Big Rich

CINEMA - especially Asian Cinema, French Cinema, Ealing Comedies, Australian Cinema, American Independent cinema, dodgy horror movies and 80's trash. VHS - The superior stock. It shits all over DVD. It is the vinyl of home entertainment. I have over 1000 videos, most of which are the original release versions (Big Box/Ex-rental). My favourite videos are the old Warner bros ones in Black and White with the cast list on the backs - If you have the original Mad Max films you will know what I mean. I am a huge fan of Orion, Medusa, 20-20 and Vestavision as a label and think that Palace Pictures is great. I also like to know that there are 'further coming attractions after the feature' because two lots of trailers on a video is heaven!!! COMEDY - not only am I an exceptional compare and host at my own comedy nights but I am also an award winning comedian (wow!) I am a huge fan of the live comedy circuit and am very impressed by most of the talent working in England today. I would say that Wil Hodgson, Stewart Lee, Daniel Kitson, Robin Ince, Pappy's Fun Club, We are Klang, Brian Gittins, Joe Wilkinson, Brian Damage & Krysstal, Henning Wehn, Keith Carter and Nick Helm are easily amongst my favourites at the moment. COOKING - I love to cook and try out world cuisine. CURRY is the greatest food ever invented but I am no good at cooking it - just eating it. I am, however, highly impressive at Chinese and Mediterranean cuisine. YUM!! ALAN MOORE - someone to truly inspire a creative mind. V for VENDAETTA is GREAT! As is everything of his I have read. I am a huge HELLBLAZER fan (Created but not really written by Moore)...okay...so it's more of an ALAN MOORE/DC VERTIGO thing. Don't get me started on the film adaptations.... SHERLOCK HOLMES - the greatest series of books and short stories. DIRK GENTLY - DNA's finest hour in my opinion. DEAN MARTIN - now THAT was a dude! BASQUE CULTURE - The beautiful and wonderful part of France/Spain not the risque underwear. Although I do like lingerie....KUNG FU - I am a slack pupil of a great martial artist called Sifu David Brown and I delude myself that I am a student of Shaolin Preying Mantis Kung Fu. Preying Mantis is great, especially because it incorporates long range fighting (in which my size gives me an advantage) and also because it has really cool weapons. Really Cool. I should take my training more seriously and not just turn up for the buffets, the holidays and the award winning karaoke sessions...GIANT SQUID - I am a very keen Cephalod enthusiast. Giant squid are fascinating...