Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG 2003 Edition

The Physical:

Your name: Aly

Your nickname/online name: Vampyresheep / Black Sheep

Age: "whispers" 31

Birthday: Nov 28

Gender: Female

Location: London and Cardiff

Height/weight: 5 ft 5 and a half.

Current hair colour/style: Currently more conventional than I'd like due to job hunting

Natural hair colour: mousey brown

Eye colour: Hazel

Body mods: just a few ear piercings

Religion: I swear allegience to the God of Chocolate

Siblings: one brother

Children: no chance!

Relationship status: living with partner

Occupation: was photographic technician, unemployed as of November

Pets: did have 2 rats and would like more soon.


Favourites:

Books: Les Liasons Dangereuses (english translation) - Choderlos de Laclos, various Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker

Movies: Lord of the Rings trilogy, Near Dark, Dangerous Liasons, Flash Gordon

Poems: don't do poetry but I do have fond memories of studying Dylan Thomas' Under Milkwood

Television shows: Twin Peaks, 6 Feet Under

Songs: Little 15 - Depeche Mode, In Absence - Icon of Coil, NWO - Ministry, Kathy's Song - APB, Emerge - Fischerspooner

Bands/musicians: DM, IOC,APB, Mesh, Covenant, Muse, De/Vision, Ministry

Club: Slimelight, Full Tilt

Dj (n.b. you can't name yourself): I loved the range of music played when I went to Nightmare, Nottingham - so whoever that DJ is!

Computer games: Tetris

Magazines: 

Places to visit: Iceland, Northumberland, Scotland and desparate to go to Scandinavia soon - basically anywhere cold/moutainous.

Food: Chocolate, Thorntons Icecream

Colours: Black, purple, cerise, jewel colours

Drinks: Mead, kreik (cherry beer)


Net.existence:

Computer you're on now: mine!

Web page url: www.blacksheepglass.co.uk

Reading upg since: 3-4 years?

Favourite thread on upg: the ones taking the piss out of a certain illiterate f*ckwit were quite amusing.

How you picture upg: lots of people I feel that I know but actually don't in the real world

Other newsgroups read: agf, various yahoo newsgroups

Electronic mailing lists: lots

Irc channels: no


Miscellaneous Questions:

What are some of your hobbies: glass painting, buying CDs, seeing live bands, spending too much time on the computer

What's the motto you adhere to: "you're just jealous that the little voices are talking to me"

What is your personal stupid human trick: used to have quite a knack of downing other peoples pints, have lost the habit a bit now though

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: having earnt enough money that I could just paint for a living instead

What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: I used to be a good singer when I was younger and wish that I'd kept it up

What do you think is your best asset: being creative

What do you think is the worst thing about you: easily wound up, tendancy to fly off the handle

What do you value most in a friend: someone who appreciates that friendship goes both ways

Do you have another question: no