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I'm a cinephile, a Film-obsessed student from England who is currently attending University, taking Film Studies. In 2005 I became a fully-fledged Wikipedian after lurking for too many years, and being the sometimes ghostwriter for a couple of my friends (who, for shame, I will not name here!). I've been using the Internet since 1994[2].
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Interesting in the most part for anyone who happens to have grown up in the same region. I guess I'm proud of my upbringing and education, too, which is why I list these three items. Actually, truth be told, I borrowed some of the formatting from an American user who happened to list this section. Americans are very up front about their education. And why not?
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- I have a strong personal attachment to Pulp Fiction. It would be negligent not to mention a corresponding love of Quentin Tarantino, whom I rate.
- I keep a vaguely updated top 20 list (alongside a bottom 20) at my YMDB page.
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- I'm into a broad range of literature, but here are a couple of my favourite Books...
- His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series by Douglas Adams
- Jurassic Park and 'Airframe (novel) by Michael Crichton
- Vox and The Fermata by Nicholson Baker
- At the moment I have many books on the go, and I doubt I will get round to finishing any of them before Summer.
- Peanuts
- Calvin and Hobbes
- Dilbert
- Far Side
- A current favourite is the graphical novel series The Losers (comics), and Busted Wonder by Kieron Gillen and Charity Larrison.
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- Over the past year I have renewed my relationship with good TV after a long draught of quality programming. I feel I must somewhere admit to a long love-affair with the The X-Files (which I adore above and beyond most other things bar those already covered). God knows, this pretty much resides at the core of my being - it's entirely responsible for my love of the internet, of all things kooky or un-explainable and probably the onset of adolescence (ahem, Gillian Anderson).
- I'm currently watching and adoring Heroes (TV series) above all else. It is the best thing on TV right now. Recently I loved Day Break, the best TV show of last year which was unjustly yanked. I'm still watching Lost (TV series), but I think season three has been variable quality wise.
- In short, I also enjoy Prison Break, the new Battlestar Galactica, The Wire and Carnivale. In the past I have enjoyed Firefly, 24, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Coupling, The Office, Red Vs Blue, Monkey Dust, The Mighty Boosh, Sliders, Fawlty Towers, Family Guy, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Kids Show, Quantum Leap (TV series), American Dad, Top Gear and Moomin.
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- Current favourite Music (ever outdated):
- See my blog profile for a rather clinical list of favourite bands.
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^ Being an advocate of pomo'-ism I debated whether to even list this here, because I do have issue with defining oneself with tags. It should be noted, then, that listing it under "Me" is somewhat oxymoronic, however I'm also an advocate of sex-positivism and I decided that on balance I would list it, because I believe that sexuality is one of the fundamental stances that outline a human being.
^ Despite genuinely agreeing with the consensus of the political compass test, my overwhelming political status is 'confused', which I think is commonplace at this point in time, especially in the UK. I will be voting to elect Labour at the forthcoming election, not because I generally agree with Tony Blair (although notably I was for the intervention against Saddam) but because Labour is the only credible political party in the UK. That said, despite some incongruence with a lot of my beliefs, Blair is a competent PM.
^ I first 'logged on' high off X-Files-fever and the delicious realisation that this was something new and almost undiscovered. My net-time was strictly limited due to exorbitant costs from fledgling ISPs, but I gradually became integrated into many communties apart from the X-Philes groups that seemed to dominate the interweb at that time - Usenet was great, MSN Groups was buzzing with people easily delighted at new things like e-mail and downloads.
The Web proper, that is the w3, was almost barren by todays standards. For those who never experienced it, the most shocking anecdote seems to be that of typing a search into Altavista (once king of kings) and getting *no* results. Zippo! And that'd happen for most searches, too, unless you hit a topic like The X-Files, or any other pop-culture item that was making it big. Or porn (which was in abundance, even back then, even if it was all a bit rubbish).
