Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG 2001 Edition

The Physical:

Your name: James

Your online/nickname: Morph

Web page url: ...maybe one day!

Age: 28

Birthday: 25th April (just in time for this year's WGW... )

Gender: Male

Location: Coventry, but spending a lot of time in Southampton atm

Height/weight: 6'2", about 12 stone

Current hair colour/style: Long, brown, uncontrollable.

Natural hair colour: Mouse brown.

Eye colour: Hazel

Religion: Agnostic

Siblings: One sister, slightly younger and not remotely goth.

Children: Nope.

Relationship status: Single.

Occupation: Product Development Engineer (don't ask...)

Pets: One Spaniel in exile, currently between cats.

Computer you're on: Ye olde 200Mhz Pentium, running Win '95. I'll upgrade it one day.

Favourites:

Books: Cookbooks, Barbara Tuchman's history stuff, fiction by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Greg Egan, Donna Tartt. Zodiac. Diamond Age. Comics by Rumiko Takahashi, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore, Dave Sim and far too many others - especially Inu-Yasha, Promethea, Sandman, Transmetropolitan and Planetary.

Movies: Anything by Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton, Akira Kurosawa or Fritz Lang. Heathers. Grosse Point Blank. Groundhog Day. Brazil. Plunkett and Macleane. Wings of Desire.

Poems: Not much. some Walt Whitman, but that's about all.

Television shows: Spaced. Black Books. Lots of anime - Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tenchi Miyu, El-Hazard.

Songs: Blyth Power, 'Alnwick & Tyne'. Children on Stun, 'Whiskey a go-go', In The Nursery 'Blue Religion'.

Bands/musicians: Shriekback, ITN, Foetus, Triffids, Stun, Rosetta Stone, Covenant, Virgin Prunes, Bolshoi, March Violets, Blyth Power, Mesh, Iris, FotN, Dream Disciples, Narcissus Pool, D.U.S.T. Many more.

Club: Disassembly, Exile, Spellbound. In no particular order.

Board games: Kill Dr Lucky (anti-cluedo!), Elfenroads, lots of old Avalon Hill stuff.

Computer games: FFVII, FFVIII, Sheep.

Other games: Deadlands, In Nomine, Amber.

Magazines: Grauniad. New Scientist.

Places to visit: Kyoto, Germany, New Forest.

Food: (Veggie) Green'n'Blacks chocolate. Carrot & Coriander soup. Garlic bread. Pasta. Aloo & pea balti.

Colours: Black, white, dark green, gold.

Drinks: Tea (most varieties, currently quite fond of Japanese cherry), coffee, more coffee. Preferably filter coffee.

Miscellaneous Questions:

What other newsgroups do you read: alt.comics.alan-moore, alt.conspiracy.coventry.morph, alt.fan.kay-dekker, alt.gothic.announce

To which mailing lists are you subscribed: BlackMail, Dream Disciples, CovHeretics, Lexgoff, Brumgoth, SWG, Blyth Power

How long have you been reading upg: Since about six months after the start IIRC, with occasional gaps.

What has been your favourite thread on upg: Pass.

What are some of your hobbies: Sleeping.

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: No idea.

What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: Artistic talent.

What do you think is your best asset: Pass.

What do you think is the worst thing about you: A tendency to rush in where angels fear to tread, then realise what I've done...

What do you value most in a friend: Honesty, compassion and an absence of malice.

How do you picture upg: A pub brawl, with occasional escapees crawling halfway out the door before someone grabs their legs and hauls them back in...