7. Occupation
Second year uni student - I don't do jobs

8. Marital Status
Single and runnin free!

9. For how long have you been working on Elle's Queen Page?
Since April 1998 and still strong.

10. For how long have you been a Queen fan
I've been a fan since December 1997.  My brother liked them for a period in 1993 and I fell in love with Greatest Hits II. It was something different and awe-inspiring about Queen. I have never been able to define it.

11. What were you doing when you heard that Freddie died?
I was in grade three.  I think Freddie's death was what taught me what death was all about.

11. Artists that you like besides Queen?
Depeche Mode, Morrissey, Phantom Planet, The Stills, Basement Jaxx, Cause & Effect, Electronic, Audio Bullys, Erasure, Blur, Muse, Pulp, Guster, Postal Service, Oasis, Joy Division, The Beatles, Radio 4, New Order, The Clash, Pet Shop Boys, Arkana, Franz Ferdinand, The Smiths, Ocean Colour Scene, Suede, Radiohead, REM, The Specials, Bloc Party, Ace of Base and me, of course!

12. Artists that you hate
Anyone who has the arrogance to believe that they are a rockstar.  Scissorkick in the direction to someone who cares.

13. Favorite Movies
Teen comedies are always a favourite: Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink, Can't Hardly Wait, The Breakfast Club.. of course, Donnie Darko, 24 Hour Party People, A Fish Called Wanda, Road Trip, entire six hours of Pride and Prejudice, Goldfinger...

14. Movies that you hate
The Truman Show because it was an atricious movie that singled handedly spawned reality television.

15. Favorite Actors
Don't really have any.  I don't respect actors half as much as I do musicians, but if I HAD to say... Sean Connery, Joaquin Pheonix, Tom Cruise, Winona Ryder, Jared Leto, Jude Law.

16. Favorite non-Queen songs
1. Two Points for Honesty, Guster
2. My Heart.. So Blue (Orchestral Mix), Erasure
3. But Not Tonight, Depeche Mode
4. Reptilia, The Strokes
5. Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Smiths
6. Rehab, Arkana
7. First Things First, Phantom Planet
8. Clover Over Dover, Blur
9. Dream Attack, New Order
10. Helicopter, Bloc Party
11. D'Yknow What I Mean?, Oasis
12. Tell Her Tonight, Franz Ferdinand

17. Favorite Sports
For playing? Probably Volleyball or Badmington.  For viewing? Footy , Soccer, any Olympic sport

18. Education
Finished High School in 2002.  In second year of uni at the moment, studying Arts/Law at Latrobe.  I have about a decade to go.

19. Favorite Queen Home Pages
1. Mine

I haven't been surfing lately.

20. Favorite Drink
Mocha, orange & vodka, Diet Coke with Lemon Twist

21. Favorite Food
None, I'm too picky

22. Worst thing about yourself?
Indecisive.  Vague.  A bit antisocial at times.

23. Place you would like to visit
UK most definetly, followed by Europe with host of gal pals... concert, bed and bar hopping (I'm kidding).

24. Phobias
Spiders and Ticket Inspectors on trams.

25. Favorite Queen songs
1. The Prophet Song
2. Innuendo
3. White Man
4. The Night Comes Down
5. Flick of the Wrist
6. It's Late
7. Jealousy
8. Dancer
9. Was it All Worth It?
10. Princes of the Universe

26. Favorite Queen Albums
1. Queen I
2. News of the World
3. Queen II
4. Greatest Hits II
5. A Night at the Opera

27. Least Favorite Queen songs
1. Man on the Prowl (crappy imatation of Crazy..)
2. Sweet Lady (cheese? Come on!)
3. Back Chat
4. Calling All Girls
5. Bring Back that Leroy Brown
6. Modern Times Rock n Roll
7. Funny How Love Is
8. Machines (Back to Humans)
9. Kashoggi's Ship
10. Pain is so Close to Pleasure

28. Favorite Queen Videos
Liar, The Miracle, Innuendo, and Princes of the Universe.

29. Less Favorite Queen Album
Live Magic

30. Do you agree with a new Queen reunion, or you think there's no Queen without Freddie?
In my honest opinion, "Queen+" would only reunite to rake in more cash... which really doesn't seem all that implausible.

31. Favorite TV Show
Coupling, Friends, Seinfeld, Blackadder, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Smith and Jones, Changing Rooms (with Lawrence!) Father Ted, Monty Python, Unsolved Mysteries, Dawson (RIP), Elimidate, The Villa.

