Groucho Marx once said "I'll take heaven for the weather and hell for the company".... well I hope I see him in hell.
I am a blaze of contradictions but the dominant theme, I would hope, is that I love life and live it without bowing to convention. I love to explore new territory, whether it be intellectual, scientific,artistic or social. As we say in Scotland "yer a long time deid"... live to love and love to live!
Music, painting,knowledge, good food, good wine and travel.
If I add friends and there is no conversation...then there is no point really is there!
Docs mostly
Arthouse, world cinema
Too many to mention but perhaps the most influential I read as a young lad was Voltaire's "Candide". A short and funny take, penned 1749, on Don Juan in which we learn this is the best of all possible worlds ;-) "Pangloss" is the supporting character in this story.