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My self-summary Propose an edit

Oh I hate this stuff. Not exactly sure why - because I don't think I can summarise myself in a couple of paragraphs, or because I'm worried that I can?

I like music and clubbing and reading and drinking. A curse on OK Cupid for adding the favourite books/films/music section - bang goes all my content from this bit. See below for what defines my shallow sense of self. Oh, I like vodka and hair products too.

Looking back through this I guess I'm giving a slightly false impression of myself. I don't _just_ think about music and alcohol. My anarchist politics are important to me too, but they're one part of me, same as the idiot drinker and obsessive music buyer.

I'm also a seething ball of hatred. Most of which is directed against light entertainment non entities - Robbie Williams, that bloke off DIY SOS, Jim Davidson, Trisha, that chef from yorkshire who used to be on Richard and Judy. Oh, and Avid Merion - is that his name? Him off Bo Selecta. He sucks donkey cock.

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

Keeping the worst excesses of adulthood at arms length. I work for a charity, but work is a means to an end. Friendships, art, politics, music - that's the stuff I care about.

I'm really good at Propose an edit

Writing, but I only really tend to write work stuff at the moment.

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

My inadequate camouflage.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

oh god... Well this is going to be a mix of all time favourites and cool stuff I've read/seen/heard/eaten recently.

booksbooksbooks... 'Germinal' and 'Nana' by Zola, 'Generation X' or 'Microserfs' or 'Girlfriend in a Coma' by Douglas Coupland ('Eleanor Rigby' was pretty cool too, and I'm really excited because I heard he's planning a kind of sequel to Microserfs), 'Great Apes' or 'How the Dead Live' by Will Self, a bunch of Iain Banks books, any of the Chomsky essay collections, The Iliad, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Don Quixote, Dance of Days (a history of DC punk - harDCore to Riot Grrl), Pere Goriot by Balzac. Currently reading: Down and out in paris and london.

Delicatessen, Ring, City of God, The Happiness of the katakuris, the inevitable some Hitchcock, some Kurosawa. Shaun of the dead. Land and Freedom. My mind's a blank at the moment, there must be more films that I like.

This is going to mark me out for geekdom, but I quite like crappy films, either of the bad 80s teen movie or 50s sci-fi variety, so it was a bit of a joy to discover MST3K.

Punk, indie, hardcore, folk, electropop, Fugazi, Beat Happening, Dead Kennedys, !!!, Martin Carthy, Liars, Born Against, Lungfish, Ikara Colt, Kaito, Erase Errata, No means no, Futureheads, Minor Threat, Swans, Joy Division, Art Brut, Nic Jones, Crass, Nation of Ulysses, Owls, Red Monkey, Bellowhead, Joan of Arc, Black Eyes, Q and not U, Gossip, Throbbing Gristle, Huggy Bear, Bikini Kill, Kate Rusby, Le Tigre, Mid 70s reggae/dub, 20s/30s blues (Bessie Smith, Blind Blake, Charlie Patton etc), San Diego hardcore (Heroin, Angel Hair, Antioch Arrow, Swing Kids), The Smiths, some techno and weird electronic stuff, folk, Soukous. I seem to be going through a goth (or at least goth influenced) phase at the moment - Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, the new 2 lone swordsmen album, the 2nd Faint album, plus I have a hankering to get some Alien Sex Fiend... Oh, and London goths will appreciate this, I really enjoyed going to B Movie - proper 80s goth, none of this dull industrial nonsense. The new DFA compilation rules. As does Laibach's cover of One Vision.

Garlic mashed potato with a pinch of cumin, anything with noodles, cashew stuffed aubergines, just did a mushroom bake with an almond sauce that was nice, oyster mushrooms with a soya cream and garlic sauce, jerk spiced tempeh with a butternut squash curry... inventive vegan food basically.

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

Music. the feeling you get when joy division's transmission comes on in a club. cheap vodka and red bull in wetherspoons. i'll have to think of more stuff soon. that's only 3. well 2 really.

I have more - books. ok, it's an obvious one and everyone says this, but it's true. Can't imagine my life without books.

I just stole this from someone else's list, but it is true - nightbuses

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

IT solutions.

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

Hopefully at a club. I like being somewhere with good music and people I like. I love dancing. I really love the feeling you get when you've drunk enough vodka and the dancefloor feels like the best place in the world.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

I saw the sultans of ping fc live once. Hey, I was young(er), and you have to admit 'where's me jumper?' was a great song.

Oh, and I don't really think about IT solutions. The marketing guys said it would appeal to a more switched on, 'now' demographic.

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