32. Members of your family
My two brothers, Andrew and Tommy, my parents and mes deux chats (two cats named Shui and Rocket)

33. What kind of people you like?
Essentially I like people who are passionate and people who are funny.  They can really be passionate about anything, about life or a hobby or just people, but it really says something about who they are.  I love to have random and completely excessive conversations long into the night.. and generally people who you can say almost anything to and they never get freaked out.  In the opposite sex, I like guys who are attractive.  I like guys who have a complete inability to reply to an SMS in 72 hours.  I like guys who often leave the country for study or travel reasons.  Why?  I don't know.

34. What kind of people you hate?
People who guess what I'm all about piss me off.  Generally people who have wronged or betrayed me in the past.  Sorry all, but El keeps grudges.

35. Sport Teams that you support.
Footy - Essendon Bombers!

36. Favorite Video Game?
Don't have one. On the old computer, maybe Lotus, California Games, King of Chicago.

37. Names that you thought before naming 'Elle's Queen Page'?
I didn't think. I did!

38. Best thing about yourself?
I like to think I'm kind of empathic.  Physically, my hair when Lauren straightens it with her Muster

39. The craziest thing you've ever done?
There is no amount of money that would convince me to put that kind of information up here.

40. Favorite Book?
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)  -- utterly pretentious with lashings of innuendo & sexual tension
Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen)  -- it's like me and my bestie in 19th century England
The Aeneid (Virgil)  --  even though it was in Latin it made me cry, too much
Five Go To Smuggler's Top (Enid Blyton)  --  the influence is immense

41. Favorite (non Queen) Albums
1. Innocents, Erasure
2. The Guest, Phantom Planet
3. 2 X 2, Milli Vanilli (don't ask, don't tell)
4. Twisted Tenderness, Electronic
5. Louder Than Bombs, The Smiths
7. Parklife, Blur
8. Please, Pet Shop Boys
9. Head on the Door, The Cure
10. Black Celebration, Depeche Mode
11. Your Arsenal, Morrissey
12. Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand

42. Computer used.
IBM PC

43. Any instruments you know how to play?
I've been playing violin and piano since 1992.  I think I've been singing for as long as I can remember.  Fiddled around with a bass and acoustic guitars since 1999.  Made first album last year, called Grayscale and it's on extremely limited release (think: 3 copies including my own), so don't ask for a copy.  I've been deejaying on radio for like 18 months now.. but that doesn't really take skill, just cds and a gushy mentality.

44. Hobbies?
Lazying around uni with friends (usually mocha in hand), music (listening, writing, playing), doing radio on sub & syn fm, fashion design (up to folio #3 now!), developing unhealthy love for the British music press (id est NME, Q, Mojo etc), barhopping with friends, i love to sleep.

45. Religion.
Epicurian/Existentialist. Religion is a no go for me, it divides more people than it unites so I choose not to take part in it all.

46. Favorite color?
Red. Sometimes magenta.

47. Favorite Quote
"The only cure for the soul is the senses and the only cure for the senses is but the soul" - Oscar Wilde. I love that quote, I think it is really beautiful.
Audentes fortuna iuvat - Virgil.  Luck helps those who dare.  Someone please engrave this for me on a silver ring.

48. What did you use to create Elle's Queen Page?
Netscape Composer 4.7, Microsoft Frontpage 97, Notepad, Ulead Morph Studio 1.0, sleep deprivation, Dove chocolate

49. What comes after Elle's Queen Page?
Senility.

50. Who would you like to thank after creating Elle's Queen Page?
Initially, I would like to thank my family, for putting up with me. Especially my Dad, because he doesn't complain about Queen too much and he has suggestions for the website ("Do Java"). Secondly, I would like to thank all the Queen fans that have contacted me and/or given me feedback since forever because if it wasn't for you, the site wouldn't be as extensive as it is today. Through EQP I have become in contact with many interesting and wonderful people, many of  which I have been friends with for many many months, some even years. It's always nice to have a Queen buddy you can send and receive massive e-mails, pondering if Freddie really did drugs. So here's to my Queen friends from all around the world! Moreover, that includes my chat friends on the OIQFCC (you all know who you are) who take my dodginess and teenage blather along with my boy obsessions and indecisivie episodes. Thank you so much! Lastly, but not least, my friends who have sat on the other end of fascinating phone conversations about Freddie's butt in red leather pants (and actually sound interested); many thanks. And also those nights were I used to get upset listening to Made In Heaven and you cry along too. Although most of my new friends and I don't talk about Queen (cause fantastic me is sick to my stomach about it), I appreciate the moments were I do divulge stories about Roger and you guys and you don't especially mind. Love, peace and happiness to all of you!

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