Forum Profiles

[Gus]

Given how there has been an increasing trend towards getting to know each other outside cyberspace, thought what might help was a bit more info about each of us ..... well that and the fcat that there seems to be little forum activity at the moment.

So ... in my frre time (which seems to be legion at the moment) put together a series of questions (based on the interviews I've done through my www.ggus.co.uk site).

Please respond at will....

1. Birthplace
2. 3 Favourite Books
3. 3 Favourite CDs
4. 3 Favourite Films
5. Most Hated Film
6. Favourite Dance Outfit
7. Favourite drink
8. Worst Hangover
9. Best Holiday
10. Favourite Game
11. Childhood dream job
12. Real Life Hero
13. Closest Brush with Death
14. Most Bizarre place had sex ( optional)

[Dreadful Scathe]

Originally posted by Gus
[b]

Please respond at will....

At Will ? Why, he didnt start this interview. Ill respond at Gus.

1. Birthplace
Leith, Edinburgh

2. 3 Favourite Books
Lord of the Rings (waaaay before the films ) - Tolkein
Lion of Macedon - David Gemmel
Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler

3. 3 Favourite CDs
Faith No More - Angel Dust
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Smurfs All Star Show (cough)

4. 3 Favourite Films
Aliens
Life of Brian
Moulin Rouge etc...

5. 3 Most Hated Film ( )
existenze
A.I.
Titanic

6. 3 Favourite Dance OutfitS
Pans People
Birmingham Ballet Company
Dancers that did 'Cats'

(of COURSE thats what he meant )

7. Favourite drink
Coffee

8. Worst Hangover
Never had one

9. Best Holiday
Egypt

10. Favourite Game
Hide the sausage

11. Childhood dream job
Moon colony commander

12. Real Life Hero
Mother theresa

13. Closest Brush with Death
car flipped off road and rolled down hill when i was about 6

14. Most Bizarre place had sex ( optional)
St Andrews beach
(hmm not really bizarre ! )

[Wendy]

1. Birthplace

- Barrhead, Glasgow

2. 3 Favourite Books

- Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Organized Living, Dawna Walter
- A3 pad of squared paper

3. 3 Favourite CDs (this is soooo hard !)

- The Rolling Stones, Sucking in the Seventies
- David Bowie, The Singles Collection
- Gypsy Kings , Greatest Hits (I know my street cred has now TOTALLY vanished but when I play it really loudly in the Wendymobile I just have so much fun singing along to it !!)

4. 3 Favourite Films

- Ordinary People
- Philadelphia
- Babe

(HAVE to cheat on this one !)

- 37,2 Le Matin (Betty Blue)
- La Vie est un long fleuve tranquil


5. Most Hated Film

- A Clockwork Orange
- some French crap with a close-up of a dripping tap....

6. Favourite Dance Outfit

- Pans People
- 1960's gogo girls in boots and miniskirts
- Mia Farrow waltzing with Robert Redford in the Great Gatsby
- Carmen (Spanish dance version)
- The BTC Team

7. Favourite drink

- with fish and chips - Vimto
- with croissants - Graham's cappuccino
- with salmon - Meursault
- any excuse - Aussie/NZ Chardonnay


8. Worst Hangover

- at 14 or so had gallons of Cinzano Bianco (shuddering just thinking about it) and next day was crawling about totally ill

or

- the one where I polished off a bottle of lemon liqueur....oh God !

9. Best Holiday

- Tunisia 1990 (One of those club 18-35 holidays but French version. Met a girl who is still one of my best mates. Sadly, I lost all my jewellery and perfume cos I left it on the plane on the way there. In those days I wore dungarees without the string vest underneath !!)

10. Favourite Game

- spotting actors in films and knowing what they've been in before and asking Graham and he never knows

11. Childhood dream job

- Pans People dancer
- shoe shop assistant (you had stools and shoe horns in those days !)

12. Real Life Hero

- Oprah Winfrey
- Billy Connolly

13. Closest Brush with Death

- Stepped out of my flat in France onto the pavement and a cyclist whizzed past missing me by inches

14. Most Bizarre place had sex

- In a train in Paris (OK that's not bizarre but wait for it..... ) and years later bumped into the guy in my fave nightclub and he'd lost his leg in a train accident !!!!

