Your name: Ben
Your online/nickname: Ben (Metropolis)
Web page url: http://connect.to/metropolis
Age: 22
Birthday/birthplace: 02/08, Winchester
Gender: male
Location: home in West Hounslow (London), work on Bolsover Street
Height/weight: 5'9" 9st
Current haircolour/style: long and blonde
Natural hair colour: light brownish
Eye colour: greeny grey
Piercings/tattoos: ear and nose piercings
Religion: none
Siblings: 1 brother
Children: none
Relationship status: single and very depressed about it
Occupation: Computer journalist (full time for PC Pro magazine)
Pets: 1 hamster
Computer you are on: PC Celeron 333, 128Mb Win98
Books/authors/type of literature: Mervyn Peake, Frank Herbert, Franz Kafka
Magazines: Metal Hammer, PC Zone, PC Pro
Movies/directors/actors...: Brazil, Lost Highway, Metropolis, Nosferatu, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Nightmare Before Christmas..... all the usual stuff. Terry Gilliam, David Lynch & Tim Burton Johnny Depp, Diana Rigg
Poems/poets: don't like poetry much
Television shows: Stoppit & Tidyup & The Avengers
Radios/radio shows: none
Songs: Goldilox, Run Like Hell, Face to Face, Window Licker
Bands/musicians: Pink Floyd, Circle of Dust, Einsturzende Neubauten, Haujobb, Aphex Twin, Nine Inch Nails, Future Sound Of London, Orbital, Tom Waits, Trouble, King's X
Paintings/artists/work of art...: Rodney Matthews
Games(board, computer, others): Half Life, Unreal, Dune 2
Places to visit: Isle of Mull - Scotland
Food and drinks: vegetarian and allergic to eggs and aubergines...so not much really! I like Indian and Mexcian food best
Colours: black and orange
What other newsgroups do you read: rec.music.industrial
To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: none
How long have you been reading upg: started about 4 years ago and got pissed off and left for about 3 years, and have just started to come on again
What has been your favorite thread on upg: Metropolis need a new singer! - Are we sexist etc. - absolutely ridiculous
What are some of your hobbies: writing music, reading, building stuff
What's the motto you adhere to: Every swan is a different shade of brown
What's is your personal stupid human trick: I can do an impression of a Casio Keyboard demo - English Country Garden with tune and drum beat at the same time with drum rolls and everything.
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Being a famous rock star with lots of screaming girlies
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: The ability to talk to people easily and be outgoing
What do you think is your best asset: my imagination
What do you think is the worst thing about you: shyness
What do you value most in a friend: not lying to me
What do you hate most in others: Being judgmental
How do you picture upg: in black and white
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