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| Introduction | I'm married, will turn 60 this summer, have a grown daughter, been living abroad when young, been politically a conservative since I was fifteen, never changed. |
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| Interests | Movies, malt whisky, grandchildren, taking long walks in the forest with my faithful dog, reading, listening to music, et cetera |
| Favorite Movies | "They died with their boots on", "Hope and Glory", "The Battle of Britain", "Arsenic and old lace", "The Jackal", "Little Big Man", "Bullit", "Barry Lyndon", "The Seventh Seal", "Pusher", "Dial M for Murder", "Zelig", "Whisky Galore", "Ripley's Game", "Jackie Brown", "O brother where art thou" and all other films by the Coen Brothers, all by Quentin Tarantino except Reservoir Dogs, all by Scorcese, for instance The Departed and hundreds of others. Plus Himmel über Berlin, Scandal, and two Swedish films, "Vuxna människor" and "Den goda viljan". The list will be continued. |
| Favorite Music | Van Morrison, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Pogues, Natalie Merchant, Alison Kraus, Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Charles Trenant, Nat King Cole, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Marty Robbins, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Donovan, John Mellencamp, Mountain, T Rex, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, Richard Strauss ("Also Sprach Zarathustra"), Carl Orf (Camina Burana), Chet Baker, Cream, Dixie Chicks, Michael Nyman (The Piano), Thomas Newman (music to American Beauty, Bob Marley (So what? Eric "Enoch Powell was right" Clapton had a hit with "I shot the sheriff"), Lou Reed(especially "Transformer", "Sally can't dance", "Berlin" and "New York"), Talking Heads, "Last night of the proms" (especially "Jerusalem"), the Soundtrack to "Lock, stock and two smoking barrels" (this here list contains music I really listen to frequently), Soundtrack of our lives (Swedish rock group appreciated by Oasis), early Elton John ("Elton John", "Tumbleweed connection", "Madman across the Water", "Honky Chateau"), early Rod Stewart ("Every Picture tells a Story"), Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield (see, I'm no racist!), Soundtrack to Jackie Brown, Mark Knopfler (go buy "Kill to get crimson"!), Jackson Browne, Soundtrack to Sopranos, Elvis Costello (Greatest Hits), Soundtrack to "Departed", Soundtrack to "O brother where art thou", "O sister" (female blue grass), et cetera, ad infinitum |
| Favorite Books | Nick Hornby (especially "How to be good" and "31 songs"), "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame, Alan Clark Diaries (I read in some of them at least once a month), Paul Johnson's "The Intellectuals", Björn von Rosen "Gröna Kammaren" (Swedish book about nature and animals published in 1940), "När skymningen faller på" by Herbert Tingsten (long gone Swedish Liberal chief editor), "Låt mig berätta" by Sven Stolpe (long gone Swedish catholic writer), most novels by the "mother" of Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, Samuel Huntington's "Who are we?", Ernst Jünger's war diaries and his drug essay "The Psychonauts" (I can recommend Thomas de Quinceys's "Confessions an English Opium Eater" also), Hemingsway's "A moveable feast" and "Garden of Eden", Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" (last film adaptation terrible; watch the classic tv series instead!), Graham Greene's "End of the Affair" (a strong case for making deals with God; the film is terrific, too), "The Burning Court" by John Dickson Carr, most "spy"/political novels by Eric Ambler, "Julian" and "Burr" by Gore Vidal, "Harlot's Ghost" and "Tough guys don't dance" by Norman Mailer, "Three men on the Bummel" by Jerome K Jerome, et cetera, ad infinitum |