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About Zettel
Left school at 16. Taught PE and later Philosophy at Kings in London. I have a passion for the movies and a love of theatre. 20 years in the Oil Industry paid the mortgage while we raised two of the best kids in the world. Since early retirement doing what I want writing. Member of Writewords since 2004 improving my writing skills across genres. I have posted about 70 Film and 2 Theatre Reviews, Poetry, Short Stories, Journalism, Humour. I have reached a time of my life when I have decided to do a few things that scare the s*** out of me, so have begun to read my own poetry occasionally at the Poetry Society Open Mike evenings at the Poetry Cafe in London. Still scares me - but sort of fun. My first, and perhaps last, flying lesson upcoming in 2006.
If you wish to browse and/or read any of my work on writewords please go to writewords.org.uk/keith_farman
Musically I was raised on the early rock n roll greats Jerry Lee Lewis, Everlys, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly Little Richard. All of whom I saw perform live - except Buddy - lost all my money at poker the week before (don't gamble any more). Since then notably: Dylan, (Dr) Buffy Sainte Marie, Cash, Willie Nelson, Nanci Griffith, Don Maclean etc. Just discovered a superb Sami (Lapp/Norwegian) singer Marie Boine (Petersen) who fuses traditional Sami joik music with modern rock.
Books/Authors: Catch-22, Middlemarch, all of Camus and Wittegenstein, Simone Weil, and recently a marvellous book called Native Heart by Native American Gabriel Horn aka White Deer of Autumn.
Movies: so many includes The Third Man, Singin in The Rain, 3-Iron, Lost In Translation, Notre Music, Saraband.
Love The West Wing the best TV series ever written.
Disgusted with Blair Bush and contemporary UK politics.
'Zettel' comes from the title of a posthumus Ludwig Wittgenstein book made up of thoughts found after his after his death written on hundreds of little scraps of paper. 'Zettel' means in German 'a little piece of paper'.
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