera, Metropolis, Nosferatu, Ballet Mechanique, Testament D'Orphee, Once, Twelve Monkeys, Day the Earth Caught Fire, Juliet of the Spirits, the James Bond series, Dog Soldiers, Don't Look Now, Performance, Modern Times, A Clockwork Orange, Woodstock, The Commitments, The Descent, The Van, The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, Odd Man Out, Adaptation, 8 1/2, The Commitments, Before Sunset, Peeping Tom, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, A Shot in the Dark, Logan's Run, The Running Jumping Standing Still Film, Night and Fog, Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter, The Life Aquatic, Wallace and Gromit (all of em), Edward Scissorhands, Jailhouse Rock, King Creole (that and Jailhouse are the best of the Elvis pics), The Forbidden Zone (surreal genius), Romero's original Dawn of the Dead, The Lost Skeleton of Cadaver, Plague of the Zombies, Witchfinder General, Hot Fuzz, Bride of Frankenstein, Broken Flowers, The Wicker Man (1973), And Soon the Darkness, Tommy, Woodstock, West Side Story, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Nightmare Before Christmas, Last Year At Marienbad, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
お気に入りの音楽	Richie Havens, Ray Davies, David Bowie, The Divine Comedy, The Rolling Stones, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, The Bonzo Dog (Doo Dah) Band, Snow Patrol, Placebo, Elvis Presley, James Brown, Robert Plant, Donovan, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Madness, Blondie, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, The Cure, Glen Hansard, The Magic Numbers, Matt Costa, Queen, Janis Joplin, Country Joe and the Fish, St Germain, The Kinks, Captain Beefheart, The Doors, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Kaiser Chiefs, Madeline Peyroux, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Camille, Gotan Project, Tenacious D, Duke Ellington, Blur, Space, Amy Studt, The Cat Empire, Noel Coward
お気に入りの本	Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Kenneth Williams Diaries, The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, the literary output of Spike Milligan (the first author I remember making me laugh out loud), Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, and fond affections for the books I grew up on - C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, The Hardy Boys and Three Investigators books, Terrence Dick's Doctor Who novelisations, James Herbert