knowledgeispower

18 yrs...I can drink legally at last. Big deal.

Essex, England. I don't feel it's my natural habitat, although I've not lived anywhere else. But it sucks, it's full of trendy Essex girls and lads, and music is nearly unknown here. It's a dead town, which is still vainly marketed as a summer seaside resort...I don't recommend a visit.

None. I quit college in May 2001 (after doin A levels fer practically 2 years) and am now startin a different course (Art AVCE which is the same as GNVQ Advanced) at a different college...hopefully it won't be so much like hell and I'll actually do the exams at the end. At the moment I'm gettin involved wiv voluntary work around the community (god knows it needs it) and lookin fer some kind of part-time job to tide me over fer a while.

Music comes first, always. Listenin to it, playin guitar, goin to gigs (especially in tiny intimate packed venues)...writin about it, readin about it, meetin other people who love it just as much.
Art comes next, in the visual sense...paintin is just part of who I am, it comes naturally. I guess I shouldn't say paintin...daubin would be a better word! Paint, pastel, charcoal, chalk, Crayola crayons, paper mache, sweet wrappers, tin foil, safety pins...computer-based stuff...anythin that looks and feels interestin.
Literature...I tend to feel like there's somethin missin when I'm not in the middle of readin a book. Contemporary fiction is my thing, and by this I do not mean airport trash 'White Merc With Fins' type rubbish (I shouldn't say that cos I haven't read the book, but I do find that you can often judge a book by it's cover).
Graham Greene's 'Brighton Rock' is about the best thing I've read, closely followed by:
Douglas Coupland's 'Generation X'
John Lydon's 'Rotten'
Truman Capote's 'In Cold Blood'
Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'
Barry Hines' 'A Kestrel For A Knave'
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
Terry Pratchett's 'Truckers'
Chris Paling's 'Deserters'
Paul Bowles' 'The Sheltering Sky'
Anne Tyler's 'A Patchwork Planet'
Tony Hawks' 'Round Ireland With A Fridge'
Nick Hornby's 'About A Boy'
Meera Syal's 'Anita And Me'
Shena Mackay's 'The Orchard On Fire'
William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.