BIRTH PLACE/DATE Columbia, South Carolina/October 27th, 1987
BIRTHSIGN Scorpio
SIBLINGS Elizabeth
HEIGHT 6ft 2ins (and I still trip over my feet.)
WEIGHT 130-something lbs
EYES Light Blue
HAIR black
PREVIOUS OCCUPATIONS None
PREVIOUS BANDS The Arsenix and Cankles of Doom - RIP
FAVOURITE COLOUR Green, Red, Grey
FAVOURITE FOODS Nearly any carbohydrate/starch
FAVOURITE DRINKS Caffeinated beverages, G and T
HOBBIES Writing, playing guitar, listening to music, making art, wasting hours in Papa Jazz…
PETS Olive, a black cat, and Pearl, a little bitch.
AMBITION IN LIFE To die fulfilled.
SELF DESCRIPTION Abnormal. Pleasant.
HIGH POINT OF CAREER Writing songs that I really, REALLY like.
FAVOURITE FILMS Fritz Lang's Metropolis, A Clockwork Orange; Pretty in Pink; The Filth and the Fury; The Shining; True Romance; Suburbia; Trainspotting; Waiting For Guffman; Night of the Living Dead; 24 Hour Party People; Nosferatu; many others…
FAVOURITE TV PROGRAMME The Young Ones, King of the Hill, The Simpsons
TV PERSONALITY Rik Mayall
FAVOURITE ACTRESS Audrey Hepburn and Brigitte Helm, among others…
PERSON YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET So many dead people... I would have loved to meet Joe Strummer, Ian Curtis, and Frida Kahlo.
MOST IMPORTANT POSSESSION My record collection.
MOST HATED RECORD Hell, I've probably never heard it.
FAVOURITE ARTISTS The Clash, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, The Smiths, New Order, Glenn Branca, The Germs, Magnetic Fields, Guyana Punch Line, Pavement, My Bloody Valentine, This Mortal Coil, Modern English, Mission of Burma and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
FAVOURITE SINGERS Morrissey, Ian Curtis, Patsy Cline, Joe Strummer (not sure that counts, but FECK it.) Otis Redding.
FAVOURITE LPs The Clash - London Calling; Joy Division - Closer, Substance; The Smiths - Any one of their albums; The Cure - Staring at the Sea; Guyana Punch Line - Direkt Aktion, My Bloody Valentine - Loveless, Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted, Sonic Youth - Evol, Confusion is Sex, Daydream Nation. Few of many.
FAVOURITE SINGLES The Clash - Complete Control b/w City Of The Dead, The Germs - No God, Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster b/w 78 RPM
FIRST RECORD EVER BOUGHT R.E.M. - Dead Letter Office
FIRST LIVE GIG ATTENDED If I told you, you would laugh, so fuck off.
LIKES being happy, being drunk, writing a nice poem or song, playing guitar, etc.
DISLIKES Vomitting, being threatened, mushrooms, depression of all sorts
FAVOURITE ANIMAL Octopus/Squid, Baboon
FAVOURITE PERSON hmmmm… The rest of the band, and Kaleidoscope people.
HEROES Joe Strummer, John Lydon, Sid Vicious, Ian Curtis, Johnny Marr, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, Dali, Dylan Thomas, Joyce, Eliot, there are more.
VILLIANS politicians, public school system, police, anyone who thinks they're better than others in any way, religious crazies, racists, the Army/ROTC…
GREATEST EMBARRASSMENT My family.
SELF CONFESSION I am in a pop-punk band.
FIRST ROMANCE Music.
FAVOURITE FUN THING TO DO get inebriated, listen to music, play guitar, write poems, songs, lyrics, walk around, go to shows, discuss music, spend time at Papa Jazz, drive around, drink coffee late at night, etc.
