Archaeologist, brought up in the middle east, now living in london. After a ping-pong related incident (sporting injury) over the summer, I am now having difficulty walking unaided. Once I have a life again, I shall pad this section out further.

As to music, I'm a big folk music fan, by which I mean a person who likes folk a lot, and not somebody very large who likes folk. I'm also a big fan of Electronica in general, industrial music in particular and quite a lot of things that sound like a man in an empty room hitting a pipe with a chain. I also like a lot of Punk and Goth music, although I'll be the first to admit that this depends greatly on personal definitions of genres. I also like, while I appear to be using this confessional format, bluegrass and some grassroots hip-hop, trip-hop (less grass-roots, as I'm entirely unable to reconcile the two concepts, ) tradional arabic and turkish music, a lot of rather well-known bands c. 1950-1970. I'm also quite a fan of the comic song, although I tend to find them difficult to dance to.

At present? I'm essentially trying to give myself a little peace - I'm applying to some digs around the UK, as I think a few months out of it (tm) would sort me out pretty well. I hope so, anyway. I'm also trying to get publication as a graphic novel artist, and I seem to be surprisingly close.

Blagging it (tm,) excavation, juggling, picking up bits of languages, rolling comedically bad cigarettes and making a bloody tit of myself.

It depends on situation, really. I occasionally wear seriously over the top face-paint when I'm going out, so that might get noticed. some people notice that I walk with a limp and a stick, which tends to stand out. The occasional person notices my eyes, which are quite a bright green. Depending on the occasion, I may also be bellowing gibberish.

Music, I appear to have jumped the gun on and covered in the "about me" section.

Movies? I like Daren Aranofsky, I quite like the Cohen Brothers and I enjoy Veim Herzog, although I need to see more of his films.

Books, now, books. I read a lot: I'm lysdexic, so it's quite slow, but as long as I can remember I have loved reading. I like some sci-fi, quite a lot of sci-fi, and fantasy, atlhough I'm less obsessive over that than once I was. I like, for some reason, a lot of slavic literature - it's a style thing, I suppose. I like Tolstoy, and have enjoyed what Dostoyevsky as I have read, as well as Stanislaw Lem and (new line for dramatic effect)

particularly Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

At present? Cigarettes, somebody to sing with, my walking stick (for largely practical reasons,) a way to find new songs, a laugh and a way out.

many things. 42 and all that. Religion (unspecified,) where to go from here. I spend a lot of the time thinking about being at sea (which I have not done much since I was a child.)

usually with friends. either out or in, but I do like having people around at the moment. Either that, or I'll be at home, covered in ink.

is probably mentioned on this profile somewhere. I dislike broadcasting particularly personal stuff, but more than willing to talk about pretty much anything in a face-to-face (or inbox-to-inbox) manner.

You fancy a chat, you like folk music, you're curious. Just message me if you have a reason to want to do so, basically. So... yeah.