I've lived in various cities in the north and have seemed to have lost touch with people along the way... I am married, have a teenage daughter from a previous relationship and am avidly social!

My size, I seem to take up more room than is reasonable considering my height and girth. Also, everything looks small in my hands; this is not a euphemism...

Authors rather than books. Charles Bukowski, Jim Goad, HP Lovecraft, Walter Moseley, George Orwell, Iain Banks, Hunter S Thompson, Michael Connelly, John Fante, Robert E Howard, Carl Hiaasen, Terry Pratchett, PJ O'Rourke, Raymond Chandler, Clark Ashton Smith, Iain M Banks, Ernest Hemingway, Peter Robinson, Al Franken, Will Self, AL Kennedy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lawrence Block.

Films - Hana-bi, Miller's Crossing, Once Were Warriors, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Highlander, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Jaws, Evil Dead, Casablanca, Temporada de patos, Bladerunner, This Is England, Blue Velvet, No Country For Old Men, Princess Bride, It's A Wonderful Life, Ong Bak, Clerks.

According to the mighty Last.fm I mostly listen to in descending order, Tom Waits, Godflesh, Keef Baker, Ministry, Johnny Cash, System of a Down, Dead Can Dance, Clutch, PJ Harvey, Napalm Death, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, DJ Shadow, Fear Factory, The Berzerker, Mastodon, Jesu, White Zombie, Aphex Twin, Killing Joke, Killswitch Engage, Slayer, In Flames, 36 Crazyfists, Isis, 16 Horsepower, Cyanotic, Face Down, Kyuss, Beastie Boys, Björk, Roadrunner United, My Ruin, Ultraviolence, Pitchshifter, Public Enemy, Soundgarden, Revolting Cocks, Fudge Tunnel, Dead Kennedys, Brutal Truth, Six Feet Under, Conflict, Pig Destroyer, Baby Gramps, Rollins Band, Chimaira, The Damage Manual, Pelican, Electro Hippies. I also love opera and gloomy Germanic classical stuff too.

Drinking cava!