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Interesting Facts About posterMPD05

I don't know much about interesting facts, but what I do know is that posterMPD05:

• thinks too much.
• talks nonsense.
• talks too much.
• thinks nonsense.
• likes SPAM, and can happily eat a whole tin in a single sitting.

Now I'm a member of Collective, I should probably let you into some secrets about what sort of stuff I'm into. Here we go. I like:

• Books that suck you in to a whole other world, like Gaiman's Stardust, Pullman's His Dark Materials, and Rankin's A Dog Called Demolition (the only novel ever written, to the best of my knowledge, which has a soundtrack. Especially a soundtrack including Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name).
• Books that teach you stuff, useless or otherwise, like Langford's Facts and Fallacies, or Curious Facts by John May. Or even The Emperor Of The United States of America and other Magnificent British Eccentrics by Catherine Caulfield. And let's not forget Catlore by Desmond Morris, the famous philanthropist: find out the answers to questions such as "Can I catch AIDS from my cat?", "Why do cats purr?" and "How many ways are there to skin a cat?".

Actually, that last question is a lie. Desmond Morris does not answer it, although he may well have done in Catwatching, which according to the "By The Same Author" page, is the previous book in the series. I just put it in there because "There's more than one way to skin a cat" is probably the first thing I remember my mum saying to me, and I credit her as instrumental in developing my taste for gore.

Onward!

• Music that takes you somewhere else. Or seems to come from a better place. Like Silver Sun, Aphex Twin, Futureheads, and Fleetwood Mac's Big Love being played on a lonely acoustic guitar in front of one hundred thousand people.
• Books that make you look clever and stylish when you read them on the train as well as being totally bodacious reads, like Milan Kundera's Identity, or anything by the legend that is B.S. Johnson. Or G.K. Chesterton (The Man Who Was Hard To Pin Down).
• Films. Most films, but films like The Last Supper, Late Night Shopping, The Lion King, Velvet Goldmine, Batman, Aliens, Batteries Not Included, and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover are ones that I can't help but watch over and over and over again...
• I should see more art. Van Gogh's La Nuit Etoileé is my favourite painting. And I'd say that massive explosion type thing in Manchester is my favourite new sculpture. My word! I also liked the half- filled- with- reflective- oil- making- you- feel- like- you're- floating- in- space room at the Saatchi Gallery, but who wouldn't?

On the creative side of things, I write the songs for a band called Girls In Uniform and I am currently working on three books with the working titles of Fatalities, The Adventures Of Amaretto Klein, and Antonymity.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, about anything. For example: the subjects I've listed above, or how to prepare SPAM or lasagne or eggy bread, or if you simply want me to lend you my copy of Catlore, by Desmond Morris, the famous philanthropist.

I answer all mail, and I imagine the sort of people reading this are the sort of people I like hearing from. Do take care.

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