Aus.culture.gothic Show and Tell 2002
STATS :Name: jay
Real name: Jason, but only work people and family call me that
E-mail address: slowlight723@aol.com or underscore@godisdead.com
Web page: Don't have [or need] one
Other newsgroups you frequent: None. I'm faithful to you guys ... :o)
Length of time on the 'net: Not long - maybe 3 years, can't quite remember
Length of time as a net.goth: Been reading ACG now for ... oooh, about two years I think ... maybe a bit longer
Place of residence: Canberra
APPEARANCE
Chromosomal makeup: boyAge: 29
Height: about 180 cms - that's a guess
Weight: about 75 kgs - that's a guess
Hair for this week: sort of blonde/yellow/orange
Natural hair colour: mission brown
Eyes: grey/green/blue [depending on the colour of the sky, I'm told]
Tattoos/Piercings/Scars/Other: one piercing [nothing to write home about] and a scar on my right elbow from a billy cart accident when I was about ten [the rope broke]
Preferred clothing: T-shirts, layered on top of each other to retain heat, and stripy socks when it's warm. And my boots.
Your favourite "non-Goth" clothes: My orange 'Goodies' t-shirt.
The daggiest thing I ever wore was: Oh, dear christ, just about everything between year 7 and 10 ... and ta very much for reminding me
LIFESTYLE
Occupation: I work at the ABS on economic statisticsBut I'd really like to be a: Pornstar. No, probably a historian.
When I was ten I wanted to be: A famous musician ... I think
Number of acg'ers with whom you've been "intimate" (snog & upwards): Nil and counting ... any offers? :P
Availability status: Married ... oops
Sexual preference: Hetero [so far]
Religion: and I don't get along
Pets: an albino dwarf rabbit called Riley
Your worst habit: Being too negative about air travel
Perky/mopey/neither: Perk with a dash of mope
I would describe my dancing style as: Washing machine
Most of your money gets spent on: Beer, CDs, petrol ...
Dietary classification: Will eat almost anything except pork or seafood [don't like the taste]
Liver: In recovery mode ... today
Hobbies: Cricket in summer [standing in the summer sun wearing nothing but white *must* be the antithesis of goth ...], making music, community radio, political debate [i.e. yelling at people]
FAVOURITES
Band: Still the imcomparable MBVLove song: 'Ontario, Quebec and Me' by Billy Bragg
Dance-like-a-maniac song: 'Timeless' by Aghast View
Pub: *sigh* I miss most Sydney pubs ... I haven't found any good ones in the ACT yet [apart from the Wig and Pen, which might have shitty ambiance but at least they brew their own beer] ... I almost got my lights punched out last weekend at the Page Tavern by doing something provocative like asking to buy a bottle of wine, so things aren't looking good so far ...
Club: Vortex
Book/genre/author/poet: book - '1984' genre - non-fiction [Australian political history] author - Hard to decide ... depends on mood ... at the moment, Oscar Wilde poet - Not really familiar enough with poetry to definitively name anyone
TV show: Buffy
Actor/actress: Don't really have favourites in this field
Movie: 'Baraka'
Artist/artwork: I like a lot of French stuff produced just before WW1 [the 'Fauvist' period]
Animal: Giraffes ... and my rabbit
Food: Thai, Vietmanese, Sri Lankan
Drink: Coopers' Dark Ale ... and water
Texture: smooth
Place to go: At the moment? Sydney [I've been doing some serious miles up and down the Hume and Federal Highways lately ...]
Way to go: Dude.
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