Gender: Male
Age: 44 (Jun 12 - Gemini)
Sexual Orientation : Gay
Height : 5'6"
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown...well it was, but much more salt and pepper now as more grey keeps appearing
Relationship Status: Single
Relationship Goal: Looking for friends, and maybe something more (like a relationship wouldn't be amiss)
Eyewear: Getting long-sighted, wear glasses for reading & close work
Follows Fashion : Not piggin' likely
Hair Style : Currently #1 cropped crewcut, #2 cropped full beard
Hats: Generally baseball caps, if any
Jewelry: Wear some, depending on mood and occasion.
Piercings: Nipples & Septum & Left Ear
Tattoos: Four
Living Situation: Living with demon-possessed neurotic cat
from hell
Family and Friends
Brothers / Sisters: 2 brothers / 1 sister Dieter, my second-eldest brother was killed on 15th May 2005 in a road traffic accident. I miss him deeply.
(apparently I also have a half-sister and half-brother but never met them in my life)
Children: Not bloody likely
Religion and Politics
Importance of Religion: Organised Religion doesn't play a role,though I have some spiritual beliefs
Importance of Sharing Beliefs: They're mine, get your own!
Political Views: Left of centre
Drinks: I don't drink.No,I'm not a reformed alcoholic......I just can't stand the taste of beer or wine
Drug Use: Not unless you're counting caffeine
Smokes: I don't smoke.
Personality
Adventure Level: I'll try most things once
Time for Fun: At least once a week
Grown Up Time: Rationed to 10 minutes/day
To me, physical traits (looks) are: A damned good starting point,but only that.
Music: Eclectic/diverse range...that or just too darned indecisive
Importance of Music: It's very important in my daily life
Career: Registered nurse....not so much a career as a hobby....career's pay.
Annual Income: I'm a nurse......it's a pittance......what did you expect!
Happiness with Job: I love my job, whenever I'm not hating it.
Work Schedule: Monday to Friday 9-5 work. The Monday to Friday bit is true, the finishing at 5 ain't so accurate.
Lifestyle
Dwelling: Flat
Lived/Travelled Overseas: Stationed in Germany for four years, worked in Belgium,Holland,Denmark,France,Canada. Holidayed in Gran Canaria, USA,Australia,NewZealand,Germany, Holland,Hungary,Spain. Portugal. In Dec 2004 I visited Madrid in Spain and in March 2005 I went to Dallas,Texas. In February/March 2006 I visited Hawaii in the USA and Sydney & Melbourne in Australia.
Latest ten books that I've read(up to May 2008):
Criminal HIV Transmission ~ written and edited by Edwin J Bernard
This is a National Aids Manual publication and is a very good overview with the layman in mind so that lawyers, judges and solicitors can be better informed on HiV forensics, routes of transmission, etc.
Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row by Christopher Golden
A paperback from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise. It is set around the second world war, so is a complete stand alone novel as it pre-dates Buffy whilst using the Buffy mythos.
Gay Travels in the Muslim World, a compilation edited by Michael T. Luongo
I attended the book launch for this a wee while back at Gay's The Word bookshop. Some of it came across as sleazy porn, and the level of exploitation of youth by westerners was quite disturbing. Not the kind of book I thought I was going to be reading.
What is Druidry? by Emma Restall-Orr
Read this in preparation for a book group discussion. Definitely from the fluffier end of the spectrum.
Intimacy and Responsibility: The Criminalisation of HIV Transmission by Matthew Weait
The author is a lovely guy who was also my supervisor for my Masters of Law. It was interesting in the way it covered law, history, politics, epidemiology and health care all in one book.
Druid Priestess ~ EmmaRestall-Orr
May have worked better for me if she could decide whether she was writing a treatise on the pagan year in druidry or a fiction novel.
Un Lon Dun by China Mi�ville
His first attempt at the Young Adult fiction market - following on from other adult fantasy writers like Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker. It worked quite well. His characters were often quite fantastical, but his ability for character development, pathos and believability remained intact, as did his love of political ideologies and intrigues.
Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin
Despite Maupin claiming this is not a seventh book in the Tales of the City saga, this is very much what it seems to be. Re-visiting Mouse now that he is in his fifties, Mrs.Madrigal as a pensioner, and Shawna, the daughter of Brian & Mary Ann.Very emotive in places, some of which is more so for the brevity of detail on what happened in the intervening years between the "final" book in the Tales of the City series and this one.
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
An easy read of less than 100 pages as one of the books specially written and published for World Book Day 2008. Gaiman doing weel at what he does best, a simple story interwoven with mythology ( in this case, Norse Mythology).
Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry's school year's autobiography, in which he describes himself as a child as basically being very unpleasant, but uses many more paragraphs and chapters to do so entertainingly.
Currently reading Ronald Hutton's The Druids.
Latest ten films watched(up to May 2008):
Sweeney Todd
Juno
Penelope
Jumper
Vantage Point
Razzle Dazzle
Lucky Miles
The Spiderwick Chronicles
I'm A Cyborg
Persepolis
Films that at the moment I am interested in seeing in 2008:
Iron Man
Sex and the City: The Movie
Wanted
The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Hancock
Mamma Mia!
The Dark Knight
Get Smart
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Igor
Quantum of Solace (Bond 22)
Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Coraline
The Mutant Chronicles
Inkheart
Latest 20 CD's(up to May 2008):
Gregorian Mystics ~ Magna Canta
Leave to Remain~ Kathryn Williams
Garth Brooks ~ The Ultimate Hits
Once: Music From The Motion Picture by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
:john barleycorn reborn: dark britannica ~ Various Artists
Rudebox ~ Robbie Williams
Moonlight Over Memphis ~ Marti Pellow
Women for Women ~ Various Artists
Mobiles: The best of...Drowning In Berlin
Into The Labyrinth ~ Dead Can Dance
The Nine Worlds ~ Achillea
Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Highlights) ~ Soundtrack with music by Sondheim
Belle-issima! Sweet Memories... ~The Belle Stars
Amadas Estrellas ~ Achillea
Lyonesse by Celtic Legend
Spin Moon Magic ~ The Dreamside
Rarities B-Sides and Other Stuff Volume 2 ~ Sarah McLachlan
Like A Waterfall ~ James Marsters
The Cauldron Born ~ Damh The Bard
Masters of Chant Chapter VI ~ Gregorian
TV Programmes
(Currently showing/recently shown in UK.....April 2008 -May 2008)
THE BIG BANG THEORY
American comedy series parodying the Geek shown on Channel Four.
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
An Amercian drama comedy about the inhabitants of Wisteria Lane shown on Channel Four.
DOCTOR WHO
The BBC's classic sci-fi show about the Timelord and his companion.
ER
American series centred on Cadualty staff shown on Channel 4 in the UK
HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU?
BBC2 comedy panel current affairs quiz show
HEROES
US fantasy show with a wide cast of people with special powers in ordinary society, shown on BBC2
WAKING THE DEAD
The return of the BBC Cold Cases Police Drama
Last ten video tapes
Most Desired Man (alternative title for Der Bewegte Mann, which I already had in German, but this is the English sub-titled version)
The Iron Giant
Tea with Mussolini
Robin Of Sherwood...the entire first series
East Is East
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Box Set Part Two, Season 6
Angel Box Set Part Two, Season 3
The World According To Garp
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Box Set Part One, Season 7
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Box Set Part Two, Season 7
Last 20 DVDs bought [ up to May 2008 ]
Battlestar Galactica : Razor
Charlie Jade: Series One, Part One
The Lives of Others
Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest
Doctor Who : The Complete Third Series
Daywatch
Little Mosque on the Prairie: The Complete First Season
Blood Ties: The complete first season
Supernatural : Season 1&2 boxset
Stardust
30 Days of Night
Spaced: The Complete First Series
Spaced: The Complete Second Series
Hairspray
King Kong
Transformers
The Golden Compass
Salem's Lot (the miniseries)
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
The Place Promised In Our Early Days
The Owl Service
Last trip to theatre: Cirque du Soleil : Varekai
Total Trivia Questionairre Type Thingy
BIRTHPLACE:
Maidstone,Kent ,UK
HOMETOWN:
Live in London
SCHOOL:
Went to several.........don't anymore
CROUTONS OR BACON BITS:
Presuming we're talking as an additive to soup
and not our favourite substitute for wirewool when scouring hard to
remove encrusted food remnants.........both.......how else do I get to
attain this figure.
FAVORITE SALAD DRESSING:
Salad and aerobics are words lacking from my
vocabulary.......however,Hellman's Mayonnaise goes really well with
chips!(fries to Americans)
DO YOU DRINK:
Alcohol.....no,tho' I've no problem with alcoholic ice
creams and other foods drowned in the stuff .
HAVE HAD YOUR APPENDIX AND TONSILS REMOVED?
Erm.....no......didn't
realise I was meant to.......do you think I should?