Wx

[Graham]

1. Birthplace
Johnstone, Renfrewshire

2. 3 Favourite Books (Too hard to pick my best three - here's a selection from my faves list
The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
Driving over Lemons (Chris Stewart)
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (John Gray)

3. 3 Favourite CDs (see above)
Queen - Live at Wembley '86
Beatles - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Badly Drawn Boy - About a Boy (soundtrack)

4. 3 Favourite Films (see above)
Awakenings
Schindler's List
In the Heat of the Night

5. Most Hated Film
I generally don't watch films I don't think I'll like! Biggest disappointment was Death Becomes Her (all the jokes were in the trailer)

6. Favourite Dance Outfit
Barbie pink sequined lycra catsuit
Tee-shirt and jeans

7. Favourite drink
Champagne
Wine
A good malt
Armagnac
Gin and Tonic
Oh, anything really!

8. Worst Hangover
Don't get them

9. Best Holiday
B&B touring holiday on the C™te d'Azur

10. Favourite Game
Trivial Pursuit (you'd all have thought that anyway, so why pretend?? )

11. Childhood dream job
Astronaut

12. Real Life Hero
Will Hutton

13. Closest Brush with Death
Lying back on the piste at Cairngorm and watching an unbraked ski whiz past inches from my head

14. Most Bizarre place had sex
In a public square in Beauvais

[Curtain]

BIRTH PLACE - Glasgow

3 FAVORITE BOOKS - Papillion (Henri Charriere), Doors Of Perception/Heaven & Hell (Aldous Huxley), Lord Of The Rings (J.R.R Tolkien).

3 FAVORITE ALBUMS - U2/The Joshua Tree, Oasis/Definitely Maybe, Massive Attack/Mezzanine (though I could name ten easy)

3 FAVORITE FILMS - Outside of the orginal Starwars Trilogy it would have to be, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, The Shawshank Redemption.

3 MOST HATED FILMS - The Thin Red Line, Moulin Rouge, The Grinch.

FAVORITE DANCE OUTFITS - Liberty X.

FAVORITE DRINK - Milk.

WORST HANGOVER - Don't think I've experienced it yet (they are getting worse).

BEST HOLIDAY - Northern Ireland (with a few of my mates).

FAVORITE GAME - Ludo (for money).

CHILDHOOD DREAM JOB - Thomas The Tank Engine Train Driver (what a cushy number that one was).

REAL LIFE HERO (ES) - Billy Connolly (Living) Jim Morrison/Charlie Chaplin/John Lennon (Dead).

CLOSEST DEATH EXPERIENCE - Fell off a rope swing at the tender age of 18 into some rocks. Smashed some bones in my back (really lucky to have escaped paralysis).

BIZARRE PLACE - Can't say there have been many. Although my dream is to do it on Safari one day.

[Gus]

BIRTH PLACE Ð Clayton, Newcastle-Under-Lyme

3 FAVORITE BOOKS Ð The Dilbert Principle Ð Scott Adams, Consider Phelbas Ð Iain Banks, Goblet of Fire Ð JK Rowling

3 FAVORITE ALBUMS Ð Camino Palmero Ð The Calling, Division Bell Ð Pink Floyd, All about the Stragglers Ð Artfull Dodger

3 FAVORITE FILMS Ð Das Boot, The Life of Brian, Bicentennial Man.

MOST HATED FILMs Ð BatmanÕs Revenge, GoldMember (Austin Power)

FAVOURITE DANCE OUTFIT Ð Cyberdog yellow fluorescent shirt, Orange Jupiter combats

FAVOURITE DRINK Ð Southern Comfort and Coke

WORST HANGOVER Ð Combined Happy hour, Xmas meal, multiple drinking games and a nightclub .... all the night before my first Universtity exam ...exam was Friday 9am ... hangover cleared PM SUNDAY!

BEST HOLIDAY Ð Inter-railing round Europe with a mate when I was 25

FAVOURITE GAME Ð Unreal Tournament

CHILDHOOD DREAM JOB Archaeologist

REAL LIFE HERO Ð Martin Luther King

CLOSEST DEATH EXPERIENCE Ð Flew in Kinshasa, Congo at 7pm....Civil war broke out 9pm (NOT my fault). Took 5 days to get evacuated and got a bit fed up of shells, RPGs and AK47 rounds disturbing my sleep.

BIZARRE PLACE Ð Front garden (semi-detached house), midnight, faint moon light, light rain, neighbours bedroom overlooking.... must have been a good reason but I canÕt think of it.....

[CJ]

1. Birthplace
Edin. Scotland

2. 3 Favourite Books
Schindler's Ark
Roget's Thesaurus (Gie's piece, I'm a songwriter.)
Silence of the Lambs (long before film)

3. 3 Favourite CDs
Deutche Grammophone recording of Beethoven Symphs 5 and 7.
Marshall Mather's LP
Y&T: Mean Streak.

