User:Cross-eyedmary



I'm Simon, 18, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. I am a picture thinker with verbal dyslexia, but surprisingly I am a capable journalist.

My interests are:

Music:
Prog Rock - Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, King Crimson

Post Rock - Godspeed You! Black Emperor!, Explosions In The Sky, A Silver Mt. Zion, Mogwai, Felt

Folk/Rock - Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen

Jazz - Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Hank Garland

Reggae - Bob Marley, Barrington Levy

Plain Rock - The Doors, The Smiths, The Killers

Literature:
Fiction - 1984, Animal Farm, LOTR, Catch-22, Heart Of A Dog, The Master & Margarita, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Tragical Life Of Dr. Faustus, and many besides I have not the ability at the moment to pluck from my mind

Non Fiction - Think, Orwell's Essay Collection

Poetry: Aforementioned Marlowe, Lord Byron, John Milton, Walter Scott, Robert Browning, Robert Burns

Quote Segment:
A few quotes I am fond of and hope readers of my profile will enjoy -

"Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world." - Chuck Palahniuk

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. - Douglas Adams

''He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.'' - Douglas Adams

''A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.'' - George Bernard Shaw

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,  ''And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?  Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.  Her lips suck forth my soul: see where it flies.  Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.  Here will I dwell for heaven is in those lips, '' ''And all is dross that is not Helena. '' - Christopher Marlowe (Dr. Faustus)

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