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Henry

Tea is nought but this: First you heat the water, Then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly.

About Me

I try to be balanced, but too often let hedonism get the better of me. I like a drink, and have recently abandoned cigar-smoking for the even more eccentric activity of pipe-smoking. I'm rather self-critical, but make up for that by the belief that I can do anything if I want to and put my mind to it. I am an academic but something of a dilettante - I refuse to be limited to one discipline. This explains why I've been at University for five years. However, I have now finished a dissertation, and done all but one of my exams, so all things being to the good, I should be graduating in July. HOOGAJOOGA!

My Interests

Victoriana, Theatre, Comedy, Singing | Languages, Scripts, Myth, Magic

I'd like to meet:

Scriptwriters. Definitely scriptwriters. I want to do a show next summer, and, as yet, have no script. So if you have a short, low budget comedy that you wouldn't mind me and my production company http://www.beggars-experience.co.uk having a go at, drop me a line. Oh, and angels. If you have a bunch of spare cash knocking about that you'd like to *ahem* 'invest' in our next production, also drop me a line.

Music:

Cabaret, Punk, Blues, Rock, Lounge, Russian, Japanese, Swing, Ska

Books:

Michael Moorcock - The Prince in the Scarlet Robe, Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys,

Heroes:

Sir Alec Guinness, Otto von Bismarck, Oda Nobunaga

My Blog

Pipe-smoking

I am now officially a pipe-smoker.  Screw cigarettes, screw cigars.  Pipes are clearly the way forward.  I just had a beer with Manu, followed by a bath with a pipe, and my head is reeling.  Probably ...
Posted by Henry on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:06:00 PST

Better living through RAGE

Arrgh! Managed to not get out of bed today until four, did manage to get my Hebrew course work done, but have only just now managed to sit down to begin writing the next five thousand words of my dis...
Posted by Henry on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:16:00 PST

Gorillas!

I shall shortly (on 16th July) be running around Holyrood Park in Edinburgh dressed in a Gorilla costume to raise money for The Gorilla Organisation ( http://www.dianfossey.org/greatgorillarun/ ). If ...
Posted by Henry on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:46:00 PST

Property

Just watched "The Corporation".Thing is, the bit about companies owning the genome: ownership is meaningless.Unless you have the means to protect your property, it isn't your property. Ownership is a...
Posted by Henry on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 04:19:00 PST

Overhang

Something curiously satisfying in coming downstairs this morning with a raging hangover and finding my two friends passed out on the sofa in front of Mtv.
Posted by Henry on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:00:00 PST

Late Night Rant

I tire of this world.  Its people.  Its petty nations that rise and fall in the blink of an eye.  That bicker, squabble and pass from memory into the dust of the earth, their victories forgotten, thei...
Posted by Henry on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:04:00 PST