4. 3 Favourite Films
Star Wars/Empire
The Usual Suspects
Schindler's List

5. Most Hated Film
Don't do hatred: thoroughly unimpressed with You've Got Mail.

6. Favourite Dance Outfit
Kilt.

7. Favourite drink
dependant on mood:
Canadian Club and American Ginger Ale
Guiness
Jack'n'coke
good malt

8. Worst Hangover
too many too long ago. On road with the band usually produces at least one cracker!!

9. Best Holiday
Touring Ontario in campervan, well, motorhome.

10. Favourite Game
Ice Hockey (is that a sport?) chess

11. Childhood dream job
astronaut

12. Real Life Hero
really sad to say, no-one I idolise.

13. Closest Brush with Death
Nothing serious yet, but driving around Florida avoiding a twister was interesting.

14. Most Bizarre place had sex
mm. member of mile high club. middle of a field 30 yards from The Black Crowes as they played live @ Donington. Princes St. Gardens or Edin. Airport are the most obvious ones. Up the bum? oops. others are springing to mind now so shall sign off now...

[TheTramp]

1. Birthplace
Cardiff, Wales (although one English friend of mine did think Cardiff was in Scotland!!)

2. 3 Favourite Books
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan
Anything by Jeffrey Deaver (current fad, this will probably change weekly)

3. 3 Favourite CDs
Greatest hits - U2
Greatest hits I - Queen
Savage Garden - Savage Garden

4. 3 Favourite Films
Lord of the Rings
All the Monty Python ones
Billy Elliot

5. Most Hated Film
There are too many that I've switched off after 10 minutes to name

6. Favourite Dance Outfit
Martial arts trousers and t-shirt
Green Zoot suit

7. Favourite drink
Diet coke or sprite or orange juice & lemonade

8. Worst Hangover
Even when I did drink alcohol, I could drink as much as I like, and never get a hangover - once did 12 pints of guiness and 5 double whiskey chasers, and then went jogging at 7am the next day!

9. Best Holiday
Touring round the States

10. Favourite Game
Anything that involves strategy and a brain

11. Childhood dream job
Millionaire playboy

12. Real Life Hero
Don't really have one. Never really done the hero thing

13. Closest Brush with Death
Putting the words 'Lorna' and 'Miss Piggy' in the same sentence on this Forum?

14. Most Bizarre place had sex ( optional)
What's that??? (I'm very sweet and innocent).

Steve

[Franck]

1. Birthplace
Lyon - France.

2. 3 Favourite Books
The unbearable lightness of being (and other books by Milan Kundera)
Coastliners (and Five quarters of the orange) - Joanne Harris
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
+ So many more like anything by Terry Pratchett, China Mieville etc...

3. 3 Favourite CDs
Again too many to mention...
Paganini's violin concerto
Horse
Francis Cabrel (any cd)

4. 3 Favourite Films
The Unbearable lightness of being
The Matrix
The double life of Veronika

5. Most Hated Film
Lord of the rings (hated the book and the film)
Moulin rouge (unbelievably dull...)
Harry Potter (loved the books hated the film)

6. Favourite Dance Outfit
White suit!
jeans / t-shirt

7. Favourite drink
Champagne, Espresso and a late entry: Red bull!

8. Worst Hangover
Rarely get one.

9. Best Holiday
North west of Scotland, near a beach, or Islay.

10. Favourite Game
Go and chess... Though I am pretty useless at both

11. Childhood dream job
Interpreter for the UN (or some other international organization)

12. Real Life Hero
Most people who care about others day to day... Nobody specific.

13. Closest Brush with Death
Organizing the 10th anniversary party

14. Most Bizarre place had sex ( optional)
Hmmm, shan't tell...

Franck.

[Lou]

1. Birthplace
Usk, South Wales

2. 3 Favourite Books
The Witching Hour, Anne Rice; Any Terry Pratchett or Jilly Cooper

3. 3 Favourite CDs
Best Of Northern Soul (Various Artists), Steptacular, Vision Thing by the Sisters of Mercy.... ooooh... too many choices!

4. 3 Favourite Films
The Matrix, Bladerunner, Swingers

5. Most Hated Film
The Saint

6. Favourite Dance Outfit
Depends on the mood....
Either... Cyberdog Matrix T-shirt & proton pants
OR... Plain black trousers & Latin top
Always black, though.

