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About me:

Twisted, cynical, pseudo-intellectual deviant (predominately gay, not that it's important) seeks entertaining interactions with similar...

My MySpace presence (all Murdoch-bashing aside) exists with the intention of at some point evolving into a vehicle for some of my artistic efforts - drawings, paintings, music, and writing.

In the interim, this can be regarded as something of a social networking placeholder.

In terms of interests, I'm an eternal dilettante really; I'm obsessively interested in almost everything, in phases.

The most persistent of my interests include music (both making and listening; I'm into many genres, but at the moment I'm listening to a lot of melodic death metal - I also play guitar, keyboards, bass, and sampler, and occasionally scare the cats by trying to teach myself to play the violin); drawing and painting; I enjoy visiting galleries from time to time - in terms of classical artists I'm a big fan of Fuseli and Blake, and in terms of contemporary painters I really like the work of H.R. Giger and Niklas Sundin, and the sculpture of Milo Sacchi, although I've never seen it in the flesh; photography; writing (I write poor fiction and worse poetry, but I used to make my living as a journalist); reading (William S. Burroughs, Terry Pratchett, Jeff Noon, Hunter S. Thompson, James Havoc, early Clive Barker)...

I'm a Linux geek (my favoured distro is Slackware, and I'm currently playing with the Slamd64 variant, an optimisation for 64-bit processors) - I do actually love computers, in a moderately unnatural and unhealthy way.

I'm a practicing magician (of the pagan variety, rather than the sawing-girls-in-half variety).

I love London, particularly on foot - I've walked hundreds of miles across this city just for the pleasure of it.