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Music
I am a singer in the Worship Team at New Horizons Church in Coventry. I also play classical guitar and synthesisers. I also enjoy Salsa dancing.
Favourite artists:
Electronic/ New Age Music: Tangerine Dream, Christopher Franke, Porcupine Tree, Kitaro, Klaus Schulze, Can, Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Philip Glass, Steve
Reich, Brian Eno, Popol Vuh, Space Ritual, Amon Duul 2, Mark Isham, most Wyndham Hill artists
Rock Music: Counting Crows, Yes, Captain Beefheart, Santana, Focus, Led Zeppelin, U2, Pink Floyd, early Genesis, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Alanis
Morissette, Tori Amos, Björk, Colosseum 2, Travis, R.E.M.
Jazz: Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Art Pepper, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane.
Christian: Iona, Delirious.
Classical: Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, Gyorgy Ligeti.
Photography
I am a professional freelance photographer and owner of Mark Flowers Photography.
Favourite photographers: Sebastão Salgado, Jean-Loup Sieff, John Swannell, David Bailey, Jerry Uelsmann, Bill Brandt.
Astronomy
I am a member of the British Astronomical Association and I am particularly interested in meteor astronomy.
Marathon Running
I have run 6 London Marathons, the New York Marathon twice, the Chicago Marathon, the Los Angeles Marathon and 4 Stratford-upon-Avon Marathons, my fastest
time being 3hrs 28mins 24secs in the London Marathon.
Travel
I have cycled across Israel and been involved in short term missions in Brazil, Paraguay, Poland and Ukraine. I have also visited the USA, Austria, Italy,
Switzerland, Slovenia, Liechtenstein, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, France, Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey, Mexico and Ireland.
Favourite Writers
Franz Kafka, Frank Herbert, J.R.R. Tolkien.
Favourite Artists
David Hockney, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Roger Dean, H.R. Giger, M.C. Escher, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein.
Favourite Movies
Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, Alien, Koyaanisqatsi, The Shining, Taxi Driver, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Das Boot, Jules et Jim,
Truly, Madly, Deeply, Annie Hall, The Graduate, Repulsion (Roman Polanski), Ladri di Biciclette (Bicycle Thieves), The Battleship Potemkin, Alfie.
Favourite TV shows, old and new
Seinfeld, Frasier, The Prisoner, The Larry Sanders Show, Father Ted, Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist, Wallace & Gromit, The Simpsons, Inspector Morse,
Babylon 5, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Third Rock From the Sun, Only Fools and Horses, Outside Edge, Hill Street Blues.
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