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Chris

monkeydriven

About Me

PhD student in Northern Ireland, flitting between student house in Belfast and parental home in the pastoral idyll that is The Spa (ahem). I enjoy the odd drink, surfing teh interweb, reading, watching movies and trying to explain to a class of thunder-struck eighteen year-olds the machinations of Roman governmental mechanics, all whilst getting paid an obscene amount of money for doing so. Aint life swell?

My Interests

Lotsa stuff, including: Pearl Jam, Ancient History (especially that of the Roman Empire), teh RM, politics and film.

Music:

Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, early Metallica

Movies:

Casino, American Beauty, Rear Window, He-Man: Masters of the Universe (you're a philistine if you don't appreciate this), Shawshank and, for the sheer entertainment value, Lock, Stock. I'd also add Enduring Love and Dead Man's Shoes.

Television:

Early Simpsons, Peep Show, House, Shameless and Have I Got News For You.

Books:

Mostly Stephen King and Terry Pratchett. I love 1984, Animal Farm, LOTR, Harry Potter (cliched I know), and the Abhornsen trilogy by Garth Nix.