7. Favourite drink
Freixenet Cava

8. Worst Hangover
Jan 1 1990, after having been carted out of the Hacienda in an ambulence the night before.

9. Best Holiday
6 weeks in San Francisco, paid for by HP (I was supposed to be working, but....

10. Favourite Game
Backgammon

11. Childhood dream job
Nun

12. Real Life Hero
Pete Waterman

13. Closest Brush with Death
Jumping out of an aeroplane with a broken arm & only realising it was broken when I tried to steer the parachute.

14. Most Bizarre place had sex ( optional)
I'm a good girl, I am!

[Wendy]

Originally posted by Lou
14. Most Bizarre place had sex ( optional)
I'm a good girl, I am!

I'll take your word for that but where !!!!

Wx

[Emma]

1. Birthplace
Oxford
2. 3 Favourite Books
Impossible question, but off the top of my head without thinking too much:
The Poisonwood Bible - Babara Kingsolver
Dangerous Parking - Stuart Browne
Any of Dirk Bogarde's autobiographies.

3. 3 Favourite CDs
Ugh. I have over 500 CDs. They are all potentially my favourite on one day or another but recently:

Indigo Swing - Indigo Swing
Tropical Brainstorm - Kirsty MacColl
Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night

4. 3 Favourite Films
Truly Madly Deeply (yeah, I'm a hopeless romantic)
Time Bandits
Brazil.

This list makes it look like I haven't seen a film since 1985! *lol*

5. Most Hated Film
Umm...Can't think of one. I'm sort of not that bothered about films.

6. Favourite Dance Outfit
My regular outfit would be a pair of combats with sequins on and a black vest or t-shirt but my fantasy outfit is probably a bowler hat, black tux jacket, fishnets and a silver topped cane. It's a Bob Fosse thing :sorry

7. Favourite drink
Non-Alcoholic - tea
Alcoholic - Wine

8. Worst Hangover
Last month when I went to a wedding in York. A two day hangover which also involved physiotherapy to get over the injuries incurred, and a new pair of glasses. It was quite a party . I've never felt quite so ill.

9. Best Holiday
Last summer I travelled around Italy by train. It was fantastic. I'd like to go everywhere by train now. Including Ameirca, which you can do by going across the frozen baltic sea, apparently.

10. Favourite Game
Erm..tetris, thouugh I rarely play it nowadays.

11. Childhood dream job
Opera singer

12. Real Life Hero
Jarvis Cocker, for sticking his arse up at Michael Jackson.

13. Closest Brush with Death
Near-misses on roundabouts.

14. Most Bizarre place had sex ( optional)
Ha!

[Graham]

Originally posted by Emma
I'd like to go everywhere by train now. Including Ameirca, which you can do by going across the frozen baltic sea, apparently.

I don't think you mean the Baltic (it's the sea between Scandinavia and Poland/Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia/Russia), but I'm interested to know the real answer, so I'm not just pointlessly nitpicking! (for once!! )

[SwingSwingSwing]

1. Birthplace
Motherwell, Scotland

2. 3 Favourite Books
Lord Foul's Bane, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever - Stephen Donaldson
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Foundation - Isaac Asimov

3. 3 Favourite CDs
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Benny Goodman - Plays Mel Powell

4. 3 Favourite Films
Ooh, so hard to choose as they change weekly but I'll always watch:-
Casablanca
Blade Runner
Rear Window (or almost any Jimmy Stewart film for that matter)

5. Most Hated Film
ET

6. Favourite Dance Outfit
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers

7. Favourite drink
Peach beer (I love Belgian fruit beers)

8. Worst Hangover
After a Dumbarton vs Stenhousemuir match. Towards the end of an already drink filled day, my pals and I decided it would be a good idea to try some Metz (fairly new on the market at the time) After one bottle we decide that it tasted just like American Cream Soda and had another three bottles in about 10 minutes. I slept that night and most of the following day in the bathroom curled up on the floor being sick at regular intervals.

9. Best Holiday
Bavaria, Germany. I've got friends over there and whenever I go I always have a fabulous time

10. Favourite Game
Robotron (arcade)

11. Childhood dream job
Astronaut

12. Real Life Hero
Lance Armstrong

13. Closest Brush with Death
Almost being run over when cycling home from work in July 2001. The offender got a two year driving ban.

