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Age: 27
Born in Belgium to a German mother and Turkish father, moved to the UK three months later.
City: Bucks & Brum
Country: United Kingdom
Occupation: Part-time PhD
Interests and Hobbies: Martial arts, poetry, music, film, history, travel, art
Movies and Shows: Pretty much everything from the 80s, particularly cartoons - Thundercats, Dungeons & Dragons, Ulysses 31, Mysterious Cities of Gold, He-Man, She-Ra, Transformers, Bananaman, Duckula, Jason and the Wheeled Warriors, Defenders of the Earth, MASK, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Knightmare, Dogtanian, Droids, Trapdoor, Dangermouse...the list goes on. Also fond of comedies like Blackadder, Father Ted, Coupling, Young Ones, Red Dwarf Spin City, Newsradio, Two and a Half Men, Frasier, Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Ryan Stiles early period), Futurama, The Simpsons, Fawlty Towers etc, and a few sci-fi/fantasy shows, like Hercules the Legendary Journeys, Quantum Leap, Star Trek, Farscape, Lexx, Xena, Devilman (is that a film or a series? It came in two parts...meh), Cyber City Oedo... etc. Also a big fan of Jonathan Ross, on radio and TV. As to films: Uproar in Heaven (1961 Chinese cartoon adapted from 'Journey to the West'), Conan the Barbarian, Enter the Dragon, Memento, The Dark Crystal, Akira (cliche, but hey), The Princess Bride, Little Big Man, Animalympics, Fist of the North Star, Life of Brian, Force Five: Starvengers, The Producers (1968), Robin Hood: Men In Tights, Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles (yes, I like Mel Brooks :p ), The Seventh Seal, Yojimbo, Hot Shots, Being John Malkovitch, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), Ghost in the Shell, Loaded Weapon, M*A*S*H (I prefer the film to the series), Star Wars (only the originals - prequels were uniformly rubbish), Evil Dead 2 & 3 (didn't think much of 1), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Willow, Forbidden Planet (especially the unrecognisable Leslie Nielsen), The Last Unicorn, Metropolis (anime version; still to see the Fritz Lang classic, which is very naughty of me), Time Bandits, Way of the Dragon, Tron, Get Carter (1971), The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Appleseed, Jason and the Argonauts, Pumping Iron, Downfall (Der Untergang), Once Upon A Time In China (well, first three at least), The Flight of Dragons, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dead Man, Top Secret, Dune, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Seven Samurai, Spirited Away, Big Trouble in Little China, Project A, Labyrinth, Drive, Orphee (damn lack of accents on myspace...), Airplane, Ong Bak, Clash of the Titans, The Prodigal Son, The Godfather, Fight Club, Princess Mononoke, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Heavy Metal, American Beauty, Gladiatress, Fist of Legend, Delicatessan, Golgo 13, Total Recall, Patlabor, Beetlejuice, Pleasantville....
Music: James Brown, Portishead, The O Jays, The Cure, De La Soul, The Supremes, ABC, Michael Jackson (pre-Dangerous), Daft Punk, Moloko, John Coltrane, Bill Withers, Cocteau Twins, Duke Ellington, Autumn's Grey Solace, The Isley Brothers, Strawberry Switchblade, Ben Folds Five, Massive Attack, The Beach Boys, Ray Charles, New Order, Jurassic 5, The Cranberries (pre-To The Faithful Departed), Thompson Twins, Creative Source, Count Basie, Mr Scruff, R.E.M., Mozart, Avantasia, Grant Green, Bob Marley, OMD, Dean Martin, The Drifters, David Bowie, The Beatles, Voyages, The Strokes, Jack McDuff, The Doors, Koop, A Tribe Called Quest, Tears for Fears, Madness, Ohio Players, Beethoven, Jean Knight, John Dowland, Rolling Stones, Roy Ayers, Marvin Gaye, Interpol, Arcturus, Glenn Miller, Parliament, Pink Floyd, Chic, Kid Loco, Ben E. King, My Bloody Valentine, Blondie, Rachmaninoff, Smashing Pumpkins, Kate Bush, Stan Getz, Air, Fats Domino, Pulp, greenspace, Handsome Boy Modelling School (more of a concept album by Dan the Automator than a band, but meh), The Jam, Rimsky-Korsakov, Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan, Roots Manuva, The Gap Band, The Stranglers, Bach, Beastie Boys, Shalamar, Les Rhythmes Digital, Art Blakey, The The, Jimi Hendrix, Spandau Ballet, Grieg, Abba, Oingo Boingo, The Smiths, Burning Spear, The Kinks, Goldfrapp, Average White Band, Jeff Buckley, Cranes, Radiohead, Seal, Miles Davis, Mandrill, Aretha Franklin, Duran Duran...
Books: A Martian Sends A Postcard Home - Craig Raine, Life Studies - Robert Lowell, Catch 22 - Joseph Heller, Germinal - Emile Zola, Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Battle Circle, Robot Adept - both Piers Anthony, Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Weiss and Hickman, The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe, The Sandman (well, its sort of a book...) - Neil Gaiman, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson, Animal Farm, 1984, Keep the Aspidistra Flying - all George Orwell, Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi, Metamorphoses - Ovid, The Iliad, The Odyssey - both Homer (though there is still academic debate whether or not he existed), Dante's Inferno from The Divine Comedy (I don't like Paradiso or Purgatorio much, as Dante got too preachy for me then, though to be fair that is rather the point), No Holds Barred - Clyde Gentry, The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter, Mort - Terry Pratchett, Faerie Queen - Spenser, Morte D'Arthur - Thomas Malory, Crow - Ted Hughes, The Colossus, Ariel - both by Sylvia Plath ...
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