“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ”
― William S. Burroughs

"Don't you know there's no Devil there's only God when he's drunk" - Tom Waits

"I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities" - Ayn Rand

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

"The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill." -Robert Anton Wilson

"Fuck me and marry me young" - Sisters of Mercy

You will note that my religion is listed as "Other and laughing about it", whatever your position in regards to religion if you're not laughing about it we probably won't get on.

Trying to get myself back in shape. Mostly through the use of kettlebells and bodyweight exercise but I'm hoping to take a shot at P90x soon. I also want to do more indoor climbing as it's good for all round fitness.

Teaching myself ukulele and Gàidhlig but not getting very far.
Becoming a citizen of Australia

Currently my handlebar moustache followed by my accent.

My favourite authors are: Neil Gaiman, Ayn Rand, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Robert Anton Wilson, Lon Milo DuQuette, Christopher Hyatt, H G Wells, P G Wodehouse, Jules Verne, George Orwell, Julian Vayne, Carl Jung, Brene Brown, Camden Benares, William S Burroughs, Malaclypse the Younger, Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Colleridge, Grandmaster Armadillo Curmudgeon, Cynthia Bourgeault,

Some of my favourite films are Quills, Preaching To The Perverted, The Libertine, Repo: The Genetic Opera, Strangeland, I Heart Huckabees, Ghost Dog, The Crow, Limitless, The Edukators, Pi: Faith In Chaos, Pandaemonium, Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle, Altered States, Dances Sacred and Profane, Mirrormask, Stardust, Idiocracy, The Tribe, Solid Geometry, Intacto, Open Your Eyes, Videodrome, Naked Lunch, A Dangerous Method, Believers, A Scanner Darkly, The Number 23, Revolver, Brazil

Musically I listen to a range of stuff from ska to rockabilly, punk to folk, deathrock to classical, jazz manouche to dark ambient. I also listen to experimental and avant garde genres, which I used to play when I had a weekly radio station on 4zzz 102.1FM. My favourite bands/artists are Coil, Amanda Palmer, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Death Pact International, The Specials, Reverend Horton Heat, Demented Are Go, The Meteors, Dropkick Murphys, Oi Polloi, The Oppressed, An t-Uabhas, Mill a h-Uile Rud, Black Flag, and Jay Munly.
More recently I've been getting into a lot of gàidhlig singers such as Kathleen MacInnes, Fiona J. Mackenzie, Julie Fowlis, Alasdair Whyte among others.

My cat

23, 8 circuit model, altered states of consciousness, anarcho-dandyism, apocrypha discordia, celtic fc, coil, discordianism, eris, ewige blumenkraft, ewige schlangenkraft, gnosticism, gàidhlig, immortality, intelligence increase, irreality, life extension, magick, mma, neuroscience, principia discordia, quaternion fractals, ritual magic, space migration, steampunk, stream of consciousness, temple ov psychick youth, thunder perfect mind, transhumanism, amongst other things.

Redheads are my kryptonite.

I have a Fetlife account.

I lost a follower on Tumblr because I posted a picture of my naked arse (I was hitching up the back of a kilt)

You are Amanda Palmer
You can teach me Gàidhlig
You can teach me to play ukulele or cello
You are a Transhumanist
You adhere to the Law of Fives
Ewige blumenkraft!