SHAMPOO OR CONDITIONER:
Original Mint Source: Tea Tree & Mint Shampoo.....tho' with the
amount of hair on my head,I dunno why I bother. As for
conditioner,it's that short nobody'd notice.
HAVE YOU EVER GONE SKINNY-DIPPING?
I try not to use the word
skinny,and I've never dipped one......but I have gone swimming
stark-bollock naked .
DO YOU MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE:
Okay,weigh up the sarcasm quotient in this
website and take an educated guess.
ONE PILLOW OR TWO:
2 , when sleeping , or for pillow-fights for the
double-whammy effect
PETS:
Cat that thinks he's a dog.Called Bruno........but
he gets too confused when I shout no at him (daft buggers tend to
only hear the dominant syllable,often the ending of words,depending on
pitch an' all that jazz).......also known as Cat,Monster,Furbag
or "you little b*****d animal".
TYPE OF CAR YOU DRIVE NOW:
Do backseat drivers count?
DREAM CAR:
The one that somebody else finances,maintains,chauffeurs
and parks!
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CAR:
F*rd C*rtina Deathtrap
FAVORITE TOOTHPASTE:
Colgate Herbal (though it's a bugger to get hold of...looks like I'm a dentally fixated survivalist when I buy it in bulk whenever I find a shop that stocks it)
FAVORITE FOOD:
That describes virtually anything that isn't celery!
FAVORITE PLACE TO CHILL IN:
Good grief......I'm far too old to
chill.......unless that means get so cold you freeze your nipples off
and I can't imagine why I'd want a favourite town to do that in
(unless they had really excellent Casualty and Plastics facilities in
the aforementioned town and it was one of those "you must chill or
face a death penalty options"
FAVORITE ICE CREAM:
Ben 'n' Jerry's Buttered Toffee Almond*
*(subject to change at consumer's whim)
FAVORITE SOFT DRINK:
Ginger Beer, and lashings of it!
FAVORITE TYPE OF FAMILY GAME TO PLAY:
Therapy (no,honest,it is a board game)
WHAT IS YOUR BAD TIME OF DAY:
This would imply that I have a good one!
FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR:
Annual leave (Vacation ,for colonials)
ADIDAS, NIKE, OR REEBOK:
Oh,like you think you're gonna catch me
running or jogging!
FAVORITE PERFUME OR COLOGNE:
Yuck!They all taste horrible!
LEAST FAVORITE SUBJECT:
Talking about Sport
FAVORITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL:
Biology
FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME:
Just one? Nah, you can pick from a selection:
Amelie
Aliens
All About My Mother
Blade Runner
Cachorro
Cuore Sacro
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Dead Men Don�t Wear Plaid
Death and the Maiden
Dune
E.T. � The Extra-Terrestrial
The Exorcist
Hairspray
The History Boys
Le Fate Ignoranti
La Femme Nikita
Fried Green Tomatoes
Goodbye Mr. Chips
High Anxiety
The Laramie Project
The Long Good Friday
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Manchurian Candidate
Marathon Man
The Matrix
Muriel's Wedding
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Scanners
Schindler�s List
The Silence of the Lamb
The Shining
Spartacus
Star Wars
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
To Die For......(UK film not Nicole Kidman one.........it's a crap film,but I got to be an extra,renamed "Heaven's A Drag" in USA)
Torch Song Trilogy
Whose Life Is It Anyway
The Wicker Man
X-Men
Young Frankenstein
FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK:
Don't drink alcohol
FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH:
Why on earth does anyone want to watch
sport..........if you like the sport,play it!
ANYTHING "DIFFERENT" ABOUT YOU:
Got a fairly unique DNA structure
Otherwise:
Different from whom?
Different since when?
WORD OR PHRASES YOU OVERUSE:
Ditto (before Ghost)
Whatever (overexposure to my mate,Nick)
Already (lived too long in a Yiddish household)
German swearwords(courtesy of my Mother)
And to anyone familiar with the TV series "Catweasel", there are also the words "Telling Bone" and "Electrickery"
Same goes for various TV programme and advert catchphrase and other influences, like saying "Language, Timothy" when someone is foul-mouthed (terrible to admit,but I did see a few episodes of "Sorry!" when I was younger) or "'Course you can,Malcolm" when someone says they can't achieve a task within their limitations (courtesy of ancient Vick's Sinex Nasal spray advert......don't ask!)and "Fly! Be Free!" when taking over shift and sending the previous shift staff home (courtesy of Robin William's in "Mork & Mindy")
WHAT'S YOUR BEDTIME:
Buggered if I know.......if you find out,let me know and I can work on establishing a decent sleep pattern.
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