Blogging at the speed of life

About me…

The amusing anecdotes of a reluctant thirty-something British man in London mildly obsessed by all things film, comedy, media, music, relationships, the internet world and this thing we call … life.

Quotes:

As a drunken wife-of-a-friend once said: “Now that I know you, I’m getting to like you”. Read into that what you will…

Self-description

My friends would probably describe me as being someone with always something interesting to say that grabs their attention (for good or evil).

I pride myself on my dark, dry, cynical and occasionally outrageous sense of humour. I can always see the darkly funny side of (almost) everything. Then again, if I can only see a lightly funny side in something, I’ll use that too. Whatever the tools are at my disposal. I tend to improvise and just use things around me instead - which can be far funnier. Either that or rip off lines from a stand-up comedian I’ve just seen and hope you won’t notice ;-)

I’ve got a little of the ol’ wanderlust in me. I’ve lived in West London, Bradford, Baton Rouge, Cardiff, Manchester, traveled all over the world (Vietnam, Egypt, Hong Kong to name but a few) and lived in the United States for a year. But I’m equally at home playing silly games and watching music videos, or reading The Guardian. Sometimes both - it’s amazing how flexible my fingers can be :-)

Film is an absolute passion of mine - sitting in a darkened room totally sucked into the vision or the story on-screen is just about one of the best ways to spend an afternoon. Then talking about it afterwards!

I seem to be drawn towards strong electronica music with a good beat (man), preferably with strong lyrics and strong female vocals. However, my preference for strong lyrics tends to leave out most dance tracks.

I’m a slightly contradictory mix of being able to name pretty much every kink you can think of (my first job was reviewing erotic books!), and at the same time being savvy enough to know the most dangerous/exhilerating thing of all is to exchange emotions.

Favourite films (so far):

Almost Famous, Amelie, Annie Hall, Armageddon, Brazil, Chungking Express, Clerks, Desperado, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Face/Off, Farewell My Concubine, Fight Club, Four Wedding and a Funeral, Goodbye Lenin, Hero, It’s A Wonderful Life, Jacob’s Ladder, Kill Bill 2, Last Night, Love Actually, Mo deng bao biao, One Night at McCool’s, Pulp Fiction, The Quiet Earth, Rouge, The Rock, Shakespeare In Love, The Tall Guy, Twelve Monkeys, oooh… the list goes on!

Hated Fargo, but not as much as the excrement waste produce that is Nowhere

Here is my Internet Movie Database vote history.

Favourite music artists:

So in no particular order, my favourite artists are: Pet Shop Boys, Saint Etienne, Garbage, Kylie Minogue, Goldfrapp, Moby, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, New Order, Propellerheads, Black Box Recorder, Faithless, Snow Patrol, Robbie Williams, Queen, Daft Punk, Madonna, The Polyphonic Spree, Kosheen, Texas, David Arnold, Delerium, Royksopp, Joss Stone and Portishead. To name but a few.


Favourite tunes of the moment:

See what else I’ve been listening to…

Favourite TV shows

Mainly comedies, sci-fi and news programmes. So we’re talking Family Guy, Simpsons, Newsnight, and maybe Doctor Who. My favourite TV show of all time just has to be Spaced. Run and watch it now.

Ye olde favourites who have gone up to TV Heaven include Pinky and the Brain, Frasier, Seinfeld, Red Dwarf, and News Radio.

Favourite books:

High Fidelity, Stark, Microserfs, Things can only get better, Rebel Without A Clue, Making History.

No, not the most widely-read person on the planet, alas.

Personality:

According to a non-Scientology personality test, I’m an ENFP (Extraverted Intuition with Introverted Feeling) on the Myers-Briggs test.

Interests:

acting, almost famous, amnesty international, amélie, anime, asian cinema, asian films, asian food, bad puns, banquets, bbc, being happy, being silly, ben elton, blackadder, bradford, britain, britcom, british chinese food, british politics, burlesque, cartoons, chester, chinatown, chinese, chinese cinema, chinese food, cinema, comedy, comment whoring, cooking, creativity, cult films, cult tv, cynicism, dancing when nobody’s looking, dim sum, directing, disused tube stations, doctor who, drama, dvds, eddie izzard, edinburgh, electronica, environment, family guy, films, food, foreign film, frequent flyer, friends, fun, gadgets, garbage, geeks, independent film, irish accent, irony, james bond, japan, japanese food, journalism, liberals, liverpool, london, looney tunes, making people laugh, manchester, mediawhores, movies, muppets, music, music videos, new friends, new york, night sky, open minds, pasta, personal growth, photography, playstation3, pop culture, propellerheads, psychology, pubs, rain, random acts of silliness, random questions, randomness, reading, recycling, red, red dwarf, rice, san francisco, sarcasm, satire, sci-fi, science fiction, sex and the city, sexual innuendo, sf&f, sleep, smut, snow, space, spaced, spitting image, starbucks, stephen fry, sunsets, sushi, tea, technology, television, terry gilliam, the avengers, the mary whitehouse experience, the matrix, the simpsons, the underground, the young ones, tokyo, tolerance, top gear, travel, twitter, uk, uk politics, united kingdom, urban decay, vampires, video, videogames, wii, wong kwar wai, woody allen movies, writing

Travel:
I’ve been in:

Links:
I’m also to be found on these sites:

Lifestream links: (a feed of everything I’m doing online!)

Wish Lists:
Of course, no self-egotistical blog would be complete without a wishlist: