Hi!
"When I was a child I played Subbuteo on...
my table then I graduate to Studio One."
- 3D - Massive Attack, Five Man Army
I'm a 21 year old male from the United Kingdom. I stumbled on Everything2 after following a link from CowboyNeal's homepage. I just graduated and I'm currently looking for a job as a software developer, and would proudly call myself a geek although I don't spend too much time with computers and in fact used to hate them. I do adore Linux though.
I hate TV, except Eastenders, Oz, The Sopranos, and The Simpsons. I much prefer books (read Catch-22!), music (I was once a huge Pavement fan), good films (particularly European ones like The 400 Blows, and La Dolce Vita), and football.
I'm thinking about getting into bodyboarding, as my parents recently bought a house in Wales near the beach, and I am getting fat with all this sitting in front of computers.
MintyBoy is what my sister calls me, it's derived from my real name Martin.
A Little Tale Involving MintyBoy and BadlyDrawnBoy
During my degree I wasn't that great at studying so I inevitably had to resit a few modules once the year was out. These resits took place at the end of August and meant I had to travel down to my university for the day and get a little stressed out in the process.
I was quite early for my exam one day so I decided to take a trip around the block to kill some time and clear my head. Nearing the end of this trip, I noticed a bill posted on a transformer box by the pavement. It was advertising a single by 'Badly Drawn Boy' entitled 'Once around the block'. This was 1999, quite a while before he took off, and at that moment I wished us both every success. The whole thing made me smile, not least because the event happened in Manchester in England, very much the home of Badly Drawn Boy.
Oh, I got my degree eventually.
Now for some subjective stuff which I can't put in write-ups
Ten albums I really like:
- What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye
- Marquee Moon - Television
- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
- Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
- Check Your Head - The Beastie Boys
- Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space - Spiritualized
- The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground
- Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols
- Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow
Ten books I really like:
- Experience - Martin Amis
- The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
- Head-On - Julian Cope
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
- The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
- Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
- Underworld - Don DeLillo
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Ten films I quite like: (I like too many films)
- Jules et Jim - Francois Truffaut
- Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
- Raging Bull - Martin Scorcese
- Fight Club - David Fincher
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Steven Spielberg
- It's a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra
- Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
- Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray
- Blazing Saddles - Mel Brooks
- Naked - Mike Leigh