| Interests: | reading, writing, quizzes, puzzles, internet, elephants, etc. - I go into much more detail on myspace and hoverspot. | | Sports: | AFL (Australian football) - Carlton Blues, St Kilda Saints, Brisbane Lions, Sydney Swans, Geelong Cats, Western Bulldogs; ARL (rugby league) - Melbourne Storm; English football (soccer) - Aston Villa, Walsall, Birmingham City, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Coventry City, West Bromwich Albion; Scottish football (soccer) - Aberdeen, Dundee United; Australian football (soccer) - Melbourne Victory; International football (soccer) - England, Australia, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland; Cricket - England, Warwickshire, Victorian Bushrangers; Rugby Union - England. | | Music: | Listening to on my mp4-player - David Bowie, Queen, Clannad, Celine Dion, Eric Bibb, Eric Carmen, Bob Marley, Steeleye Span and many more (very eclectic taste in music). My favourite album is Clannad's "Clannad 2" - I could easily listen to it all day long and not get sick of it. | | Movies: | My favourites are mostly animations (e.g. Ratatouille, Simpsons movie, Shrek 1-3, Howl's moving castle, Incredibles, Bee movie, Shark tale, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, Toy story 1-2, Robots, Lilo & Stitch series, Curse of the were-rabbit, Cars, Chicken run, Antz, Bug's life, etc. - I have a huge collection on DVDs), comedies (especially dark or quirky ones), Arnold Schwarzenegger movies (I have most of them on DVD), science fiction and fantasy and an occasional chick-flick. Ghost is probably my favourite film of the lot as it combines fantasy and drama and comedy well together. | | TV: | Favourites - House, Dr Who, Thank God you're here, The Bill, Two and a half men, Life on Mars, Little Britain, League of gentlemen, WWTBAM, SImpsons, Wire in the blood, Temptation, Psych, Dead like me, Bit of Fry & Laurie, The lost room, CSI, NCIS, The Goodies, Porridge, Open all hours, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased); The Champions, Futurama, New tricks, Parkinson, Soap, Benson, Two Ronnies, Not the nine o'clock news, Cheers, Get Smart, Star Trek, Dave Allen, Family guy, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Rich list, Weakest link, Deal or no deal, Ripping yarns, Blake's 7, Wayne & Shuster, Blackadder, New statesman, Seeing things, Inspector Rex, Nonstop Nonsens, Young ones, Paul Hogan show, Naked vicar show, Mr Bean, Comedy Company, Fast forward, Goodnight sweetheart, Sideshow, Good news week, Catherine Tate show, Armstrong & Miller show, lots more ... mostly sketch comedy, science fiction, game shows, documentaries, some sitcoms, animations, police dramas. | | Books: | Favourite - Earth abides ~ George R. Stewart...
Last read - the Artemis Fowl series ~ Eoin Colfer...
Currently reading - the Soldier Son trilogy ~ Robin Hobb...
Finished editing - Love on the schiz ~ K. Marsden (now available from trafford.com).
Currently writing - Sweet F.A. ~ Col G... A track winding back ~ Col G... and The beagle and the weasel and the bagel on the table ~ Col G... (last one is a children's book I've just written and working on the preliminary sketches) | | Heroes/Idols: | Cliff Young - a humble potato farmer, who, at the age of 60, beat his much younger and more-fancied opponents in a gruelling ultra-marathon foot-race from Sydney to Melbourne. |
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