//INTERESTS//As mentioned above, my main interests are supernatural fiction, fashion, industrial and synthpop, clubbing and rambling. I'm also a keen keyboardist and love to play the piano, harpsichord and church organ. I like keeping up-to-date with what's happening in the world of electronic and defense engineering, and writing little bits and bobs of code in C++.
//WHO I'D LIKE To MEET//Phil Oakie, Thomas Dolby, Gary Numan...all these guys appeal to me because they seem unaffected and humorous, despite being total synthpop wizards! A chat with Nick Cave could be interesting, as he seems to have so many layers to his personality and writes as well as making music. I'd like to shake Gwen Stefani's hand too as she's been massively influential in bringing style back into pop music lately. In the "real world" I'd like to meet people who ideally share some of my interests and can think for themselves. Pretentious intellectuals and drama queens are especially welcome, especially if they have good taste in miserable/angry-sounding music ;)
//MUSIC//80s synthpop/electroclash - Depeche Mode, Alphaville, Gary Numan, John Foxx, Peaches, Fischerspooner, DMX Krew...Goth - The Cure, Bauhaus, Fields Of The Nephilim, Nick Cave, Sisters Of Mercy...Industrial/Noise/EBM - Skinny Puppy, Stromkern, Sister Machine Gun, Needle Sharing, P.A.L, Panzer AG, some Apoptygma Berserk...Baroque/Renaissance music - Alessandro & Domenico Scarlatti, J S Bach, Jean Philippe Rameau, Francois Couperin, John Stanley...
//MOVIES//Pretty much all my favourite movies are horror films - Night Of The Hunter, Eyes Without A Face, I Walked With A Zombie, Ringu, The Audition, Suspiria, Tenebrae, Duel - though I can also be persuaded to watch anything involving cyborgs, e.g. Hardware or the first two parts of the Terminator trilogy. I also have a soft spot for 80s teen movies like "Top Gun" and "Pretty In Pink" and anything involving John Waters.
//TELEVISION//I mainly watch the telly for comedy (e.g. I'm Alan Partridge, Kath and Kim, Fawlty Towers, Darkplace, Look Around You) and any wildlife documentary that will feed my love of birds, cats and walrus.
//BOOKS//I'll read any old rubbish, especially if it's horror or crime writing, but my favourite books at the moment are "The Orchid Trilogy" by Jocelyn Brookes, "Maurice" by E M Forster, "Room At The Top" by John Braine, "The Owl Service" by Alan Garner, "The Hellbound Heart" by Clive Barker, "Dirty Weekend" by Helen Zahavi, "No Night Is Too Long" by Ruth Rendell, and the ghost stories of M R James, H Russell Wakefield, E F Benson, Arthur Machen, Terry Lamsley, Ramsey Campbell and Robert Aickman.
//HEROES//Carl McCoy from Fields Of The Nephilim - so dusty, yet so dignified...Diana Rigg for playing Emma Peel in The Avengers...Dolf Lundgren for being a blonder, and therefore better, version of Arnold Schwarzenegger (he has a degree in Chemical Engineering too you know!)...the author Jocelyn Brooke for being so suave and such a great writer...