"I just can't help believing though believing sees me cursed..."

Apparently, I'm a twisted sort of fellow. But you won't know it for a while, as I tend to stay quietly in the corner. Which is something I'm trying to work on. I build pirate ships and write stories about talking typewriters and other such frippery.

I tend to not notice where I'm walking. But I've only walked into a lamppost once.

Looking after computers and things at a school in Oxford. It can be more fun than it sounds, especially when my imagination runs away with me. Have a few dreams of writing that I'm pursuing, and I can often be found making new sweet combinations in the kitchen at the weekend!

Going off at tangents, long passionate diatribes about pop groups, and a curious fascination with American politics. And coming up with false histories and guides for American friends about the subtleties of British life. I leave out the more horrible bits (black pudding is just...so wrong, and it turns out I never fully realised the implications of Daddies Sauce until my friends pointed it out whilst laughing hysterically).

That I blush easily. Very easily.

(a)Charade, The Red Shoes, Matewan, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Mallrats, The Hot Rock, A Life Less Ordinary, All The President's Men, The Princess Bride, Tombstone, Die Hard, Amelie, Hard Boiled, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, A Matter of Life And Death, Two For The Road, The Life And Death of Colonel Blimp, Heat, In The Mood For Love, Withnail and I, The Snowman, The Incredibles, Toy Story, Bringing Up Baby, What's Up Doc?, The Philadelphia Story, To Kill A Mockingbird, Good Night, and Good Luck, The Wire.

(b) Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, Fear and Loathing on The Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson, The Invisibles by Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Jane Eyre Charlotte Bront�, Words & Music by Paul Morley, The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Doom Patrol (Grant Morrison again), Low-life (Luc Sante), The Power Broker (Robert Caro), V for Vendetta , Watchmen (both Alan Moore), G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, the Jeeves & Wooster series by P.G. Wodehouse

(c)New Order, Los Campesinos!,Kenickie, Johnny Boy, R.E.M., Sleater-Kinney, Neko Case, ABC, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Orange Juice, Jackie Lee, Saint Etienne, Annie, Rachel Stevens, The New Pornographers, The Flaming Lips, Heavenly, Heaven 17, The Human League, Patti Smith, Hole, M.I.A., Idlewild, Electrelane, Super Furry Animals, Robyn, The Pipettes, Radiohead, Junior Senior, Girls Aloud, Black Box Recorder, The Dresden Dolls, The Go! Team, and countless others.

(d) Mexican, Asian, some Indian, Cadbury's Mini-eggs and almost anything with cinnamon in it!

1. My friends. Incredibly corny, I know, but I wouldn't have lasted through the last few years without their support and friendship.

2. Music. I'm hopeless if I don't hear at least one song during the day. (yes, quite silly)

3. Pencil and some paper. I don't write as much as I'd like, but I do love sitting down and creating new worlds to play in.

4. Erm...struggling now. Pesto! Who knew that basil and pine nuts would go together SO well?

5. My camera - it's a bit old and battered now, but it normally comes with me on all my travels.

6. Showers! All my best writing thoughts happen in the shower. I also seem to be under the impression that it improves my singing voice. Deep down, I know This Is A Lie, but it doesn't stop me from singing...

Music (though I must point out that I can't play a note), politics/the state of the world, writing, and what to read next.

Most likely watching a movie. Nothing exciting, I'm afraid. Though I can often be found somewhere in London trying to find a concert venue!

I still think Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now" is a good record!

...you'd like to? If you'd like hearing somebody who may rant on about how New Order's "Temptation" is the greatest song in the world ever made, and then might spend the next half-hour quiet before launching into a lament on the passing of multi-storey car-parks and other Brutalist wonders. Or if you'd like to know how to make aero bars in your own kitchen...