Colin Smith

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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Non-Profit
Occupation	In every sense of the word, and in everything I do, I'm an amateur
Location	A small town, Far out in the East, United Kingdom
Introduction	Q Magazine's comics reviewer & your blogger at Too Busy Thinking About My Comics. Husband of The Splendid Wife, honoured companion of Eyebrow Girl, the Hound Supreme. A politics graduate who served an 18 year long sentence as a teacher before Househubandry beckoned.
Interests	My wife!, writing, music, books, cricket, comic books, film, football, tv, walking, reading books on treadmills
Favorite Movies	I'm All Right Jack, Groundhog Day, The Third Man, The Apartment, Bad Santa, Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), It's A Wonderful Life, The Full Monty, Dr Strangelove, The Searchers, Hail The Conquering Hero, The French Connection, Get Carter, Passport To Pimlico, Planet Of The Apes ('68), Local Hero, Stop Making Sense, Great Expectations ('47), The Life Of Brian, Salvador, Casablanca, Clueless, Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan, Harvey, A Matter Of Life & Death, Ran, Die Hard I, Buena Vista Social Club, When Harry Met Sally, The Wicker Man, Some Like It Hot, Zulu, MASH, Fargo, Play It Again Sam, Beetlejuice, The Long Good Friday, High Noon, Chinatown, Star Trek: First Contact, The Godfather I & II, Standing In The Shadows Of Motown, Terminator II
Favorite Music	Glen Campbell "Guess I'm Dumb", Lonnie Liston Smith "Expansions", Antonio Carlos Jobim "Chovendo Na Roseira", The Muttonbirds "While You Sleep", SAHB "Give My Compliments To The Chef", The Decemberists "Red Right Ankle", Trash Can Sintras "Obscurity Knocks", The Kinks "Waterloo Sunset", Stephen Duffy "The Postcard", Sam Cooke "A Change Is Gonna Come", Josh Rouse "Michigan", The Wailers "Soul Rebel", Caravan "9 Feet Underground", Rufus Wainwright "The Art Teacher", The Beatles "Penny Lane", Stan Ridgeway "Right Through You", Ray Charles "You Don't Know Me", Mississippi John Hurt "Frankie & Johnny", Santana "Samba Pa Ti", Smokey Robinson & The Miracles "More Love", Genesis "Cinema Show (live '77), Prefab Sprout "Bonnie (BBC '85), The Beach Boys "Surf's Up ('67)", Mary Wells "The One Who Really Loves You", Pentangle "Light Flight", YMO "Rydeen", James Brown "Night Train", John Cale "Hallelujah", Jimmy Castor "Hey Leroy", Pet Shop Boys "My October Symphony", Little Richard "Tutti Frutti", Freedy Johnson "Underwater Life", The Supremes "Stoned Love", Magazine "The Light Pours Out Of Me (live'09), Steve Miller Band "Song For The Ancestors", Manu DiBango "Wakafrika", Traffic "Low-Spark Of High-Heeled Boys", Fela Kuti "Water No Get Enemy", Brinsley Schwarz "Ever Since You're Gone", Steely Dan "Aja", Peter Blegvad "Gold", Pink Floyd "Any Colour You Like", Lou Reed "Coney Island Baby", The Wailing Souls "Bredda Gravalicious", Gilbert O'Sullivan "Alone Again Naturally", Stevie Wonder "Jesus Children Of America", Bob Andy "You Don't Know", John Handy "Hard Work", Simon & Garfunkel "America", Microdisney "Big Sleeping House", Fleetwood Mac "Albatross", Heatwave "Boogie Nights", Dave Brubeck "Take 5", Hawkwind "Spirit Of The Age", Marshall Crenshaw "You Said What?", Procul Harum "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", Giorgio Moroder "E=MC2", David Crosby "Tamalpais High", Grateful Dead "Dark Star (live '68), Mark Kozelek "Up To My Neck", Beginning Of The End "Funky Nassau"
Favorite Books	Barbara Tuchman "The March Of Folly", Tom Stoppard "Arcadia", John Carey "What Good Are The Arts", F Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby", Bryan Ward-Perkins "The Fall Of Rome", Stan Lee & Steve Ditko "The Amazing Spider-Man", Colin Turnball "The Forest People", Robert Holdstock "Mythago Wood", George Orwell "As I Please", James Shapiro "1599", Gore Vidal "United States", Iain MacDonald "Revolution In The Head", Colin Seymour-Ure & Jim Schoff "David Low", C J Sansom "Sovereign", Ronald Wright "A Scientific Romance", Spalding Grey "Swimming To Cambodia", Will Eisner "The Spirit", Philip K. Dick "The Man In The High Castle", Ryszard Kapuscinski "Travels With Herodotus", G B Shaw "Arms & The Man", Frank Hampson "Dan Dare", "The Walter Mosley Omnibus", Graham Greene "Brighton Rock", Russel T Davies & Benjamin Cook "The Writer's Tale", Anthony Beevor "Stalingrad", Pat Mills & Kevin O'Neil "Nemesis", Gyles Brandreth "Breaking The Code", Ambroise Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary", H. G. Wells "The War Of The Worlds", Tim Butcher "Blood River", William Goldman "Adventures In The Screentrade", Robert Graves "I Cladius", John Lukacs "Five Days In London May 1940", Frederick Pohl "Gateway", Jan Morris "Pax Britannica", Clive James "On Television