14. Most Bizarre place had sex ( optional)
I'm too dull.

SwingSwingSwing

[Emma]

Originally posted by Graham

I don't think you mean the Baltic (it's the sea between Scandinavia and Poland/Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia/Russia), but I'm interested to know the real answer, so I'm not just pointlessly nitpicking! (for once!! )

You're right..I've stood on a chair and checked on my map of the world that I keep for such occasions when I need to check my thoroughly awful geographical knowledge - it's the Bering sea/straights which lie between Russia and the US. Hey, it begins with B..... :sorry

[Emma]

Originally posted by SwingSwingSwing
2. 3 Favourite Books
Lord Foul's Bane, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever - Stephen Donaldson
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Foundation - Isaac Asimov

Oh! you just reminded me of Whit, by Iain Banks, and now I want to change my favourite books. I'd add Good Omens by Terry Prachett/Neil Gaiman, too. Three isn't enough, really.

[Gadget]

This post makes interesting reading I notice that several of us have the same taste in books (or perhaps it's just that someone has to buy the best-sellers)

1. Birthplace
Glasgow:Rotten row
2. 3 Favourite Books
Damn - only 3.
1: Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K Hamilton {rave, rave rave - be warned: may look like pulp from the cover, but the series is addictive!}
2: Assassin's Aprentice - Robin Hobb
3=: Good Omens - Neil Gamen & Terry Pratchett
3=: Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
3=: Thomas Covenant series, Belgariad, Lord of the Rings, Potter... how can I keep it down to three !???
3. 3 Favourite CDs
Don't generally like individual artist - I get bored listening to the same 'style' of music for a whole album, so...
1: Latest "Now" album
2: Pop idol's big band CD
3: Born to Ride ("remember; this compilation is not available in stores...")
4. 3 Favourite Films
1: Old oriental martial arts movies (or old oriental vampire movies; they are almost the same)
2: Cerano de bergerac (in french, subtitled.)
3: Most John Cusac films
...missing out several good films as well.
5. Most Hated Film
Meet the feebles. Had to watch it all the way through just to be sure that it was actually as bad as I thought - not even bad enough to be good.
6. Favourite Dance Outfit
To wear; Kilt shirt & combats. To appreciate; 'gypsy' style.
7. Favourite drink
Full fat milk, Full fat Coke-a-cola, water.
8. Worst Hangover
Don't drink, but had a few dehydration hangovers from dancing for about 5-6 hours solid the night before when a student (couldn't do it now, like...)
9. Best Holiday
Sailing around the Yougoslavian coast & islands on a 5 bearth sail-boat with my family (while it still was Yugoslavia)
10. Favourite Game
head to head 1st player shootemup (quake, doom, UT...) or Magic The Gathering (cardgame) or Cyberpunk2020 (real, paper rpg)
11. Childhood dream job
Architect/Lego Creator
12. Real Life Hero
BTC ? I don't aspire to be anyone other than myself - just hone a few skills and develop a few new ones.
13. Closest Brush with Death
never personally had a close brush with Death, but have held the dustpan a few times.
14. Most Bizarre place had sex ( optional)
"bizarre"... nowhere too bizarre. A few 'unusual' ways, with a few 'unusual' people, in a few 'unusual' places, but nowhere I would term "bizarre".

[Tiggerbabe]

1. Birthplace
Invergowrie - small village outside Dundee.

2. 3 Favourite Books
The Hobbit - Tolkein
Rachel's Holiday - Can't remember author's name....oops!
The Rainbow Fish - Marcus Pfister (it's a children's story)

3. 3 Favourite CDs
Change all the time but:-
Allicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
Robbie Williams - Swing When You're Winning
Simply Red - Stars

4. 3 Favourite Films
When A Man Loves A Woman
Nearly forgot - Shawshank Redemption - one of the best films EVER. (Edited post)
Toy Story.
Any of the Marx Brother's films

5. Most Hated Film
Nine and a Half Weeks - never seen it all yet - fallen asleep every time!

6. Favourite Dance Outfit
Has to be those trousers - you know the velvet strokeable ones with loads of lace "salsa style" plus the matching top of course.
(Got a skirt to go with them too now............)
Anything that means I can wear my trainers.

7. Favourite drink
Sloe Gin and lemonade

8. Worst Hangover
Long time ago but still remember the feeling - sick all over the bedroom rug (couldn't get up out of bed!) and had to throw it out (drinking pernod and blackcurrant in those days) - hubby didn't speak to me for days till I'd sobered up - like he's NEVER been in that state!

9. Best Holiday
Malta - first holiday abroad with the kids, it was hot, I totally chilled out and the people were sooooo friendly.
Can I mention this as well? - New York, shopping trip with some friends - what a place, totally buzzing, can't wait to go back but this time want to go dancing.

10. Favourite Game
Sonic The Hedgehog

11. Childhood dream job
Teacher

12. Real Life Hero
Martin Luther King
but also-
Members of the Emergency