Mark - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hey hey, moved down south to Guildford about 18 months ago leaving beloved Scotland and Edinburgh (sob!) behind to start a cool high-tech consultancy job having finished my degree .
I'm a bit of a knowledge junkie, I like to generally just know things. The subject is mostly irrelevent, there's interest in most things at some level or another. I guess that probably makes me a bit of a geek but hey, ignorance really isn't cool. Anyhow, I play and write a lot of guitar, generally pretty hardcore stuff
I'm heavily into both music and films, owning gratuitous amounts of both, which has lead me to a state of merry poverty not helped by my love for the occasional beverage...
I have accidentally bought the biggest sofa in the world. Truly it is a chair of the gods. I may have to buy a bigger TV and put on a lot of weight to compensate....
I think we should test cosmetics on animal rights activists.
I want a cat.
Speaking of... it bothers me a little that I'm more like catwoman than batman. Just doesn't sit right with me, but hey, Spiderman is good (I am intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility :-)!
You are Spider-Man Spider-Man 80% Iron Man 65% Green Lantern 60% Catwoman 55% Hulk 50% Batman 45% Robin 43% The Flash 40% Superman 35% Supergirl 33% Wonder Woman 28% You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.
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My Interests

Music I guess is a pretty big one. I like to play guitar and I write a lot of songs mainly in the heavy and harcore school of metal! I have spent more money than is reasonable on CDs and I do watch an awful lot of DVDs... Aside from these vices, I do enjoy a good drink, a bit of a read (books are beginning to replace CDs as my favorite frivolous purchase) and a little dance now and again. Oh, and drinking Coke, I drink a lot of Coke (it's just so good and so chemically addictive!)

I'd like to meet:

The guy who invented Tie-Dyeing so I can erase him from history and thus avert the major international disaster that is hippies.

Music:

Lots and lots of it. Notable examples and current favorites go out to: Scarlet, Atreyu, Killswitch Engage, Chimaira, Trivium, 36 Crazyfists, Fear Factory, Eighteen Visions, Lamb of God, Bullet For My Valentine, Muse, Still Remains, Static-X, Norma Jean, Cold... God I could go on all day you know, but I won't. I also think "Stronger" by the Sugababes is a really nice song

Movies:

There are many. I'll keep the list short: "The Way of The Gun" (very cool, full of unspoken dialogue!), "The Matrix Trilogy" (Okay, the second one was a bit "ooh look what I can do with my many many cameras" but I loved 1 and 3!), "The Crow" (very dark, very stylish!), anything by Kevin Smith, "Star Wars" (because I'm a boy and a geek), "Antitrust" (I find this to be a strangely motivating "I will be the best at what I do" kind of film). Oh and "Serenity" (The film of Joss Whedon's Firefly series, I was at the world premier don't you know!!)

Television:

24, Firefly (sooo good), Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Invader Zim, X-files, Scrubs

Books:

Generally Sci-Fi stuff with notable mentions going to Richard Morgan (for poorly justified yet somehow acceptable uses of extreme violence), Peter F Hamilton - Nights Dawn Trilogy (just huge) and Nick Sagan - "Idlewild" (weird, nihilistic and written in an appealingly offhand manner)

Heroes:

We don't need another hero!