Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG 2000 Edition

The Physical:

Your name: Marc Elston

Your online/nickname: M.Elston (wow, how original)

Web page url: not yet...

Age: 31

Birthday/birthplace: 20/01, Dorset

Gender: male

Location: Southampton

Height/weight: 5'8, 10.5 stone

Current haircolour/style: Blue-black/ silly, grade 2 at sides, growing everywhere else.

Natural hair colour: light brown/grey

Eye colour: browny greenish (in bright light)

Piercings/tattoos: left ear

Religion: none

Siblings: none alive

Children: 1

Relationship status: married

Occupation: IT support

Pets: 2 rats

Computer you are on: Skippy - p166MMX, 64mb, 8gb SCSI, assembled from bits taken from my company's skip ! W98, NT server 4

Favourites:

Books/authors/type of literature: Stephen King, JR Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, Poe, Shakespeare-Macbeth

Magazines: Personal Computer World, NME (both bought very occasionally)

Movies/directors/actors...: Alien, Chronos, Bladerunner, Apocalypse now, Videodrome, Akira, etc.etc.

Poems/poets: Prefer good lyrics to poetry

Television shows: Never mind the Buzzcocks, Question Time (comedy), American Gothic, etc

Radios/radio shows: Radio 1, Kiss 100, Xfm (all when casette player broken)

Songs: Bauhaus - Bela, Siouxsie - happy house, Visage - maplasso man, Razed in black - caught, Cure - a forest, Julian Cope - leperskin, etc, etc, etc

Bands/musicians: Bauhaus, Cure, Death in June, Banshees, Creatures, Mission, Prodigy, Stranglers, Cult, Sex Pistols, Rosetta Stone, Dreadful Shadows, Xymox, etc

Paintings/artists/work of art...: Miro, Turner, Monet, Manet, Dali, Van Gogh, Bosch

Games(board, computer, others): Zelda, driving games, body harvest, Risk variants

Places to visit: Bristol, Kingston, Bournemouth

Food and drinks: Pizza (jalopeno, pineapple + olives), veg curry, fresh veg pasta, dolma kebab coffee, tea, Budweiser, bitter, orange juice

Colours: black, bright red

Miscellaneous Questions:

What other newsgroups do you read: alt.binaries.gothic, uk.rec.pets, alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.gothic-industrial

To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: Blackmail, Wessex goth

How long have you been reading upg: 6 months

What has been your favorite thread on upg: Resurgence playlists.

What are some of your hobbies: PC building, classic cars, sleeping (it's almost optional to me for some reason)

What's the motto you adhere to: grin and bear it !

What's is your personal stupid human trick: forgetting names of groups / ppl / anything

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: driving a Gilburn Invader + still being asked for ID when I go into casual's clubs, having enough money to live comfortably

What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: the ability not to look constantly daft

What do you think is your best asset: my memory ?! (I can pass exams easily)

What do you think is the worst thing about you: constant guilt-trips

What do you value most in a friend: Talkative + bizarre

What do you hate most in others: Ppl who make jokes about you + put you down.

How do you picture upg: A flock of fluffy bats screeching at each other !

Any question you would like added: Whats your favourite club, What do you dance to ?