Personal details: Energetic, abrasive, make my own KFC, make my own mead, spend a lot of time sick or asleep, overeducated, understimulated, hateful of mediocrity, weak-willed, jack-of-all-trades, a 'pedent', frequently arrogant and dismissive. Bad in a crisis. A very angry young man. I work under fluorescent lights.

Make lobster stock. Shadowbox. Alder and chrome over libraries and pipettes. Less talk, more rock. Get old enough to miss various maize-based snacks. Tangy Toms, you remember. Oh, they still make those? Bitsa Pizza, then. Nostalgia's the one after lust and hunger. Read some books you don't enjoy, but might improve you. Then read Motley Crue: The Dirt. Tend the brassicas. Be ridden with anxiety about not DOING enough. Genuinely get really fucking angry about politics. When it suits you. Trade in insecurities for pecadilloes. Readily trade in a week's buoyancy for a few hours of revelling. Talk about your dad rather than 'anarchy', for Christ's sake. You're reading this on Myspace. I know how long you spent choosing pictures that exaggerate your beauty. No, not even if you call it anarchosyndicalism...

In no particular order: Reverend Horton Heat, Bush Tetras, Clor, Spizz Energi, Guns N' Roses (Appetite era), The Fucking Champs, Delta 5, The Cure, Aphex Twin, Autechre, I think that Squarepusher's music is quite poor although I have most of his records-- it's like Joe Satriani goes Jazz on a computer, DMX Krew, Vitalic, Terry Riley, Tough Love, old Neighbours themes, Super Hermit, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, The Pixies, Black Magick, Sparks, Gas Huffer, Martin Winsor & Redd Sullivan, Ram Jam, Dokken, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dennis Waterman, The Rumbo Sessions, Modern Talking, Clarence Carter, Cheap Trick, Old Order, AC/DC, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi John Hurt, 80s Matchbox..., R.L. Burnside, Megadeth, Minor Threat, Pantera, The Sonics, really old Neighbours themes, Duran Duran, Battery Acid, Hot Chip, Interpol (only the first album, really), The Junket, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, Brainiac, the stuff I play in my bedroom that you will never hear, NIC JONES

The Seventh Seal, Ghostbusters, Wild Strawberries, Manhattan, City of God, Chuck and Buck, U-Turn, Sleeper, Withnail and I, I Was a Teenage Vampire, most films by the Coen brothers, Lynch, Cronenberg, Woody Allen, John Waters, Bergman

Peepshow, the first series of Stella Street, nothing much at the moment, Ghostwatch, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

Gravity's Rainbow is the systematiser's Ulysses, Pale Fire, PIHKAL and to a lesser extent TIHKAL, Great Expectations, American Psycho, Waterland, Lolita, GEB, Gould's Book of Fish, The Animals Issue- Moral Theory in Practice, Down and Out in Paris and London, Tropic of Cancer, Crime and Punishment, The Tripods trilogy, 1984, The Unbearable Lightness of Being was pretentious, Sucking Sherbet Lemons, The Confessions of an Opium Eater, Our Mutual Friend, anything NOT written by Dan Brown