Well I'm 25 yrs old, live in Melbourne, Australia, programming computers for money but a writer, artist & muso at heart :-) I'm married to a media teacher so our obsessive fandoms are completely acceptable lol

I did a movie quiz thing which summed my genre/hero love up perfectly: "Existential Savior!"

Lover of:

Harry Potter

Doctor Who

Buffy

Torchwood

Evangelion Neon Genesis

Brick

etc

Oh, the fandom completely takes me over most of the time!

Favourite Books:

Any. (really!) Hate being caught anywhere without something to read. No way, this will take forever...hmmm right at this very moment what we have on our book shelf that springs to mind: Harry Potter of course, Lord of the Rings, Anastasia & the other Ringing cedars books, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Philip K. Dick, Zhang Xianliang, Irvine Welsh, Haruki Murakami, Ursula Le Guin, Douglas Adams, Albert Camus, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Michael Marshall Smith, (I hadn't laughed so much since Hitchhikers Guide) Greg Bear, Bukowski, Tolkein, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Poppy Z. Brite, Jean Auel, Lian Hearn (and Gillian Rubinstein!), Frank Herbert, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Tad Williams (Otherland is coming true), Johnny the Homicidal Maniac & all the other Johnen Vasquez masterpieces (Squee!!), Graphic novels, Frank Miller (Sin City, 300 graph novels), Asterix! Tintin! Enid Blyton, Patrick Suskind (Perfume), philosophy, non-fiction, biography, Transgressive fiction, A bit of pulp now and again, hard & soft sci-fi, fantasy, historical fiction.. meh, this will go forever

Favourite TV Programmes:
Erm, DVDs & internets all the way for me... Doctor Who!! Torchwood, Buffy, Derren Brown, Angel, Black Books, Invader Zim, Red Dwarf, Neon Genesis Evangelion, X Files, Millennium, Twin Peaks, Young Ones, Absolute Power (Stephen Fry), The New Statesman (Rik Mayall), The Scary Door!, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Astroboy, Initial D, Furi Kuri, Chobits, Love Hina, Cowboy Bebop, Hellsing (the anime series), Futurama, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Rage, Spicks and Specks, The Chaser's War on Everything, Global Village, Entourage, Veronica Mars, Dead Like Me, Boston Legal, Aeon Flux series, The Maxx, Daria, Drawn Together, MASH (jeez I love mash), The Office, Extras, Monty Python, Most BBC comedies, Goodnight Sweetheart, Frasier, Mythbusters, Family Guy, Catalyst, JTV, Iron Chef, Future Focus, Metalocalypse!, The Mighty Boosh, Boondocks, Viva La Bam, CKY, Little Britain, Knight Rider! Police Rescue! Press Gang! Red vs. Blue

Favourite Films:
Eraserhead...& everything else by David Lynch, David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch of course, eXistenZ, Crash, Dead Ringers), Darren Aronofsky (ahh, requiem for a dream...), Takashi Miike, Miyazaki, Richard Linklater, films from Philip K. Dick's work (Bladerunner, Scanner Darkly, Minority Report etc etc), Fight Club, American Psycho & other Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis films, Tim Burton, Akira Kurosawa, Lars von Trier & Dogma Cinema, Quentin Tarantino, Baz Luhrmann, Robert Rodriguez films,
Hazmo Potter, Lord of the Rings, Brick, Sweeny Todd, Zatoichi, Donnie Darko, POSTAL!!, Matrix, Lady Snowblood, The Wall, Gummo, Kids, 300, Sin City, Interview with the vampire, Queen of the Damned (I'm in that one!), Damn the Man - save the Empire!, Heavenly Creatures, The Crow (duh!), Clockwork Orange, never met a single Johnny Depp movie I didn't like...but Fear & Loathing is the best followed closely by From Hell, then Pirates!, Aeon Flux, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Gattaca, The Truman Show,
Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Ewan McGregor, Anthony Hopkins (especially Shadowlands), Gary Oldman, Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Bill Hicks, Docos are the best - Messages from Water & other Masaru Emoto work, Baraka, Spiritual Cinema series, What The Bleep Do We Know, ...Too many to list... brain.. will.. explode.. cyber-punk, steam-punk, splatter-punk, bio/ribo-punk, sci-fi, neo-noir and noir, noir, noir are always a hit...stuff that's historically or psychologically interesting

