Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG Edition

The physical

Your name: Steve Weeks

Your online/nickname: Steve Slimelight

Web page URL: http://www.slimelight.com

Age: 31

Birthday: 5/10/67

Gender: male

Location: North Finchley, work in Camden.

Height/weight: 6 foot 2, 12 stone.

Current haircolor/style: long-ish brown
 

Natural hair color: brown

Eye color: brown

Religion: none

Siblings: 1 sister.

Children: none

Relationship status: taken :-))

Occupation: Production assistant for an electronic publisher.

Pets: None, apart from Emb the housemate!

Computer you're on: PC 200mhz MMX

Favorites

Books: James Herbert, William Gibson, Poppy Z Brite, Michael Palin's books from "pole to pole", "full circle" and "around the world in 80 days".

Movies: Blade Runner, Spinal Tap, Betty Blue, Nikita, Fargo, Evil Dead trilogy, True Romance, Killing Zoe, Let Him Have It, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Pulp Fiction, Around The World in 80 Days, The Great Escape, Jason and The Argonauts.

Poems: When We Two Parted by Byron.

Television shows: South Park, Animaniacs, McCallum, Dexters Lab, Star Trek Voyager, Hamish McBeth.

Songs: Stranger Within by Ultravox, Some Kind of Stranger by The Sisters, Stranger by Clan Of Xymox, Strangers In The Night by Frank Sinatra (a joke!!!) Forsaken (vocal) by VNV Nation.

Bands/musicians: far too many: Depeche Mode, Ultravox, Visage, Simple Minds (the early years 79 to 84), The Cult, The Cure, Mesh, Ghost Dance, Underneath What, Gaye Bikers On Acid, The Mission, The Wonderstuff, The Nephilim, The Sisters, U2, Kraftwerk, Mesh, Rosetta Stone, A Spell Inside, Apoptygma Berzerk, Junior Manson Slags, Altered States, The Last Cry, A Pale Shade Of Black, X-CNN, Tin Star, Project Pitchfork, Behind The Scenes, Ikon, Garbage, Tori Amos, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Front Line Assembly, Spahn Ranch, Eco, Delerium, Velvet Acid Christ, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Birmingham Six, Die Krupps, KMFDM, Puressence, Curve, Wolfsheim, VNV Nation, Funker Vogt, Danielle Dax, NMA, .... Erm, I think that's enough!!!!!!!..

Board games: Scrabble

Computer games: Red Alert, Rollercoaster Tycoon, House Of The Dead.

Other games: hehehehhehehehehehheh ;-)

Magazines: Empire, Future Music.

Places to visit: Rome, Venice, Florence, Vienna, Stockholm, New York, Vancouver, Copenhagen, wherever Garbage are playing a gig, Holland, Germany and (wait for it!) Greece.

Food: fish.

Colors: black, purple, red.

Drinks: fruit juices, whisky, green death cocktails.

Miscellaneous questions

What other newsgroups do you read: alt.music.garbage

How long have you been reading UPG: about 3 years.

What has been your favorite thread on UPG: any that don't involve slagging off the Slimelight. ;-)

What are some of your hobbies: programming drum machines and cubase, cycling, music, live music, more music, travelling.

What's the motto you adhere to: Never trust anyone (not that I take any notice of it).

What's is your personal stupid human trick:

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: God only knows. Living somewhere else with someone I already know?

What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: a masters and / or a phd.

What do you think is your best asset: sense of humour

What do you think is the worst thing about you: shyness, ability to repeat myself 4,000 times.

What do you value most in a friend: trust.

How do you picture UPG: A bunch of net goths all denying they are net goths (whereas in the old days it was a bunch of goths denying they were goths!!!!!!!)