Some people love making lists. I’m one of them. Such a feeling of accomplishment when you have achieved some of the goals on a list.

Reading lists others have made can sometimes inspire you to thoughts of your own.

It’s an interesting exercise, something to think about. My lists change all the time.

Here’s the latest.

Books I’m writing: Beyond the Butthole ~ The Wasted Noodle or How to Turn your Software into Hardware ~ Licking Hot Water ~ The Diary of a Desperate Soul (so original) ~ The Fate of Sentient Beings ~ Suburban Mania ~ Why ALL Drugs Should Be Legal

My Heroes: Phillip Adams ~ Gough Whitlam ~ Peter Singer ~ Krishnamurti ~ George Carlin, with reservations ~ John Pilger ~ Lenny Bruce ~ The Dalai Lhama

Fav Dress Designer: Wendel Rodericks

My Predicted Date of Death: 11 November 2017 (got that from an internet site)

Must Do’s before death: Learn to Tango ~ Play blues on saxophone ~ finish a sandstone sculpture ~ paint something satisfying

Fav Music: Flushed Down the Toilet of Your Heart ~ Two Cigarettes in the Ashtray ~ Pergolisi’s Stabat Mater ~ Erotica by Madonna ~ Doowop songs from the 50s

Fav Books: Like Water for Chocolate ~ The Gormanghast Trilogy ~ A Winters Tale ~

Fav Movies: Baron Munchausen ~ A Zed and Two Noughts ~ Blue Hawaii ~ Frida ~ The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Fav Foods: Matjes Herrings ~ Dark Chocolate, preferably liquer-filled ~ Peanut Butter ~ Prawn Omelettes ~ Gado Gado ~ Natural Oysters ~Strawberries ~ Pancakes with bacon & Maple Syrup ~ Red Jam & Marscopone on warm croissants ~ Enchiladas ~ anything at a French restaurant especially crème brulee ~ Hot Curries

Banned from my Soul: anyone who likes John Howard ~ or George Bush ~ Bible bashing bigots, religious zealots ~ Bullies who abuse their petty powers

Some people I would’ve liked to have met: Kahlil Gibran – because he loved a woman he wrote to for 40 years without ever meeting.

~ Sylvia Plath – if she’d had the right friends she might not have put her head in the oven.

~ Virginia Wolfe – for the same sort of reason, she needed someone there to help her get over that urge to put stones in her pockets and drown herself.

~ LM Montgomery ~ Madame Blavatsky