willfrancis

General

I spend my time working at MySpace, playing guitar for and managing D'Silva and teaching A-level Music Technology. Any time I've got left I'm making beautiful music, playing with film/music/web projects, chilling with the Mrs, strolling the streets of this fine city, surfing the web, playing video games, hanging with mates, or just looking out of the window (my favourite pastime).

Music

Sigur Ros, The Smiths, Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, The Doors, The Beatles, Velvet Underground, Simon & Garfunkel, The Arcade Fire, The Stone Roses, Oasis, The Kinks, Tori Amos, some classic modern jazz, some old school jungle, anything a bit experimental, oh and D'Silva of course...

Movies

Films I've recently seen and liked: Little Miss Sunshine, The Corporation, Factotum, Subway, Old School, Zatoichi, Ringu, Nikita, Metallica - Some Kind Of Monster, Rebecca, The Wicker Man, Rear Window, 1984, 28 Days Later, Vanilla Sky, Dark Star, Paris,Texas, 8 1/2, Chocolat, Lolita, The Big Lebowski, Bowling For Columbine, Holy Smoke, Kama Sutra, Liar Liar, Lost In Translation, Citizen Kane, Ghandi, Amelie, The Matrix, North By Northwest, All About Eve, Metropolis.....

Television

gets in the way, though I have made time for Alan Partridge, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Nathan Barley, Harry Hill, League of Gentlemen et al...

Books

Recent reads include: 'Anna Karenin', Leo Tolstoy; 'The Trial', Franz Kafka; 'Consolations Of Philosophy', Alain de Botton. All-time favourites include: 'Junky' - William S. Burroughs; 'On The Road', Big Sur' and many more great books by Jack Kerouac; 'Brave New World', 'Doors Of Perception', 'Antic Hay', 'Point Counter Point' and 'Eyeless In Gaza' - Aldous Huxley; 'Nineteen Eighty Four' and 'Down And Out In Paris And London' - George Orwell; 'White Fang', 'Call Of The Wild', 'Martin Eden', 'The Sea-Wolf' and much more incredible writing by Jack London; 'Women', and all his short stories and poems - Charles Bukowski; 'The Glass Bead Game' - Herman Hesse; 'Crime and Punishment' - Fyodor Dostoyevsky; 'Young Adam' - Alex Trocchi.

Heroes