About alien

Location: 11h56m44s +50° 36'40"

Age:27

Website: http://www.myspace.com/urban_alien

Favorite novels: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra - Gaston Leroux, The Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq, Dictionaries, Lost Souls - Poppy Z Brite, Drawing Blood - Poppy Z Brite, Dracula - Bram Stoker, Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell, The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger, The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley, A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, Interview With a Vampire - Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice, The Italian - Anne Radcliffe, Exquisite Corpse - Poppy Z. Brite, Riotous Assembly - Tom Sharpe, Indecent Exposure - Tom Sharpe, The Monk - Matthew Lewis, Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock, The Works of William Shakespeare, Paradise Lost - John Milton, Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë, The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown, The Vampyre - Tom Holland, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg, Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad, The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas, Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Frankenstein - Mary Shelley, Wilderness - Jim Morrison, The American Night - Jim Morrison, King Ink & King Ink II - Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave, Songs for No Voices - Nigel McLoughlin, The Rats Trilogy (The Rats/Lair/Domain) - James Herbert, The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein, The Works of Lord Byron, The Works of William Blake, The Works of Shelley, The Works of Keats, all the Harry Potter Books - J. K. Rowling, Pride + Prejudice - Jane Austen, Sense + Sensibility - Jane Austen, Lady Chatterley's Lover - D H Lawrence, Red Dragon - Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris, The Prince - Machiavelli, The Traveller -John Twelve Hawks, The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis (in particular I like The Silver Chair), etc etc... (many many more besides)

Favorite music: 4 Hero, The 45’s, Adam and the Ants, Air, Anthony and the Johnsons, Apocalyptica, Aqualung, The Arctic Monkeys, Athlete, Babylon Zoo, Devendra Banheart, J S Bach, The Beatles, Beethoven, Black Sabbath, James Blunt, Blur, David Bowie, The Bravery, Jeff Buckley, The Charlatans, The Chemical Bros, Leonard Cohen, Coldplay, Covenant, Cubanate, The Deftones, Dirty Vegas, The Doors, Drowning Pool, Bob Dylan, Editors, Fantomas, Fatboy Slim, Franz Ferdinand, The Glitterati, Goldfrapp, The Good The Bad and the Queen, Groove Armada, Hard-Fi, Jakatta, The Jam, Jamiroquai, Jethro Tull, José González, Kasabian, Keane, The Killers, Killswitch Engage, King Crimson, The Kinks, Kula Shaker, Led Zepplin, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Marilyn Manson, Maroon 5, Willy Mason, Maxïmo Park, The Mexicolas, Glenn Miller, Moby, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Oasis, Opeth, Ozric Tentacles, Edith Piaf, Pink Floyd, Placebo, Prince, The Prodigy, Queens of the Stone Age, Rachmaninov, Radiohead, Rammstein, Remy Zero, Schelmish, The Seahorses, Sigur Rós, Slow Reader, Snow Patrol, Cat Stevens, J Strauss, System of a Down, Tangerine Dream, Team Sleep, Tool, T-Rex, K T Tunstall, Ultravox, Uriah Heep, Vivaldi, Jeff Wayne (WAR OF THE WORLDS), The Who, Zeitmahl, etc etc…

Non-noveling interests: + Writing | poetry / flash fiction / short stories / novellas / novels / blogs / articles / essays... you name it, I've probably had a go at writing it. + Reading | victorian gothic fiction / 'the classics' / satire / poetry of all ages and eras / humour / modern horror / fantasy / historical romance / non-fiction... most genres in some capacity. + Learning | ANYTHING... main areas of study: the craft of writing / literature / art / mythology / history / psychology + Creating music | I play: guitar / bass / flute / piano / harp, none of which am I very good at but I just LIKE playing them, and I can sing, after a fashion. + Appreciating music | See above... + Creating art | Mediums: watercolour / gouache / chalk pastel / pencil / ink / oils / camera + Appreciating art | pre-raphaelite / renaissance / surrealism / medieval / industrial+scientific / graffiti... + Travelling | and seeing new places & sights. Favourite cities: Ypres + Venice + Using my imagination | the edge of the universe isn't even the limit - never mind the sky...