Hmmm..

I thought about this and the more I thought I realised how geeky my interests are. In the end, I thought, what the hell, they are my interests not anyone else's and I don't have them to please other people, so there and take that

I like a strange and wide variety of things but among them:

Cars:

Veteran, Vintage and Classic cars. I have a soft spot for English marques, having owned far too many over the years. I will talk muscle cars if absolutely necessary but if you parochially think only the US had them, go read more.

Books:

My favourite author is Terry Pratchett. His satire on the human condition and human nature in his Discworld series is spot on and beautifully cynical and in a strange way optimistic as well.

Among the classic authors, Dickens, of course although his sentimentality at times reads like a Hallmark card set. Frank Hardy for his story's background of an agricultural society crumbling beneath the onslaught of the Industrial Revolution. You get the idea.

Least favourite books often regarded as classics: "Ulysses" by James Joyce. Unreadable and tedious. Almost anything by Hemingway and finally "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

On between all these, though, I will read almost anything.

Computers:

I wasn't sure about this. I used to be a systems administrator, programmer, pc construction/service/repair and all round geek. I've pretty much lost interest in it over time, since the "gee-wizardry" of it has worn off and only annoys now lol. I include it because I am teaching myself 3D design & CGI with Blender 3D.

History:

Can't get enough of it. And I do not mean the "End Of The World Bible Prophesying Iceroad Axmen Pawn Picker Mayan Calendar Truckers of the (alleged) History Channel. I mean, real actual History as it really actually happened stuff. I always wanted to be an archaeologist

My top films in no particular order are:

Citizen Kaine (Orson Wells - Consistently voted the best film ever made and for good reason)
The Full Monty (Robert Carlyle. His TV series Hamish MacBeth remains a favourite)
1941 (Spielberg having fun)
Blues Brothers (the first one)
The Italian Job (the original with Michael Caine)
Arsenic & Old Lace (Cary Grant)
Calendar Girls (yeah, a chick flick but brilliant)
Spotswood (In the US as "The Efficiency Expert" - Anthony Hopkins and a very young Russel Crowe)
The Lavender Hill Mob (Alec Guiness is amazing in anything)
The Ladykillers (Guiness again)
A Night To Remember (the ONLY Titanic film worth watching)
40,000 Horsemen (for sentimental reasons - It's last big budget epic from an Australian Studio)
Downfall (A German film about Hitler's last days)
Little Miss Sunshine (Alan Arkin is always good)

The guy who invented non slip socks.