About Me

  • About Me: i am: pedant, polymath, revolutionary. i am not: a lot of things that people say i am.

Travel

  • Places I love: green room (i still have to travel to that, you see)
  • Places I've been: greece, spain. matlock. los angeles!
  • Places to see before I die: st petersburg, rural russia, jamaica, china, chile
  • Dream Vacation: a giant roadtrip across the USA.or travelling across russia. or getting mugged in mexico

More About Me

  • Nicknames: arto, ellipsis, shav guernica
  • Nationality: caucasian english (but i really wanna be black)
  • Religion: existentialism, atheism, nihlism, communism, anarchism
  • Heroes: kurt cobain, richey edwards, noam chomsky, chuck palahnuik
  • Interests: deflowering naive, young, plump-thighed maidens
  • Expertise: final fantasy seven
  • Occupation: bum
  • Industry: thankfully none.
  • Website: www.art0.deviantart.com

Books

  • Favorite Books: notes from underground, 1984, brave new world, fight club, the trial
  • Favorite Authors: dostoyevsky, pahlaniuk, huxley, orwell, chomsky, kafka
  • Favorite Genres: socio-political, philosophical, political, anything to do with relationships of power, and anything to do with higher knowledge
  • Favorite Characters: tyler durden, raskolnikov, bernard marx, and the narrator to notes from underground
  • Favorite Quotes: far too many
  • Recent Reads: metamorphosis

Music

  • Favorite Artists: radiohead, aphex twin, nine inch nails, nirvana, manic street preachers, feeder, greenday, placebo, blur, future sound of london, unkle, wu tang clan, prodigy, kanye west, oasis, white stripes, the beatles, marilyn manson, public enemy, saul williams, system of a down, rage against the machine, jamiroquai, muse, dr dre, eminem, massive attack, linkin park, cooper temple clause, slipknot, deftones, mars volta, swervedriver, soundgarden, stone temple pilots, beck, velvet underground, bob dylan, sonic youth, basically anything vaguely alt/contemporary.
  • Favorite Albums: de-loused in the comatorium, psyence fiction, synkronised, whats the story morning glory, the fragile, comfort in sound, lifeforms, elephant, without you i'm nothing, velvet underground and nico, mechanical animals, hypnotize, rage against the machine, everything must go, origin of symmetry, see this through and leave, hail to the theif, appetite for destruction, drukqs, mezzanine, in utero, the fat of the land, daydream nation, dookie etc.
  • Favorite Genre: grunge/alt rock/heavy rock/hip hop/electronica/breakbeats/metal/acoustic/IDM/post punk
  • Favorite Songs: too many to mention
  • Favorite Lyrics: too many to mention
  • Songs for Roadtrips: this is a proper gay question
  • Songs I hate: morrisey and the smith's entire back catalogue
  • Guilty Pleasure: linkin park
  • Songs I repeat the most: too many to mention
  • Band I wish I was in: nirvana, manic street preachers, rage against the machine

Contact Info

  • AIM: artofslamdancing
  • MSN: arto_@hotmail.co.uk

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: human traffic, matrix trilogy, fight club, trainspotting, kill bill, reservoir dogs, 28 days later
  • Favorite Actors: edward norton! ewen mcgregor, i dunno, they just read lines.
  • Favorite Directors: danny boyle
  • Favorite Genre: stuff with killings in
  • Favorite Soundtracks: human traffic, 28 days later
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: well, it could be worse. a woman could cut off your dick while you were sleeping and toss it out of the window of a moving car
  • Movies I can watch over and over: human traffic, fight club, kill bill
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: myself

Video Games

  • Games I Play: final fantasy seven, the metal gear solid series, the wipeout series, the gran turismo series, the GTA series, the tekken series, the crash bandicoot series, the sonic the hedgehog series, (a pattern? i like franchises, i guess) unreal tournament, rollcage, tenchu 2, mariokart, quake 2/3, pacman, tetris, space invaders
  • Consoles: ps1, ps2, megadrive, SNES, N64
  • Favorite Characters: sonic the hedgehog, vincent valentine, neo cortex
  • Gaming Alias: arto/ellipsis
  • Favorite Classic Arcade Games: tetris, pacman
  • Most Addictive: wipeout 2097, final fantasy seven, metal gear solid, pacman
  • Proudest Achievements: completing wipeout 2097. getting to level 99 in final fantasy seven, completing crash bandicoot 2
  • Favorite Soundtrack: final fantasy seven, wipeout 2097, road rash 32bit, sonic 2

Style

  • Where I shop: I
  • Brands I love: am
  • I like to wear: not
  • Can't live without: a
  • Prized Possessions: consumer
  • Guilty Pleasure: whore

Television

  • Favorite Shows: most british comedy, classic cartoons/animation
  • Favorite Channels: channel 4, obv.
  • Favorite Reruns: simpsons, red dwarf, blackadder
  • Characters you relate to: the brain, sideshow bob, bart simpson
  • Favorite Theme Song: the theme for pinky and the brain

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: chinese, indian, thai
  • Favorite Dishes: i like blue ones
  • Favorite Desserts: ice cream, i guess.
  • Favorite Drinks: now you're talkin'. newcastle brown ale, guinness, whiskey on the rocks, black russian, milk, irn bru, cherry coke, tea. etc.
  • Favorite Junk Foods: all. nachos are, of course, the best.
  • Best meal ever: burger 'n chips
  • My Original Recipes: take food out of freezer. put in oven. cook unitl edible.
  • Favorite Restaurants: any that'll let me in, really.
  • Foods I hate: nuts. cake.