Your name: Matt
Your online/nickname: Ann-Marie (when fetish clubbing, Spank etc). Considering "Heliophobe" for online, but don't know how to change it easily. Use "Neo" on lunchtime network game sessions (sad!) Was called "Meth" at school.
Web page URL: http://wkweb5.cableinet.co.uk/MattJackson/ (They could have let me choose a different name for my directory...)
Age: 31
Birthday: 21 Dec (longest night!)
Gender: male(ish)
Location: Lodging in Stockwood, Bristol
Height/weight: 5'7", about 9 1/2 stone-ish. Sod metrication.
Current haircolour/style: Rely on wigs. Preferably black.
Natural hair colour: brown curly (wish it were dark straight)
Eye colour: blue-grey
Religion: 6 Perry Road, Bristol. Fetish clothing shop.
Siblings: 1 sis, 1 bruv, about 20 yrs older.
Children: nope
Relationship status: recently heartbroken by an occaisonaly sword-wielding quasi-vampire goddess.
Occupation: Database application programmer
Pets: Landlord's cats, one called Ambrose, a soppy ginger thing, has very much taken to me.
Computer you're on: PC Cyrix 333,32Mb,6Gb disk. Never seem to get round to upgrading...
Books: the Xeelee Sequence novels by Stephen Baxter
Movies: The Matrix; Bram Stoker's Dracoola;
Poems: "The boy stood on the burning deck..."
Television shows: Fast Show (I was very, very drunk), Tomorrows World (Especially if Philippa Forrester is wearing boots) Babylon 5 (bugger, still haven't seen the final 5 episodes...)
Songs: Hedonism (Just Because it Feels Good) by Skunk Anansie. Relate to it totally (see RELATIONSHIP STATUS)
Bands/musicians: Currently; Anathema, Soundisciples, Paradise Lost, London After Midnight ("Kiss" should be compulsory in fetish & S'n'M clubs), Curdle of Froth (sorry y'all...), System of a Down (sorry more metal) Also; Sisters, Cure, Siouxsie, Ozric Tentacles, Porcupine Tree, Frank Zappa, and loads of other stuff of variable quality (my machine has an MP3 of "Barbie Girl" on it!).
Board games: Shogi (Japanese chess). Unfortunatly, don't know anyone else who plays it, so no experience and therefore crap.
Computer games: Engineer on Team Fortress Classic LAN sessions work lunchtime, Freecell (solitaire variant)
Other games:
Magazines: Fortean Times, Rock Sound
Places to visit: Japan; Midwest USA in tornado season; Moon, Mars...
Food: Vegetarian, relying far too much on pre-packaged stuff.
Colours: Black (the ultimate colour; just read any comsmology books) "Galaxian" purple (3rd row, underneath the red ones) A certain turquoisy-green (think badly corroded copper)
Drinks: coffee, tea, Guinness, vodka+Red Bull, Oriachovitza (a nice Bulgarian cabernet sauvignon). Just discovering absinthe.
What other newsgroups do you read: alt.space.tech, alt.vampyres, alt.binaries.gothic, alt.games.half-life.tfclassic, alt.alchohol.
To which mailing lists are you susbscribed:
How long have you been reading UPG: About the beginning of the year
What has been your favorite thread on UPG: "Is [whatever] Goth?"
What are some of your hobbies: wasting too much time on the internet, not getting round to programming any tunes, would like to try Kendo but the nearest place is miles away and I don't have a car.
What's the motto you adhere to: 50% LOVE + 50% LUST = LOST
What's is your personal stupid human trick: touching the tip of my nose with my tongue.
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Anything as long as I am happy and have someone special.
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: Being a brilliant musician. Very varied, as lonk as it has a darkish mood, among other things I would play Zappa-cum-Pink Floyd-ish solos of agonizing beauty. My band would be called Vagus Nerve. (hope nobody else has thought of it). Worlds away from aimlessly fiddling with ReBirth 338.
What do you think is your best asset: I love unconditionally. Ouch. Could mention my tongue but that's just being crude. Could mention my looks but that's just being conceited. I am, as far as I can tell, completely immune to flu.
What do you think is the worst thing about you: Difficulty in starting conversation. Can never remember names. Also one rather pervy one.
What do you value most in a friend: Someone to confide in.
How do you picture UPG: on my monitor
Do you have another question: (Stares into space blankly and slowly shakes head.) (standard response)