Hi there,

In true online profile and British introversion style, I find it's really difficult to know what to put here. Although I'm technically a scientist, and I do love science because it's awesome n all, I do like to think there's more to me than that. I can happily wax lyrical about what the best Hitchcock or the best 90s action film is with ease, or maybe the most amazing live music experience I've ever had or maybe the best Simpsons episode. (Rear Window, Con Air, Sigur Ros, Marge vs. the Monorail respectively; just so you know where we might stand...) I do love live music. And G&Ts. And the British countryside. And creative swearing. And photographing sunsets...but in like a manly way. And Articulate. And petrichor. And...ellipsis...

Living in North London, work in clinical research, both of which ain't half bad. It keeps me off the streets.

recognising actors and being able to tell you what films they've been in....this is my worth as a member of society.

The fact I look almost nothing like Dame Maggie Smith.

Well now...

City of God, LA Confidential, Eternal Sunshine, Groundhog Day, LotR, Some Like It Hot, The Graduate, Casablanca, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, In Bruges, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Hitchcock, Coens, Charlie Kaufman, Ghibli, The Andersons PT and Wes, Tarantino, Pixar, Nolan, the mid 90s action films of Nicolas Cage, Die Hard, Bond, Shawshank Redemption...I could go on for a while...

The National, The Decemberists, Neutral Milk Hotel, Arcade Fire, Frightened Rabbit, Sufjan Stevens, Dylan, Cohen, Zeppelin, Stones, Dirty Projectors, Sigur Ros, St Vincent, Slow Club, Joanna Newsom, Admiral Fallow, TV on the Radio, Radiohead, Flight of the Conchords, Animal Collective, Vampire Weekend, Mastodon, Baroness, Antlers, Spoon, Of Monsters and Men, New Pornographers, the many works of Spencer Krug, again this list could go on for a while...

Arrested Development, The Wire, The Simpsons, Mad Men, Father Ted, Black Books, Community, Spaced, Friends, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Archer, Parks and Rec, Flight of the Conchords, New Girl, Blackadder, American Dad, South Park, Chuck...you get the idea...

Catch 22, Ellroy, Atwood, Chandler, Tolkein, Pullman, David Mitchell (not the comedian but I do love him), Hammett (I like my noir), smattering of sci-fi and fantasy - Philip K Dick, Vonnegut, Greg Keyes, Guy Gavriel Kay. I have a book length interview between Hitchcock and Truffaut which I will get round to reading soon, but it's a little large and/or pretentious to crack out on the bus. Currently chunking through A Song of Ice and Fire.

Erm...pretty much most food, except olives; they can go to hell.

The internets
My phone...unfortunately.
My family, standard
My friends, standarderer
My limbs
The song Tunnels by Arcade Fire.

why no one ever uses the word whelmed....

Probably a little bit drunk...but in a sophisticated, Wildean way....possibly.

I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

You like guys who look almost nothing like Dame Maggie Smith.