Hello Avians
May your falcons be Peregrine and your boils
hard.
I am reintroducing myself to the list after a long
fallow period.
My name is Colin, although I masquerade as the
Reverend Spadge Dooley too. I once hosted a month on Rara
Avis on UK harboiled and noir. I am by trade
(it's not a profession) a journalist and I live in Newent in
the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom.
My favourite hb and noir writers are the mighty Jim Thompson,
Derek Raymond (who long standing members may remember my
tireless championing of - "The tragedy of help is it never
arrives". James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler, Horace McCoy,
Dashiell Hammett and Edward Bunker. Run and Box Nine are my
relatively recent and I don't pay enough attention current
faves. Best noir/hb films are, I think, Get Carter, Bogart
Marlowe, Cagney shockers and John Millius' Dillinger. Heat is
good fun, Scorsese is great, Shoot the Piano Player is
superb, and so on and so on...
Is there anything else I need to add? I dunno. I was
born and grew up in a town close to Fred West's hunting
grounds - his relatives were at school with me, Joe Meek the
insane genius of pre-Beatles pop who features in Jake
Arnott's hugely overrated works, and just a couple of miles
from Dick Whittington's birthplace. I work for a small, local
weekly newspaper. I am politically of the left and Welsh by
extraction. I support Leeds United, Gloucester Rugby Football
Club, Gloucestershire Cricket Club, and the Welsh rugby
team.
Outside hb/noir I love Hunter S, John Pilger, Noam
Choamsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Haydn, The Beatles, Sherlock Holmes,
and I write and record music as The Reverend Spadge Dooley
and the Church of the Awesome Machine Accidental.
Many regards to you all, I look forward to trying to
speak with you in some way.
Nos da,
Colin.
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