Yakman

I like good food and drink; Irish pubs with singalong live music reduces my age by decades; human company when its friendly and laid back; intellectual bullshitting; smiling, laughter and happiness; full moon nights; both the sea and the mountains; sunrise & sunsets; Mother Earth; books that stir dormant grey cells; mushy movies; jazz, rock'n'roll, the blues, folk and classical stuff; walking with no particular place to go...the list is like that...a long and winding road with no full stop... In short -- am just another human being who strives (conceptually at least) to be a better human today than he was yesterday...

Like minded people. Travelers. People who are experienced nudists

Writing, Books, Music, Film, Travel, walks / hikes, food, cooking, speaking sans words...eyes that talk, dreaming, following personal streams of consciousness as one would a third party, people watching, Irish pubs (must visit at least one in each city I travel to + the mandatory pint or more Guinness) also seek out live bands that play singalong music in pubs, cuddles, conversations of varying degrees of intensity, bargain hunting...details as you get to know me and vice versa.

Easier to say what I would not listen to if given an option -- Rap (ought to be spelt with a capital 'C'!); Hip hop; House; Club; Techno - those and connected genres; Some specific commercial pop -- Spears and Carey leap to mind in frightening fashion. Having said that, here’s a random glimpse of what I do like – Dire Straits, The Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Elvis, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Jimmy Barnes, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, The Who, Cream, Strauss, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Mozart, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Eric Clapton, The Pogues, Christy Moore, Planxty, most any Celtic folk stuff, Billy Joel, Abba, Bob Marley, Kishore Kumar, Neil Diamond, Don McLean, Traffic, Queen, CCR, CSN&Y, Neil Young, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Roy Orbison, Harry Belafonte, JJ Cale, Joni Mitchell, The Band, John Mayall, Grateful Dead, Def Leppard, Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, Shirley Bassey, Joan Jett, The Clash, Ray Charles, Mumford & Sons, Traveling Wilburys…

Generally get me comedy; romance and a story-board without weird histrionics and I'm on...i.e. keep the blood, gore and horror out of entertainment... I tend to go for mushy stuff on celluloid with a few notable exceptions: All time favourites – Cinema Paradiso, Godfather I & II, Seabiscuit, Jailhouse Rock, The Untouchables, Breakfast at Tiffany, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, My Fair Lady, Sound of Music, Casablanca, When Harry Met Sally, Dr Zhivago, Love Actually, Scent of a Woman, Pride & Prejudice, Roman Holiday, Gone With The Wind, Love Story, An Officer & A Gentleman, Manhattan, To Sir With Love, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Jerry Maguire, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Must Love Dogs, Wimbledon, The Last Waltz & Shine a Light (documentaries on The Band and Rolling Stones by Scorcese), Rebel Without a Cause, The Harry Potter series, Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Juno, Sunset Boulevard, Lawrence of Arabia, Citizan Kane, ...