About Me
My favourite band is The Foo Fighters. I really like coffee. I live for Thai and Japanese food. Famous people I’d like to meet one day include Stephen Fry and Jon Snow. I like wearing scarves, especially Palestinian keffiyehs. Is there anything else you really need to know?
Hometown: Divide my time between Brighton, where I live and London where I work. I love the city but living 15 minutes away from the beach is pretty fabulous.
Interests: Music, movies, books, art (esp. Banksy and street art–Jamie Reid, Obey (aka Shepard Fairey), Cauty), sarcasm, left-wing politics, irony, proper English, Thai food, good coffee, technology, startups, the web, science-fiction, and general all-round geekdom.
Music: (check my Last.fm page) Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sufjan Stevens, Kaiser Chiefs, Deathcab for Cutie, Voxtrot, The Kooks, Beatles, White Stripes, The Dandy Warhols, Michael Jackson, Belle & Sebastian, Snow Patrol, Kate Bush, Jamie Lidell, Green Day, White Town, John Frusciante, amongst many others.
Books: A never-ending list, but highlights include: Brave New World, 1984, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, We need to talk about Kevin, Jane Eyre, Harry Potter, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Wasp Factory, The Bell Jar, K-PAX, Atlas Shrugged.
Favorite Quotes:
“If we don’t stand for something, we may fall for anything.”
“They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.”
–Malcolm X
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
–Oscar Wilde
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
–Einstein
“… I’ll meet you ’round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend…”
–Baghdad Burning,
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“I only give the food to the women…Women make the homes, men just make wars… Adam was God’s first draft - He got it right with Eve. “
– from The Constant Gardener
“Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. “
–Thomas Jefferson
Photo credit: Logobama.com
Hey, you read The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat?? When? Did you steal my copy?! Isn’t it the most interesting read in the world?
It’s very good. Have you read Oliver Sachs’ Awakenings?
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