Archaeologist, brought up in the middle east, now living in london. After a ping-pong related incident (sporting injury) over the summer, I am now having difficulty walking unaided. Once I have a life again, I shall pad this section out further.

As to music, I'm a big folk fan, by which I mean a person who likes folk a lot, and not somebody very large who likes folk. I'm also a big fan of Electronica in general, industrial music in particular and quite a lot of things that sound like a man in an empty room hitting a pipe with a chain. I also like a lot of Punk and Goth music, although I'll be the first to admit that this depends greatly on personal definitions of genres. I also like, while I appear to be using this confessional format, bluegrass and some grassroots hip-hop, trip-hop (less grass-roots, as I'm entirely unable to reconcile the two concepts, ) tradional arabic and turkish music, a lot of rather well-known bands c. 1950-1970. I'm also quite a fan of the comic song, although I tend to find them difficult to dance to.