Your name: James / Jay
Your online/nickname: Morph.
Web page url: Maybe one of these days...
Age: 27
Birthday/birthplace: 25/04, Southampton
Gender: Male
Location: Coventry
Height/weight: 6'2"ish, 13 stone or thereabouts
Current haircolour/style: Brown, long, uncontrollable
Natural hair colour: Brown
Eye colour: Brown
Piercings/tattoos: Nope.
Religion: Nope.
Siblings: 1 sister (younger)
Children: Nope.
Relationship status: single.
Occupation: Hardware development eng*n**r (computers, palmtops)
Pets: 1.8 cats. AKA a blob called Jessica who really needs to lose weight...
Computer you are on: Soon-to-be-deceased P200 with Win '95.
Books/authors/type of literature: SF, fantasy (but not quest-by-numbers high fantasy), occasional bits and pieces of other stuff. Iain Banks, Donna Tartt, Greg Egan, Tom Stoppard, Kim Newman, Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson. Diana Wynne Jones.
Magazines: Does the Grauniad count?
Comics: Kabuki, Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Thieves & Kings, Galaxion, Strangers in Paradise, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, Inu Yasha, Invisibles. Gloom Cookie. Far too many others...
Movies/directors/actors: Anything by Terry Gilliam (especially 12 Monkeys, Brazil and Fisher King), Akira Kurosawa or Tim Burton (Nightmare Before Christmas!). A Matter of Life and Death, The Matrix, Plunkett & MacLaine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Remains of the Day, Ghost in the Shell, Akira. Heathers & Grosse Point Blank are both favourites.
Poems/poets: A little bit of Walt Whitman. Not an awful lot else.
Television shows: Spaced. Occasionally Robot Wars. Martial Law. Due South Very little else. I've successfully avoided Cheers, Friends, Ally McBeal and every soap opera on TV for years now. If you count Anime then also: Neon Genesis Evangelion, El Hazard, Ranma 1/2, Tenchi Muyo and many, many others.
Radios/radio shows: No. Especially not the Archers.
Songs: Thomas Dolby's "One of our submarines", Propaganda's "Duel", Shriekback's "Fading Flowers" & 'Hammerheads'. Oh, and some goth stuff.
Bands/musicians: Shriekback, VNV Nation, Project Pitchfork, Apoptygma Berserk, In The Nursery, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Nervosa, Horatii, Manuscript, SBM, Stun, Rosetta Stone, Kathryn Tickell, Ruby Blue, All About Eve, Laurie Anderson, Jan Garbarek, March Violets, Mesh, Danielle Dax, Dream Disciples.
Paintings/artists/work of art: Not really, no.
Games(board, computer, others): Final Fantasy VII & VIII, Civilisation II, X-Wing, Avalon Hill's 'History of the world', Deadlands RPG, Paranoia RPG, SLA Industries RPG, In Nomine RPG (I'm a recovering White Wolf customer, too...).
Places to visit: Kyoto, Egypt, New Zealand.
Food and drinks: Enthusiastic (if insane) cook - haven't poisoned anyone yet. Vegetarian. No fennel, goat products or aubergines, please. Tea, coffee, Green'n'Blacks chocolate, Ben & Jerry's ice cream...
Colours: Black, gold, dark green, red. Not terribly fond of blue.
What other newsgroups do you read: alt.fan.kay-dekker, uk.games.roleplay, soc.bi, rec.arts.comics.vertigo, alt.fan.alan-moore, alt.gothic.announce, alt.comics.2000ad, alt.conspiracy.coventry.morph (not that I'm paranoid, you understand...)
To which mailing lists are you subscribed: HAL, Contaminatii, kbac-l, treg.
How long have you been reading upg: Since about three months after it was created, I think.
What has been your favorite thread on upg: No comment.
What are some of your hobbies: Cooking, writing, reading, lounging about aimlessly.
What's the motto you adhere to: Never make the same mistake twice - learn from experience and make new and different mistakes instead.
What's is your personal stupid human trick: The double double-ended lighsaber fast draw. It's definitely very stupid.
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Something more creative, involving fewer grommets.
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: I really wish I could fluently read music.
What do you think is your best asset: Good listener. Allegedly.
What do you think is the worst thing about you: A subconscious that's much smarter than I am, and an occasional tact bypass.
What do you value most in a friend: Support when things go wrong, good company when things go right.
What do you hate most in others: Malice.
How do you picture upg: A really bad spinning black and pink screensaver effect.
Any question you would like added: Nope.