Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG 2004 Edition

The Physical:

Your name: Jack

Your nickname/online name: Pyromancer

Age: 36

Birthday: 21/11/1967

Gender: Male

Location: The North

Height/weight: 6', normalish

Current hair colour/style: dark brown, long

Natural hair colour: dark brown

Eye colour: brown

Body mods: none

Religion: Pagan (eclectic Wiccan-ish)

Siblings: none

Children: none (and plan to keep it that way!)

Relationship status: single

Occupation: Systems Developer

Pets: none at the mo <sob>


Favourites:

Books: Mercedes Lackey's earlier works, esp the "Vanyel" series
The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings
Brian Callison's sea-going horror stories
David Webber's "Honor Harrington" series
Bernard Cornwell's "Sharpe" series

Movies: Terminator 2. Silver Streak. Underworld. What's Up Doc. Braveheart. Red Sonja (yes, I know!)

Poems: Not much into poetry but the war ones from WW1 (Dulce et Decorum, etc) are impressive.

Television Shows: Hardly ever watch it but anything well filmed with a good plot. Taggart was great. And anything with strong, active female characters.

Songs: Inkubus Sukkubus - Samhain
The Cruxshadows - Marylin, my Bitterness
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Cauda Pavonis - We Are The Nine To Five Freakshow
<loads more>

Bands/musicians: Inkubus Sukkubus
The Cruxshadows
Cauda Pavonis
Apoptygma Berserk
Iron Maiden
The Scary Bitches
UFO
Jim Steinman
Meatloaf
The Screaming Banshee
Aircrew
<add many, many more!>

Club: Black Sheep

Dj (n.b. you can't name yourself): Phono Paul

Board Games: Monopoly (but it's been decades)

Computer Games: Railroad Tycoon (but it's also been years)

Other Games: Does deliberately pissing off those (almost always suited) prats who try and take up two seats on a crowded train by sitting in the outer one and spreading their papers, etc, all over the inner one, by insisting on sitting in "their" other seat, count as a game? <evil gryn>

Magazines: Meltdown, Kaleidoscope.

Places To visit: Whitby. Historic houses and ruins, esp medieval or Victorian ones. Abandoned tunnels and underground places. Camden. The Scottish Highlands. Madison, Wisconsin. Glasgow, the most beautiful city on earth (IMO). Amsterdam. Anywhere scenic that's not permanently infested with tourists!

Food: Chocolate. Is there anything else?

Colours: Black, purple, blue, green.

Drinks: Newcastle Brown Ale. Jagermeister. Malibu. Adlestones or Stowford Press Cider. Cider and black as long as it's got a decent amount of decent black in it. Peach Schnaps is kind of nice too...


Net.existence:

Computer you're on now: System speced by a mate at work. 2.6GHz Athlon, 120GB RAID HD (after loosing 3000+ pics when old machine's disk broke, not taking any chances this time!). Memory and stuff.

Web Page url: http://www.stormshadow.com

Reading Upg since: Off and on since it started (95 or 96 wasn't it?), but only regularly since 2000.

Favourite Thread on upg: Depends on mood! The ones where Ph*ld0m0rt ranted about the evils of MP3s were fun in the past. Anything giving info on the scene, its roots, history, etc. And anything that takes the piss out of clueless townies of course.

How You picture upg: Last refuge of the desperate in a broken wasteland of corporate greed and brand worship. Or something.

Other Newsgroups read: uk.religion.pagan. uk.railway. uk.net.web.authoring.

Electronic Mailing lists: Sheffgoths The Inkubus Sukkubus one.

Irc Channels: Never got round to IRC, not keen on chat in general, prefer email.


Miscellaneous Questions:

What Are some of your hobbies: Photography. Listening to music. Going to goth clubs. Attempting to learn to play the guitar. Exploring old and abandoned industrial places and forgotten railways, bridges, tunnels etc. Wandering the land in general.

What's the motto you adhere to: Live every moment as though it were your last.

What Is your personal stupid human trick: Getting utterly wasted at Whitby and proclaiming "I am zie ubergoth" from the top of a pile of leaves at 3am.

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Working for myself and doing stuff I enjoy which pays the rent.

What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: A cat. Which will be rectified as soon as I get my own place.

What Do you think is your best asset: Loyalty.

What Do you think is the worst thing about you: Too trusting, and get way too worked up about stuff.

What Do you value most in a friend: Honesty, reliability, sense of honour, willing to stand up for principles and beliefs.

Do You have another question: So, just What Is Goth?