User:MapsMan/Lists
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Films I have seen
In cinema and 2009 and onwards only:
Up in the Air
Entre les murs
Flammen og Citronen
Che (parts 1 & 2)
The Age of Stupid
Milk
Lesbian Vampire Killers
The Boat That Rocked
The Damned United
Slumdog Millionaire
Knowing
The Road ("芳香之旅" / "Fang xiang zhi lu"; 2006 Chinese film, unrelated to 2009 U.S.A. film)
The Reader (2008)
Religulous
Låt den rätte komma in
In The Loop
Way Down East (1920)
Paper Dolls
Sleep Furiously
Pour Elle
Looking for Eric
A Stravinsky Portrait
American Madness
Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo
Soul Power (2008)
Brüno
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
A Matter of Size (2009)
The Amorous Prawn (1962)
Démanty noci (1964)
Four Lions (2010)
Le Concert (2009)
Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)
No Impact Man (2009)
Metropolis (1927, 2010 restoration)
Red (2010)
Burke and Hare (2010)
127 Hours
Paul
Black Swan
Green Lantern
Bad Teacher
Horrible Bosses
Friends with Benefits
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Shame
The Artist
Death in Venice
Books I have read
All the books I've read, or at least can remember reading; most recent first (except "others" and "unfinished"):
2009
- Lewycka, Marina — A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
- McKie, David — Great British Bus Journeys: Travels Through Unfamous Places
- Marchant, Ian — Parallel Lines
- Stevens, Tess — Sold
- Goldacre, Ben — Bad Science
2008
- Crace, Jim — The Pesthouse
- Haddon, Mark — A Spot of Bother
2007
- Palin, Michael — Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
- Saunders, Kate and Stanford, Peter — Catholics and Sex: From Purity to Purgatory
- "Belle de Jour" — The Secret Adventures of a London Call-Girl
- Paxman, Jeremy — Through the Volcanoes: A Central American journey
- Morgan, Alan — A fine and private place: Jesmond Old Cemetery
- Wallace, Danny — Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe
- Nabokov, Vladimir — Lolita
- Prasad, V. J. — English
asis a Foreign Language - Asimov, Isaac — I, Robot
2006
- Augustus, Patrick — Don't Make Me Laugh
- Zamyatin, Evgeny — We
- Crystal, David — The English Language
- Orwell, George — Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Cassani, Barbara — Go, an Airline Adventure
- Shelley, Mary — Frankenstein
- Pearson, Michael — Iron Roads to the Far North & Kyle
- Clarkson, Jeremy — The World According to Clarkson
- Schiller, Friedrich — On the Aesthetic Education of Man
2005
- Bolt, Rodney — Xenophobe's Guide to the Dutch
- Haddon, Mark — The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- Palin, Michael — Around the World in 80 Days
- Brown, Dan — The Da Vinci Code
- Elizer, Ben — Jewish Humour
- Moore, Michael — Idiot Nation (extracts from "Stupid White Men")
- Haddon, Celia — One Hundred Secret Thoughts Cats Have About Humans
- Clough, Brian — Autobiography
- Enright, Dominique — The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
- Parsons, Tony — Man & Boy
- Tarrant, Chris — Millionaire Moments
- Humphrys, John — Lost for Words
- Bragg, Melvyn — The Adventure of English
- Granado, Alberto — Travelling with Che Guevara
2004
- Klein, Naomi — No Logo
- Schlosser, Eric — Fast Food Nation
Other
- Barry, Robert — A Theory of Almost Everything: A Scientific and Religious Quest for Ultimate Answers
- Bradbury, Ray — Fahrenheit 451
- Dahl, Roald — "The Twits", "James and the Giant Peach", "Boy", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", inter alia
- Dickens, Charles — Great Expectations
- Dickens, Charles — Oliver Twist
- Elton, Ben — This Other Eden
- Ganjabhang, Dr. V. S. — The Pothead's Little Instruction Book
- Lee, Harper — To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lewis, C.S. — The Chronicles of Narnia (complete series)
- Lorca, Federico García — Bodas de Sangre (Spanish)
- Márquez, Gabriel García — Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Spanish)
- Orwell, George — Animal Farm
- Shakespeare, William — A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Shakespeare, William — Romeo and Juliet
- Truss, Lynn — Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Unfinished
- Hitler, Adolf — Mein Kampf [abandoned - too long and boring]
- Scruton, Roger — Kant: A Very Short Introduction [started but stopped, but will return]
- Solnit, Rebecca – Wanderlust: a History of Walking [abandoned - too long and boring]
- Tolkein, J.R.R. — The Hobbit [abandoned - too long and boring]
to be continued...
Capital Cities that I have visited
Gigs I have been to
A by no means exhaustive list
- 3 Colours Red
- AntiProduct × 2 or 3 at least
- Chas & Dave
- Ginger
- Lemon Jelly
- Madness
- Porcupine Tree × 2
- Radiohead
- Super Furry Animals
- Travis × 2
- The Wildhearts
- Thom Yorke
Festivals
The Proms
Leeds 2003
Leeds 2004
Lowlands 2006
Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2008
- Supergrass
- The Family Mahone
- 3 Daft Monkeys
- Stackridge
- Joe Brown
- The Levellers
- Legend
- Midge Ure
- Fairport Convention and friends (including Robert Plant)
Lowlands 2008
Warp 20 - Paris 2009
- Leila
- Chris Cunningham
- Plaid
- Aphex Twin & Hecker
- Nightmares on Wax
- !!!
Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2009
Metro systems on which I have travelled the entire network
Airlines on which I have travelled
- Air Mauritius
- Air France
- bmi
- British Airways
- CityJet (for Air France)
- EasyJet
- Go Fly
- Jet2.com
- Ryanair
- transavia.com
- VLM Airlines
Airports I have used
Terminals are indicated where known;
Cars
Drive
- 2000 Ford Fiesta (1.3L, p, m)
Driven
- 2002 Rover 45 (1.8L, d, m)
- 2005 Ford Focus (1.6L, p, m)
- 2000 Ford Fiesta Van (d, m)
- 200? Vauxhall Astra Van (1.7L, d, m)
- 1998 Volkswagen Polo (1.4L, p, m)
- 2003 Vauxhall Corsa (1.2L, d, m)
- 2004 Ford Fiesta (p, m)
- 198? Austin Metro (1.1L, p, m)
Motorways
A list of motorways I've driven. Whole lengths in any direction shown as $.