Top 5 Books

1. The Gone-Away World – Nick Harkaway

2. Vellum/Ink – Hal Duncan

3. The Court of the Air/The Kingdom Beyond the Waves – Stephen Hunt

4. The Jungle Book/The Second Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling

5. American Gods – Neil Gaiman

Top 5 Films

1. V for Vendetta – James McTeigue

2. Serenity – Joss Whedon

3. Casino Royale – Martin Campbell

4. Children of Men – Alfonso Cuaron

5. Pan’s Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro

Top 5 Poems

1. Ulysses – Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2. The Sack of the Gods – Rudyard Kipling

3. but if a living dance upon dead minds… – e. e. cummings

4. With Mercy For The Greedy – Anne Sexton

5. Lady Lazarus – Sylvia Plath

Top 5 TV Shows

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

2. Dr Who

3. Daria

4. Firefly

5. Futurama

Top 5 Bands

1. V.A.S.T

2. Tonic

3. Aimee Man

4. Audioslave

5. Dido

Top 5 Obscure Interests

1. British radio comedy between 1930 – 1980

2. Weird hats

3. Obsolete words

4. The meaning/origin of names

5. Parallel mythologies

Five Odd Things I’ve Done (While Sober)

1. Laughed at the word ‘pineapple’ for 20 minutes straight

2. Cut my foot on a mouth organ

3. Become inexpicably lost in my own bedroom

4. Set a plastic chair on fire with a home-made chandelier

5. Inhaled a live moth

Five Normal Things I Don’t Do

1. Drive

2. Drink beer

3. Drink coffee

4. Wear makeup

5. Watch reality TV (shudder)

Five Things I Wanted To Be When I Grew Up

1. Archaeologist

2. Palaeontologist

3. Ornothologist

4. Foreign Correspondent

5. Librarian

Top 5 Vices

1. Ice-cream

2. Webcomics

3. Geeky t-shirts

4. Tetris

5. Quoting

…And that’s me in a nutshell, really.