Activities:
Books books books, writing!; Music - love that noise, the kind of noise a train makes clicking over a join in tracks, Also, swells that cause a chill to run down your spine & make you take a breath., listening, performing & writing it, dancin'; Debate; Art, painting, drawing, photography, filmmaking, orchestra, community radio, theatre, tech lighting, exhibiting, multimedia art, Manga, Anime, all styles of animation, music videos, Urban exploration, ruins, Old buildings, the more decayed the better, beautiful buildings; Technology, gaming, (PC, DS, XBox, PS2), RPGs especially, conceptual games, racing games, Dance Dance Revolution!, gadgets, magic, Gymnastics!, calisthenics, yoga, ice skating, bush walking & camping, bicycling,
Bushland, temperate & tropical rainforests, gardens, wildernes in general,
Those kids' shoes that have a rollerskate wheel in the heel;
Lego;
Threading fabric between my fingers;
Fish and chips. Hmm this is going to go on forever..

Interests:
People, my hubby!, family, friends; music psychology;
Memory, Nylex 5:50, TG,
thinking, learning, anthroposophy / Steiner and Montessori education;
Culture, philosophy, metaphysics, religion (esp. Buddhism, Taoism, Solipsism, Existentialism, Spirituality, Crowley/Book of the Law/Will, Jainism, Discordianism!), Negative theology, Collective unconscious, anthropology,
Travel, I'm a bit of a Japanophile;
Domestic & international politics, destroying Diebold electronic voting machines!!, socialism, environmentalism, feminism, globalism;
Ethics, morality, censorship;
Language, Philology, Linguistics, alternative communication & representation / cryptography;
Synesthesia, perception;
Lucid dreaming, deja-vu;
Films, cult, anime;
Body Modification & Body Art, subdermals, scarification,
Stellarc, Bill Henson, Matthew Barney, Howard Arkley, Brett Whiteley, viral marketing, geocaching, flash mobs, alternate reality games, Noir & Neo-Noir, cyber-punk, steam-punk, splatter-punk, bio-punk/ribo-punk, graphic novels, Transgressive art, manga, street art, performance art, conceptual art, art nouveau (the furniture & art...love it so very much), filligree, fretwork, wood carving; architecture, vintage design, nostalgia, nostalgic relativity;
Artificial intelligence, AI ethics & issues, genetic algorithms, neural networks, Transhumanism & it's ethics;
Nanotechnology, advances in medical science, astronomy & astronomical photography, macrocosm-microcosm;
Storms...

Favourite Music:
NIN, HIM, Mars Volta, Bloc Party, Modest Mouse, MGMT, Ministry, Joanna Newsom, Panic at the Disco, My Chemical Romance, Smashing Pumpkins, Pink Floyd, Elliott Smith, Dresden Dolls, Radiohead, The Cure, Jeff Buckley, Led Zeppelin, New Order, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Muse, Nick Drake, Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, McClusky, UNKLE, Tool, Marylin Manson, Shooglenifty, The Herd, Curse Ov Dialect, Hilltop Hoods, Scribe, Muph & Plutonic, Astronomy Class, Bliss n Esso, Pegz / Obese / Elefant Traks, The Streets, Dizzee Rascal, Lilly Allen, Lady Sovereign, Smashing Pumpkins, Songs in the Key of X (esp. P.M Dawn 'if you never say goodbye', Nick Cave, Danzig), Faith No More, Peeping Tom, The Shins, Portishead, Fiona Apple, REM, Jane's Addiction, Everclear, System of a Down, David Bowie, The Doors, Crowded House, Oasis, Beatles, Eminem, some Dre, Carole King, Ween, Weezer, Chemical Brothers, 1200 Techniques, Cold War Kids, Kimya Dawson, Frank Zappa, Bright Eyes, Verve, Placebo, Alice in Chains, The Smiths, Mark Ronson, The Killers, Cat Empire, The GO! Team, Counting Crows, Tears for Fears, Icehouse, Fleetwood Mac, Deftones, Eskimo Joe, old RHCP, The Dears, The Dandy Warhols, U2, Kronos Quartet, Ryan Adams, Einstürzende Neubauten, Free kitten, Metallica, Rev Co, Johnny Cah, Nirvana, Marylin Manson, Bjork, C W Stoneking, Royal Trux!, Bobby Flynn, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Tea Party, Meatloaf, The Convoy Song!, Vangelis, Classical, World music, Trouble in the Kitchen, Romanian & Celtic folk