Dissecting Writers: AliP

The following questions are taken from a profile of Scottish author Ian Rankin for bookshop chain Waterstone's: http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/pages/content/1285/
Now all but two have been posed to our very own Casanova Alip.

http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poets/AliP/


What was your favourite childhood book?
  
I have been an AA Milne fan since before I was six, so when we were very young, probably was the first one, but then again when I was Six, Now we are six was my favorite.

Okay my favourite poem in the world ever and I say ever, do you hear, ever, is... Binker, which was published in Now we are six, but before I was six, when we were very young does it, because my favourite poem ever before Binker was Vespers (It taught me to submit).
  
  
Which book has made you laugh?
  
The Road to Mars - Eric Idol.
 
(Which if I ever travel on a ship will be firmly kept safe in my first aid kit, tucked in my underpants, so no-one can get it. It’s mine you hear, all mine.)
  
Which book has made you cry?
  
The road to Mars - Eric Idol.
 
(Which if I ever travel by space ship will be in my shoe box wrapped in brown paper next to my tap-shoes. If we crash-we move, Michael Flatley, eat your heart out son!)
  
Which book would you never have on your bookshelf?
  
Anything written by a vegan. I don’t buy vegan cook books. Only cannibalistic recipes for me…thanks.
  

Which book are you reading at the moment?
  
Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsch

  
Which book would you give as a present to a friend?
  
Not “The Road to Mars by Eric Idol” that’s mine; I have a batman comic…how good is this friend?
  
Which other writers do you admire?
  
Ray Hienrich “Did you see my name under the great Ray Hienrich’s in that comp recently – how cool is that? Hey?
  
Which classic have you always meant to read and never got round to it?
  
Dracula
    
What are your top five books of all time, in order or otherwise?
  
When we were six – AA Milne.
  
The Road to Mars – Eric Idol
  
Sunday Lunches – Jamie Oliver
  
The Green Mile - Stephen King
  
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
  
  
What is the worst book you have ever read?
  
Exposing Myself - Geraldo Rivera
  
  
Is there a particular book or author that inspired you to be a writer?
  
Oh yes, South African Poet, Charcois Rosario inspired me to write.

she stood there with a stick and shouted write! Write! The first 12 stick welts were fun, there after I wrote and wrote and wrote and then Irish Poet Christopher R Azzie, made me write, yes I said if Christopher can publish a bloody book, I can write millions of poems.

So I wrote millions of crap poems and Charcois beat me and I wrote and well then I heard of Ray Heinrich…The rest is history!
  
  
What is your favourite time of day to write?
  
Late at night, after performances and the kids are sleeping and I am naked at my desk and there is just me and my nakedness and a cricket and a view of the swimming pool next door... you know what’s funny...that lady next door ‘skinny dips’ at my writing time, every night.

I never realised before now, now that you ask...wow...you think she knows she is there and I am...am here...BRB!
    
And favourite place?
  
No Im not fussy Sex is Sex, if you getting it, who cares where it is.

Longhand or word processor?
  
Longhand first... and then afterwards I write...
  
Which fictional character would you most like to have met?
  
Christopher Robin...No… Winnie the Pooh...No…Tiger...Piglet yes Piglet!
  
Who, in your opinion, is the greatest writer of all time?

AA Milne.
  
Which book have you found yourself unable to finish reading?

Exposing Myself - Geraldo Rivera
  
What is your favourite word?

Devout