User:Milesjolly1997

Personal details and interests
Hi, I'm Milesjolly1997 and I live in Suffolk, England, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom. I was born on 9 August 1997. Notable things that happened on my birthday include the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1902, the Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in 1945, and the Resignation of US President Richard Nixon in 1974. I share a birthday with Romano Prodi, the former Prime Minister of Italy, Leonid Kuchma, the former President of Ukraine, the actor Robert Shaw, Joop den Uyl, the former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, John Key, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Gillian Anderson from The X-Files, Whitney Houston, the actress and singer-songwriter, and the actress Melanie Griffith, and loads of other people.

I have a wide range of interests including politics, religion, zoology, ethology, conservation, history, geography and cinema. I love listening to music and enjoy most of the stuff I have come across. I also love watching Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry cartoons. I like most genres of films, particularly Comedy, Horror, Thriller, and Drama.

Some films that I like

 * The Wizard of Oz
 * Zombieland
 * The Lion King
 * Trainspotting
 * Pulp Fiction
 * Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
 * An American Werewolf in London
 * Arthur (the one with Dudley Moore)
 * O Brother, Where Art Thou?
 * Disney's Tarzan
 * Gran Torino
 * The Incredible Journey
 * the original King Kong
 * the awesome remake of King Kong
 * the Cornetto Trilogy comprising Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End
 * Paul
 * Land of the Lost
 * Lawrence of Arabia
 * One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
 * Life of Pi
 * the Indiana Jones films
 * the Jurassic Park films
 * Mary and Max
 * The African Queen
 * Borat
 * Donovan's Reef
 * The Quiet Man
 * Yellow Submarine
 * Ferris Bueller's Day Off
 * the Back to the Future films
 * And Now For Something Completely Different
 * Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 * Monty Python's Life of Brian
 * Monty Python's the Meaning of Life
 * The Wiz
 * the Harry Potter films
 * Forrest Gump
 * Young Frankenstein
 * Sleeper
 * History of the World, Part I
 * The Invention of Lying
 * Some Like It Hot
 * Mrs. Doubtfire
 * Jumanji
 * Zathura
 * the Night at the Museum films
 * Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
 * Terms of Endearment
 * The Wind in the Willows
 * Rat Race
 * Born Free
 * Time Bandits
 * Stand By Me
 * E.T.
 * The Sound of Music
 * and countless others

Some musicians and bands that I like

 * ABBA
 * The Temptations
 * John Newman
 * Calvin Harris
 * Canned Heat
 * Etta James
 * Frank Sinatra
 * Talking Heads
 * John Lee Hooker
 * Howlin' Wolf
 * Louis Armstrong
 * Sam Cooke
 * Otis Redding
 * Amy Winehouse
 * Massive Attack
 * Fatboy Slim
 * Chic
 * James Brown
 * Ray Charles
 * Screamin' Jay Hawkins
 * Nina Simone
 * Boney M.
 * Curtis Mayfield
 * Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (their duets together are just beautiful)
 * Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
 * Beach Boys
 * Al Green
 * Adam Ant
 * The Animals (and Eric Burdon & War)
 * The Beatles (in the band and solo)
 * Bob Marley and the Wailers
 * James Brown
 * Bob Dylan
 * Faces
 * Rod Stewart
 * Sam Smith
 * Mika
 * Glen Campbell
 * The Doors
 * The Byrds
 * New Order
 * Joy Division
 * John Denver
 * Daft Punk
 * Clean Bandit
 * Jess Glynne
 * Hugh Laurie
 * Major Lazer
 * Cream
 * Deep Purple
 * Jeff Beck
 * The Jam
 * The Clash
 * The White Stripes
 * Black Sabbath
 * Led Zeppelin
 * Red Hot Chili Peppers
 * Bonnie Tyler
 * Johnny Cash
 * The Chordettes
 * Creedence Clearwater Revival
 * Cyndi Lauper
 * Avicii
 * David Bowie
 * Desmond Dekker
 * Kool and the Gang
 * The Statler Brothers
 * Earth, Wind and Fire
 * Electric Light Orchestra
 * Eurythmics
 * Aretha Franklin
 * Genesis (and Phil Collins on his own)
 * Jeff Beck
 * Bobbie Gentry
 * Woody Guthrie
 * Ian Dury and the Blockheads
 * The Jackson 5 (and Michael Jackson on his own)
 * Jimi Hendrix
 * T. Rex
 * The Kinks
 * Lynyrd Skynyrd
 * Madness
 * The Troggs
 * Jefferson Airplane
 * Buffalo Springfield
 * America
 * Pink Floyd
 * Dire Straits
 * Iggy Pop
 * The Monkees
 * Elvis Presley
 * The Police (and Sting om his own)
 * Queen
 * The Rolling Stones
 * Edwin Starr
 * Dusty Springfield
 * Stealer's Wheel (and Gerry Rafferty on his own)
 * Tubeway Army (and Gary Numan on his own)
 * UB40
 * Velvet Underground (and Lou Reed on his own)
 * Nico
 * The Who
 * Wilson Pickett

And plenty of others that I can't remember right now but that's probably enough to be getting on with. Basically I love most music that I hear.

Places I have visited during my life
I have visited Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, which is an autonomous community of Spain; I have also visited Wales, France, and Malta. I have also done a fair amount of travelling around England, including Cornwall, Sheringham, Felixstowe, Aldeburgh, Yorkshire, Blackpool, Lincoln, Winterton, London, and Kessingland. In June and July 2016, I spent a week travelling in the Netherlands visiting five different zoos. In February 2018, I spent 10 days in South Africa; I travelled there with Qatar Airways and we stopped off in Doha, Qatar during the flight. I also travelled to Scotland in October 2018; I visited Fort William, Mallaig, and the Isle of Rum.

Wikipedia and me
My work at present consists mainly of minor edits and corrections e.g. creating more links to other articles and correcting spelling and grammatical errors; therefore I see myself as a WikiGnome. I'm not an admin and I have no interest in being one. I believe that redirection is preferable to deletion. When creating new links, I try to use the given name of the article I am linking to as it looks neater. For example, if writing about the Soviet Union, any links would be written as Soviet Union as opposed to USSR, which automatically redirects to the Soviet Union article. I have significantly contributed to the following articles:


 * Bartholomew Versus the Wheel (first article started; I received some help finishing it)


 * Yun Hyon-seok (made some corrections to the grammatical structure of the article but more work needed)

How you can contact me
If you want to contact me, please leave me a message on Milesjolly1997 (talk)]] and I'll get in touch with you ASAP. Alternatively you can contact me via my email address, which I check more frequently than my Wikipedia inbox. My email address is milesahead18@icloud.com. I am also on Facebook and you can get in touch with me there by going to https://www.facebook.com/miles.jolly.39 and sending me a private message.