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Max

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About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorI got a bit bored of having the survey thing here, so I thought I'd write something that is "About Me". Hmm. It's harder than you might think.I am 17, live in Boldmere, Birmingham etc. I'm a Christian, member of the Liberal Democrats and student.I quite like music, but I'm afraid I couldn't say "music is my life" without being a big liar. I like it, but I'm not disciplined enough to cultivate any real "music taste" and think it's a pity that some people that stick to one genre. I'm often drunk enough to dance, but have yet to be drunk enough to sing in public, and expect that hypothetical level of intoxication would pose a severe threat to my life. Not picky about drink actually. Well, I am sort of. I like lager, although I have to have had a few before Carling or Foster tastes positively nice. Beer+Ale always goes down well, as does nice cider, wine (red or white), cocktails, liquers, and most spirits although drinking pure vodka is foul. Just buy other spirits or liquers., as they are better.What else do people normally talk about here? Friends? Well, people in school include Alex H, Bailey, James F, James M, James K (they are an eclectic trio), Francis, Davies, Jordan, Nick, and a few others I will have forgotten. Although generally speaking I get on with most people, and there are a couple of dozen people that I'd miss if they weren't there. Out of school we have Alex S, Becca, Jo, Matt A, Emily, Abi et al, and definitely the case here there are a lot of people I don't see enough of.What else? I am doing A-Levels: Politics, Philosophy and English with the side order of General Studies, and am applying to University to read Philosophy and English Literature. 5 offers so far, from East Anglia, Reading and Sheffield, Sussex and York, waiting on Durham.

My Interests

Football, Real Ale, Politics (Specifically the Liberal Democrats), Linguistics, Philosophy, Theology, Having a Nice Lie-In, Having a Nice Cup of Tea, Squash...

I'd like to meet:

Marcus Brigstocke, for this: "Imagine if the UK flipped on its axis? You'd get loads of confused Scottish blokes in the south of France..."
Scot: "wut's tha?"
French: "zat is ze sun"
Scot: "oh reight, it's burning ma eyes!'
French: "do not look directly at it"
Scot: "I cannae help it, it's amazing!"

Music:

Blur, Oasis, The Bee Gees, Panic! At the Disco, Boy Least Likely To, The Killers, Electric Light Orchestra, Hard-Fi, Faithless, Arctic Monkeys, R.E.M., Anberlin, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Funeral For a Friend, Offspring, Green Day, Phil Collins, Scissor Sisters, Xtet, Athlete, The Beatles, Beck, Franz Ferdinand, Maroon 5, The Kinks, Status Quo, The Streets, FallOut Boy, Less Than Jake, Slipknot, BC Camplight, MC Lars, Billy Talent, The Smashing Pumpkins, Say Anything, The Mamas And the Papas, Linkin Park, Mike and the Mechanics, Shiny Toy Guns, Ali Love, I Say Marvin, Pull Tiger Tail, "Battle Hymn of the Republic", Carole King, Stone Sour...

Movies:

Schindler's List, Pirates of the Carribean, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Goodfellas, The Silence of the Lambs, Finding Nemo, Amelie, The Matrix, Fight Club, Alien, The Incredibles, Toy Story, (I+II), Shrek, Big Fish, Les Diaboliques, Trainspotting, Trains Planes and Automobiles, Monsters Inc, Bowling for Columbine, Peter's Friends, Platoon, Inherit The Wind, Full Metal Jacket...

Television:

Futurama, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Dead Ringers, Question Time, Nip/Tuck, Father Ted, Scrubs, The West Wing, Without A Trace, Black Books...

Books:

Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), Animal Farm (Orwell), Incompetence (Grant), Fat (Grant), Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon), The Day of the Triffids (Wyndham), The God of Small Things (Roy), The Go-Between (Hartley), Cloud Atlas (Mitchell), We Need To Talk About Kevin (Shriver), Kite Runner (Hosseini), The Naked Jape (Carr), Things Fall Apart (Achebe), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey), The Midwich Cuckoos (Wyndham), Lolita (Nabokov)...