Favourite book(s)

I love reading books about the US Civil War - bit of a history geek in general. Read a lot of stuff by John Pilger and George Monbiot - books that make you think. I'm not one for flicking through a John Grisham etc on a beach.

Favourite music

Rock, rock and more rock!! :) The classic the better - best album ever has to be Bat Out of Hrll by Meatloaf. Blame my Dad for that one. Nowadays I'm into good Scottish Indie music - The View, King Creosote, Belle and Sebastien etc

Favourite movie(s)

Kind Hearts and Coronets - truly the funniest movie ever made and hasn't dated at all. Will watch any of the Ealing Comedies over and over again. True to my general geekiness, I'm obviously a big Star Wars fan - but only the original trilogy. The latest films had very few redeeming qualities. Didn't stop me buying them on DVD, of course.

Scared of

Flying - or more accurately suddenly not flying. I'm fine as long as the plane is in the air.

Happiest when

I'm at the football and my team have just scored a goal. Either then or celebrating said goal in the pub afterwards...

My Hero(s)

Back to the US Civil War geek again... General Thomas J "Stonewall" Jackson. Not that I'm a fan of slavery by any stretch of the imagination but if he hadn't been killed in one of the earliest recorded incidents of "F=friendly fire" the US would probably be a very different place today.

Hometown

Edinburgh

Occupation

Media researcher

Relationship status

Single

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