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I'm becoming increasingly enstranged with the society I live in. The State is busily raping civil liberties behind our backs, corporations are eating away at the public sector underneath our noses, the disasterous consequences of Western imperialism are looming over our heads, and an increasingly volatile underclass is growing beneath our feet, yet all that lies in front of our eyes are pretty little talent shows, gossip magazines, and tabloid headlines about how wasted some stinking rich talentless celebrity got the other night. Nothing like a bit of decadence to keep us all distracted and under sedition! Yes, corporate oppression reigns supreme, and the ignorant nazi following the BNP are building up proves once and for all that divide and conquer will unfortunately always be easier than peace and understanding. A shitty state of affairs to be honest, but at least I'll always have the Royalty Pub just a few hundred yards away! I'm at Sunderland Uni studying Politics and Criminology. Music is my bread and butter though, alot of it being politically subversive punk, hardcore and anarcho. I play guitar, write songs and jam with others when I get the occasion to, but no band off the ground yet. Along with my music, I also read alot and I spend alot of time writing down my thoughts and ideas - usually on music, youth subculture, and socio-political issues. I am a radical activist with the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), and a phone conversation I had once with one of their chief organisers was cut short because I had to head off to a politics lecture.....on Margaret Thatcher. Oh it just says so much! I might be getting into some freelance journalism over the next couple of years too, which is great cos not only are there plenty of ideas that need communicating, but the north-east punk scene is pretty cool too. Have already managed to struggle through an interview with Loudmouth during soundcheck! Things that interest me include going to gigs, grassroots politics, the anarcho-punk movement, pub quizzes, cheap beer, reading, writing, travelling, watching films, and finding creative ways to waste time in the house with Callie, Steph, Beccy, Wes and Steve. Things that repel me include authoritarianism, capitalism, religious extremism and organised religion in general, New Labour, corporate welfare, US and British imperialism, idealism, bigoted social intolerance, willful ignorance, celebrity culture and other chickenshit mind-numbing media, and the current naive preoccupation with emo that I seem to come across in alot of people nowadays, most of whom have no idea what real emo-core actually is or where it came from......I also hate pigeons, they fly at my head.