Tim Footman

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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Communications or Media
Location	Bangkok, Thailand
Introduction	I’m the author of books about Radiohead, Leonard Cohen and The Noughties. I have also written about music, food, education, philosophy and other stuff for The Guardian, Mojo, Prospect, Time Out, the BBC, CNN and others. If you’re interested, there’s more info here, and also here, some of it almost accurate. You can reach me at timfootman (AT) yahoo.co.uk or follow me on Twitter.
Interests	words, music, art, cinema, food, footnotes
Favorite Movies	Casablanca, A Bout De Souffle, Some Like It Hot, Brazil, Festen, Kind Hearts And Coronets, Tampopo, A Matter Of Life And Death, The Elephant Man, Les Vacances de M. Hulot, Dancer in the Dark, Last Life In The Universe, Sideways, Brief Encounter, Tokyo Drifter, Toto the Hero, All That Jazz, Big, Freaks, Lemming, The Manchurian Candidate (original), 25th Hour, Jeux Interdits, Sympathy For Lady Vengeance, Hellzapoppin, Innocence, Giants & Toys, Kicking and Screaming, Les Triplettes de Belleville, Spellbound, The Magnificent Seven, The Royal Tenenbaums, In Bruges, Persepolis, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Baader-Meinhof Complex, District 9, Air Doll, Ikiru, The Saddest Music in the World
Favorite Music	The Smiths, Aretha Franklin, Velvet Underground, Bach, Stravinsky, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Magnetic Fields, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Beatles, Super Furry Animals, Stereolab, Pulp, Radiohead, Temptations, Prince Buster, Françoise Hardy, Buzzcocks, Syd Barrett, Belle and Sebastian, Kinks, Duke Special, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Chavela Vargas, Sparklehorse, Ink Spots, Spiritualized, Beach Boys, Ornette Coleman, Gavin Bryars, Otis Redding, Shostakovich, Flying Lizards, Camera Obscura, Go! Team, Johnny Cash, Arcade Fire, Gavin Bryars, Urusei Yatsura, Guillemots, Feist, High Llamas, Wah!, Prince, Son House, Leonard Cohen, Moldy Peaches, Randy Newman, John Cage, Ting Tings, De La Soul, Etta James, Françoise Hardy, Sonseed, Pascal Comelade, Terry Riley, XTC, The Monks, The XX, Betty & the Werewolves
Favorite Books	Haruki Murakami, Evelyn Waugh, Douglas Coupland, David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Joyce, Angela Carter, Michel Houellebecq, Paul Auster, Jean Baudrillard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Albert Camus, Elizabeth Smart, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot, Adrian Henri, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Paul Morley, Jonathan Coe, Emily Brontë, Ernest Hemingway, Jonathan Safran Foer, Amélie Nothomb, Greil Marcus, Tom Stoppard, Frédéric Beigbeder, Roland Barthes, L. du Garde Peach, Marie Darieussecq

What reason do you have to believe the earth is flat?

Do people still answer these questions? How frightfully mid-Noughties.