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PROFILE - the unedited version:
Birthdate: 7/2/62
Place of Birth: Aden, Yemen
Height: 5ft 7 and a half inches apparently
Weight: I don't know at the moment. I was fatter and i've got less. I think it's about 10 and a half. It could be
11 and a half. Could be 11. I'm honestly not sure. 10 and a half I think is what i'm
trying to get to
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brownish. Changeable. But i'm really a blonde at heart
Demeanour: Lazy bastard with a huge drive thing. That sort of answers most things, why i'm sometimes
slovenly and can't get anything done, other times i'm doing a 55 day tour and that's no problem
State of mind: I'm very curious, very enquiring. I like learning things
Home: London. Essentially, where I am. Not particularly my flat
Habits: Watchin telly, watching black and white films. Always leaving just enough time to be late for things.
I'm always 15 minutes late
Unusual skills: All my unusual skills I use now. So i'm looking for normal skills. I can unicycle
Previous jobs: Two weeks as a barman, three weeks as a waiter. I worked in a self-service cafe in Bexhill. Apart from that they were all performing. I won't work unless I perform. I didn't want to work as a waiter,
I want to act, and they said "Oh, you can't act. No-one's allowed to unless you're an actor" Which meant
if you don't know actors.....
Likes: Ice cream, I like the Scottish Highlands, and I like the South Downs and I like the cosmopolitan
ting in London. I like communication. I like the positive application of technology
Dislikes: I dislike people who are sure, people with closed minds
Phobias: I'm not wild on spiders that are big and move fast and tear your head off. I get quite worried
about large sea storms in dark places. If you go somewhere and it's really blowing, down some sort of
seafront, huge waves crashing. It scares the shit out of me
Music: I like James and I like the Wonderstuff and I like Tom Jones' last track. I really like 'Nightswimming',
REM, 'Automatic for the People' - that album I really like. Pulp, Mozart. I really liked ABC's 'Lexicon of Love'.
Portishead
Clothing: I like these boots I got which lace up to the knee, which you get from women's boot shops, but
I don't call them women's boot shops, I call them boot shops. I lke grandad shirts and black Levi's, Oh
and I've got this big red burgundy long coat. It's very swirly. Got it from Jigsaw
Designer: I'vejust started thinking I should look at designrs. I like Vivienne Westwood's whole attitude.
They seem to be for very skinny women. I don't think I could cross over, even though I believe in total
clothing rights. I like Gaultier. I wear whatever I want, but certain things are going to work better than
others
Cosmetic: I'm pretty exprt on nail varnish. 2000 Calorie mascara. It's supposed to fatten up your eyeashes
Food & drink: Haagen Dasz ice cream, which I shouldn't eat and I try not to. I think I'mallergic to it.
I like whiskey at the moment. Irish. Hot whiskey
Shops: I tend just to go into shops and hunt around. I like Hamleys. I go into tower Records a lot. I'd
always buy things for the office to keep things going. Which is incredibly boring
Places: North of France, I like Normandy and I like Berlin, Paris, the Highlands of Scotland, Ireland
and London
Journey: If I go South from Victoria on the train, that's quite wierd because I sort of travel back into my past.
A journey back in time
Buildings: I like the Tate Gallery when you're going along the South Bank. Even though I'm not into monarchy,
it's impressive going down theMall to Buck Palace. I do that drive just for the space and the white marble or
whatever. It's the big streets
Villains: It's so boring but i'm really not into the Thatcher style. I think it was a really patronising time of
bullshit in politics and business. Hire people, sack people. power, power, power. 'The people of Britain
agree with me....' What gives you the right to say that, shithead?
Heroes: I have people I really admire. Heroes are dangerous because they've got to be human at some
point. And if they're human they've got to fuck up at some point. I realy like David Putnam
Films: I like 'Pulp Fiction', I really like 'Robin & Marian', 'Die Hard','Cinema Paradiso', I quite like 'Where
Eagles Dare', 'The Great Escape'. I have about 50 or 60 films at home
Actors: Garo Oldman, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Alan Rickman, Lindsey Duncan
Humourists: Gary Larson, Asterix, Python, Spike, Billy Connolly, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Woody Allen,
Dave Letterman, Bill hicks, Groucho and the Marx Brothers
TV and radio: 'The Goons', 'Cheers' and 'Roseanne' all of the Hancock stuff, 'The Good Life' I liked.
It was bizarre. What was the edge on that? The edge was that they were living out of his back garden.
It was so middle England. There was one episode when Tom Good takes the piss out of this one guy
who talks to his plants which is now a very positive '90's thing - this was someone who was digging up
his own garden. I was in hysterics. I like 'Absolutely Fabulous', 'Harry Enfield, 'On the Hour',
'Have I got News for You?'
Books & authors: I dont read much ecause I take so long to read things. I'll catch up one day. This partial
dyslexia thing. I just take ages to read. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' I really went for. I read lots of factual
stuff. 'All The President's Men'. I'm very thinly read. Stacks of biographies. Melvyn Bragg on Richard Burton.
I've read all about the Kennedy's - a fascinating study of hunger
Angered by: I'm angered by people forgetting what war does
Moved by: I really get moved by people winning races, by running really hard and coming from behind to win
Sports personality: Martina Navratilova. Because of what she had to overcome. She came out and she won
over America. She was a great champion because she was so butch and mannish and she won over the
world. She got respect, and she wonthat respect. it was dificult. She kept going out and fighting and she
wasn't arsy about it. I really respect that
Words of wisdom: Enjoy the journey. Getting there isn't important, it's the journey.

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