Pour Tove, ma cherie....
Biography
Who: Brian David Ford DOB: 31/12/1960 Born in: Sydney, Australia Sign: Capricorn Lives: In transit at the moment.
Occupational History: Elevator company clerk, printing trades apprentice, photo-retoucher, camera operator, wholesale fabric sales, accounts clerk for Cobra car alarms, lighting rigger in the live music industry, nightclub DJ, photographer, Debtors clerk and sales co-ordinator for TNT Forklifts, warehouse manager, courier.
Interests: Writing, reading, photography, music, motor racing, computers, collecting model cars, painting (folk art).
Favourite Writers: Harlan Ellison, William Gibson, Carl Hiaasen, Dean Koontz, Raymond Chandler, Newton Thornburg, Terry Pratchett, Michael Crichton.
Favourite Artists: Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gough, Joseph Michael Linsner, Olivia De Bernandaris, Michael Manning, Berni Wrightson, Mark Crash McCreery
Favourite TV shows: ER, X-Files, Homicide:Life On The Streets, Star Trek Voyager/TNG, Drop The Dead Donkey.
Favourite Music: Riverdance, Lisa Minelli, Bon Jovi, kd lang, Ottmar Liebert, Dwight Yoakham, Queen, Doobie Brothers, U2, Tommy Emmanuel, Hoodoo Gurus, Wendy Mathews, Mozart, The Fureys, Eurythmics, Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, Gary Moore, Guns'n'Roses, Screaming Jets.
Favourite Movies: Cabaret, In The Heat Of The Night, 12 Angry Men, Patton, Silent Running, Fantasia, Highlander, Zulu, The Maltese Falcon, Young Frankenstein, Lawrence Of Arabia, The Crow, Fields Of Dreams, Citizen Kane, Pulp Fiction, The Natural, The Shawshank Redmption, Time After Time.
Favourite Foods: Seafood, Italian, Mexican.
Ambitions (Things to do before I die): Marry a certain lady from Louisiana,write a best seller, write a screenplay, visit the Indianapolis 500 and the Monaco F1 Grand Prix, see a live space shuttle launch.
Likes: Good conversation, ice cold beer, Billy Connoly, Warner Bros cartoons, time spent with good friends, trains, golden glowing sunsets, WW2 airplanes, Autumn when the leaves are turning, browsing bookshops and old wares shops, things in miniature, the photography of Henri Cartier Bresson and Ansel Adams, Kiwi fruit, 12 yr old Scotch, Calvin And Hobbes, The Far Side.