hmscollingwood

About me

Gender Male
Occupation Plumber
Location Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Introduction Obsessive collector of information.
Interests Science. Sci-fi, space travel, earth travel, astronomy, astrophysics, photography, human and animal psychology, flight, history, general knowledge, language, wine, music. sound reproduction., video, films, history of civilisation, history of warfare, palaeontology, plate tectonics, volcanology, the search for extra terrestrial life, benthic life forms.
Favorite Movies Blade Runner. 2001 A Space Odyssey, Sunshine (Scifi), Hamburger Hill, Lost in Space, Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Lost Battalion (WW1), The Heroes of Telemark, The Three Amigos, Airplane, National Lampoons Vacation, Judge Dredd (1-2), Zulu, Lawrence of Arabia, Bullitt, Dirty Harry, The Gauntlet (Eastwood), High Noon.
Favorite Music Tchiakovsky Piano Concerto No 1, Puccini: La Boheme, Butterfly, Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, Tosca; Verdi: Requiem, Aida, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Nabucco; Respighi: Pines of Rome/Fountains of Rome; Mozart: Requiem, Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, The Magic Flute. Anything by Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Stones, Who, ABBA (!) Bee Gees (!!) Michael Jackson (!!!) ELP, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Robert Palmer, Beach Boys, Eagles, Allman Bros, Johnny Cash, Ry Cooder, The Byrds, David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Kate Bush.
Favorite Books 1984 Orwell, Games People Play, The Divided Self R D Laing, Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M Persig. Man and His Symbols, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, C G Jung.

If you had one decision to make in your history to change your life, what would it be? What's stopping you now?