I'm an illustrator/designer (themeparks, visitor/heritage attractions, exhibitions etc), 37, single, and an insomniac northerner (born in Withernsea, East Yorkshire) now lost in the south (Sible Hedingham, Essex). I moved here following ten and a half idyllic years in my favourite city, Norwich. Over the years I have sold fish, sat in holes, been frowned at by old ladies, balanced empty glasses and made sure elves were fireproof before sending them to Finnish Lapland; all for money... I now draw pirates (amongst other things) for a living. I'm currently looking to relocate back to East Yorkshire or thereabouts, any help job hunting would be more than welcome. I've travelled with work a great deal (Europe, Scandinavia and the US - well Florida [strange pastel coloured place, they dislike people who walk, but I liked the Pelicans.]). And I'm supposed to be getting out to South Africa later this year. I have hitchiked a lot (no really, a lot) in this country, but overall would still like to travel more.

I'm learning to play the guitar and the banjo and have these ridiculous aspirations to be a writer. My likes include: Mythology, pre-Tudor history, Irish/European fiddle music, trawling for and buying second-hand books, traditional pub names, Goulash, the size of St. Bernard dogs heads!, frosty mornings & snowball fights, rock & blues bars with duke-boxes, reading on long bus journeys, flying during sunrise, lists, The Baltic Coast, women with accents, subtitled movies, biting comedy, arguing about “Art”, watching “Black Books” and “Spaced” with friends, walking around cities for the first time, learning something new, red-heads, hitch-hiking, Drew Barrymore's wierd smile, liver & onions with bacon, irony, contemporary resonances in mythologies, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream at the cinema, unpacking, first kisses, elephants!, discovering the origins of words, my job, the sound that jackdaws make, just sitting outside cafes with a book or good friends, green eyes, stuff that works, seeing the blue or orange flash of a kingfisher on the water, road-trips with friends, army boots, pelicans, sketchbook doodles, unconditional friendships and affection, museums, boats, monumental sculpture, the eerie labyrinthine maze of fact and fiction that is the internet, women with Mohawks & tattoos, castles, “magical-realism”, lighthouses, olives & scotch-eggs (the prince of foods). My dislikes include: Turnip, trifle, spiders, career over duty politicians and their unelected advisers, deep-rooted bigotry disguised as concern for cultural heritage, "reality" TV, insidious and pervasive holier-than-thou soap-opera spawned mentalities, & pretty much everything about Robert Kilroy Silk... and midget gems.

All Time Favourites? The Deptford Trilogy & The Rebel Angels - Robertson Davies; Outside the Dog Museum - Jonathan Carroll; American Gods - Neil Gaiman; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon; The Forgetting Room - Nick Bantock and the collected H.P. Lovecraft ...and then in no particular order: The Death and Life of Miguel de Cervantes - Stephen Marlowe; The Good Fairies of New York - Martin Millar; Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami; Baltazar and Blimunda - Jose Saramago; Grendel - John Gardener; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut; Long John Silver - Bjorn Larsson; Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco; One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The Three Musketeers/Ten Years After - Alexander Dumas; Iron Council - China Meiville; Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges; Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd; The Alienist - Caleb Carr; The Falls - Ian Rankin; The Last Kingdom & The Pale Horseman - Bernard Cornwell;…any of the “Rebus” novels by Ian Rankin; …any of the “Hap & Leonard” novels by Joe R. Lansdale; ... any of the "Burke" novels by Andrew Vachs; …any of the Conan stories by Robert E. Howard; - Comics too: Heartbreak Soup - Gilbert Hernandez (Hey, let's face it, pretty much anything from the "Love & Rockets" stable by the Hernandez Bros. is worth checking out); Maus – Art Spiegelman; A Contract with God - Will Eisner; Dork - Evan Dorkin (Big laughs and yucks from the House of Fun); Cages - Dave McKean; Why I Hate Saturn - Kyle Baker; Maakies - Tony Millionaire (Drinky Crow is my god).

Rock/Indie/Punk/Prokofiev/Folk & Blues... basically any music with fiddles and guitars... To that end: Mark Lanagan, Tom Waits, William Elliot Whitmore, Jay Munly (& the Lee Lewis Harlots), Woven Hand, 16 Horsepower, PJ Harvey, QOTSA, Sea Sick Steve, The Two Gallants, Huddy Leadbetter, Th' Ledgendary Shack Shakers, The Cure, Del Amitri, Brighteyes…etc.

I'm a big movies fan: I trained as an animator and always wanted to get into making films. Ive done bits and pieces, working on a short film as Props buyer and stand-by art director etc.... who knows maybe one day I will finish my script "Frozen Tears" and get to live ostentatiously of the huge box office proceeds.

Like minded people to discuss and cut-heads over creative stuff...

hesir

Sible Hedingham, Essex, United Kingdom

1969-08-29

1/22/2008 at 8:58 AM

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